Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1915 — A Mt. Ayr Man in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

A Mt. Ayr Man in Chicago.

The Chicago News of last Thursday evening had the following mention of J. M. Miller of Mt. Ayr:

“When the police of the West 1 3th street station reached South Western avenue and Lexington street early today in response to repeated telephone calls from residents of the district, they found J. M; Miller, a farmer living near Mt. Ayr, Ind., sitting on the an alleged robber and lustily shouting.‘police!’ Miller and the alleged robber were taken to the station and after the farmer had told his story to Sergt. Daniel O’Hara the other man was locked up on a charge of larceny. “Miller told the police, that he had been seeing_the ‘sights’ with' a woman friend and was returning to the home of relatives in Tayor street when hie was accosted by the man, who asked Miller, according to Miller, for some money. He had only $1.50 left after seeing the ‘sights’ and this he handed over, he said/ When the man then attempted to take his watch, Miller asserted, he overpowered the alleged robber and called for help.”