Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1915 — MYSTERY ENSHROUDS MURDER NEAR FRANKFORT [ARTICLE]

MYSTERY ENSHROUDS MURDER NEAR FRANKFORT

* Body of Walter W. Thomas Found in Barn at His Home Premises —Wife in Indianapolis; While Mrs. Walter W. Thomas and daughter were visiting last week in Indianapolis, Mr. Thomas, who lived on a farm eleven miles northeast of Frankfort, was murdered and his body dragged inside the barn, where it was discovered his brother, who lived on a neighboring farm, Irist Saturday. Mrs. Thomas had tried to call her husband by “long distance” from Indianapolis and failing to get him had called his brother and the murder was thus disclosed. Thomas’s name had been associated with a clandestine love affair arid it was believed he had been Hilled by Harry McCray, of Frankfort, who was placed under arrest, but later discharged, having provided an alibi. Thomas had been beaten over the head by a single tree from a wagon.