Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — WAS KILLED BY A THIEF [ARTICLE]

WAS KILLED BY A THIEF

MEDARYVILLE JOURNAL GIVES FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF _ THE HENRY TRAGEDY. : -* . ; This whole .community was shocked Wednesday morning when the message went over the telephone wires that Albert Henry had been shot and two miles south of town, where he and his family have lived on the Harve Faulkner farm since last winter. " Chicken thieves had visited the farm early last Monday morning qnd Mr. Henry had frightened them away. Again Wednesday morning between 2 and 3 o’clock a disturbance was heard. Mr. Henry quickly dressed, called his son, Zephry, and taking a ,22 calibre rifle and a flash light with him he went to the chicken house. In the meantime Zephry had dressed, with the exception of his shoes, which he carried with him to the backs porch. As he was putting on shoes he heard some one running and then a rifle shot. He called to his father but received no response except a groan. He hurried out to the chicken house, with_onily one shoe on, and found his father lying on the a dying condition. • The rifle was laying some six or eight feet away and the flash light near the body still lighted. Zephry carried his father into the house and phoned for a doctor. At this time he heard a car, which he says was a Ford, running in low speed and which was thrown into high speed when just south of the house, and was going north. ,

The shot is supposed to have been fired from Mr. Henry’s own gun, and entered his chest in a downward direction passing through the lower part of the heart, through the liver and lodged in the outer wall of the 'body just below the ribs on the right side, which leaves the impression with Mr. Henry’s friends and neighbors that he had come in contact with the thieves and a scuffle had ensued in which the rifle was either accidentally discharged or taken away from him and then discharged by the thieves. After daylight in the morning a pasteboard shipping box was found at the corner of the chicken house with holes cut in its ends and two in the top and a rope underneath it, which it is supposed was to be used in tying down the lid. The box contained one of the Henry chickens. Tracks were also found in the snow leading from the barn lot across the corner of the pasture, south of the house, to the public highway just about at a point where a car could be started and gain sufficient speed to be thrown into high at the Henry house. Our newly elected sheriff, Mr. Kopkey, is working on the case and it is felt that with the information contained on the box and the foot prints, etc., that the guilty parties will be overtaken. 1"~A number of the’community have expressed themselves as being will--nate toward the securing of a good detective to take charge of the case. - Mr. Henry was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, later moving to near Champaign, 111. They returned to an Indiana farm in Elkhart county, where they lived until moving into this community ten years ago, as a farmer. About two years ago he purchased the hartiess shop in this place and since then has devoted his time to that business. Mr. Henry leaves a wife and family of four children, two boys, Zephyr, age 20, Emil, age 5; two girls, Theresa, age 17, and Esther, age 10. The funeral was held* Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Hie M. E. church, Rev. Charles Mobley, of Valparaiso, officiating.;