Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1909 — SAYS HE BREAKS HOMES [ARTICLE]

SAYS HE BREAKS HOMES

Father Writes Peculiar Letter and Document Is Read In Court. Indiana polls, Sept. 24.—-A letter from a father to his son was read In the criminal court as evidence against Lewis Monroe, who Is charged with having deserted his wife and child. Monroe, who is about thirty-five years old and a tinner by trade, left his family and went to Illinois, where he was arrested. While he was in Illinois, his son, twelve years old. wrote him a letter, asking him for money. “I will not send you any money," Monroe answered in substance, "for I don’t want your mother to use it for the purpose of getting a divorce from me. I have resolved to break 100 homes. I have no faith in women. I have succeeded in two instances, and will do so in a third, for she is on her way. Then I will have only ninetyseven homes to break up. After that I will start out to make money.”