Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1905 — WHICH DID THE STABBING? [ARTICLE]

WHICH DID THE STABBING?

fcye Witaaa* Says It Was Ona Maa. White Dante* It and the Other Admit* the Crime. Terre Haute. Ind., July 14. The arraignment of James and Earl Fredricks, father and son, for the murder of David Lowe, a teacher in the Christian Sunday school, results in a peculiar complication. The Sunday school was holding a picnic, and the two Fredricks drove the wagons. They wanted Jo start home ahead of time, and after a woman teacher had vainly remonstrated Lowe began talking with the two men. nnd there was a quarrel, In which b’ows were exchanged. and Ix>we fell to the ground, stabbed irn the alaloinen. Mrs. Sellers, wife of the pastor, reported that the senior Fredricks first used the knife, and then banded it to his son. with instructions to “finish him." but that the young man did not use the knife. The .voting man tried to escape. the elder did not. The Junior says that he did the stabbing, and that his father is innocent, and that he used the knife while in close quarters with Lowe, and under the belief that hl? own life was in danger. The father also contends that he did not kill Lowe, and that he did not have a knife in his hands during the entire trouble. <

Lincoln's Mother’s Grass. Indianapolis, July 14.—The neglected condition the grave of Nancy Haoks, mother of Abraham Lincoln, near Lincoln City, is calling out many protests in southern Indiana. Colonel J. S. Wright, of Rockport, a member of the monument commission, baa protested', ard Spencer county officials insist that the grounds which were bought by the county and donated as a park should be declared forfeited. They Don't Bolleve Singer Gnllty. Brazil, Ind., July 14.—Mrs. Ralston Cardwell, wife of the man who was assassinated' at Golden Knobs, by an unknown person, has disappeared. Residents of Golden Knob are firm in the belief tbnt Henry Singer, who has been committed to jail in this city as a principal In the murder, Is not the guilty party. / Vlet! in of the Flobort HI He. I Enville, Ind.. July 14. White Glyndon Hitchcock. 18 yearsold, was examining a Flobert rifle, the weapon was accidentally discharged, the bullet striking his baby brother Benjamin, 2 years old, passing through his body and killing him Instantly. Bellgioue Eultemd Oaaeee Ineaalty. Shoals. Ind., July 14.—Miss Blvlna Johnson, who last winter, in a voting contest, was declared to be the handsomest girl in town, has been adjudged inaand, owing to religious excitement.