Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1901 — Brook Preacher’s Bad Break [ARTICLE]

Brook Preacher’s Bad Break

Rev. Kelley, the Christian church at Brook for some time past, has been drinking considerably for quite a while but on the quiet. Last Thursday evening however, he got ugly drunk, and went home and began beating his wife. He struck her twice, and one blow knocked her against a door, cutting a bad gash above her right eye, Owing to the entreaties of the injured woman Kelley Was not proseouted but compelled to leave town. A small sum was raised for him, and he was taken to Sheldon, where he took the oars. Kelley is-said to be a preaoher of most unusual eloquence, and in personal appearance to be almost a duplicate of W. J. Bryan. Rumor of moral crookedness also have been current sinoe his outbreak of Thursday night.