Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1901 — Not Her Jim Blake. [ARTICLE]

Not Her Jim Blake.

A Mrs. Blake, of Peru, Ind.; was here a fewdays ago interviewing Sheriff Hardy. She had heard about Jim Blake being sent back to the reform sohool from here, after he had so vioioualy struck Henry Tinder, on the GifFord road, and she thought it might be her son. She wrote to Mr. Hkrdy, some time ago, and he telegraphed back that he was not her son. This satisfied her for a tixe, but finally some officious person told her that this was her Jim, and that probably the sheriff was helping him keep his identity and bad fix, concealed from his mother, so down here she came. Of course she soon learned on arriving here that our Jim was not her Jim Her son was of the same name and about the age as Jim Blake, and her supposition that it was her son was natural under the circumstances. Her boy left home some months ago, and so far she has not been able to obtain any traok of him. She was evidently a very estimable woman, and much grieved at her son’s unexplained ebseuce.