The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-10-16
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ATTEMPTS TO BREAK JAIL.

The Bartholomew County Grand Jury
inspected the County Jail at Columbus
Saturday and when the members enter
ed they surprised William Hale. colored.
saving a bar In an effort to escape. Ed
ward Monroe. white, was doing lookout
duty for the negro. When the sheriff
and Jurors appeared the saw disappear
ed and could not be found. The grand
jury reported Saturday and within five
minutes after the report was read two
men indicted were sentenced to State
Prison. They were William Hale. color
ed. who pleaded guilty to burglary, and
Charles Reeves of indianapolis. who
pleaded guilty to forgery The latter
was sentenced to from two to fourteen
years in the Indiana State Prison and
the former for the same time in the
Indiana Reformatory
HIGH SCHOOL GIRL SUICIDES.
Miss Wilma Burns, age eighteen, a
senior in the Worthington high school.
at worthington. committed suicide Fri
day morning by shooting herself in the
right temple with a revolver. She was
daughter of Mrs. Olive Burns. a
widow. She was literary editor of the
Purple and White. a monthly paper
published by the high school. The girls
mother had refused to permit her to 60
to Lyons to the street fair.
GLASS MANAGER ATTACKED.
Officers at Paramount are making an
effort to ascertain the identit of a
man who assaulted Milton McCombs. of
Marion. OF the managers of the
Bell Bottle Company's factory. near the
latters residence in that city. The
stranger passed McCombs on the side
walk, whirled around and struck him
on the head, knocking him down. Nc
Combs was badly beaten after being
felled. A strike has been in progress
at the Bell factory for several weeks.
FOUND AFTER rs YEARS.
Captain George Norris. who mysteri-
ously disappeared from his home. at
Rochester, twenty eight years ago. has
been found by members of his family.
A daughter. Mrs. Charles Emmons, liv-
ing west of Rochester, has received a
letter from her father, who writes that
he is in Cincinnati, O., where he has
been for a number of years. He is now
more than eighty years old. and in the
letter asks the children to bury him be-
side his wife
She was too good woman for me-
he writes. and I. blind man that l was,
toned that he is getting a pension of
$50 and expects to return to his family
for a visit soon as he gets his next
pay. When he left his favorite niece
accompanied. him but not a word was
mentioned as to her whereabouts.
LOoSEs MEMORY.
Had the dead come to life, it would
have caused no greater surprise than
the return of julius Salters, a we'll
known carpenter who disappeared I'M
der unusual circumstances at Decatur,
Miss, early in March and who had been
given up for dead by his relatives at
Petersburg past six months.
Sa1ters's ransacked valise was found
| in the railroad yards near the Misis-
! sippi River and officers dragged the riv-
| er for several days in search of his
body. Salters was found in Evansville
| by friends yesterday, where he was liv :
| ing under the name of Frank Smith.
EPIDEMIC ON FARMS.
| Carrying out instructions of DR.. j. y.
Hurry. DIR. Charles w. Hartloff. city
Health officer, at Evansville, found to-
Iday, on investigating the probable
lorigin of caess of infantiIe paralysis,
THAT there has been an epidemic of
iparalytic affection among hogs on farms