Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1913 — Fateful Messages Passed Between Bluffton and Decatur. [ARTICLE]

Fateful Messages Passed Between Bluffton and Decatur.

Decatur, Ind„ Jan. 11—A telegram sent to Samuel Purdy, at Bluffton, yesterday, calling him to come home immediately, because his father, Lewis Purdy, was dying, was passed on the way by another telegram announcing the son had been murdered at Bluffton. The two telegrams arrived at the Western Union telegraph Offices here and at Bluffton almost at the same minute.