The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
Takes Guy Gunsaulia to His
Home, Hearing the Mans
Mother Was Dead, but
Finds Woman Is Living.
AROUSES SUSPICION
OF COUNTY OFFICER.
And He Decides on a Retreat,
but Mother Holds to Her
Son Till Car Left-Forced
to Walk, Then.

Becoming suspicious that he had
been decoyed into a trap to free Guy
Gunsaulia, who on Tuesday Will be
taken to Michigan City penitentiary
to begin a ten to twenty yaar term for
burglary. Sheriff Steen. who took the
burglar to his nome near Milton on
Saturday afternoon. walked about
with his hand in his pistol pocket eN-
pecting any moment to have use for
his weapon.
On the representation of Thomas
Gunsauha. the parent of the young
man, that the burglars mother had
died and on the consent of Judge Fox
OF the circuit court, the sheriff took
Gunsaulia to Milton. When they arriv-
ed there they found the mother alive
but in a serious condition.
A Sigh Of Relief.
Nothing happened during the visit
in Milton. but the sheriff heaved
sigh of relief when he had the man
again safely locked up in the COUNT
Jail. The fact that Gunsaulias family
and friends did not know when he was
to visit his mother. the authorities be-
lieve. was all that prevented an at
tempt to liberate him.
On Saturday Sheriff Steen was ac-
costed by Thomas Gunsaulia on the
streets here and told that Mrs. Gun
sulia had died Friday. He requested
that his son, then in the jail, and not
yet sentenced be permitted to visit the
home on the outskirts OF Milton before
the mother was taken back to Ken
tucky for burial On Monday morning
the sheriff happened to meet the elder
Gunsaulia on the streets here again
He demanded to know why Gunsaulia
had lied to him. Why. replied Gun
saulia, she died for two hours again
Sunday afternoon" He then walked
on.
Knowing the temper and the alleged
reputation of the old man as having
been handy with the gun while living
in Kentucky. although the sheriff does
not suspect Guy Gunsaulia of being a
party to any plot for his liberation. the
authorities will be very careful and
watch the Jail closely tonight and like
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part of the county will watch the Gun
sulias and their friends there. The
sheriff will take the burglar to Michi-
gan City on Tuesday, perhaps leaving
in the middle of the day
When Sheriff Steen and Gunsaulia
got Off at Cambridge City. the prisoner
handcuffed to Steen, they missed the
"dinky' car to Milton. They walked
down the railroad and half way there
met Gunsaulias brther in law riding
on a hand car. When the Gunsaulia
home was reached. the old man was
not there as he promised he would be.
The mother and three grown daugh-
ters were the only ones there The
sick woman apparently was feigning
death at first. The daughters acted
suspiciously and go, one at time.
| from the house OF the shed. They said
! they were looking for their father.
Sheriff Steen believed they were car
rying information TO some one. AS
| soon as he attempted to hurry up the
farewell, which was quite pathetic. the
| mother grabbed her son around his
| neck and clung to him long enough SO
| they missed the car returning to Cam
| bridge City.
They had to walk back, something
| the sheriff did not relish as the rail-
road track for two miles between
Cambridge City and Milton is unfre-
quented and a lonely place. He was
very cautious and once or twice on
the return trip upon hearing unusual
sounds. such as the cracking OF a
| twig in the woods. he had the revolver
| from its hostler and ready for use.