Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1914 — Wrecks Auto to Save Dog. [ARTICLE]

Wrecks Auto to Save Dog.

Hammond. —John Saben, Chicago, to avoid striking a dog In the road near the Illinois state line and Indianapolis boulevard, ditched a big touring car, burying four occupants beneath. The injured are Frank Depar, 1915 Cleveland avenue, Chicago; E. Hoffman, 186 Orchard avenue, Chicago; Frank Kruc,. 1638 Morgan street,’Chicago; Fred Dauss, 1816 Dayton street, Chicago. None of the men were fatally hurt. Saben lost control of the machine as It swerved. The dog wasn’t touched.

Lafayette.—Harold Smedley and Mrs. Grace Brown were arrested here on a charge of arson, and after being questioned by the police confessed that they set fire to the hou?e they were living In so that they might collect the SSOO insurance Smedley had on the furniture. Smedley came here from Bloomington, and was employed at the Monon shops. 1 The Brown woman’s mother, Mrs. Wasson, and a sister, Mrs. Joseph Krick, live in Richmond. According to the Brown woman she and Smedley were to be married next week and the SSOO was to be spent on a honeymoon trip. After they set fire to their home they went to a motion picture show to await the result. The property, which was owned by Harvey Hayworth, was partly destroyed. Newcastle. —After belpg out only four minutes a jury in the circuit returned a verdict of not guilty In the case of Earl Six, a seventeen-year-old boy charged with burglary. Six had been in jail five weeks awaiting trial. He was charged with having stolen S3O from Jacob Brenneman, a farmer, living near here. Washington.—James H. Hollan, a farmer of Pike county, was nominated without opposition as the Democratic senatorial candidate from the counties of Daviess and Pike. The meeting was not well attended.