Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Gets In Mix up With Lake County Sluggers. [ARTICLE]

Gets In Mix up With Lake County Sluggers.

W. 11. Shesler, former city marshal of Rensselaer, who is now employed as watchman or special policeman at a factory in East Chicago, was over to Kentland Monday as a witness for the state in the blind tiger case against “Comrad” Fox. He was nursing a broken bone in his right wrist and many bruises about the body received last Saturday at the plant where he is employed. A number of discharged employes had filled up on Lake county booze and went over to the factory to get revenge on the foreman who had dis Charged them Shesler got into the mixup that followed their arrival, and, though he laid out one or two of the party, there were too many onto him, and he got quite badly kicked and beaten up by the mob.