Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — The Westville Case. [ARTICLE]

The Westville Case.

The Westville Indicator has the following regarding the men now in jail at LaPorte, on suspicion of being the murderers of young Wesley Reynolds, at Westville: “Dunham, Glanoy and Wagner were in town the night of the murder, having arrived here on the evening- passenger , from Wanatah. It is also reported the trio had trouble with another person on the train. They were drinking and quarrelsome and looking for trouble according to report, until, the saloon closed. The men bear an evil reputation, and one or more of them are promptly credited with every piece o£ skullduggery that transpires hereabouts, It is pointed out that the trio were in town the night.the meat market safe here was blown up and robbed of about S2OO. Dunham at least took part in a cutting affray at Wanatah not long ago, and many misdemeanors are laid at his door. Wag» ner bears a like reputation in the

vicinity of Hanna, where“ Ee has rendezvoused for some time. Investigations made the day following the attempted robbery revealed the saot that Wagner was not to be found in his ordinary haunts but was in seclusion and it was given out that he was ill, though he refused the service of a pbysi- ( oian, and itwas known that he was apparently well the day "before. Glanoy, who with Dunham, has been credited with much of the deviltry that has oooured in the neighborhood, has no settled residence, but is said to make his home where he takes off his bat. It was j near the home of Thomas Glancy,’ a brother, who lives near Coburg, I that the men who were first suspi- j cioned of the murder were said to have been seen. Thomas Glanoy 1 reported the presence of a gang of men who had camped in the woods there the night bifore. It will be remembered that the authorities followed up this clew and came into possession of information at' Hobart that seemed to lend credit to Glanoy’s story, A band of men passed Sunday in a barn there and there were traces of blood left behind, indicating that one of their number might have been wounded. Nothing resulted from this line of inquiry, so far as the public is informed, and now there is considerable discredit attached to it owing, it is said, to later to testimony by the Glanoy family.