Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1919 — A LAME EXCUSE IS OFFERED [ARTICLE]

A LAME EXCUSE IS OFFERED

By Governor Goodrich In Reply to Just Criticism Made. In reply to the criticism that has been heaped on Governor Goodrich for his recent trip, visiting the state institutions, with Clyde Horn, the Lafayette convicted murderer who was given a life sentence for his crime some two years ago, and whom; It was understood, had been paroled and entered the employ of the governor as his chauffeur, the governor states that because of his wife being called away to attend a funeral, and taking the family car, he had been compelled to borrow a car from the state school for the deaf. But the latter could not send him a driver. He had to have a chauffeur to drive him about, he says, and he wired Warden Fogarty to send him down a man who could drive a car. “I said I would payole him for thr6e days, I did not know who Warden Fogarty was sending me when he promised to get me a chauffeur,” says the governor. “At the end of three days I sent Horn hack to the penitentiary.” But, according to a Lafayette paiper, Horn’s wife, who is employed in Lafayette, stated that her husband took her out to the Soldiers’ home next morning after his arrival there in the car and introduced her to the governor, and that she had quite a little chat with the latter and that he told her her husband would be entirely free by April next.