Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — Terrific Battle With Burglar. [ARTICLE]

Terrific Battle With Burglar.

Noblexville, July 13. —Mrs. Russell Sliugart, twenty-five, w.as beaten so severely that she probably will die, and her eighty-year-old husband was injured internally, in a struggle with a burglar who invaded their country home. The intruder attacked Sliugart with a hammer, knocked him almost insensible and turned on Mrs. Shugart, who had come into the room. Her head and arms are horribly battered and she is blinded in one. eye. Shugart, an eccentric old man, is thought to have kept large sums of money in his home. It was stated also that Mrs*. Sliugart had received an anonymous letter, accusing her of marrying into the Sliugart family to defraud children of Sliugart by a former marriage.