Decatur Democrat, Volume 58, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1913 — Page 6

NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS Taxes for the Year 1912 Notice is hereby given that the taxes levied for the State, County. School aad ocher purpose* to Adams County. Indiana. are due and payable at the Treasurer* o®ce '•» s» ty in the City of Decatur, tn full or at option of taxpayer,one half, including road tale* in full, on or before the FIRST MONDAI IN MAI. ISl*. the san.- being Monday, May sth, 1913 The second tels tin case the first half is jw-d when due, becomes due and payable oa or before the FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1912, the same being Monday, November 3rd, 1913 Th r, ■’««-, table Co’’ the -*-ee of taxation oa each ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS' WORTH OF PROFERT also on each POLL in the several Townships and Corporations in Adatns Ctlnty. Indiana for the year 1912 When so much a* one-half toe taxes charged to a taxpayer are not paid, on or More the FIRST MONDAY IN MAY. the whole amount will become d’-!£ <ll2 d d*?'. 1 Zcl 4 *S4? AtUbCuNKJ. - Z 3 Ti-vw” - aad Co"T»*>tiocs — * 5 r* 2 x 5 — x S § : X -c “ — B 1- ; ~ ~ = t ” 8 g 3 ~ f F - ? « _ J f 5 - ff U i = i •. fg ! 22 “ 18 *ll el “£3 3 « c 2 « 5 1 = = X X £ I X O © H i H - X sT X - L T. [ X X r = = I- X X r- X L H Vn a ■■ ■"■ 1652 7» Fi 39 6 it.ls T” » 15 15 19 • I .4114 1.62 •IS S 131 5 2.75 15 tv « 171- 7 19 19 19 8 ' I » « 1-51 >« J* 59 59 L» ■ PrehU • I'6 5 275 1.5 39 » 1715 7 8 5 13 19 1 16 77 lIS 98 -16 oA 59 ♦i« sinu » « nis ? »« »; i.j » » «:« »i« uj » ».» «-* St Marr « 9 15 6 5 275 15 5-' 6 17.15 7 19 29 27 8 19 J, 141 1-13 -r-l .—. ** - K 6 5» 15 3- ‘6’l7 15 7 15 16 IS 5 ! 19 ' . 118 1-63 121 M 56 1.9* Monroe ‘ , 9 16 5 . 72- 1 5 39 6 1215 2 1 2 12 24 4 5 ». « ’ — LB 2 35 59 56 Li*> ’ n£cT “TTTTT" 9U. 6 Stn 1.5 '39 « 12.15 7 12 6 1« 5 < 26 112 1.91 213 : 39 '1.99 n » -W 3e IS 17 1’ “ ’■* 2s *0 5 * 11 1.33 I Jjs> 2.*51 -5 1 ? ' ,3d 1-IK* i Wabasb* ...... ... . . . .... .. '• 1«5I 25 15 59 <1215 2 I S 1 25 10 219 4 ' 92 134 1.14 2*S .59 59 190 Jefferson ‘ S 1-6 5 225 1.5 39 6 12.15 7 19 5 5 10 46 5! 119 I*4 2.23 .59 1 v City of Decatur 9 16 5 225 15 » i 12 15 2 42 95 2 ,19 1.52 II M 2.25 Town of Monroe 9 I’6 5 2.75 1 5 39 <1215 7 12 24 .99 ,29 6s 13. IJ> X. 4 a® ..v _ 7? -- Town of Berne 9 1 « » 2.75 15 36 6 12.15 7 45 45 J 9 .66 1-54 154 X® 59 50 59 196 3.99 Town ot Geneva 9 12 6 5 X 75 15 3v 6 1715 7 s-- 59 2 I .*' 4 *? ■l l S2t a6a -ip . a® . , 1 ■» 1 Lf«.‘ 3 Road Tax Receipts Should be presented on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN MAY, as the road tax is all included in the fi-st instillment- Road tax receipts will not be taken for the second installment of taxes Examine your receipts before leaving the ofice, and see that all of your property is described. Also see that change is correctly mad*. Particular Attention . i Th ■ ~l:~ hire .2 .j* aad or ■ :n~- _- ■ - -ty - mo: Z .an one township m_s' aee that they have a rec ■■•■• t fir aT County Orders canaot be paid to any person owing delinquent uses. Ail jtfsocs are warned against purchasing such orde*s Th- Books will POSITIVELY BE CLOSED oa the FIRST MONDAY IN MAY and the FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMPER Assslgaees. Guard an*. Administrators, and others, who pay taxes oa property in trust, aad whose taxes are compLcated. such as iadividaal estates, are eamest’y reqTJested to riywA t"c£or*? th<? la*;- fe* - days. • The municipal taxes of the City of Decatur, and the Towns of Berne and Geneva are payable at this oSee. T_e ANNUAL SALE OF DELdNQ ENT LANDS AND LOTS will take pace on the SECOND MONDAY IN FEIMtUARY. 1913, at 19 o'clock a m Persons owing Delinquent Taxes should pay them at once. The law is of sech a character that there is no option for the Treasurer but to enforce the collection of delinquent taxes, however much he may regret to ollect the same by the sale of property. The owner of Property on the First Day of March, shall be Considered as the owner on that Day. (Sec, 102.1 The Treasurer wiH not be responsible for Penalties and Charges on Delinquen' Taxes resulting from any omissions of the person paying such taxes to state definitely oa what property. in whose name, and what township or corporation it is assessed. Call for Property in Name of Owner March 1, 1912. The Tax Duplicates are made up on that day and never changed. Auditor’s Special Notice • , Parties haring School Fund Leans on which interest is Delinquent will please give the Payment of said Interest their attention at once, as the law requires the Sale of Propeny Mortgaged if the interest is not paid. CHARLES W. YAGER, Attest: I reasurer of Adams County H. S. Michaud, Auditor Decatur, Indiana ■■

WANTED. TIMBER. Lin bisswood , cottonwood and poplar bofta, four incites in duune-r or larger: standing umber or cut and ricked anywhere.'—Johnson-Smith Ex-, ceisior Co. ladiaaapotis, Ind. 48t4 (Advertisement • NOTICE OF 5-LE OF REAL ESTATE BY EXECUTOR. The undersigned. executor ot the{ last will and testament of Peter Sa-' tber. deceased, hereby gives notice that by virtue of an order of the Adams circuit court, he will at the hour of 10 o'clock a. tn., of the Sth Day of February, 1»11, at the east coor ot the eonrt no use in the city of Decatur. Adams county, Indiana, and from day to day thereafter un::i the same is sold, offer for sale at public sale the following described real estate, to-wit: In lot number six hundred and twenty-three I 623 > in Joseph Crabb's subdivision ot outlets western addi-1 uon to the town <now city) of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, as the same is designated on the recorded plat of said subdivision. Also, inlots six hundred and twelve (612) and six hundred and fourteen (6141 in Joseph Crabb's addition ’o the town (now city) of Decatur, in Adams county, Indiana. Said sale will be made subject to the approval of the said court, for not lees than the two-thirds of the full appraised value of said real estate and upon the following trms and conditions: At least one-third of the purchase motley cash in hand, the balance in two equal installments, payable in not to exceed one and two years, evidenced by notes of the purchaser, bearing six per cent interest from date, waiving relief, providing attorney's fees

and secured by personal surety and mortgage on the real estate sold Purchaser may. however hare the right to pay the full amount of the purchase , price in <-asn tn case ae prefers or de CHARLES SETHHB, i lt4 Executor. PETITION FOH MACADAM ROAD, state ot Indiana, Dounty of Adams, ss. Before the Board of Comtnissioaers ' o. the County of Adams We the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters* of Jefferson Township, in Adams County, Indiana, respectfully petition your honorable body and ask that you construct and complete a free macadamized stone road, in said township over and upon the public highway situated oa the following < route, to-wit: ; Commencing at the northwest eor- , section three (3) township i’wexty-five -25 ■ north, range fifteen 115) east, in Adams county, Indiana. 1 running thence south over the publie highway on tae line dividing sections i three (3) aad four (6) to the south- ’ w est corner o* said section three (3< ! aforesaid, thence west on the line dividing the east half of sections nine ; >9) and four !4» township and range aforesaid and terminating at the northwest corner ot the northeast quarter of section nine (9) township and range aforesaid, and there to terminate. Your petitioners aver and say that the improvement prayed for is less than three miles in length, connects at both ends wtth a free Macadam Road in said township. Your petitioners aver and say that the highway herein sought to be improved is a public highway already established and in use and is one of the public highways of said Jefferson Township. Your petitioners ask your honorable

body that said highway above describ-1 ed be drained and graded and that; aroken stone be placed upon the grade and that upon such broken steme there pe placed stone screenings, and that this improvement be made exclusive o: crus-ed stone and screenings. Your petitioners further ask that ‘said highway above described be improved to a width of forty (40) feet and that said highway above described be graded to a width of twentyfour t24> feel, and that broken stone be -daced thereon to a width of ten ‘ (10) feet, and to a depth of eight <B> inches at the sides thereof, and to a ’ depth of ten inches tn toe center there- ; of. and that crashed stooe screenings be placed thereon to a depth of four , metes, upon such broken stone, and ‘ that said improvement be made a dou- ; Me track and that the name of the ’ same be the ' Frank Hisey Macadam ;Road" , That to pay for said improvement , we ask that bonds be issued by the County of Adams in toe State of Indi- : ana, payable in twenty semi-annual in j stailments or series, and for the pay- . meet of which we ask that a tax be , ■ levied upon the taxable property if .; Jefferson Township in a suiheie-.t . amount to pay the interest and princi- >' pal of said bonds as they become due. > That said improvement be made and : -.5a-d that said barads ’e , issued and said tax be levied upon the . taxable property of said township, in accordance with toe Act* of the Legi»t lature of the State of Indiana, passed i in the year 1995. beginning on page ( 556 and as amended in the Acts of t , 19->7 and as amended In the Act* of ‘ 1999. now in force, providing for the 1 extension ot free gravel or macadam . roads, and all other and any and aii r am--ndments thereto. ! We further as* the board to take i all of the necessary step* required uy law to have said improvement con- • stracted and made as petitkHied bere-

I in, that the same be coastracted withiout submitt.ng the question of buildj ng the same to an electice of the voters of said Jefferson township, and that the board construct the same under the laws of the State of Indiana, prwridiag for the extension of free ■ gravel or macadam roads Frank Hisey, J. M. Boienbacker, J. ’ L. Yaney, Jacob Houser. T. A. Beerbower. James F. Byer Abe Bebc :. Michael Kuehm, Jr, C. W Heffner. L M Sapp. E G Butcher. Elmer Lndy. Daniel Shank, Otto Raker. Charley Smitley, J. F Nash, W F Johnson, Sami Egly. W V. Smttly. John A. Cos fee. John W. Fetters, Philip Brewster T F .R.an. Albert F Adams. Jonathan Rian, George Searight, I. D. Booker. O W Duff. J M Duff. S D Hild. David Zebr. John Rohrer, Frank D Brewster. Joe Young. Reuben Myers. John T. Ault, Frederick Berron. Frank Spangler, George F Huffman, Wm G. Boilenbacher. Jacob HiDer, Theo Fetters. Pat Murphy. Frank "etters. Chas M. Fetters. Gale Hook, James Kinney, Frank Stomp, jacob Stribe. Marian Ketchum. John Ehigle. Philip Irwin Brewster This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioner! on Tuesday. February 4, ’9’3. at which time the taxpayers of Jeffersoc -ownsbip may’ appear and make such objection as the law may provide for 2x2 T. H. BALTZELL, Auditor. The Bluffton New* says; "John Lee. arrested Thursday afternoon, shortly after he shot and killed Samuel T. Purdy, foreman of the punch room at the factory of toe Red Croos Manufacturing company, will be held in the county jail without opporvmity to furnish bond, pending a grand jury investigatioe on the an-

thorfty of a vrarra-t issued by Coroner Herman Thoma, whowe discoveries 1 warrant him binding Lee over to toe i WeLs county grand jury. This was toe infonreGM* given oct | following an investigation jointly I Thursday eveciag py Coroner Thoma. I Prosecuting Attorney Lee F. Sprague 1 ofi Hartford City, -who was here several | hour*, and Deputy Prosecuting Attor-j ney John Decker T-ese three officials ‘ in company wttk Marshal Charles Pierce and Deputy Sheriff Fred Ad ' am*, toe two officers who took John ! Lee and wife m charge Th I spent more than an hoar with Lee at ! the jat Thursday night, to an effort r to learn, more ot toe detail* of the i shooting and toe incidents leading up to it Newspaper men also were pres- 1 est. • t' Lee did some tailing, in a disjoint- ; ed manner, and indica*.cd that seif-' defense may be one of toe contentions be wui seek to establish. An insanity , Plea also seems probable. FoCovtog toe conference of the otEcials Proaecutiag Attorney Sprague was asked ts there would be a request 1 for the calßag of a speefai grand jury, an d he replied that he did not consider this necessary, since there would be a regular grand jury convened at the ( February term of court. February 2nd, three weeks from next Monday, and toe Lee murder investigation will be comdccted by that body. This will be toe first gland jury summond : during the term of Judge W. H. Eichhorn, aad win be the first drawn by the new jury commisaicners, M. A.

: «pake and W. H I Sir, ijtf. who was held In Jail ™’ h * I <rf a <lllll/ koo*lU® L 4»» H wAI mid threat, on Mr. P-rdy* “e. was release Tbursda, night. It ft B<X known wDetner I in Afiy wav for murder* TT > ° 1 ' that her husband usually fol ? e w-Gtirra’es and that it la »be IteUef that she may incited him to it , It is sa.d both had gained the imi, -r wherever they went that they Th«v were a'-»° drawn into with their relatives over the land which the Le*a '* neonle I/* Stated thM ihT eT »e Slid ’hat the children of I George Johnson and Perry Pyle b«*l ( I tormented his two sons until he behardly been able to I ’eave the bouse without being accostI said that a few days ago a Brown noy | L-j eivec twentv five cents to S boy. W-bile living in | 'another neighborhood. Mrs. is said of an aged neighbor, John Falk Ito have feigned insanity through the' jtory. where be worked. ; Lee Questioned Apa'* •" J*' l - ' coroner were closeted with Lee at the jail for an hour or more Thursday ! night, and they and Marshal Pierce ■and Deputy Sheriff Fred Adams que*l*ioned him from all angles. He said. ■U his atttwney. C. F Dailey, had got t o t3.11c until the propI . eante. but despite this he did ' L — • »r*Ne talking, and he tried to I I just. his action in shoot ing Purdy, j ‘ evidently on th* self-defense plea. He i | claimed also not to remember at i times and complained of his head and , I eyes hurting. C'aim of Self-defense. Lee declared that Mr Purdy called 'him some bad names, for which he I would net stand, and no claimed i further that Purdy made the first J threatetier mores, declaring that Mr . Purdy threatened him with a club . : Asked what kind of a club and how I 1 big it was he fell back on the plea 1 • that his eyes were bad. had been bad i | ever sihee he worked at the Red Cross ' I galvanising department, and he could : not see good and was not positive I ■about the sixe or nature of the club ■ He was told that nobody else had seen or found this club, to the best belief of the oCcers. and Lee replied j that someoae must have carried it | Lee Sa d He Wouldn’t Run. It is reported that Lee told further during some of his disjointed talks ■ that he warned Mr. Purdy three times to go on, and that he would not run 'rom any man UttU Francis Lee. aged ten, who hid la the toilet building as his father did the shooting, is j -eported to have said that he heard ; his father say. "No you won't.’’ Lev, also is reported to have declared to ; one man that he. Lee, was on his own j I lot and d-d not have to run from anrbody. Bui’ets Entir«!y Through Body. Investigation after the death of Mr. . Purdy showed that two of the bullets . fired passed entirely through his body. ’The one which pierced the abdomen, jentered about two inches to the right iof the naval, and took an upward | range and came out several inches below the left shoulder joint and it jthws pierced vital organs and would | have proven a fatal shot. The third bullet, which, like the secloud, was fired after Mr. Purdy had to the ground, entered the left ‘ cheek and tore it’s way entirely I through the bead and came out near ►the base of the brain, instead of lodg- | tag there, a* first reported. This buL let paralyzed the nerve system and | the body became rigid from the chin t downward. It is thought likely from the range taken by the two bullets just described that the first bullet fired probably struck Mr Purdy's heavy belt and knocked him down. This bullet pierced the belt and clothing asd grated the sikn. which was broken slightly, r“ re • as no serious wound. This bullet was found inside of the clothing Face Was Powder-burned. IVEen Lee fired the last shot, into the head, he was bending so closely over his victim that the flash of the revolver caused Mr. Purdy’s save to be burned by the powder. The second bullet also was firW at close range but i gray sweater did) not disclose whether or not there' were powder marks from this shot Had Expressed no Regret Lp to Thursday morning John Lee

had not exprreaed any regre, for . . act. but wl»a questioned r with Mr. Purdy repeated!r .J? and Sam never had any t.’oubi. • today.” The final summons for Vetere. ■ &Q UNA' k K Purdy, the aged resident « street, who hats been at the point g ■ death for several days. can>« Pru, afternoon at 4:15 o'clock .h<_ J *• * passed away quietly and ;«*«»>>, after a several days serious "Ipu. The Purdy home has been sadly ■ en Indeeo, in the past two days Ing had a double burd>-n of sons, i placed upon ft, in the sudden ■ of the eldest child and son. Satnw; ” ■ Purdy, whose murder at Blufftoa » curved only the day before. Tb» ther, who was Ucoaaclous at time, passed away without e.«r levt ing of the son's death, being thus plly spared the sorrow Mr. Purdy has long been 'aatilia. to th* citixena of Decatur, and In frail health for some time, be Hm been able to frequently be down ton until the peat several weeks. Hit tat serious Illness began a week am FS day, when he contracted -he grip Mr. Purdy was a native <->' Uekiwi •lounty. Ohio, where he was 'om j # uary 25, 1838. He was a son of Dr Theodore and Mrs Barab Les s Pm* When he was quite a young boy, ts» {family moved to Van Wert county.ft Fifty-seren years ago they ‘>cam» m ot Mtmmouth. th s >owy where the father practiced h:« prpf» sion. and later moved to North y K . cbester. Indiana. There the safat of thia sketch enlisted, when the ciri war broke out. In Com re: p-, seventh Indiana regiment. ’ through the war. After the war th {family came to Allen co uty, aaf t was there that Mr. Purdy - xurlm took place to Miss Sara: T r Ayd 23, 1871. In Allen county the eidts son. Samuel Theodor" Purdy, vu born. The family then went to Mr-1 roeville, where Mr. Purdy vu t ployed as teamster, qnd th"n to WS .liams, where he worked it the ut. I mill, moving to this city twenty yetsl ago. where they bare lived since, hl young manhood, Mr Purdy the carpenter's trade, at v worked for some tiffi" Fire children were bora to Mr nil Mrs. Purdy: Bam eel T. I Bert, who died at the ag« of two y«r I Montana, Pearl and Grace of ill city. Resides the widow he leartwtwl granddaughter*. Mrs Ven Mi.-t'rl and Esther Purdy, of BJ ..T c D F. Cook, of Roc!, -r >»| 'ter. who was at Ms bedside vbesiiß passed away, is the only member !»■ ing of his father's family Tws >»■ iters, Sarah, wife of Daniel Mrs. Ellen Fike, as well as a —irß George, are deceased, as » ' w «*■ eral who died tn infancy ■ The funeral service* hav" ‘--b for Monday afternoon a' 2 'elvt «■ the M. E church, in th--,of the Rev. R. U Semar* -he -e-rieJ being just one day later than ->«■ I for his son, which will be at j'hfaß tomorrow Mr. Purdy was 1 member of the G. A R. wbi * v’re take part in the services Hi* Country's Serv ce Comrade Robert Blac- ’ “ bn* «■ piled the following record ' I t reer as a soldier: Comrade Purdy was enr -d : 29th of November. 1861 in C ~!~l ■ Forty seventh regitrrrt. 'n:an liana infantry, and w*» u. -'---dsß October 23, 1165. giving his service to the Uni<- -e after his muster in n - twaO to regimental major mathat position until Januar D - he received ti«e appo’.BT -:' c' mental commissary sent < -j regiment. His regttn-r.' -i'W Indiana went into Ken: •k. it was engaged in raid : and asr'B ing. In the spriug v.* l' ,: -' ■ wu*® to New Madrid. Mo. it an active part in the ca;c >•’ No. 10 and New Madrid. a :W <| ft was sent to Helena A-katsas.<*J it again participated in J enemy. Leaving Helen- v' s: *jß General Grant's army to V Mis*., being engaged It: s 'hr during the siege and ca?' o f burg, and especially the Champion Hill, one of the tie* of the war In August. !’*-J was sent to New Orleans la. t-'-M too Berwick Bay and par General Bank s exped:' on that country. la January >64. regiment re-enlisted and alter rrtre ing to the field from a—- — It moved up Red ' ■a Alexandria, participa .tr 8 'W battle*, back to the ni ■ 'h river, thence back to n--.>' •'■ e * lean*. In March. 1865, it se VA < Dauplin Island, thence to the Mobile. Ala., where it took « Part in the siege and capiurf <*■ TB bile and the forts • orr '' ! 3 er the surrender of the io B G 'm armies it remai .ed in tb i«_'Ja final muster ou. oa Oct r '-‘ returned home I -Ji ' William Whittenbarger. son » {Lulu Whittenprfger. who - 3 ’ jg very riek, is recovering nicell ■ able to be about