Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — SENTENCED TO REFORMATORY [ARTICLE]

SENTENCED TO REFORMATORY

Is Young Man Implicated in Theft of Wolcott Automobile. . Tn the circuit court at Frankfort last Saturday Zinn Merritt, 18 years old, of Winamac pleaded guilty to the theft of a Ford automobile in that city last Winter, and was sentenced to from one to fourteen years in the Jeffersonville reformatory. , Young Merritt was implicated in a number of automobile thefts, the authorities assert, among them being the theft of a car at Wolcott prior to the theft, of the Frankfort car. For that offense his brother, Charles Merritt, was arrested as an accomplice. Grant Merritt, an uncle of the boys, was arrested at Frankfort as an accomplice of his nephew but was released and went to a Missouri town where he is now being held on a horse-stealing charge. While in jail at Frankifort Zinn Merritt declared that his uncle planned the thefts. He denounced his relative as a flagrant thief.