Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1920 — KILLS LAKE COUNTY FARMER [ARTICLE]

KILLS LAKE COUNTY FARMER

Because He Refused to Let Him Have Auto to Go to Dance. Crown Point, June 2. —Charles Cole, age 22, confessed at a coroner’s inquest here last night that he shot and killed Christ Tascher, age 41, a farmer who employed him, according to an announcement by tho authorities. Tascher, the officials said, refused to let Cole have an automobile to take Miss Mabel Batterman to a Crown Point dance and the farm laborer, angered at the refusal, shot him with a revolver. After he returned from the dance, Cole notified neighbors that Tascher had killed himself. A revolver was found by the farmer’s body. * Mrs. Tascher and three children were away from home at the time of the tragedy. Cole was a soldier in the world war and came to this community from Marshalltown, la. The Taschers formerly lived near Kankakee, 111. Cole is a prisoner in the Lake county* jail here, pending action' by the grand jury.