Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — Messenger Is Caught. [ARTICLE]

Messenger Is Caught.

Nabbed Wednesday Morning in Grant County. It seems certain now that William Messenger, who murdered Charles Nelson at San Pierre on the night of August 12tli, is at last ‘ behind prison bars. Wednesday, our Councilmen, Messrs. Spitler and Meyer, in returning home from Middletown, met the sheriff of Starke Co., and a San Pierre resident, at Logansport, and the sheriff informed them that Messenger had been arrested in Grant Co., early that morning and was then in jail at Marion, and that the sheriff was then on his way to get him. The Indianapolis Journal yesterday confirms the statement of the Starke Co. sheriff, and a dispatch from Marion says that Messenger was caught before daylight Wednesday, by the mayor of Marion, two deputy sheriffs and a party large enough to surround the house where he was staying. He had been in the county since Friday, and was finally located in a Mrs. Atkinson’s house, 2\ miles from Marion. He made no resistance to the officers who arrested him.