Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — GUARDS HIS WATER PIPES [ARTICLE]

GUARDS HIS WATER PIPES

Alleged Delinquent Keeps His Shotgun Ready For Use. Hartford City. Ind., April 23. Robert Landon, one of the beat-known residents of Montpelier, is armed with a shotgun and declares that if the service pipes of the water works systern to his house are disturbed, it will cost the life of the man who attempts it. Landon is delinquent, it is charged, and when Charles Butterfield wont Into Landon’s front yarq and dug down to shut the water off he failed io complete the job before he went to dinner Landon came home and when Butterfield returned to resume the work he was confronted by Landon’s shotgun. He left the place.