Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1909 — USES A FALSE NAME TO SAVE RELATIVES [ARTICLE]

USES A FALSE NAME TO SAVE RELATIVES

Robert Taintor, Beloit College Athlete, Is Sentenced. LaCrosse, Wls., Aug. 20. —Robert Taintor, the Beloit college athlete, whose disappearance caused a sensation in the college town last winter, was sentenced to the state reformatory at Green Bay for two years on his plea of guilty of burglary and arson at a garage in this city. Taintor also confessed that he made a fake attempt at suicide in order to avert suspicion from himself in regard to the robbery and fire. He comes of a wealthy family at Viroqua, Wis. For the sake of preserving the family name from disgrace so far as the official record is concerned, Taintor was sentenced under the name of Arthur Dearborn.