Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLA Woman Reveal Murder Because Coneteucee Hart —Old Feud Knde in Crime—l: nr glare Shoot Operator and Rob Bailway Station. Three women told the Terre Haute police of the murder of Linn Woodall, who was supposed to have accidentally been killed by the cars at Linton several weeks ago. As a result of their confession, forced by stricken conscience, Joseph Fiske is in jail, accused of the crime. The young women are Blanche Clark, Lillie Tipton and Minnie Meyers. They say that they were with Fiske, Woodall and a third man at Linton on the day Woodall was killed. A quarrel started between Fiske and Woodall, and Fiske struck Woodall on the head with a club, knocking him down. Fkke warned those who saw the deed that if they told he would kill them. He tihqp dragged the body to a track and laid it across the rails, where afterwards it was ■mangled by a passing train. When the women told the story the officers for the first time heard of the murder theory. The women said the tragedy had weighed on their consciences and they agreed to tell the story. Shoots Three and Himself. In the presence of a great number of persons at the Trkfcate fair grounds in Evansville City Detective Thomas Hutchens shot Police Chief Fred Heuke and Police Captain Fred H. Brennecke, accidentally wounded Jacob Lutz, a member of the City Council, and then committed suicide. Hutchens and Patrolman Crowe were sitting in the German village tent, when Heuke and Brennecke entered. Hutchens drew his revolver and began shooting at Brennecke. Brennecke was shot in the breant, Heuke received a bullet near the abdomen, and Lutz was shot near the heart. Hutchens then placed the revolver to his own temple and fired. He fell to the ground a corpee. It is feared the three men are fatally wounded. Exposes Alleged Murder Plot. Mrs. Edward Oasker, wife of a paroled convict at LaPorte, warned Harry A. McCormick that her husband had sworn to kill him and his father, and the plot had reached a stage where their lives were in imminent peril. The elder McCormick was formerly sheriff of the county and was instrumental in running down and sending Casker to the penitentiary. Young McCormick is a clerk in a bank. They notified the officials of the disclosures made by Mrs. Casker and a search is now in progress for the convict. Robbers Shoot Operator. Herbert Aughenbaugh, night operator of the Erie Railroad at Laketon, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by two robbers, who fired a bullet into hds head after he had resisted their demand for the road’s money in his poeseoerion. The robbers escaped. They secured several hundred dollars. “Blind Tiger” Is Blown Up. Brown County’s “blind tiger,” a saloon operated at Nashville in defiance of law for a year past, was blown to atoms at 2 o’clock on a recent morning by a charge of dynamite. All Over the State Fieid rats have destroyed many acres of eastern Indiana corn. A $50,000 appropriation for repairing the Goshen court house was defeated through a technicality. A Vandalia passenger train struck a carriage containing Frank Milner and Mira Kate Biiby near Terre Haute, killing both. Dr. Hugh Morriron Lash, one of the best known physicians in Indiana, died at Indianapolis. He was born at Athens, Ohio, in 1844. Fully 5,000 people attended the fourth annual musical festival at Brazil. Bands took part from Oroeneastle, Danville, HI., Decatur, TH., and Indianapolis. Etta Morgan, 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. William Morgan of Brazil, was run over by an interurban car on the Terre Haute electric line and almost instantly killed. Mrs. Rnth Bryan of Fort Wayne has discovered that her mother, whom she had believed dead thirty year\ res idea at Cookesville, 111. She is now Mrs. Rachel Parr. Mother and daughter were reunited Sunday. The people of Porter were thrown into intense excitement by an attempt to blow up the saloon of Fred Sievers. A dynamite cartridge was thrown into the building. The cartridge waa seen in time to prevent'an explosion. Death stopped the confession of Grace Deauacn at Griffith. She had begun a statement that she was implicated in the robbery of Michael Johnson, her employer, who was beaten by thieves two years ago. The housekeeper ran for help and saved his life, so that Johnson, who was a wealthy farmer, hailed her as his preserver. Mrs. Belle Fountaine pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill after she had confessed to chloroforming the Harnish family near Dora, and waa sentenced to from three to fourteen years in the Indianapolis reformatory. Miss Lola Harnish, of whom the prisoner waa jealous on account of the attentions of Albert Turner, is recovering. Several well-known Indianapolis business men offered to make affidavits that they had seen an airship with two men in it aail over the chy the other day. At noon in a field several miles from Irvington some boys found a large torpedoshaped, paper-covered craft, thirty feet long, with a canopy and two dummy figures in it. It is believed to be a modal of an airship. The Vigo County Commissioners hare purchased fire riot guns for the uee of the sheriff. The guns hare been placed in the jail and will be used In case of mob attacks. ’ The body of Nelson Lowry was found in the Big Four Railway yards at Lafayette by D. J. Clark, yard foreman. Lowry was a general roustabout.. He had been mangled by a train. The inrentory of the property of the Wabash bridge and iron work* at Wabash shows aaseUj>^sß6.ooo.^The^ht-