Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1887 — Page 1

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tu T. J, McCoy Alfred McCoy, ’ E. L. Hollingsworth. A. MSCOIT & C 0 bankers , (Successois to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer. Ind. DO a fie; eral banking business. Exchange bought and sold Certificates bearing i tarest issued Collections made on al available points Office same place as old firm ° f A Thompson A P ru 1500 MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law ... - !«■«* lin the Courts of Jasper and »d« counties. Makes collections a sye.Ulty'offlcc on aide of Washington aUsst. opposite Court House- vlni SIMON p .-THOMPSON, Di™ '• t MOB Attarney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON A BROTHI ®^.. 11 . gksaaKLA»>. Indian Practice in all the Courts. ARION I*. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter- ‘ We pay p Articular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B Tir H. H. GRAHAM. ’ ’ * ATTOkNEY-AT-LAW, Reesdelatr, Indiana. Money to loan on long time at low interest. Sept, io, co. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYS AT- LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, yOffice upstairs, in Mareever’s new .Gilding. Bens seiner. Ind. Bbwin P. Hammond. Wiixiam B. Austin. HAMM9NB & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselae , Ind Office on second floor of Leopold's Block, co - net of Washington and Vanßensselaer streets. William B. Avstin purchases, sells and le; bps real estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable instruments. may2<,B7. W WATSON, A.TTOiCisrHI'Sr-A.T-LA.'W fg- Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER IND. yy W-HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC 'PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. L RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. VChronic Diseases a Specialty. OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11.1884. Ji H. LOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vlni DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS’BANK. BBNSSBLABB, IND., R. S. Dwiggins, F. J, Sears, Val. Sbib, President. Vic-President. Cashier Does a general banking business: Certificates bearing Interest issued; Exchange bousht and sold; Money loaned on farms t low ist rates and on n:o« .favorable te •Aprilß 85

BENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1887.

ZiAWBEIJCE, OSThOM <£ CO’S iB BqwMb” IS DEATH TO Consumption, Malaria, bi jlfUiMjitffl. r Sleeplessness Uy pho id Fever, and Indigestion, Dissimulation Surgical JoffJll lo Years Old Fevers, JpoTtfW/f WjHBUjnrAlW Blood M Abs o• u t e Poisoning, ; HeM ty Pure JI z ■£■ * ■ f S ■ * ■ ■lil The Grreat Appetizer. This will certify that I have examined tne Sample of BELLE OF BOURBON WHISKY received from Law ken ce , Ostrom & Co., aad found the same to be perfectly free from Fusel Oil and all other deleterious substances, aud stiictly pure. I cheerfully recommend the same for Family and Medicinal purposes. J. P Barnum, M. D., Analytical C h emist, Louisville, Ky. For Sale by Druggists. Wine Merchants, and Grocers Everywhere. Price, $l 25 per Bottle, It not found at the above. hatt-duz. bottles in plain boxes will be sent to any addres iu the Unitod States on receipt of six dollars. Express paid to all points eealet Missouri river. , Lawrence, Ostrom & Co., . k 'LOUISVILLE. KY. p- /-** '■ V -. '• * -'-DEALERS IN— A Hardwars ? Tinware ? Im STOVEs •* ill styles and eg, for V Wood or Geel; HMM FARM HmHM machinery, Field ind garden] ■■W, SEED S, M“^ c> ’ c -> & c -» & c -< c ‘ B ckeye apers. Eowers and Binders, Deering Reapers, Mowers and Binders, Walter A. Wood Rearers, Mowers and Binders, Grand Detour Company’s Plows. Cassady Plows. Farmers’Friend Corn Planters. Ciquillard Wagons. Bast Wire Fencing, etc. • South Side Wa s hington ! (Street, RENSSELAER, . INDIANA

NOT GUILTY.

(Continued from last week.) Mrs. Elizabeth Pre watt- - Was in corner of door yard nearest djft’s house, during part of the occurrence; saw woman comeout; heard talking;heard men laughing;heard shot; saw people od vacant lot; heard little girl say ‘Ma, don t do anything more, let’s go to Mr. Shead’s;’ didn’t hear def’t say anything. Dr Alter — Known def t since last Dec; did washing, ironing, etc., for witness’s family; had treated her for felon on finger, erysipelas on foot and for lung fever; also had heart trouble, couldn’t say if chronic; think she is deatin both ears; never knew her to use eartrump’et; think she had lung fever latter part of April; is not a rugged woman. W. B. Austin—Dolt’s ear trumf>et was bought at instance of her awyers, to facilitate consultation with client. Jerry Hess—Brother of def’t; her age, 29 years; she was born in Champaigne county, Ohio; mother dead since she was 2 years old, fath r since 6or 7; she married Andi ew Rutherford at 19; always visited def’t when in town and bro’t provisions; know Jas. Hilton, is a second cousin, is unmarried and works by tne day. M. W. Watson, lawyer—Knows defendant: house about 190 feet from fier’s; her occupation washing, &g. ; done washing fog wi|©«ss’ family. . o Mrs. J. W Powell- Deft waihed and cleaned house for witness Mrs. I. C. Kelley—Lived next door to def’t II years previeus to latter’s removal to house where shooting occurred; her occupation was washing and sewing. - - Mrs. T. P. Wright and Mrs. J. \V. McEwen, also neighbors of def’t before removal last winter testified to her occupation. .( : s C. F. Herding—Def’t did washing for him about six weeks before shooting; witness is married, don’t live with wife; took washing to def's and went after it; was at her house night before shooting, perhaps 20 minutes; getting dark when went there; went in at back door, light in house; went by way of oil well; sat in front room, saw no one in .ouse but def’t and little girl; girl soon went to bed; knocked at door on entering; doors of house all open; had no particular business, went mainly for a little visit, but

partly for a tape-line left on a former visit; def’t wore what seemed to be working clothes, light in color; talk mainly about deft’s cousin, Hilton, and a letter just received fr.mi him; Steele came to house, first saiv him in back door, one foot on step, other in door, chin in hand didn't hear noise or alarm at door before saw Steele; def’t asked witness who-Steele was, said didn’t know; def’t said ’‘who’s there?” Steele left door and def’t went out; def’t came back soon, Steele folowed; don’t know what all was said; Steele wanted to come iaaud def’t said no; *aid she had company and they could see him; Steele said he didn’t care a d—n who her company was, but if he could eome next night would g® away; def’t said he could not come back; Rhoades came to door, deft called witness to tell the men what he was there for, went to door but don’t remember what he said; def’t and Steele talked togeth-

er, he said, in effect, didnt want to bother witness and would go aw >y if permitted to come back next night; said she didn’t know him, he could not come; Steele said in profane, obscene language, he had relations with def - before; def’t cried and said to witness,. “Charley, you don’t believe it, do you?’ witness said he did not know; deft said to Steele, ‘,t’s a lie,’ and pushed him out, then went out after him, came back in short time; witness told def’t thought Steele had gone away; didn’t tell def’t who S. was, altho he knew him; in 3to 5 minutes he came back to door; said he could prove it; def tsaid he ce’d not prove it, teld him td leave, he

i cculd not come back, pushed him out with one hand and shot with i tb.o other; ihinks S. stood one foot I on step, other uiside house, fired aS S 1 tarted from door; witness ran out, raised his head and said, ‘My God, you’ve shot him! what made you do it'?’ def t said, ‘I didn’t mean to do it and will give myself up; don’t know when def’t left house; when ho reached deceased he lay face up, feet towards door; def’t said to dec’d, ‘you drew a knife on me’; to witness, ‘you caused those men to come here and I want you to leave’; jitness denied this, as did Rhoades and Steele, they saying that witness had nothing to do with their coming; def’t asked witness to state on honor as a man; if he had ever known anything wrong in her conduct, witness said had not; def’t asked Rhoades sime question and received same ar swer; asked dee d same question, and he said had had rel tions with her in her former house, and could prove it; def’t said he couldn’t prove it, told him to leave, that he could not come back, then pushed him out with one hand and shot with the other; knife was picked up, very close to dec’d, think Rhoades picked it uo, it was open; Rhoades took the knife; vitnessand Rhoads made no effort to get dec’d to go away before shooting, did not aik him to go. Cross-examined—Had not'seen de t very often; didn’t hear men laughing outside, nor talking, etc. James T. Hilton, second cousin of deft.—Mother lives in Keener township; she generally stops with defendant when in tow >; witness stops sometimes;’all night sometimes; saw Harding there once at. 6 p. m., 2 or 3 months ago. Hannah Rutherford, defendant Mentioned neighbors at place of shooting, occupation, famuy, On day of shooimg did big waeb* ing, sawed box of wood, carried barrel of water from river, houses wot , ®c., suppnraso q ctoCKjCtoors all open in evening or neighbor’e house* caxFi be- see* £KaMP back door; evening Harding came; don’t remember if he knocked at door; little girl was in bed: had washed for Harding 6 or 8 weeks: a light was burning: 15 minutes after Harding came, heard man at back door. (Witness related about asking who was there, going out &c. A man [Steele] came up to me, showed knife and said, ‘I can fix you up with this in a minute, you have a man in the house.’ He tried to come in, said ‘By G—d I» Te you before and am f;oing to do it again.’ I said you ie. I went out, man took hold of me, said, ‘l’m going to tonight or come back aid split your d—d door down.’ Went in house, got revolver :<he came in, I pushed him back: I + ook his arm he held knife with, pushed him out and shot, not to kill but to defend myself. Left the house right after shooting: showed bruise on my arm where he struck me to Austin, O. A. Yeoman, Steve Miller. It s+ill hurts me. Side of house house where he took hold of and

struck me was up the river. It was after deceased had been to the door twice. Did not know the man I shot, never saw him before as I know. Kept gun on safe, had it 3 months, bought of Mose Tuteur for $1.50. I shot' to defend myself from outrage and life; had no hope of assistance; the other men ap- ? eared not to care what Steele did; didn’t want to kill the m.m. Cross-examined— Am 29 years old; could hear whatdec’d said, he talked loud; noise first heard was blow on house, 10 feet from me. Harding was a frequent visitor; do not remember that he ever called to spend »he evening, came with washing and sat and talked, known him 6 or 8 weeks; knew Bhoads by sight, he said nothing to offend; did not say to d*c’d ‘I don’t know you’; am used to pistol, shot at min during fair time; got gun after 1 was struck, didn t complain of being struck; don’t remember asking Harding if behev ec j Steele’s statement, hot that I s a jd

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