Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — ACCUSES HER STEPFATHER [ARTICLE]

ACCUSES HER STEPFATHER

Citizens Talked of Doing Violence' to Dr. Fross of Lowell. Crown Point, Ind., July 9.—With a number of angry farmers of Lowell, Ind., in the streets of Crown Point, inciting the citizens of this town to Join them in attempt to storm the jail. Dr. Joseph Fross, a physician of Lowell, a town on. the line Of the recent automobile race, is now In a cell, fearing* for his life, which is threatened because of charges brought by his stepdaughter, Maggie Fancher, fourteen years old. Dr. Fross was once before accused of mistreating another stepdaughter. On that account public feeling against him is now intensified.