Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1907 — Says Ed Brinley Got Sent Up. [ARTICLE]

Says Ed Brinley Got Sent Up.

Francesville Tribune. Edward D. Brindly. formerly of Rensselaer and familiarly known in Francesville, was convicted in the Elkhart circuit court last week on a grand larceny charge, and was sentenced to serve an intermediate term of from one of fourteen years in the state reformatory at Jeffersonville. Brinley has been in trouble many times before, before, once on a paternity charge. He was always known as a smart aleck and usually bragged about how smooth he was. If you was ever unfortunate enough to ste Brindley his personal appearance would cause you to sour on humanity. He could be seen loitering about town in a self styled independent air. He usually wore a pair of loud colored, extremely baggy trousers turned up at the bottoms, in the pockets of which he always carried his arms shoved in to iiis elbow. He parted his hair in the middle and allowed it to hang down over his eyes. He smoked cigarettes and cigars at an angle of forty five degrees and possessed the genius of a fop by inhaling the smoke and afterwards puffing it through his nostrils, while a little dinky athletic cap covered that part ol his sky piece in which it was supposed he carried his brains. And this is Brindley, an all round ignoramus for the want of ordinary horse sense.