Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1910 — Man From Chalmers Murders His Wife Near Peppertown. [ARTICLE]

Man From Chalmers Murders His Wife Near Peppertown.

An appalling murder was committed Monday morning at Peppertown, near Brookville. Charles Biddle, of Chalmers, who had been living apart from his wife for the past two weeks, went to the home of his wife’s uncle with whom she had sought refuge and apparently they were about to make up their difficulties. Biddle went to the house Sunday afternoon and spent the night there. The next morning he took a shotgun and blew his wife’s head off while she lay in bed. He then poured coal oil over the bed clothing and made his escape. He was thought to have gone to Cincinnati, but Monday afternoon went to Brookston, not far from Chalmers, where he was recognized and shadowed until officers had arrested him. He claimed that he had not committed the murder but that some one else had opened fire at him and his wife and that he had fled and did not know that his wife had been killed until he saw it in an Indianapolis newspaper. A very unlikely story. He was taken to Lafayette and placed in Jail. He is about 28 years of age and his wife was 23.