Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — Vaulted Their Entertainment William. [ARTICLE]

Vaulted Their Entertainment William.

Sunday two men registered at the Nowels House as‘W. B. and J. D. Clyne, from New Albany. They were working up some kind of a fence advertising scheme, and canvassed among our merchants Monday, it is said with considerable success. Monday evening Nightwatch Childers called around at the hotel and arrested the two men, on the strength of a card from Frankfort, which charged them with jumping a board bill for $65 there. City Marshal Bird, of Frankfort, came up and took them back with him, Tuesday. The story they tell is that when they were at Frankfort they were in company with three other fellows, who were worthless bums who spent all their money at saloons. The Clynes left them at Frankfort, but claimed that they paid their own bills, but that the hotel keeper wanted them to pay the bills of the other three, which they refused to do. If this story is true they will have no trouble in clearing themselves, and their arrest would be an outrage.