Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1907 — NEW CRIME MYSTERY [ARTICLE]

NEW CRIME MYSTERY

Young Man Murdered After an Ante-Wedding Vieit to Hie Sweetheart. NOT A CLEW TO THE ASSAMM \ _ ■ 'Wedding Was to Hitve Taken Place the Next Day Mrs. Law 4 Wallace 11L Bloomfield, Ind., Sept 12. —Mystery surrounds the death of Homer 8. Casey, whose body was found sitting erect in his buggy in the barn lot at his mother’s home, in the village of IlaglesvUle, at daybreak, with a bullet wound over the left eye. Every Indication points to the murder theory, although Casey Is not known to have had any enemies. Young Casey, who was 31 years old. was to have married Miss Anna Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Stone, of this place, yesterday at 5 p. m. Had .Visited His Sweetheart. Casey made his last visit before his marriage to his sweetheart Tuesday afternoon, and started to drive to his home, a distance of twelve miles, at 6 p. m. The distance between bis home and the home of his fiance Is covered in two hours, but when he failed to return at night at the usual time nothing rwaß thought of it, as the roads were muddy and his mother believed it had taken more time to make the trip. At daybreak his lifeless body was found by a faTm hand. The horse was hitched to the buggy Just as It was when driven Into the barn. No Reason Existed for Sntctde. There was nothing to Indicate that Casey had taken his own life. In fact, he was looking forward in happy anticipation of his approaching nmrrlage. No revolver was found in or near the buggy nor along the road taken by Casey, and for this reason the murder theory is strongly entertained. Homer Casey was a traveling salesman for a Chicago tailoring house, and was a member df one of the most highly respected families In the county. He was a man of excellent reputation. and if he was murdered it Is believed the crime was committed by robbers and not by enemies. MUZZLES FOR ALLIGATORS They Eat Inquisitive Dogs and One of Them Dies Untimely of the Fare. Marion, Ind., Sept 12.—Because the alligators in the double fenced cage at the city park have shown a fondness for dogs, the board of public works has decided to muzzle the reptiles. A week ago Sunday an inquisitive poodle succeeded in entering the cage and began to bark at the reptiles. He was snapped up and killed by Big Joe and his three companions and then eaten. A similar tragedy occurred last Sunday. Now the board of public works has decided to put leather muzzles on the alligators so that they can eat small pieces of meat, but will be unable to masticate dogs. The smallest of the four alligators died Monday morning. The park superintendent declares that the bones of the dogs were too much for its digestive apparatus after a long diet of beefsteak.

Fate Was Mean to Them. Indianapolis, Sept 12.—There must have been a heartrending scene among a gang of safe-blowers after they had blown a safe to pieces In William Rathert’s grocery, at Meridian and McCarty streets. They got within sight of the money in the safe and then could not get It because a tin in which the money was keprhad become wedged within in such a manner that the thieves coqld not get it out. Just at this moment, too, they were scared away. - Probably Hard Up for News. Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 12. Frank Suit, a newspaper reporter, has been arrested here, charged with setting fire to the Citizens’ National Bank building. Suit is a son of the late Judge Suit, of Frankfort. There have been nine mysterious fires In Kokomo In a few days, and ft Is believed that Suit has started them all. Ijew Wallace’s Widow 111. Crawfordsville, Ind., Sept 12. The Illness of Mrs. Wallace, widow oi General Lew Wallace, has given her family and friends great concern for several days, but her physician reports her condition greatly improved, and that there Is no immediate danger of serious results. Mrs. Wallace Is nearly 80 years old. Many at the State Fair. Indianapolis. Sept 12. Thirty thousand people were on the Indiana state fair ground at noon yesterday, making it, in point of attendance, one of the notable Wednesdays In the bistry of the exposition, and there Were enthusiastic estlmaters who said there were 50,000 on the grounds in the afternoon. - Latest September Weather Style, Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept 12. The first snow of the season fell here Tuesday. The storm lasted ten minutes and bought thousands of persons out Of residences, stores, and factories ts watch the flakes falL It disappeared as fast as It felL