Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER < INDIANA. PENSION FORGER TO PRISON Anthony E. Hert Returned to Indianapolis From Louisville, Is Sentenced to Two Years an Hour After Arrival. Indianapolis, May 23—Anthony fe. Hert, formerly of Martin county, who forged signatures to pension affidavits and later tried to bribe a federal agent, arrived in Indianapolis from Louisiana “to make a clean breast of it." and within an hour he had been sentenced to the Leavenworth prison for two years. Hert.

i who came to District Attorney Miller’s office to see if he could “square matters," did not know that an indictment had recently been returned against him He was arrested in the office of [the United States attorney. The sentence of two years in prison evi- , dently was a blow to Hert who had ' left bis wife and two small children in Louisiana with only two dollars to ■ take care of them until his return. He burst into violent weeping when sentence was pronounced. One unusual phase of the case is that the claim of Hert for a pension is believed to be meritorious. He served three years in the Regular army, being a sergeant in Company C of the One Hundred and Seventeenth regiment. He put in a claim last year for a pension for permanent disability caused by malaria and rheumatism contracted while in the service. The claim was returned with information that there was one link in medical attendance missing. To fill in the gap, which was actually for a time he had no medical attendance, he filled out a certificate of a physician, signed the physician’s name, forged the signature of a notary, affixed a seal and sent in the affidavit.

Cat Is Mother to Rabbits. Columbqs. May 23.- A daughter of Henry Hallway, a wealthy farmer near here, found in a hen’s nest a Maltese cat, which the family had missed for several days. With the cat were three small kittens and two small rabbits, to which the cat was giving every motherly care. It is supposed that the cat, on one of her rounds for food, found the rabbits and believing they were motherless, adopted them and took them to the inest, where she gave them equal attention with her kittens. The cat will be permitted to continue mothering her illassorted family. Catch Alleged Auto Thief. Lafayette, May 23.—W. L. Moore, who is alleged to have driven Dr. E. Ruschlis’ automobile away from his office in the business center of Lafayette, was captured at Pekin, Ilk He is charged with committing a burglary there and the auto was found in a garage. The local police and the sheriff have been scouring the country for three days in search of Moore. They traced him to Fowler and then lost track of him. The auto- is valued at $2,000. When arrested Moore gave the name of Ray Shaier.

Baby Strangled by Hanging. Nashville, May 23—When Mrs. Theodore Rose went to look at her children, who had been left asleep in bed. she found Frances Rose, eight-months-old baby, hanging between the wall and the bed railing, its chin was over the railing of the bed and the back of its head against the wall. It had strangled to death. Coroner Prather, who Was hurriedly called, pronounced it accidental death.

Thrown Under Roller; Die*. Franklin. May 23.—Andrew Smith, one of the wealthiest men in. Johnson county, was killed when his team became unmanageable and ran across a field into a fence, throwing him forward in front of a roller, which crushed him to death. Mr. Smith was the largest taxpayer in his township. He was sixty-nine years old anil is by three sons'and two daughters. Confesses Part In Killing. Marion, May 23. —A message from Rugby, N. I)., where Ralph E. Broom, one of the alleged murderers of Wade Robinson, Landesville merchant, is under arrest, states that Broom confessed to Sheriff Tony George of Marion that he took part in the crime and that he implicated his. cousin, W. O. Allison, who is sought by the police. '*•

Father Mesjsmann Passes Away. Laporte, May 23—Rev. Father An- ,> thony Messman, a priest of the Catholic church since 1870, when he was ordained by Bishop Luerz of the diocese of Fort Wayne, died at his home in this city, aged seventy-three years. Father Messmann was pastor of Catholic churches in Logansport, Fort Wayne and Kentland, coming to this city in 1896. Corn Causes Fatal Gangrene. Hagerstown, May 23.—Daniel HI- ' rich, age seventy-five, is dead at his farm home here. A corn formed on the second toe of the right foot and became fastened tp the bone, when gangrene set in, causing death. He leaves five daughters.