Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns. —Matteis of Minor Mention From Many Places. Ha.V Heilig Indicted for First Degree Mu*'der. The story was current on the street, Wednesday evening, that the grand jury in session since Monday had adjourned after finding Glen Jones and Ray Heilig guilty of murder in the first degree, causing the death of John Mitch at Cedar Lake, Thursday evning, February 28th, and recommended that Albert Wiverly, arrested with them be turned loose, and soon after he was given his freedom. As to what was sworn to by the different witnesses was not made public, but it is said the witnesses testimony and story of Glen Jones to the officers was enough to fasten the guilt on them in a way that will be hard to get around when t the time comes for the trial. Jones, it is said claimed he struck Mitch with his fist, but it is quite plain that such a blow couldn’t liave broken his leg, four ribs and cracked his skull, besides putting heel marks on his breast.

It is said that Ray Heilig, who never admitted anything concerning the affray, lias always been considered by his parents and some people of Dowell of having an unsound mind, and had it not been for the mother that the father would have made application to send him to an asylum a long time ago. The trial, it Is thought, will *fte called before the end of the present term of the" circuit court and may come in April. It is a sad case in any light it may be seen. Tt is hard to condemn two young men, and worse still, to imagine a mother with nine children being left to care for themselves on account of a murdered father. It is simply another lesson against intemperance—but will it he heeded?—Grown Point Star.