Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — KEEPS PRISONER FROM MOB [ARTICLE]

KEEPS PRISONER FROM MOB

Sheriff Takes John Wehr of Bureau* 111., to Princeton. f i. Princeton, 111., Dec. 16.—Sheriff L. T.j Spaulding of Bureau county arrived* here from Peoria with John Wehr, wh* shot Charles A. Hopper at Bureau. H* turned his prisoner over to the chief! of police of Princeton. Sheriff Spaulding did not go to Bure/; with Wehr2* as citizens there had formed a mob and were patvol 11 ng the streets wait* 1 ing their return. Wehr shot Hopper on the streets of Bureau. He was cap 4 tured as he left a train at Peoria. Wehr was tried and acquitted at Cliae ton several years ago for the murder of the chief of police of that city.