Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1912 — Child Identifies Briggs. [ARTICLE]

Child Identifies Briggs.

utiyya. Gary.—After seventeen men had passed In review before her at the Gary police station five-year-old Sofa Stefanie, a playmate of little Mary Gruba. whose body was found tn the swamps, identified William Briggs as the man she saw with the Gruba girl just before the latter’s disappearance August 10. Briggs who is forty-eight years old, is a teamster. The police arrested him following information that he had been friendly to children. The Stefanie child said that Briggs gave her money to buy candy and then picked up Mary Gruba and went away with her.