Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1909 — PARENTAL OBJECTIONS [ARTICLE]

PARENTAL OBJECTIONS

Lead to John Critser’s Arrest On a Kidnapping Charge. John Crltser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Crltser, living in the east part of town, was arrested Thursday on the charge of kidnapping preferred by Harry McGee, to whose daughter Crltser has been paying attentions which were strenuously objected to by the said Harry. The trouble has been brewing for some months and came to a climax Thursday when Miss McGee stealthily crept out of the house and fled ■with her Lochinvar to his uncle’s farm in the north part of the country.

Her father summoned Marshal Parks and they followed a blind trail to Wolcott, where they discovered that they had been out-generaled and the pursued pair had escaped. Later in the evening their whereabouts were learned and young Critser was arrested, but was discharged yesterday by Squire Irwin for a lack of evidence and owing to the fact that the girl is of legal age-