Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1919 — FORMER INDIANA MAN KILLED [ARTICLE]

FORMER INDIANA MAN KILLED

Brother of Rensselaer Teacher a Victim of Overaealous Officer. Miss Alice Jennings, who recently came here from Laramie, Wyo., with her brother-in-law, B. G. Parts, formerly of Remington, and had been engaged to teach in the grades of the Rensselaer schools, but was called back to Laramie after teaching only one day by the murder of her brother, Frank Jennings, a young man about -33 years of age, unmarried and said to be an exceptionally fine fellow without a known enemy in the world, will return soon to take up her duties again. The murder occurred on Sunday evening, Sept. 7, on the Lincoln highway abopt 4 miles north of Laramie. Young Jennings, who was born at Mentone, Ind., March 3, 1886, had gone to Laramie in 1910 with the Jennings family who settled on the Ghost ranch, on the Laramie river. *-

On the night of the murder he was in Laramie in his Franklin car, had supper with a young lady friend at one of the restaurants, took her to the picture show and then drove to her home, leaving her at the door and starting to the ranch about 9 o’clock. It was believed that <he was followed by men who held him up and after killing him pushed the car to the side of the road, leaving the lights burning. Several people passed along the' road during the night and saw the car standing there, but the body had fallen forward and disappeared flrom view to people passing. It was not until noon Monday that the crime was discovered. Three men were later arrested, charged with the murder, ants last Saturday Peter Cardillo, aged 20 years, the younger of the three, after officers had given him the "third degree” for several hours, made a confession of the crime, saying that the shooting was done by Walter Newell, one of the three men under arrest, and whom, It appears, with John and Peter Cardillo, were employed by the state prohibition officers to stop and search automobiles for bootlegging evidence. The men had driven out after Jennings left town, passed him and then commanded him to stop, which it seems he did as soon possible, making no protests .to their searching his car, but Newell lost his head, it seems, and fired three or four shots into the young man’s body, killing him Instantly.