Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — FATHER AND SON. [ARTICLE]

FATHER AND SON.

In Adversity They Are Not Divided. Tipton county is still all excitement over the conspiracy to rescue the defaulting deputy treasurer, Calvin Armstrong, from the jail. Watson Pitzer and Joseph Pressler, the two young men arrested in connection with the attempted delivery, made a statement to the officers, late Wednesday night, implicating Treasurer James K. Armstrong in the .plot to release his son Ccph Good knight, a hostler, was arrested but was released after making a statement which clears him. James K. Armstrong has been placed in jail to keep company with his son and is charged with plotting the release of a prisoner. He was the leader in the conspiracy, furnished the money and had made arrangements for alt concerned in the affair to leave-the country. Other sensational developments are expected.