Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Talegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the ConntrySHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesWAS FOOTSORE Akfo WEARY Young Man Makes Long Journey in Scanty Clothing. Clad only In his ragged underwear. John Musgrove, age 19, who escaped from the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville last Saturday, was taken Into custody Tuesday by Sheriff Ben Price of White county. The young man appeared at the home of his parents in Reynolds late in the day, hungry and tired. His feet were swollen and bleeding. The sheriff was notified at Monticello and went and got him. Musgrove said that he escaped while at work on the prison farm. He concealed himself In a wheat field until the officers abandoned the search for him, then he took off his prison garb and began his long journey home, attired only in his underwear. He rode on a freight train from Jeffersonville to Indianapolis and told -the sheriff that when he was passing through the latter city he hid In a car, because of his nakedness. From Indianapolis he made his way on foot fdY many miles, begging food from farmers as he passed through their land.

Musgrove reached the reformatory May 8 to serve a sentence from one to 14 years for grand larceny. He had taken a horse and buggy belonging to Robert Reumler and drove It to Medaryville, where he it. When arraigned In the circuit court before Judge Carr, Musgrove said that a man living in Reynolds made him steal the horse in order to obtain money to apply on a fine. Musgrove still says that the story, which he told In the circuit court, was true. Upon, his arrival at Reynolds Sheriff Price was notified by A. E. Josserand and he and Ora Countryman went 'to Reynolds and arrested him. Sheriff Price will receive a reward of SSO for the returning of the prisoner to the prison, which he did Wednesday.