Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — SECURED SUMMER QUARTERS. [ARTICLE]

SECURED SUMMER QUARTERS.

Hoboes in Jail Suspected of Setting Fire to a Building Near Deniotte. A couple of hoboes Were brought here Wednesday and lodged iiCJail on suspicion of having set fire to the old feed mill on Ihe former Nelson Morirs ranch near Deniotte, s.c.n Mirris reanch near Demotte, which was destroyed about 8 o’clock Wednesday morning. Two tramps were seen to leave the. building shortly before tho tire was discovered, and start west on the railroad tracks. Several Demotte citizens took after them in an automobile, overhauling them near Shelby, where George Marr, foreman for the Indiana Land Co., who now own the Morris ranch, halted them with a rifle and they were taken back to Demotte and arraigned before Squire John Greve, where they waived examination and were sent to jail. They gave their names as John Hollman, of the “army of unemployed,’’ of Chicago, and Robert Wolton, of Detroit, Mich. The latter says he Is a machinist. They deny all knowledge of the fire and say they spent the night at tho home of a Keener tp. farmer |nstead of in tho old mill. They had expected an immediate trial instead of the prospect of pending tho summer in jail when they waived examination. They are in the neighborhood of 25 or 30 years of ago, and were not armed when taken into custody, but had three carp which had been given them and which they were figuring on cooking when ordered to hold up their hands. They thought the Demotte party were game wardens, they state. Parties at Demotte, however, postlvely identify the men as the ones seen leaving the old mill, It is said.