Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1913 — Convict Kills Inmate In Hopes of Getting Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

Convict Kills Inmate In Hopes of Getting Tobacco.

Craving tobacco, which he could not obtain in the Indiana reformatory, and which he believed he could get if transferred to the penitentiary at Michigan City, Edward Morton, an inmate of the institution, stabbed and killed Charles Bartie, another inmate late Thursday, hoping .he would be sent to the latter institution, where, he says, tobacco is given prisoners. Morton used a shoe knife and drove it into Bartle’s back as they came out of the barber shop. Both men had been sentenced for petit larceny. “I have not long to live,” said Morton, “and all I want is some tobacco.” Morton confessed to Superintendent D. Peyton that he had no ill will against Bartie, and only killed him because he wanted to go to Michigan City.