Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1918 — SLACKER TAKEN IN CUSTODY [ARTICLE]

SLACKER TAKEN IN CUSTODY

Officers Take Harrison Lytle to Indianapolis Yesterday, There was a large crowd of people in yesterday to see the large contingent of Jasper county boys leave for Camp -Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. - Harrison Lytle Of southeast of town, who was registered in Green county, Illinois, where he had been working and who should have gone with a former contingent from that state, was to have left with the boys from here. -But his folks- —especl-, ally his mother, it is said—objected to his going anti it was necessary for the officers to go out and bring the lad in, braving the threats of the mother, who is alleged to have said she would shoot the officers if they , attempted to take the boy. He was brought in, however, and taken to Fort Benjamin Harrison yesterday afternoon by J. J. Montgomery, spe'eial department of justice agent. The boy was not objecting to go, it is said, and would have been all right had his folks not urged resistance. The names of the boys leaving were as follows: Frank Garvin, Jack Roorda, Henry Frey, Wilfred Stevenson, Lawrence Iliff, Oscar Johnson, William H. Armstrong, John F. Phares, Tony Apostal, Gerrit Wondema, Tipton C. Wiseman, Albert Johnson, Platte Spade, Guy Swim, William H. McKinney, John Jungles, James Mize, Louis DeFilipi, Oscar Lunblad, Homer Fisher, Don Sutton, John Karch, Gaylord Hilton, Charles H. Britton, Max J. Schultz, Alonzo D. Norris, Roy E. Flores, Livingston Ross, Daniel Leichty. Walker Snodgrass of near Rensselaer, one of the boys whose name appeared in the original list as made up, got the three first fingers of his right hand blown off Monday while blowing out stumps on J. J. Lawler’s lands west of town. He was adjusting a cap on a stick of the explosive when it went off, it is said, it being purely accidental.