Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — DRUNKEN LAD WIELDS KNIFE [ARTICLE]

DRUNKEN LAD WIELDS KNIFE

YoUth Crased by Drink Seriously Wounds Four Persons. Crazed by jealousy and his mind driven to fury by drink, Hobart Davis, 21 years old, brutally stabbed four persons at the Indiana Soldiers’ home near Lafayette Monday night. Davis had been keeping company with Miss Beatrice Compton, a nurse at the home, and when she refused to see him following a quarrel, he*went to Lafayette and visited several saloons. * He then returned to the home and sought out Miss Compton and attacked her Mvith a knife. Three other employes at the home, Miss Bertha Bllder'beck, James L, Bllderbeck and James R. Griffin, came to Miss Compton’s assistance and were all more or less seriously wounded by Davis before he was shot and subdued by Dr. Lee and Nightwatch /Clark. All of the injured persons were* given prompt treatment and will probably recover in due.time. Davis was taken to jail where he said he had tyeen crazed by drink and did ,not realize what he was doing.