Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — FORMERLY RESIDENT OF JASPER [ARTICLE]

FORMERLY RESIDENT OF JASPER

Says. Dope Fiend, Check Worker and Love Pirate Under Arrest at Ft. Wayne. Fort Wayqe, Ind., Oct. 19.—The hallucination of Charles Luther Warne, mental millionaire and bad check artist, w’ho was arrested by Pennsylvania Patrolman James A. Jones at Valparaiso yesterday forenoon and brought back here with his bride, formerly Miss Beulah Youse, 250 West Main street, was explained last evening when the prisoner confessed to Chief of Police Charles Lenz and Lieutenant Harry Grimme that he had been an opium fiend and that for more than two years he had been eating and “snuffing’’ an average of one pound, sl6 worth, of the drug a week. “That’s the big thing that little Beulah has done for me,” he ex-

claimed; ‘she made me promise that I wouldn’t take any more dope and I have kept my word to her. I’ll never touch the stuff again.” But all during the examination of the fellow his disjointed narrative of his life 'history and his movements during the past few months led Chief Lenz and Deputy Prosecutor Callahan to believe that he was either still filled with drugs or is demented. The charge against Warne is for issuing a fraudulent check and his bond was fixed last evening at $2,000, which he was unable to furnish. The law firm of Emrick & Emrick has been retained to defend him and will appear for the prisoner in police court this morning when the preliminary hearing will be held. Warne, who is 33 years of age, says he was born in Ohio, but the family moved to MeCoysburg, Jasper county, Ind., where he grew to manhood. ‘‘l don’t blame that young fellow Carmichael down at Purdue university for being sore because Beaulah married me,” said Warne. “She sent ■’him most of the money she earned working in a store.” Check Writer Gives Reason. Ft. Wayne, Oct. 20.—Arraigned in circuit court yesterday on a charge of uttering a fraudulent check, Charles L. Warne entered a plea of not guilty, and his cause was continued to October 25. In default of bond of $2,000 Warne is still locked up. The man, whose posing as a millionaire and whose hasty marriage to Miss Beulah Youse, of this city, after a flight to Michigan City, caused much comment here last week, admitted to his bride today that he was a poor man. Chief of Police Lenz says he confessed that addiction to narcotic drugs led to his dreams of fabulous wealth and to writing checks for large amounts. He declares he will break the habit, however, and his young bride has promised to stand by him.