Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — A Noted Criminal Dies In Prison. [ARTICLE]

A Noted Criminal Dies In Prison.

One of Warden Reid’s most noted chargee, Frank Reynolds alias Claud Jones alias William Jones, died Tuesday in the prison hospital from consumption. Reynolds or Jones as he was beet known probably oaused a greater stir in this state than any ether Indiana outlaw has for many years. He first came into prominence five years ago wnen he stole a horse and carriage at Hobart, and drove the outfit to LaPorte where he attended a fourth of July celebration after which he abandoned the rig and went up into Michigan A fev dajs later he stole a rig neur Oassopolip, and though hotly pursued by tfficers succeeded in get ting away. He was next heard of at Macy, a small town near Peru, where be eDticed pretty Nellie Berger, a farmer’s daughter to leave her home on the pretext that he wanted her to assist his wife in the work of oanniDg fruits A few hours after Jones had departed from the Berger home it beoame known that he was not what he represented and a large posse of angry farmers headed by the Berger girl’s father and armed with shot guns, rifles, pitohforks and other weapons set out to run him down, He was finally oapturtd and sent to the reformatory aDd later transferred to the prison at Michigan City. But the Berger girl was a physioal wreck from her esperieuoe with him