Saws Found in Jail Cells, Men Charged with Robbery

Ohio, 1917

NEARBY HAPPENINGS

Chicken Thieves Busy in Auglaize County — Current Events of Interest

Saws were found in the cells of Jonas Mann and Morgan Dunstan, at the Auglaize county jail in Wapakoneta and it is believed that they had planned to escape from the bastile. The two fellows are under arrest charged with having robbed the Victor and Ausman stores at St. Marys.

Mrs. Jacob Zahn, aged seventy years, had been visiting several weeks in Decatur previous to going to Florida to spend the winter. She started en route South, when she suffered a stroke of paralysis and was removed from the train at Portland. Later she died at the home of Nelson R. Williamson, where she has been removed.

Mrs. Benjamin Geise. aged thirty-three years, of Delphos, is dead following an operation. She was formerly Josephine Goebel and is survived by a husband and three small children, the youngest being but four weeks of age.

A chicken thief raided the Webmeyer and Fledderjohn farms in Auglaize county, selling the birds for forty dollars at New Bremen before he could be apprehended.

Seventy-five loaded cars of freight are congesting the Clover Leaf railways yards at Delphos, held there as a result of the Eastern railroad embargoes.

Judge T. T. Shaw has been selected to fill the vacancy in the Defiance Board of Education caused by the resignation of William Gieger.

Geo. W. Dyer, aged eighty-three, is dead at his late home in Buckland. He was the father of ex mayor George Dyer, Jr., of Lima.

William Harpster, of near Ottoville, formerly of Delphos, broke his right collar bone in a fall from a wagon.

—The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, Ohio, January 29, 1917, page 2.