Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1915 — NOW AT COUNTY FARM. [ARTICLE]

NOW AT COUNTY FARM.

Sheriff Unsuccessful in Getting Jamison Family Out of Country. Sheriff McColly returned Saturday afternoon from Chicago, where he went Friday with Mrs. Jamison and three children expecting to be able to get the woman and children off to Canada. Hie found, however, after consulting with railroad officials and an agent for the Canadian government, that the woman must have $25 in cash on reaching the Canadian line and some valid assurance that her husband would meet her at London, Canada, to which place she desired to go, or she would likely be sent back to Rensselaer again and the expense of sending her back be taken out of the necessary $25 which the sheriff had arranged to advance for Marlon tp. Accordingly, after having purchased her a ticket, costing $9.75, he got this amount'refunded and brought them back to Rensselaer and all were taken to the poor farm, pending the woman’s receiving a reply to her letter, written her husband last Thursday. If she receives a letter from him giving assurance that he is In London and will meet her and the children there, she will be allowed to enter Canada on showing this letter, otherwise not. It seems that an old auto which he had at his home in the Sharon neighborhood, some chickens and other stuff were sold by’ Jamison and he got some S3O for the stuff. This was given to the wife to take her and the children to London, Canada, where fie was to join them. She was turned back at Windsor and sent back to Rensselaer, the round trip consuming all but $6 of this money. If Jamison has gone to London, as he stated he was going to do, and writes his wife a satisfactory letter that will admit her to Canada, she and the children will be sent on by the township trustee to join him. Canada has never been their home, The Democrat is informed, but, being a Russian subject, he can enter that country’ with his family, as he wants to get back to Russian territory and take up arms with his countrymen. It seems that Jamison’s story of having knocked over a guard at the state penal farm and made his escape recently, after taking the guard’s gun, is not true. The gutfrds have nc guns, but are provided with clubs. They are all ‘trusties,’ and the story comes direct to the sheriff here that on the bunch of prisoners coming in one night soon after Jamison was ■taken there, about 900 in all, he niade a dash up the railroad tracks and got away. * . Monday morning Stewart Short received a postcard from Jamison that was mailed from London, Canada, Saturday, but not much was said on the card.