Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — SHANK ARRESTS A NEGRO [ARTICLE]

SHANK ARRESTS A NEGRO

Fight Started In Dining Room Where Mayor Was Dining. Indianapolis, Jan. 21. —Mayor Shank and his body guard, Detective Coffin, were at a hotel for lunch when two of the colored waiters began fighting. One drew a knife and was slashing the other when ‘he mayor jumped into the fight, took the knife away from the man, collared him and threw him to the floor. In the meantime Coffin gave pursuit to the other negro, who had run from the dining rdbm covered with blood and caught him on the sidewalk. The patrol wagon was called and the mayor and the detective got their prisoners into it and rode with them to the station house.