Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — DEMENTED MAN RUNS AMUCK [ARTICLE]

DEMENTED MAN RUNS AMUCK

Draws Gun in Hammond Conrt Room and Wounds Three. Mike Inik of Whiting, a “harmless” crank, tolerated by the community although he showed every evidence of being insane, Monday attempted to take the lives of several persons in the superior court at Hammond and succeeded in wounding Judge Charles E. Greenwald, Lew Deßow, a bailiff, and George Robbins, a juror. None were injured fatally. In fact, they were not seriously hurt. At the time of the shooting Inik was armed with four revolvers, a saber, a hammer, a butcher knife, a black jack an iron hook and 165 rounds of ammunition, all of which he had concealed about his person. He also work a suit of galvanized iron armor under his ordinary street clothes, made principally of joints of stovepipe. Several years ago Tnik was injured at the Standard Oil Co. plant and was later awarded a judgment for $1,600. The accident was known to have left him demented and he haunted the courthouse continually, imagining that his case was still in court. He has never cashed the check given by the Standard Oil Co. in these damages.