Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — SUES FUGITIVE FOR DIVORCE. [ARTICLE]

SUES FUGITIVE FOR DIVORCE.

Mrs. Bettie Green Brings Action Against Former Convict. Crawfordsville, Ind., Jan. 21. Robert H. Green, former Montgomery county farmer and banker, who turned horse thief, became a prisoner at the Michigan City penitentiiary and who is now a fugitive from justice, is made defendant in a suit for divorce brought against him in the Montgomery county circuit court by his wife, Mrs. Bettie Green, who has been living in this city since her husband’s- conviction. Mrs. Green asks the custory of their three children and SB,OOO alimony. This sum is now held in trust for the the children,, by William H. Breaks, of this city.

In June, 1908, Green was convicted of horse stealing and sentenced to one to fourteen years at Michigan City. In May, 1909, one month before his first year would have been up, he escaped. Several months later he was captured in Ohio only to break jail, almost kill the jailer in making his escape and then leading the detectives and police officers a merry chase through several Ohio counties before he-fin-ally eluded them. His whereabouts is now unkonwn. -i ■ ‘