Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1911 — Page 6

Voting Contest To the Girl receiving- the greatest number of voles, a Fine Dressed Doll, $5.00 One vote with every 10c purchase, 12 votes with every SI.OO purchase Contest begins Dec. 12, and ends Dec. 23rd. 1911 Doll on display at Lachot and Rice’s Drug Store. Decatur, Indiana. (Use the fohowing slip for nomination of candidate) I vote for : i . . » Amount of Purchase $ Conditions of the contest. Any person may nominate a girl and she will be given 100 votes to start in the contest. Girls get busy and have your friends save their tickets and vote them, come and take a good look at the Doll and then go to work. LACHOT & RICE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT THERE is a feeling of security and safety when a person has a bank account, that cannot be experienced by anybody who has no money saved up. When you receive pay for produce, just set aside apart of it for your bank account. You can send the money to this large, safe bank by mail if you are unable to call at the bank where it will be safeguarded by our large capital and resources, as well as the supervision of the United States Goverment. MAKE THIS BANK YOUR HEADQUARTERS WHEN YOU COME INTO TOWN. FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, INDIANA P. W. Smith, President W. A. Kuebler V. President C. A. Dugan. Cashier F. W. Jaebker Asst. Cashier DEPOSITS ACCEPTED BY MAIL

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! MURDER REVIVED John W. Terrell of Bluffton* Again Becomes Wild and i Assistance is Called. SHERIFF RESPONDED But Took No Steps to Arrest Him as He Was in Better State of Mind. i Bluffton, Ind Dec. 13 —The story 01 the murder of Melvin Wolfe by his' father-in-law, John W. Torrell, in: 1903, was revived Monday night when ! Sheriff Freeman Carlisle received a 1 message from Petroleum to the effect | that Terrell had again "broken out,” i and requesting the sheriff to come to that place and take him in charge. l It was alleged in the report by tele-I phone that Terrell was making threats against his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Min-1 nie Terrell, who recently sued for di- i vorce from Jacob Terrell, a son of | John W. Terrell. Sheriff Carlisle learned that the alleged threats had been made the previous night by Terrell and that there appeared to be no immediate danger, and he consulted legal authority before acting. He found that there is a ■ continuing bond in the sum of $15,000 i on file for Terrell, and that under the■ existing conditions if the bondsmen! do not consider it safe for Terrell to . be at liberty that it is their place to turn him over to the sheriff. There-' fore the sheriff has taken no action 1 but has left, tiie matter to the disci e-j tion of the bondsmen who include several prominent citizens. From the story learned from Petro- 1 leum today it is said that Terrell i went to the home of Elias Morrical, a tenant on the Terrell farm, and ask- 1 ed for his daughter-in-law, and made' a hunt as though trying to find her.' It is claimed that at the same time * he threatened her with bodily harm, j Mrs. Jacob Terrell, the woman for whom J. W. Terrell was reported to ’ be searching, is living at the presen' , time with her mother, Mrs. George Kirkwood, in tbe little town of Pero-' leum. ', John W. Terrell, in July, 1903, shet ■ and killed his son-in-law. Melvin

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a buggy to ePtroleum, where he burst I laid in wait along the road and fired | a short that partially tore off one of Wolfe's legs, and then he followed in a buggy to Petroleum, where he burst open the door of a doctor’s office and blew out the young man’s brains as he lay on the operating table. Terrell surrendered and after a trial of sev- I eral weeks was found guilty of mo - der and the jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. Before sentence was passed the governor interfered and ordered Terrell, who, in the meantime, had been adjudged of unsound mind, taken to Easthaven asylum at Richmond. After he was taken there the supreme court reversed the case, finding a technical error in the ajfl- 1 davit, which alleged an impossible date. Terrell was then reindicted and and later was brought to the Wells county jail, Special judges before ’ whom he was brought on three oe 1 casions refused to order a new trial to proceed as long as Terre’l was held , to be of unsound mind, holding that it' was useless to try on a criminal' charge a man at the time laboring tin- i der the finding of insanity. Then at-’ torneys for Terrell asked that he be ' released under bond, and Judge H. I. : Paulus of Marion consented to this and fixed the bond at $15,000. Since 1 that time Terrell has been in the care of his family near Petroleum, where he now lives on a farm. OBITUARY. Samuel Shell was born in Wayne county, Ohio, September 12, 1844. He departed this life April 7, 1911, aged 60 years, 6 months, 25 days. He emigrated to Indiana with his parents, when a mere boy. The parents located in St.. Mary’s township, Adamscounty, where the deceased grew to manhood. About twenty-five years 1 ago he purchased a farm in Kirkland township, to which he moved his fam- t ily, and since that time he has been a i prominent citizen of that township, s On the outbreak of the civil war he i enlisted in Company C, Eleventh cav- i airy, and served that organization 1 faithfully until the war closed. He i was united in marriage to Miss Su- 1 sannah Brown, November 6, 1870. To ' this union were born eight children — six girls and two boys. His wife and two children have preceded him to tne other world. There also remain grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. In the same year he was married he united ' with the U. B. church, of which he remained a member until about thre. ;

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years ago, when he united with the | M. E. church, which was nearer his | home. Os this he was a member at, the time of his death. Brother Shell j was a quiet, unassuming Christian I gentleman, and was a very Indus- j trious farmer. He will be greatly I missed by his family, his church and | his neighborhood. But though we mourn he has risen to a higher, broader sphere of activity, for ‘When bursts the rose of the spirit From its withering calyx sheath, And the bud has become a blossom Os heavenly color and breath; Life utters its true revelation Through the silence we call death.” WANTED —To rent a suitable house, central!” located. See L. L. Baumgartner, at clerk’s office. 287t3

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