Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1882 — MURDER AT RAUB. [ARTICLE]

MURDER AT RAUB.

On the 14th Inst. James P- Spaulding, of near Raub, Ind., murdered his wife and child and then committed suicide. Spaulding had sold his farm recently and received cash 1b consid eration. This money was deposited in the Bank of Kentland, vhere it now is. On the previous evening he was heard to complain of gelling the place to cheap, and seemed very morose in consequence. He was seen iu the morning with lantern in hand, do ing the chores about the barn, where later the horses were found with har ness on. The cows had been milked and wood chopped for the day. The bodies were discovered by a relative. The lamp was burning on a table; the mother and son lay side by side, while the father lay across them, face downward. Spaulding wgs thirty- five years of age; hi- wife thirty years of age and the boy four years and six months. At the time the murder was committed the wife was ongrged in making bread as her hands were covered with dough, and all preparatlo s had been meds for baking. From what investigation that has been made it is firmly believed that the husband killed the wife and child and then cut his own throat. It is supposed that he first came in from the barn quietly and knocked ijia wife in the head with a singletree that was found on the floor covered with blood and hair, then cut hor throat with a razor, which was found covered with blood, and identified as his owp. The doorknob had finger marks, showing sign® of a struggle. The little boy ran out Into the back yard; his father pursued him and knocked him down with the singletree; then cut the boys throat from ear tp ear, dragged him into the house and laid bim alongside the mother. Spaulding then cut his own throat and fell across the bodies of bls wife and child, It is plain that the murder was ot committed tor th® purpose of robbery, as spaulding’s purse, containing a considerable turn of money was found on his person, while his watch was taken froth his vest pocket and th® crystal found to be covered with finger marks and blood.—Oxford Tribune,

“I suppose you will live a different sort of a life now, said the penitentiary minister to a negro who had just completed a term for stealing a small sum of money. “Yes, boss, I’se gwine to live a diff erent lite. I’se larned a lesson sure’s yer born. I stole fifty dollars it’s true, but arter dis I’se gwine ter live like a white man.” “Like a white man, eh?” “Yes, sah. ‘Stead ob stealin’ fifty dollars an* goin’ tor de pen, I'll steal twenty thousand dollars an’ go away an' engoy myself. Oh, I’se learnin* ebery day," ’ - rfppre Robeson attributes his defeat to the speeches which Keifer delivered in his district. This is about as un kind a think as Bobeson copld tay, for Keifer has been his fajthful sup* porter in every job in congress since becoming speakei, and whatever is unsavory in Keffer’s reputation is largely due to associating wit Robeson, Has the copartnership termi nated? If it has, Keifer may perhaps be able to redeem himself next winter, #nd Robeeon’s numerous jobs srjlj hQt bavD the assistance of the speaker. An Irish woman, needing son}? silk ! and >»onie tape, sent her husband for them. The silk was shown, but the buyer thought the price too great. The clerk explained that all silk goods were dear owing to suma disease at this time prevalent among the silk-worms. The tape was next examined at d the Irishman thought that a little stiff as to price. “And ind&de, sir,” says he, “is there Jjkewoise a dezase a prevalin’ among the tape worms?” Cotton & Patton sell best galvanized fence wire for 9c. per pound. Cotton & Patton sell fence wire cheap, r 1 .tow an y other house in Jasper county. I