Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1904 — Page 1

LUME II

GENEVA GIRL MURDERED Sadie Gartner’s Sad Death at Cincinnati

BODY BROUGHT HOME TODAY Murderer Tries Suicide, But May Recover Girl Was Married to James Rooch and Was Murdered by Another Lover Named Saeger. Sadie Gartner, a well known Genoa girl who left home three years ago, was murdered by a lover Oscar Saeger. Her remains arrived at Geneva today where the funeral will be held. Sadie was a popular lady in this county and the accounts of the tragedy which show her dual life is a great surprise. Though the crime was committed several days ago the body was only identified yesterday when her brother in law went to Cincinnati for that purpose. Developments show that Sadie was married some time ago to James Roach but afterward met Oscar Saeger, who she loved and with whom she held clandestine meetings. She lived in rooms over Edward DeGasteam’s saloon corner Canal and Vine streets. She had agreed to try and forget Saeger and was preparing to go to New York with her husband to begin life anew while packing household goods Saeger went into the DeGasteam saloon and sent the landlady to Sadie’s room asking her to come down stairs a moment as he wanted to see her. When the girl came down Mrs. DeGasteaux went into the sitting room with the couple. Saeger took off his overcoat and as he did so Mrs. DeGasteux noticed a revolver handle protruding from his hip pocket. He then asked Mrs. DeGateaux to or-1 der two beers. Just as she started ’ from the room to give the order she heard S leger ask the girl: ’So I you are going to leave me and go to New York with that other fellow.” ’•Yes, Oscar, I am going away ’ Thursday, sure.” ‘‘Then take that with von ” With these last words Oscar Saeger shivfd a 38 caliber revolver against Sadie Roach, and pulled the trigger. The bullet entered the ’woman’s vitals and she fell to the floor without even uttering a moan, the red life blood spurted out from the tiny hole made by the bullet and drowned out the flames upon her light waist which had taken fire from the flash of the weapon. The instant the first shot was fired Saeger turned the weapon against, his own head and sent a bullet crashing into his head. Sadie died within a few moments. Saeger was taken to the hospital and will possibly recover, and has beea charged with murder in the ! first degree. Sadie was only t wenty two years old and was married to Roach at Newport Ky. seven months ago. Her husband ar ranged for the funeral and shipped the body to Genevr today. A num-' bet of the girls relatives live at Ge- 1 neva but her mother has married again and now lives at Edgerton, east Fort. Wayne.

■4» The Dalia Democrat.

DEATH RELIEVED Sufferings of Charles Elzey Result in Death After Many Months. Charles Elzey, the thirty four year old son of Mrs. Ann Elzey died at the home of his mother on Tenth street last evening at six o’clock,after suffering nearly a year and a half with that dread disease consumption. The funeral services will take place tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock from the United Brethren church, Rev. Pontius officiating. Interment will be made at the Reynolds cemetery four miles north of this city. He leaves besides a mother two brothers and one sister to mourn their loss. MANY TO ATTEND Services for Judge Studabaker

Business Houses to Close.—The Casket a Beautiful One of Solid Bronze. The funeral of Judge Studabaker which will be held Saturday morning will no doubt be the largest ever held here. The deceased was widely known and many of his friends have sent word they will be here to attend the last sad rites. The services as previously announced will lie held al the M. E. Church at ten o’clock Saturday morning. The remains may 1 e i viewed at the home east of the city at an}' time between this and SatI urday morning. The casket in i which the body of the venerable Judge will rest arrived this mornI ing and was viewed by many people at the Woodward ifr B ill store. It is a solid bronze casket, very beautiful and the finest made. Only five of them have ever been used in Indiana It is precisely the same as the one in which President McKinley was interred. It is prob able that Mayor Coffee will issue a proclamation asking that all business houses close Saturday morning during the funeral from ten to twelve o’clock. NEW SMOKERS Chlcaga & Erie Add Some Up to Date Coaches. The Erie railroad has placed in service between Chicago and New ! York on trains No. 3 and 4 some j new o niches that are unique in that ’ the smoking room is a glass inclosed compartment in the center of the ' car. The first of the coaches was l on view at the Dearborn station ! yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, attached to the regular train. Officials were on hand to show the coach to visitors. —Chicago Chronicle.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1904.

FUNERAL SERVICES Little Robert Meyer to be Buried Tomorrow. The funeral services of little Robert Meyers who met such a tragic death yesterday by drowning will be held tomorrow morning at ten o’clock at the home, Rev. E. A. Allen officiating. Interment will be made at Maplewood cemetery. BOARD MEETING Commercial Club Held Meeting Resolutions Commendatory to Retiring French Quinn Were Unanimously Adopted. At a meeting of the Commercial Club directors last evening, the bonds of both the secretary and treasurer were approved. The secretary was directed to inform the Toledo Smelting Company that at present the club was not in a position to take up their proposition, which involved their removal to this city. A very flowery resolution commendatory to the valiant services and efforts of French Quinn, the retiring president, were unanimously adopted. In this connection it was agieed to give a smoker in his honor, at the club r< oms next Tuesday evening and H .L. Confer, Clark Coverdale, L. A. Graham, Nick Miller and E. X. Ehinger were appointed a committiee on arrangements for the same. The invitation committee is F. V. Mills, J. Q. Neptune, Dr. Earl Coverdale, Frank Burns and H. F. Callow. The first death in the club is Judge Studaliaker and a committee composed of Major R. B. Allison David E Smith and J. H. Heller will draft suitable resolutions which will later lie spread upp in the record of the club. H. J, Yager, Will P. Schrock and Roy Archibold were selected to procure a suitable floral offering. TERRELL HERE Taken to Richmond Asylum Today

Accompanied by His Son, Sheriff Johnson and a Deputy.—Prisoner Was Nervous. John Terrel], the Wells county murderer, whose peculiar case has attracted no little attention over the state was in this city two hours this morning arriving over the Clover Leaf and leaving at 7:13 over the Grand Rapids and Indiana. He was enroute to the Eastern Indiana Asylum at Richmond where he has been ordered by Governor Durbin and was accompanied by Sherifl Johnson, Deputy Ira Poffenberger and his sun Jacob Terrell. He will he confined on a temporary parole from the Governor at the asylum until he recovers his mind if he ever does and will then lie taken to prison north at Michigan City to serve out the sentence pronounced a week ago by Judge Smith. Terrells condition is beyond any doubt very serious and no one who saw him this morning had any doubt as to his being Insane. Ho was wild eyed and very nervous and Sheriff Johnson stated that he refused to eat anything for four days past.

CAPTURED HIM Night Policeman Lands Man With Goods Broke Into Hower Groceiy and Scheiman Meat Market to Steal Something to Eat. For the first time in several months burgulars visited our city and early this morning effected an i entrance into the grocery store of I Hower and Hower at the corner of Monroe and Seventh street and also in the meat market next door owned by Fred Scheiman. While Night Polceman Fisher was making his rounds in the West End he saw a man at the corner of Hower & Hower’s grocery who acted very suspicious looking first down one street and than the other. Fi lher's suspicious were then aroused and I he hastily returned to the city for | reinforcements and immediatly returned to the seem of action but when they [arrived the birds had flown. The officers began a search among the surrounding buildings and also in the neighborhood and found one of the men red handed sitting near Niblicks elevator eating peaceably and contentedely from a can of fish and a large pineapple he had in his hand. He was immediately arrested and hustled to jail where a search further revealed more canned stuff and some tobacco. The men effected the entrance into the grocery store by first pulling away the wire netting that was tacked up to protect the glass in the window and then picking up a heavy boulder and hurling it through the glass completely demolishing the windows at this place they took a number of cans of ■ fish, veal ham also eggs tobacco and | cigars but took no money. At ! Scheimans meat market they took several rings of bologna and some I other meat undoubteddly affecting their entrance into that place by prying open the door and as at the former place they took no i money. The man captured gave | his name as Burns. An affidavit was filed against him in circuit court charging him with burglary. FAST ONES Doc Covault Starts With a String of Horses. Dr, Covault, the horse trainer, who has been located in this city i lor some time left this muring for Montpelier with a string of five horses. He will work them on the ! Montpelier track and expects to enter them in some good races. The horses were the proper? of Frank Bly, Gabe Markley, Atnus King and R. M. Brown. One two year old owned by Brown is entered in thirty thousand dollars worth of futurity stakes and may have a promising future before her The other horses are not slow and great things are expected of them (luring the season.—Bluffton Banner. DRUNKEN HOBOES Four Tough Lookers Before Mayor Coffee. Four drunken tramps wen l captured about midnight by night policemen Fisher and Mangold and landed in jail. They plead guilty and were sent to jail for ten days. They were thought to have boon j connected with the Hower burglary but no evidence could Is, secured against them and they weie sent up for a few days on the charge of I vagrancy by Mayor Coffee.

FOR GOVERNOR Hugh Daugherty of Bluffton Is Being Boomed. Louis Ludlow, staff correspond- | ent for the Star League, the Terre; Haute Star, Indianapolis Star, and Muncie Star, was a visitor in the city today in the interests of his paper says the Bluffton News. Mr. Ludlow was formerly on the staff of the Indianapolis Sentinal but j went with the Indianapolis Star when the paper was started a year ago and has been the coorrespondent at Washington. Mr. Ludlow’s mission to Bluffton was to get a bigraphy of the Hon. Hugh Dougherty. Mr. Dougherty is being boomed all over the state for the democratic nomination for governorship and it is believed that he can have the nomination without a struggle if he will accept it. CHURCH SERVICES Organ Dedication at St. John’s Church Preparations Compkts for the Big Event Which Takes Place Next Sunday. Arrangements are being completed for the dedication of the new oigan at the St. John German Lutheran church, two miles from WilHams, nest Sunday and the occasion promises to be a very interesting and appropriate one. The morning service at the ten o'clock will be conducted by Prof. M. Luecke, of Concordia College, Fort Wayne, who will deliver the dedicatory sermon. At 2:30 in the afternooon Prof. Dorn, also of Coneoordia college will deliver sermon in celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of the dedication of the St. Johns church. At 7:30 o’clock in the evening an organ concert will be conducted by Prof. Ruprecht of Chicago. The organ was built by George Weokharbt of Milwaukee and is one of the finest in this section of the country. It is a two mandel organ, with seventeen speaking stops, has tubular pneumatic action, it is 13% feet wide, ten feet deep, nineteen feet high and contains 1091 pipes. No doubt the services will be largely attended. OLD LADY DEAD Mrs. Campbell of Union Township, Answers the Call. Mrs. Louisa Campbell aged sixty seven and who lives just nine miles north east of our city in Union 1 township died at her homo yester-| day afternoon at two o’clock after I suffering for several years from that dread affliction cancer, The fitneral serices will be held tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock from Clarks ('hapel ot which she was a member and interment will be made in Clark cemetery. She leaves a sin and daughter to mourn their loss her husband having proceeded her a number of years ago. OIL COMPANY A New One Organized at Bluffton.— Capital $65,000.

BLUFFTON IND, May 4—The Murshton Oil company has lieen incorporated with a capital stock of #65,000 to operate 500 acres of eases east and west of Geneva. The in corporators of the company are C. (!. Sixbey and his son in law Leo D. Myers, of this city; F. J. Gramme, ;of Geneva, and Guy T. Grech, of I Chicago. They will begin at once.

NUMBER 98

SURVEY BEGINS Geneva Electric Line Being Pushed People Anxious For It.—No Trouble Anticipated in Taking Right of Way. GENEVA IND., May s—Superintendent Oston and Engineer McClellan, of South Bend Ind., are in the city making the survey and taking up the right of way for the proposed electric line from Celina I 0.. to Marion and., for the Geneva Traction Co. As this line will run through one of the best farming communities and the heart of the oil belt it is counted one of the best routes in the state. The preliminary work will be pushed as rapidly as possible and the work of con- ■ straction will begin immediately afterward and it is believed that electric cars will be running westward by the time snow falls this i fall. Geneva will then have when the road is completed a good east and west inlet of roads which will greatly benefit the trading interests in the town and be also of inestimate value to the farming community. But little, if any opposition ! will be found in the taking upon | the right ofjway FOURTH INQUEST Held on John Terrell—Declared Insane Each Time. Another insanity inquest was held on John W. Terrell yesterday, the fourth time his insanity has been brought in question since July 12th last and this time the doctors who examined him. Dr. Goodin and Dr. Spaulding are more convinced than ever that Terrell is in sane and so they pronounced him to be. They made several tests before rendering an opinion and among them tested the reaction i of his nerve centers as Dr. Cook did when he made his test in the court room. They say that Terrell's i nervous system is a complete wreck but they found one very remarki able feature. There is a spot two ; inches square on the back of his head which is covered with coal | black hair though the Iwir on the i remainder of his head is perfectly white. On this spot he is highly i sensitive. At the slightest touch ; there he flinches and a light blow as taping him with the finger, nearly knocks him down —Bluffton News DEATHS DECREASE Total for Last Year Made Public Shows Big Reduction. The grand total of deaths in Indiana for 1903, completed at the office of the state board of health show a marked decrease in the death rate as compared with former years. Aj fallnig off of 1.06 per cent on the thousand is to be noted in u comparison of the total deaths from all causes in Indiana lust year were 33,892, making the rate 13.4# per 1,000. In the preceding year ot 1902, the number of deaths was 34,069,rate of 13.58 per 1,000. For 1901 the total deaths numbered 3,544, at death rate of 21.52 per 1,000. The gradually decreasing death rate in this state in the face of a rapidly increasing population is attributed in a great measure to the educational work of the state board of health along sanitary lines. Upward of sixty letters daily are received at the office of the board, the writers almost invarably asking information regarding sanitary and hygienic measures recommended by the board.