Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1912 — JUSTICE HELD COURT IN COUNTY JAIL [ARTICLE]

JUSTICE HELD COURT IN COUNTY JAIL

W. L. Wood Prosecuted Ed Frawley For Attempt to Murder Stowers Lust Saturday. V W. L. Wood, of Parr, as prosecuting attorney, represented the state of Indiana in arraigning Edward Frawley, of Fair Oaks, on a charge of murder, last Saturday evening. The case was tried before Squire Bruner, who held court in the jail and bound Frawley over to the circuit court in the sum of SI,OOO, which he was uhable to furnish. Frawley was not represented by He said, that 'he was able to handle his own case and he made an affidavit that some of the witnesses of the state were enemies of his and therefore should not be allowed to testify. The court ruled against 4iis demurrer, however, and permitted all to testify. Isaac JCight, Enos Moffitt, Walter Bozell, Orville Bringle, Lawrence Halleck and Arthur Goff were witnesses and all related substantially the same story. They all said that 'Stowers was an inoffensive old man and not quarrelsome and not physically able to do Frawley bodily harm. Those who saw Frawley’s attack on the old man say that Stowers did not attempt to strike Frawley with an axe told a reporter for The Republican. They say that Frawley and Stowers had an argument and that Frawley started to leave the place where Stowers was working at wood cutting. Stowers started to cut down a small tree and Frawley reached down and picked up a beer bottle and sneaked up behind Stowers and broke the bottle over his head. He then got another bottle and also broke this over his head. Stowers regained consciousness Saturday evening but again became unconscious Sunday and on Monday afternoon had another bad spell. It is believed a blood clot is forming, on his brain and this is quite apt to result fatally. Stowers is a veteran of the civil war, having served in the Ninth Indiana Regiment.