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ALLtlitU AsjAULISISTERTERRIBLE CHARGE OF OUT RAGEOUS CRIME AWAITS WILLIAM JONES.Horse and Buggy is Abandoned in ( This City and Arrest is Evaded— Child is Thirteen Yearsof Age.Alleged to have committed a heinous crime on his thirteen-year-old sister, William Jones, 24 years old, a farmer living near Wheeling, drove to this city Sunday night and abandoned his horse and buggy. Sheriff Joe Barton is putting lorth every effort to locate Jones but nothing hadbeen learned of his whereabouts atu late hour this afternoon.That practices,. alleged to be of a outrageous nature were being committed on the child sister were not learned by the .mother until Sunday, It is said. Jones on learning tfiat his mother knew of the serious charge his little sister had placed againsthim Immediately left home. lt;His; departure was followed by telephone calls to this eity Sunday evem'flg j about C o'clock: to inform Sheriff Barton but at that hour lie and Deputy 'Sheriff Fettinger were out of the city on other business of vital importance: Later on a neightw of t2ie Jones family came to the city to file charges against Jones as it was supposed that he was euheT headed toward this city or Hazleton. However, he evaded arrest and his. Iiorse and buggy were' found late in nfgftt abandoned nsar the R. P. Moore mill at the corner of Emftree and' State streets. The horse and buggy were identifiedby a brother-in-law of Jones* and they were imraed over to* lilm.TE
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Princeton Daily Democrat
Princeton, Indiana, US
Mon, Jun 01, 1914
Page 8
Full Page
Clipped by
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