Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. McClare Found Guilty of Killing HU Sons-Plant Great Watarway—Wolf Slain in Kankakee Swamp—Freed of Hnrder Charge. The jury In the case of the State against Jesse McClure, on the charge of murdering his two sons, Omer and Dee McClure, by shooting, five miles from Windfall, Oct. 25, returned a verdict finding defendant guilty and affixing the penalty nt life imprisonment. When the Jury retired with instructions of the court the first ballot stood nine for hanging and three for life imprisonment. The crime for which he was convicted was the most cowardly aud brutal ever committed in the State. On Sunday, Oct. 25, after quarreling with his wife, he enticed his two children, aged 4 and 5 years, from the house, and, taking them in a buggy, he drove along an unfrequented road, shot them through the head, and threw their bodies in a fence corner. He was defended ou a plea of insanity. Canal to Cross State. P. H. McCormick of Columbus, who is a candidate for the congressional nomination against Mr. Griffith of the Fourth District, has taken up the plan for a huge waterway stretching across Indiana from Michigan City to the Ohio river, a distance of nearly 300 miles. The canal is projected to be capacious enough for large lake steamers and its route is to pass through Indianapolis, Logansport, Columbus and Seymour, terminating at New Albany, below the fulls of the Ohio river. The scheme is to employ the State convicts In the construction work and for the State to own the improvement and pay the costs. Mr. McCormick. who is one of the best known contractors in Indiana, has inspected the proposed route and is entirely confident that his plan is feasible. x Freed of Murder Charge, Benjamin Davis was found not guilty of the murder of John Dunbar. The men quarreled July 1 at Dunbar’s home, near Waverly, about Dunbar applying an epithet to Davis’ wife. Dunbar stooped and picked up a brick as if to attack Davis. The latter theu picked up a monkey wrench and struck Dunbar on the head, inflicting a fatal wound. Davis was acquitted on the plea of selfdefense. Big Wolf Drive. A party of hunters which left Union Center the other morning for a wolf drive through the Kankakee country rounded up and killed one wolf weighing 15<) pounds and wounded another, which succeeded in getting away. This was the first big wolf hunt for more than sixty years, and several score men took part. The Kankakee country Is said to be the only region iu Indiana where wolves still roam. Strike Picketing Enjoined. Judge Carter in the Superior Court in Indianapolis issued an injunction restraining the striking molders of the Indianapolis Foundry Company from interfering with the men who want to work, picketing being especially barred. The company, which is resisting the effort to make its shop a union shop, alleged that life and property were endangered. ,