Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1909 — MONON WIDOWER GETS GAY IN RENSSELAER. [ARTICLE]

MONON WIDOWER GETS GAY IN RENSSELAER.

A. D. Scott Wants a Wife and Seeks To Force His Attentions on Mrs. John L. Smith. Adam D. Scott, of Monon, is becoming something more than a joke in his efforts to find a wife. Last spring he advertised in newspapers, but now he seems to be trying personal campaigning, and when a woman refuses to accept his attentions he tries to forcibly compel her .to listen to his suit. Adam is a man of about sixty years of age, apparently whole with the ex ception of a hitch in one leg. He is a

nice looking old gentleman and comes from a good family, but he seems to have gone dippy on the woman subject which is about the worst thing that can happen to an otherwise nice old man. He made the acquaintance of Mrs. John L. Smith, whose husband died some two years ago, and called here a time or two to see her. She decided that she did not want anything to do with him and dismissed him with instructions that he should not come to her home again and that she did not want anything to do with him. But Adam does not believe in taking a woman’s no for an answer and he kept writing to Mrs. Smith, and told her that he was going to come and see her again. She wrote for him not to come, but he wrote and told her not to be so independent, that he would come when he pleased, and he even advised her when he was coming. She became alarmed at the threatening tone of his letters and notified Marshal Parks to be on the look-out for him, and Mr. Parks went to the train that Adam said he would arrive on, but he did not come. On Monday of this week, however, he did come, and went directly to the home of Mrs. Smith, in the northwest part of town. She refused to admit him after he rapped at the front door but Adam’s ardor was not to be so easily cooled, and he tried to get in the back door. Failing there he tried to effect an entrance through the cellar, but was finally bluffed out and went away. He was not going to give up without further effort, however, and he came down town and had a warrant sworn

opt for the arrest of Ted Watson, a boy who has made his home with Mrs. Smith for several years. He charged that on or about May 29th, Ted had provoked him with an effort to cause him to make an assault on Ted. After getting the warrant he hunted up Nightwatch Thomas and wanted the warrant served. Just at this point Marshal Parks put in an appearance and the festive Adam was marched •over to the jail. In the meantime. Mrs. Smith, who had fainted, was in the charge of a doctor and several neighbors, badly frightened and suffering from a severe nervous shock. Scott pleaded that he was a prominent business man and he did not like to be locked up. Marshal Parks told him that he could have all the liberty he wanted to secure his release and lie sent for an attorney, and it was later decided to let the old codger out, provided he would leave town on the next train, which he seemed very anxious to do, and he went to Monon on the 11 o’clock night train. Mr. Scott was a highly respected old gentleman during the life of his first wife, but like his namesake of the Garden of Eden fame, he seems ■to have fallen a victim to the wiles of women, and he is said to have made himself very obnoxious to about every widowed lady in and around Monon.

With John Poole, of Benton county, in jail charged witttMbo much affection for Jasper. women, and Scott of White county, attacking our women from the southeast, It begins to lock like they were none too safe, and strange men from those sections are apt to be looked at with a degree of suspicion. Scott may regard himself as very ’ lucky, for there are places where similar conduct would lead to severe measures of settlement, and with considerable Justice hire. Smith is said to be greatly improved today, but her condition for several hours Monday evening was sufficient to greatly alarm her neighbors. , .