Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — A Twain of Toughs. [ARTICLE]

A Twain of Toughs.

East wees; Sheriff Yeoman received from Kosciosko county the names and descriptions of two men who were charged with a variety of crooked deeds in Kosciosko and Elkhart counties, and who were believed to be lurking in this vicinity. Their names aie William Wiest and Henry Mull. Saturday night the sheriff collared Wiest in Kannal’sdrug store, and then went out to John Makeever’s farm in ‘ Newton tp., and captured Mnll. They had been working in Newton tp., for some time, Wiest for Jared Benjamin and Mull on Makeever’s farm, where he had hired for the winter. On Monday a deputy sheriff arrived from Elkhart county and took the men away. ■ He said they were wanted for stealing clover seed and wheat and killing a “beef critter.” Wiest Worked for John Martindale in Newton tp., two years ago, and though he had a wife and child at home, he passed for a single man and came near making a serious mash on Martindale’s hired girl. Mull, the officer said, has been living with a woman to whom he was not married. They were well provided with fire arms, having two guns arid a fine revolver. They gave the revolver to sheriff Yeoman, and also left the guns in his care. The Sheriff also received $25 which was offered as a reward for their arrest.