Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — AGAINST “PEEPING TOM.” [ARTICLE]

AGAINST “PEEPING TOM.”

Wood Has a Bill That Provides Heavy Penalties. Senator Wood has introduced a bill directed at “Peeping Thomases.”’ It provides that it shall be a misdemeanor for any one to enter the inclosed or premises of another for the purpose of peering, peeking, or looking into the house through the windows or in other ways. A penalty of not rtidre than SSO, to which not more than sixty days jail imprisonment may be added, is provided. Under the present law “Peeping Tom,” if prosecuted, must be proceded against under the trespass statute. The (trespass statute, however, provides that a demand to leave the premises must be made and not complied with before the offender may be fined. Wood says the city of Lafayette has several fellows who could be put out of business with his bill.