Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. $9,000 DAMAGES FROM HOTEL Indianapolis Man and Wife Wjn Suit Against Detective Who Ousted Them While They Were on Honeymoon in Chicago. Chicago, 111., March 26.—Damages of $9,000 were awarded Cassius C. Smiley and his wife, Mrs. Harriet Presser Smiley of Indianapolis, against the Hotel Morrison by a jury in Federal Judge George T. Page’s court in a suit filed because they were ousted from the hotel by the house detective, J. C. Brock, on April 19, 1918, on the suspicion that they were not married. The evidence set forth that the couple were properly registered, which the hotel management admitted in court, and that the detective forced his way into their room, embarrassing Mrs. Smiley, who was in negligee, a«ul fought with her husband, finally ordering them to leave. His suspicion, according textile evidence, was based on hearing Mr. Smiley call his wife “sweetheart.” Mr. Smiley is an official of the Diamond Match company and Mrs. Smiley is the proprietor of an Indianapolis millinery shop.

W. P. Wilder Shot by Thief. Brazil. March 26.—Marshal P. Wilder of this city was shirt and slightly wounded in the breast by a burglar at the home of Jack McGregor, a friend. McGregor was preparing to retire when he discovered a burglar entering his home. He went to the top of a double porch, and, pointing his finger at the Intruder, told him he had him covered and to hold up his hands. The man complied. Wilder passed by on the street and stopped to investigate the trouble. McGregor asked him to search the man and he did so, finding several saws, files, keys and other burglar tools, but overlooking a revolver, which was concealed In a coat pocket. McGregor then Instructed Wilder to hohKthe thief until he came downstairs. In the meantime the burglar freed himself, fired two shots at Wilder, one bullet striking him above the heart, and escaped. Wilder Is widely known throughout the state and for some time was a football coach at Purdue university. • Robbery Loot Recovered. Connersville, March 26.—Huston Henry, age thirty-nine, a farmer, and Ellsworth Cain, age twenty-eight, a bread agent here, were arrested here by George Koch, chief of police, and H., J. Biderman and Thomas Birk agents' of the American Railway Express, in connection with the robery of the express office safe in Connersville on the night of August 21, 1919. The autlmrities say Henry has made a complete confession. He led them to a woods in Waterloo township before daylight and dug up from under a log a tin can containing jewelry worth $1,500, which was a part of the loot. The remainder of the loot, worth about SI,OOO, has not been recovered. Tribute Paid to Justice Gillett. Hammond, March 26. —Many tributes were paid to the memory of John H. Gillett, formerly chief justice of the Indiana supreme court, by judges and attorneys of the Lake county bar, when suspended for a memorial meeting, which was held in tht Hammond superior courtroom. Fred Barnett presided as chairman and resolutions were passed, which will be presented to relatives of the dead jurist, the supreme court of the state, and made of record by the county bar. Short addresses were made by Judges Reiter, Hardy, Norton and Smith.

To Quit Farmers’ Body. Indianapolis, March 26.—Resignations of William Bosson, treasurer of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations, and W. H. Hickman, editor of the Hoosier Farmer Organized, official organ of the federation, are expected to be presented to the board of directors of tire federation April 5, the date of the next meeting. Although preferring to have any statement regarding the matter come from Mr. Bosson and Mr? Hickman, Lewis Taylor, general secretary, admitted that the directors had seen fit to make the change in the organization. Man’s Suicide Is Deliberate. Richmond, March 26.—John P. Fisher, age fifty-nine, of this city, shot and killed himself while his wife was momentarily absent from the house. He had been ill for some time. Mr. Fisher had systematically prepared his wife to conduct his business, on the plea that he probably faced a long illness. Mrs. Fisher went across the street to the railroad station to talk to a nephew, who is employed by the railroad company. When she returned she found her husband dead. Young Bandits Escape Again. New’castle, March 26. —Traced to a farm seven miles north of Newcastle, Archibald Armstrong and Jesse McCord, both nineteen years old, who escaped from jail here, eluded pursuers soon after midnight and all trace of the two was lost. The first escape of the youths was made by locking Ralph Yost, sheriff, in a cell when he went to take them to the circuit court to plead guilty on charges of grand larceny in connection with the robbery of several stores.