Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1916 — Murder Suspect Arrested at Monon Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Murder Suspect Arrested at Monon Sunday.

Fred Attwood, who says that his home is at Broadhead, Wis., was arrested Sunday at Monon by Marshal Davis. Attwood is being held in the jail at Lafayette charged with the murder of Michael Kernan, whose decomposed body was found in the Monon yards at that place Sunday. The finger of suspicion was pointed at Attwood because employes of the railroad said they saw him in the vicinity of the supposed crime on Saturday. Attwood, the police believe, is the same man that was brought into headquarters Friday night under the influence of liquor and told a story of his arrival only a few minutes before on a Wabash train, and of a fight in a boxcar. On the plea that he wished to get out of town immediately, the man was released. According to the suspect’s story to Officer Nichols, whobrougnt him back to Lafayette, he had been employed as harvest hand near Francesville, HL, and was arrested there for intoxication and was lodged in the Danville jail until 10 o’clock Friday morning. It is thought by this story that Attwood hopes to prove an alibi.