Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tolopphic Reports From Many Parts ot tha Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns — Matters of Minor From Many Looalitiea. SLASHES HIS WIFE; ENDS LIFE Frank Warner Once Bet Fire to Barn and Bhot at Firemen. After seriously wounding hls wife by slabbing her with a knife, Frank Warner of Wolcott Wednesday aft ernoon ended his own life by cutting his throat at Peoria, 111. Warner went to Peoria after be was released from the Indiana Colony for the Criminal Insane at Michigan City Mch. 12. Warner was sent to Michigan City after he set fire to his barn at Wolcott, Hov. 24, 1918, and concealed himself in his home and opened fire on the volunteer fire company of Wolcott. He wounded 10 of the men and several shots were fired at him before he was arrested. Charges of arson and assault and battery with intent to kill were made against him, but later were modified and his commitment for criminal Insanity was ordered by the Delphi circuit court \ Warner was a son of John Warner of Wolcott, formerly sheriff of White county. The body was brought to Wolcott for burial.