Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1919 — NEGRO FUGITIVE IS DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

NEGRO FUGITIVE IS DROWNED.

The body of Thomas Washington, the negro who escaped from the Columbus jail May 13, was found in White river last Friday. Identification was made by the finding in the pockets of the man’s clothing pieces of the steel saw which fitted exactly with the bits of saws which Were in the possession of Stanley J. Cooper, Columbus chief of police. Washington was charged with having shot and killed Elmer Robbins, a Big Four railroad detective, at Greencastle. '