Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — ARRESTED FOR STEALING NAILS [ARTICLE]

ARRESTED FOR STEALING NAILS

Claud Hickman of Newton County Placed in Jail Here. Claud Hickman, who resides about five miles north of Mt. Ayr in the vicinity of the Layvler ranch, was brought to the Rensselaer jail Monday night after being arrested for stealing some nails. He was taken before Squire .Whitten of Roselawn and bouild over to the October grand jury. Hickman is a married man and was working at the Lawler ramh, where a new silo had been erected recently. A quantity of nails had been left from the job and when Hickman was going home Monday evening it is charged that he filled his dinner pail with these nails. An effort is being made to furnish bond for the young man, and it is probable he will he released before very long.