Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1915 — Sheriff Whitaker Taking No Chances With Recaptured Prisoner. [ARTICLE]

Sheriff Whitaker Taking No Chances With Recaptured Prisoner.

John Yolker, diamond thief and escaped convict is again behind prison bars at Crown Point, having been landed there by Deputy Sheriff Bryce Whitaker, who- brought him from Syracuse, N. Y. From Crown Point Volker will be taken to the Jeffersonville reformatory to se,rve his sentence of from two to fourteen years. IJe escaped from Sheriff Henry Whitafker at Lafayette, while enroute to serve his sentence and was recaptured by the Syracuse police a few hours before Sheriff Whitaker expectei^.^to lay hands upon him. Whitaker offered SSOO reward which will go into the Syracuse police pension fund. In order to prevent his charge from making another dash for liberty Bryce Witaker hobbled the convict with what is known as the Oregon boot, a boot like iron weighing 18 pounds.—Lake County Times. ' .. .w’4