Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. NIGHTWATCH AT DELPHI SHOT And Probably Fatally Wounded by Bunch of Drunken Young Men From Lafayette. August Scanlon, 55 years old, nightwatchman at Delphi, was shot and probably fatally wounded at an early hour Sunday morning by One of a bunch of young men from Lafayette who had gone to Delphi to camp along the Tippecanoe over Sunday. The young men were drunk, it is alleged, and on tho officer expostulating with them for causing a disturbance and ordering them to leave the streets, he was shot over the left temple with a revolver which was held virtually against his head, and rendered unconscious. Jack Friend, 21 years old, and Oscar Lawson, 21, were captured a short time after the shooting. Louis Wendling, 22, was taken at Battle Ground, Tippecanoe county, after a chase of several hours. Four other young men said to have taken part in th© raid have not been captured. Leo Delaney of Delphi was present when Scanlon ordered tho young men to get off the streets. The youths showed fight, one of them attempting to strike Delaney. Two of them ran and while Delaney was catching one at the watchman’s Instructions the shot was fired by another youth in the party. No event in years has so aroused the citizens of Delphi and the prisoners are being guarded closely to avoid violence. Scanlon is married, but has no children.