Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1919 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. HELD FOR SHOOTING SLEUTH Negroe* Taken a* Suepect* in Connection With Wounding of Rail Detective by Bootlegger* at Greensburg. Indianapolis, April 18. —Two negroes giving the namqs of George Washington and Tom Hancock were arrested at Beech Grove, near here, and are being held in connection with the shooting of a railroad detective by “booze runners” at Greensburg. The two negroes were taken from the train on which the “booze runners” were found and admitted they came from Cincinnati, 0., on the train, but denied they did the shooting.