Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1913 — COUNTY RECORDER HELD FOR MURDER [ARTICLE]

COUNTY RECORDER HELD FOR MURDER

Frank Taggart, His Wife and Hannibal Taggart, Held for Death of Norma Taggart. Nashville, Ind., May 6.—Frank Taggart, recorder of Brqjvn county, his wife, Della Taggart, and Hannibal Taggart, a teamster of this city, were charged today with murder in the second degree, for the death of Norma Taggart, age 16. They were arrested and each was placed under a bond of $7,500. The arrests followed an investigation that covered two weeks. Norma Taggart died.at the home of Frank and Mrs. Taggart after she had left the home of her father, Hahnibal Taggart. Her death was attributed to ill treatment. The girl’s death occurred oh April 12, after she had been returned to her uncle’s home from that of Elliott Foreman, a neighboring farmer. While her uncle and aunt were in Nashville the day previous Norma had gone to the Foreman home and asked that she be allowed to stay, saying she feared to return to Frank Taggart’s. When Taggart and his wife demanded the girl be returned to them Foreman refused and her father forced the daughter to go to hjs brother’s. It is charged that she was severely punished when reaching the Frank Taggart home and that she was seized with convulsions and died during the night. Norma’s mother died when she was six months old. Her father remarried and the girl had lived most of her life with relatives. She went to the Frank Taggart home about a year ago. Norma was left a valuable farm by her igother and her father was her guardian. Treatment of the girl by relatives has been investigated by the court several times.