Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1904 — BEDFORD'S MYSTERY [ARTICLE]

BEDFORD'S MYSTERY

New Evidence in the Schafer Murder Case Heard by the Grand Jury. NOTHING STAHTLING GETS OUT Mob After a Miscreant Who Tried to Kill a Woman Who Wouldn't Marry Him—Notes.

Bedford, Ind., June 3.—The grand jury investigating themurder of Sarali Schafer Jun. 21 is said to be in possession of valuable information not heretofore brought out Suspicion has been directed to a Bedford citizen who is said to have been out the night of the murder with p stranger who was found about the same time by the night watchman in the boiler room of the Brooks & Carter Stone Mill do ing his clothing. The same man, it is said, was the purchaser of the emprty whisky flask found in the alley near the sht»d where the hotly was found. Newspaper Editor Summoned, W. H. Gliddell, editor of a Brazil newspaper, has been summoned to appear before the grand jury to testify regarding certain information which may have prompted an editorial in a recent edition of his newspaper. Miss Eva Love, room-mate of Miss Schafer, testified before the grand jury jesterday for more than an hour. It is reported that a letter from an Illinois man, stating that he and another man had been employed to kill Miss Schafer. has been received by a city official. Inquiry to Close Tomorrow. The grand jhry will close Its investigation /Saturday with the adjournment of the Lawrence county court. Deputy Prosecutor Stephenson, it is said, will continue the investigation of the mystery until after the adjournment of the Monroe county circuit court, at which time Judge Wilson says he will summon a special grand jury to consider the evidence secured during the Interval. The reward offered for the arrest and conviction of the murderer has been increased, to $4.250 by subscriptions of Simpson B. Lowe and other citizens.

MOR LOOSE AT ANDERSON After * Miscreant Who Tried to Batcher a Woman Because Be “Loved ' Her.” , Anderson, Ind., June S. Mrs. Ada Barger, a widow 31 years old, was murderously attacked by James McCormick, a rejected suitor, because she would not jilt tbe sweetheart of her youth. The woman was literally hacked to pieces. McCormick broke through a barrteade that had been placed at tbe*front door In order to oppose his threatened visit and after Inflicting more than a dozen wounds with a razor or bowie knife, he Jumped through a window and escaped. A mob armed with rifles and shotguns is pursuing McCormick with the avowed purpose of bringing him back on a stretcher. No mercy will be shown him if the mob ever Catches tbe would-be murderer. McCormick came from Pennsylvania a year ago. madly smitten with Mrs. Barger because of a photograph of her’s which had fallen into his hands. He is a distant relative of the victim, and on the strength of this Mrs. Barger permitted McCormick to board at her home. Can't Mafca Artificial Oaa. Indiann|K>lis, June 3.—Judge F. E. Baker, of the United States circuit court, has decided that the property of the Consumers’ Gas company belongs to the certificate holders., and the company has no right to manufacture artificial gas. The property will be sokl. It is valued at $3,000,000, and was organized early in the natural gas period with .money subscribed by citizeus to pipe and sell gas at cost.

Race War Imminent, They Say. Lawrenceburg, Ind., June 3. Advices from Weisburg are to the effect that a race war is imminent at the labor camps along the Big Four railway. This state of affairs is due to the depredations of several negroes who within the past week have robbed and maltreated whites employed at the camifs. Miners Rant a Lost Boy. •Terre Haute, Ind.., June 3. —Twelve hundred miners suspended work to assist iij the search for the 4-year-old son of Dr. Byers, who has been missing from home since Sunday. Ponds and abandoned mines are being searched apd gypsy camps examined. Society Wedding at Hammond. Hammond, Ind., June 3. Charles Raymond Dyer and Miss Eva Jackson were married at the St. Paul’s Episcopal church. They belong to prominent families in society here and are well known in Chicago and in Minneapolis. I Fatally Wound* Hl* Wife. Bethel, Ind., June 3. —Mrs. Lee Harken was perhaps fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a rifle in the hands of heir husband, who was shooting sparrows in the yard, while his wife was watching him. Goat Geti Him Into Tronble. Terre Haute, Ind., June 3. —William Fidler has sued Samuel Graff for $2,000 for the personal injuries inflicted by Graff’s goat, which butted him, making him permanently lama.