Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1920 — WAS ACCUSED OF ROBBERIES [ARTICLE]

WAS ACCUSED OF ROBBERIES

Man, Wanted by Police, Bhoota Himself In the Breast. Valparaiso, Aug. 25. —Devon Spung, wanted in connection with robberies at Boone Grove, Kouts, Malden and Burrows Camp in this county, shot and wounded himself Tuesday afternoon when officers sought to arrest him at his home in North Judson. Spung saw the officers coming and he picked up a Winchester rifle and pressing' the fnuzzle close to his breast, fired. He was taken to the Lakeside hospital in Chicago, where it is said he can not live. Spung, with Omar Turner now in custody in the Porter county Jail, are charged with wholesale robbery in the county. It is believed that Spung’s act was caused by the belief that his* pal had confessed.