Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1900 — A Doctor Got Gay at Cedar Lake. [ARTICLE]

A Doctor Got Gay at Cedar Lake.

The Inter Ocean of/Thursday has a tale of woe, a column long, on its front page, relating what befell Dr J. H. Webb, of Chicago. He had been boarding at the Sigler House, at Cedar Lake,. The doctor, who is represented as a very high-toned and fine haired but very athletic gent got pretty hilarious, and while in that condition insisted .on the Monon station agent. Mr. Ford, flagging the fast train which does not stop at the Lake, so that he and his party could return to Chicago upon it. This the agent had no right to do, and very properly refused. The doctor got mad and reached for the agent but missed him and smashed a window in the depot, and according to some accounts turned loose and smashed things generally. He took the next train for Chicago, but was arrested in Hammond, by Sheriff Lawrence and taken to Crown Point, and slated for malicious trespass, and bound over to the September term of the Lake circuit court. The Inter Ocean appears to think that the Monon company committed a great wrong in prosecutting the belligerent M. D., instead of allowing him io pay for the damage done to the depot and saying nothing further about the matter. We judge however, that the doctor is getting only what he deserves.