Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — Deserves to be Shot. [ARTICLE]

Deserves to be Shot.

\ Biaboiical ASleHi;fte(l neai’ llEssiiifigton. Dan Colman, is a ivoi thless, dissolute character, who sound tines hangs around Remington. A week or two ago he stopped at the house of an estimable young married couple, named Rogers, who live two or tliree miles southwest from Remington. He hail done some work tor Mr. Rogers, and on this occasion asked fqr work. Mrs. Rogers, who was alone in the house, informed him that her husband was absent’, but would uudouotediy need his services short. Golm m had in sooner that Mr, Rogers was away frhfft hhme titan tie began to make indecent deiuonslrutio s aed a nrostr insulting prop isg,l, at the same the helpless woman by the arm, with a p irpose only too evident. Wild with fright, by a sudden deeper..to effort she succeeded in breaking away from the brume’s grasp, arid tied the house. She ran to the nearest neighbor’s, not a> great distance, qnd there loi-.l ihe cati-ie ot lier tenor. A inessmtger was at once sent for Mr. Rogers, who was not far away, arid lie at i n e proceeded to his house, and make a search for Colm ( an, armed, wi h a dotib'c-barrel shot gun, but, uufortunately, he did not get a shot, at the scoundrel. He had evidently foreseen’ what wasliktly to happen, and had g-;t away froin the neioiibotbood. .i is supposed that, he wetic to G-jod'am! ir Ke it land, and there u>.k the ear.- t i parts unknown. He lias the r«-patafl»qj I of a habitual lecher, ’*nd Vight .tic* receive his deseit- in a long ie in in t *• penitentiary. If he ventures into the Rogers’ neighborhood again, he wi l be likely to ie -t-ivc a woyjtvpuitic me i.i than the state pri on.