Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1909 — MONON WIDOWER COMES TO GRIEF [ARTICLE]

MONON WIDOWER COMES TO GRIEF

Ad Scott Lodged in Jail for Persisting in Forcing His Attentions Upon a Rensselaer Lady. Adam Scott, a Monon widower who has figured in the limelight considerably of late because of hfs having expressed an ardent desire to again enter the matrimonial net and who wrote a Warsaw editor a few months ago asking to be put next to some of the fair widows of that town, which letter was published in the Warsaw paper, came to grief here Monday night, when he was lodged in jail for a few hours whlld his' amorous propensities had an opportunity to cool off a little. Scott has been coming over here frequently for the past few months, attempting to force his undesirable .attentions upon respectable women, one of whom he has been most persistent in pursuing- He would not take the hint even when the doors were locked in his face, but persisted in annoying the lady in almost every way possible, writing her threatening letters, it is alleged, that would land him in the penitentiary if turned over to the postal authorities, telling what he would do to ruin her if she did not receive his attentions. These letters were an almost dally feature, and, while he ended each one with the direction to burn as soon as read, the lady has kept all of them and it only remains for her to turn them over to the proper authorities to put the writer thereof where the dogs couldn’t bite him for some time to come, if their contents are as bad as stated. As may be supposed, the lady is almost a nervous wreck as the result of these letters and the persistency In the

old fellow in forcing his unwelcome attentions upon her. Monday afternoon he came over again, and the city marshal, to whom the lady had appealed to watch for him and warn him to keep away from her and cease his annoyance, having missed him, he made his way to her home and on her refusal to see him or talk to him, he persisted in going to the back door and trying to see the lady’s mother, who lives with her, and even had the nerve to enter the house and call to the latter, wh<J also declined to see or talk to him. He finally left and came up town and hung around, evidently intending to again go to the house later. The marshal was notified and at about 7 o clock he ran across Scott and took him by the collar and escorted him over to the jail. He wanted to see a lawyer, and it so happened that the one he sent for had previously been consulted by two other Rensselaer ladies whom Scott had tried to force his attentions upon, and had written letters to, and as none of the ladies wanted the notoriety of prosecuting him, and on this attorney’s advice, he was turned loose, after promising by all that was good to hike out of town, stay out, quit annoying these ladies by his attentions or by writing them or any others here any more letters, and accordingly he was allowed to depart on the 11 o’clock train for his home, where he said he was known as a very prominent business man and was a member of the Methodist church. With the temper of Rensselaer citizens at its present pitch as a result of this old fellow’s doings becoming known, it will be best for him to keep himself on the east side of the Iroquois for some time to come. Rensselaer ladies are not used to such strenuous wooing, and there is enough chivalry, among the male sex to protect them from such creatures.