Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1905 — J. P. Sherman Was Here. [ARTICLE]

J. P. Sherman Was Here.

J. P. Sherman, our formertowi s man of the many troubles, now of Chicago, was in town from Saturday until last evening, when he returned home. He came primarily to obtain an order from Judge Hanley, modifying his former divorce decree; and incidentally to speak his still full burdened mind regarding certain present and former residents of our town, in regard to their supposed connection and to some of them, responsibility, for his domestic troublas. Another incidental object he had in view was to run up against some of our self supposed great billiard players, but he intimated that he found none of them with sand enough to play with him. He carried jointed billiard cues in a leather case that looked enough like a gun case, as according, to some reports, to cause certain citizens to have business out ot town. However he was not gunning for anyone this trip. The order he sought and obtained from Judge Hanley, was .transferring the legal custody of his two children from their mother to himself. She has had posses sion of the boy all along, but the girl has been in his custody, until her sensational kidnapping, one day last week. Mr. Sherman has no doubt but that the mother has the little girl, and believes she is still in hiding with her some place in Chicago, but fears she will take her south into the yellow fever districts.