Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — A Burglar and a Brute. [ARTICLE]

A Burglar and a Brute.

A UVace of Bad Heit Bagged. ? . Two men were lodged in the Jasper county jail last Sunday, both charged with crimes punishable. with terms in the penitentiary. One was from Wheatfield, in the north end of the county, the other from Remington in the south end. ./ THE EURO I.Ail. Last Thursday night the general store of J. H. Tilton, in Wheatfield was entered by -burglars amir a eoirikkrable quantity of jp ods ;t»ken away. Eutrance was effect-. ed by breaking one ot the panes] of glass in the front, door. During ! the succeeding duy the ti<*cif!ental' .discovery .of % n glove propped by! the thief or thieves led to the • discovery of some of the stolen j goods hidden at Stumble’-* hay i j bain and coal shed, in Wheatfielil.! I That night several men watched j jail night, exp.-eri :g ihe theiv<MS j would comeback that night afterjl the liiddt n goods. No one camo] however. The follow ing night the j watch was renewed by Mr. W. A. ; Phelps, A. J. Tilton aud Daniel! Snyder. Just after dark their j watch was rewarded by Seeing a ! man approach one of the deposits of stolen goods, and lift up from \ them a pair of boots. The watch-! ers immediately stepped forward | and arrested him. He was taken before Squire.j Stimpson, of Wheatfield,' and j bound over to the circuit court, j On Sunday special constable A. j W. Philips and Mr. Tilton, owner I of the burglarized store, brought j the prisoner down and lodged him ! in jail.

He gave his name as John Me Gregor and claimed to be a Scotliman by nationality. When examined he denied all knowledge of the burglary and said that he had met a man that day who had told him where to find the boots he had in his hand when arrested. He is a complete stranger to everybody in Wheatfield. The penalty for burglary may j be frorq two to fourteen years in: the penitentiary. THE BRUTE.' On the same day, Sunday, Dept. Sheriff John Tharp, and Marshal E. Hollingsworth brought over from Remington one Daniel Coleman, a - man who has made Remington his place of residence off and on for perhaps ten years. It is stated that last Sunday morning Coleman, whose beastly licentiousness has long made him a terror in Remington, entered a room in a restaurant where a respectable servant girl. Miss Ida M. Reams, of Wolcott, was making a bed, and made a most determined effort to outrage her person, and only desisted when driven off at the point of a-revolver by an old man who heard the girl’s cries. The fellow immediately struck out into the country but was overhauled before he had gone a mile, and was taken back to Remington and Justice Wm Tharp bound him over to the circuit court in the sum of SBOO. Coleman, who is a worthless sorh of ohamoter,-hg.a the name of having made several attempts similar to the above in times past, one being only a short time ago, and another, some time since, was mentioned in this paper at the time. He seems to be a thoroughly depraved wretch in this particular and it is much to be hoped that lie is now in a fair way to receive his just deserts. The statutes of the state do not provide any direct penalty for attempted rape, but whoever commits an assault or assault and battery with intent to commit a felony may be imprisoned fro to two to fourteen years and fined Lot to exceed two thousand dollars^