Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1919 — MOTHER OF BOY BANDIT PAYS [ARTICLE]

MOTHER OF BOY BANDIT PAYS

Fine and Costa Assessed by the Jasper Circuit OourtThe mother of John Visak, the Indiana Harbor young man who was held in' jail here several months as a prisoner of Newton county awaiting trial for shooting and pounding a northern Newton deputy sheriff last summer when the latter attempted to arrest him for stealing, In company with another young man, an automobile from a doctor at Indiana Harbor, sent Sheriff Woodworth Thursday the 1100 her son was fined here at the last term of court, together with the costs, something over |29. Young Visak was given a sentence of 90 days at the penal farm in addition to the fine and costs, and is now serving same. Had the fine and costs not been ‘paid he woulA have had to remain at the penal farm 129 days more. His mother Is anxious to get him back home as soon as possible as he Is her partial support. His father is one of the foreigners who went out on tire steel strike some time-ago and has struck himself out of a job, the officials of the plant refusing to take him back, hence the anxiety to get the boy back home to help furnish the table.