Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1902 — Another Man Jailed. [ARTICLE]

Another Man Jailed.

I Constable Vick made another important arrest, Friday night. The party was Wm. Hale, and he was arrested at 10 o’clock at night, on South Fourth street, Lafayette, near his residence; Detective Weinhardt, of Lafayette, assisting in locating and arresting him. About Jan. 27th, Hale started to haul a load of implements and other goods from Judy & Woods’ store at Parr, to Judyville, in Warren county, the head center of all of Judy’s cyclonic activities. On the way. Hale put up for the night with Jim Rodgers, 4 miles south of Rensselaer, and when he left in the morning sold Jim a sl7 cultivator for $3.50 in money and his night’s keeping. When he reached Judyville his cargo was short one cultivator, and this Hale claimed he had lost, and he was paid for his work and the expenses of the trip. The cultivator was finally located at Rodgers’ place, and on his telling how he got it a warrant was issued for Hale, on affidavit of Joseph Hunter, Judy’s agent. It took some pretty good and patient work to locate and capture Hale, at Lafayette, but it was done all right. He is about 28 years old and married. At Lafayette the police had him on their books as a crook, and stated that he has been wanted at Marion, Muncie and other places.

Constable Vick brought him up fiom Lafayette, on the milk train, this, Friday morning, and as a compliment to his reputation as a smooth citizen, he kept the handcuffs on him until he had him safe in jail. He states now that he sold the cultivator and used it to pay his expenses with. A mysterious incident connected with the affair is that while the cultivator was easily found at Rodgers the first time it was looked for, it has since disappeared and Jim is marvelling mightily where it has gone to, and spys some of the neighbors must have hooked on to it.