Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — Hugh Burns Runs Amuck. [ARTICLE]

Hugh Burns Runs Amuck.

Hugh Burns- of Demotte, who has been having considerable family troubles of late and who has been working here on the new depot, went up to Demotte Saturday night in an intoxicated condition, it is said, and went to the home of, his wife, who is a daughter of David Gleason, and he and Gleason got into a fight in which both got marked up considerably. A warrant was sworn out up there for his arrest and‘placed in the hands of a Demotte barber, who was appointed special constable, and Burns was arrested and brought down here Sunday evening to be put in pail. The constable had no mittimus from the justice nor anything else but the warrant, and Burns did not want to be locked up. He said he could give bond and phoned J. W. Tilton, county recorder, and the latter said he* woufd go on the bond. He had not.been bound over by the justice, was nqf then intoxicated and the sheriff did not think he had any authority to lock him up. The sheriff teelphone the attorney and explained the case and the latter advised him not to accept the man. The constable was advised to take him back and get proper authority from the justice, and he returned to Demotte with him. Then he either turned Burns loose or the latter got away from him, and is said to have again gone to his wife’s home and another row occurred in which Gleason, armed with a shotgun, was going to shoot him, but "Burns is alleged to have got hold of the gun and amunition and made his escape to the woods. At this writing he’ is still at liberty.