Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1909 — Injury Evidently Done to An Innocent Young Man. [ARTICLE]

Injury Evidently Done to An Innocent Young Man.

George Clark arrived in Rensselaer Friday from Toronto, Ohio, where he had been to see his father who is fn quite poor health, suffering from asthma. George has every appearance of being a first-class young man and if filled with remorse because of the charge which was filed against him recently at Delphi. He lived here for a year or more and was both industrious and well behaved. Several weeks ago he and Miss Dora Thornton purchased the moving picture show business at Monon and he went there to run it. Business did not prove very good there and he decided to look up a new location, and went to Delphi. He visited several saloons there and drank considerably and finally lost track of things to such an extent that he did not know what was going on until he found himself In jail the next morning and learned that two charges had been filed against him, one for drunkenness and the other and more serious one that of criminal assault. It Was sufficient to cause George a great amount of worry and as he could not recall a thing that had happened he did not * know what evidence there might be against him. He was arraigned before a Justice of the Peace and was much relieved when the Squire informed him that the assault charge was without foundation, having been preferred by some overzealous woman who saw George give a nickle each to two little girls. As the act was performed on the street in plain sight of several people, there was nothing at all out of the way about it. It illustrates, however, how very dangerous it is for a man to become intoxicated, and how easy it would have been for a few people to have testified against George and thus caused him to have been sentenced to the - penitentiary, although altogether innocent, as the court held him to be. George is filled with remorse and accompanying it is a determination to never again take any chances, and that means to altogether leave liquor alone. He has not been in the habit of using liquor extensively, and bears a splendid reputation at his home in Toronto, Ohio, where he has lived for the past nineteen years. The Republican hopes that George’s friends here will not be influenced by the false charge that was filed against him, and believes that he will so guard his future conduct as to avoid any similar dangers. He expects to remain in the picture business and will hunt up a new location, having several places in view.