Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1914 — AFTER WILLIS AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

AFTER WILLIS AGAIN.

Sentence Expires Today, But He will Be Re-arrested for Alleged Perjury. • James Willis, whose 90 day jail sentence expires today, will b# re-ar-rested on a warrant issued a few days ago charging him with perjury in his recent trial at Kentland, in which he was convicted of assault and battery, fined SSOO and given a 90 day sentence. At the time the alleged offense was committed, along the road leading north by Henry Paulus’, farm west of town, the Thompson girl testified that someone passed on horseback where Willis had stopped with the auto, and it is said that the latter testified that he was not out in that part of the country at all on the night of the alleged occurrence. It is said that the party that rode by has since been located, in the person of one of the Short boys, out at Garland Grant’s, and that his testimony will support that given by the g rl in his respect, and the prosecution for perjury followed. Willis had been counting the days when he would be released, expecting to go at once to Ohio to start life over again there where his fath-in-in-law was to assist him in getting a start, and he was much cast down,' in fact brokeMown completely, when told by the sheriff that he had a warrant -for him on the perjury charge. Opinion is divided somewhat on the further prosecution of Willis in view of his intention to leave the country and through sympathy for his aged parents y hnd his wife and children. It is probable that if a grand jury is called for the February term of court, it will be asked to investigate this perjury charge and on its findings will depend whether he will be further prosecuted or not.