Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized — Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Tomorrow is the last day of the April term of court, and we will have no more until the September session. Very little business has been done this term. Mrs. Nell Tritt-Schafer, who for some time has been the home service secretary for the local Red Cross, left Thursday for her home at Union City. As yet her successor has, not been wecured. Miss Nettie Jordan, who for the past several months has been Red Cross nurse for Jasper county, has resigned her position to accept a position at Denver, Colo., at} chief nurse with the Federal Board of Vocational Education, at a salary of >2,000 per year. Miss Jordan will leave for Denver in a few weeks. Adam Schrader, the Insane prisoner who has been confined in the county jail for the past three months, tore out a part of the brick wall of the jail Wednesday afternoon during the absence of Sheriff and Mrs. Woodworth and escaped. He was apprehended by William Childers, who met and recognized him about two blocks east of the jail, and taken back and with the aid of Len Griggs confined In a cell. Schrader has been very quiet most of the time during his confinement, but during the past couple of weeks has been quite violent at times. Wednesday afternoon, with the aid of a leg from a small pine table in his cell, he pried loose a piece of iron from below one of the windows on the west side of the corridor and with this dug through the brick wall to liberty. Schrader and his wife came here from Chicago some time ago and the latter is now employed at the Makeever hotel. He has been the only occupant of the jail for several months. Application was made for his admittance to the insane asylum at Logansport some time ago but no acceptance has been received, and another effort is now being made to get him in at Longcliff.