Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1888 — A MURDER AT WINAMAC. [ARTICLE]

A MURDER AT WINAMAC.

A cold-blooded murder was committed at Winamac, last Thursday. Joseph W. Robinson, of Francesville, was shot in the head and almost instantly killed by Mike Rinehart, a barber of Winamac. The deed was committed in a saloon, while Robinson was in the act of lighting a cigar. The two men had a quarrel during the day, but at the time Robinson had just asked Rinehart to take something, and make up the quarrel. Rinehart was arrested a short time after the shooting. He had been drinking heavily for some time past. Robinson, the murdered man, was 27 years old, and leaves a wife and three children. He but lately settled in Francesville, and was a half brother of J. J. Robinson, the gas well borer, and associated with him in the business. Henry Clay—“No one, in the commencement of the protective policy, ever supposed that it was to be perpetual.”