Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. BLOODY EASTER LN LAFAYETTE Two Murders Occurred There Saturday Night Attributed to “Booze."

There were two murders in Lafayette gaturday night for which booze was directly responsible. Henry Brock a native of Somerset, Ky., who had been working on the T. H’. I. & E. traction line at Dayton, filled up at the various thirst parlors in the Star City and then bought a revolver with the avowed intention of shooting up the town. He only succeeded in killing a 15-year-old colored boy and then made his getaway, but was later apprehended and lodged in jail. Early- Sunday morning Joe Pasktwick, a Polander, died in one of the hospitals in Lafayette as the result of having been struck a short time before by Joe Beldin, 23 years old, married and residing at 209 South street. Paskiwick, who was employed as section hand on the Panhandle railroad at Reynolds, was also married and had a wife and daughter residing in Poland. Three of his children are said to have died of starvation since the European war began. * Paskiwlck went to Lafayette Saturday night and bought » quantity of booze to take to Reynolds Sunday morning. In his suit case was found a dozen bottles of beer and four quarts of whiskey. Beldin and some other young men were with him during the night and knowing that he had a suit case full of booze, Beldin was determined to have some of it. an argument at different times both in the Monon depot and on the street, and when near the corner of Fifth and Ferry streets Beldin struck the Polander a couple of times fracturing hfs left jaw bone and pushing It upward until it punctured the brain. Beldin was later arrested and made a full confession of the crime.