Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1913 — CIVIL COURT Will TRY SERGEANT BALL [ARTICLE]

CIVIL COURT Will TRY SERGEANT BALL

Militia Non-Com Who Shot Private Dowell Indieted for First Degree Murder Tuesday. Sergeant Edwin Rail, who shot Walter Dowell, who tried to escape after being arrested at Indianapolis Wednesday of last week, has been indicted by the Marion , county grand jury and held under a first degree murder charge without being admitted to bail. Since the morning following the shooting Sergeant Ball had been held by the military authorities at the camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Now lie has been returned to jail in Indianapolis. It is said that the grand jury inquired into the occasion for issuing ball ammunition at a militia camp in time of peace. One version was that Ball had procured the ammunition without authority and had loaded his revolver without orders. Another was to the effect that other guardsmen serving at the same time also had ammuntion and that they must have received it on the order of some officer. Two or three plans are proposed that may procure Ball’s release pending trial and it is quite probable that another effort will be made to have the jurisdiction changed to the military court. Dowelfs body was shipped to Madison Tuesday, being accompanied by a military escort of a sergeant and eight men. The funeral was to be held after the arrival in Madison of the remainder of the company today. A large crowd of people met the body of the dead> militiaman at the depot at Madison. left a wife and little son. '