Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — MRS. M’FARLAND SENTENCED [ARTICLE]

MRS. M’FARLAND SENTENCED

Gets Six Months in Woman's Prison at Indianapolis. The young wife of C. R. McFarland, former court reporter for the Jasper-Newton circuit, mention of whose mix-up in a shoplifting charge and her arrest in Chicago was recently made in The Democrat, was given a six months’ sentence in the woman’s prison at Indianapolis last Friday. The following mention of the matter is taken from Saturday’s Indianapolis News: Carroll Allen, a young woman accused of stealing a fur collar valued at $35 from the H. P. Wasson & Co. store, apparently tried to shield Margaret Heath, accused jointly with Miss Allen, but failed to convince Judge James A. Collins, in the criminal court yesterday afternoon, that the Heath girl had nothing to do with the theft. Each was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to the correctional department of the woman’s prison for six months. After the theft was committed the. 'Heath girl went to Chicago and was married to C. R. McFarland, a dentist. It appeared that for this reason the Allen girl wished to absolve Her friend from blame. The girls were together, however, when the collar was stolen and the court said in his opinion one of the girls had engaged the clerk in conversation while the other took the collar. McFarland came from Chicago with his wife when she was arrested there a short time ago. He was called as a witness in her behalf. McFarland walked to the jail with his wife.