Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Fob Sale:—100 head of good sheep. Ed Oliver, Newland, Ind. FROfl A FRIEND. We have the party located that took the spoons at the Laßue anniversary, and to save trouble they had better return them at once. A Friend. PUBLIC SALES. - The Democrat has printed bilb for the following public sales: Wednesday, Oct. 23, Charles M. Smith, as administrator of the estate of Karah L. MoKillip, deceased. Sale to be held at the late residence of said decedent in Milroy tp. General sale, horses, farm implements, oats, etc. TO WHOM IT DAY CONCERN Owing to the rain, the meeting to clean up the Egypt cemetery was not held last Tuesday, but was postponed to next Wednesday, Oct. 24, when a full attendance of those interested is desired to help clean up said cemetery. Riley Tullis I Geo. Kennedy > Trustees. Robt. Michael y RENSSELAER PUBLIC LIBRARY LECTURE COURSE Oct. 24, 1907, George Edgar Vincent. Nov. 23, 1907, Frank R. Roberson. Dec. 19, 1907, DeWitt Miller. Jan. 30,1908, Hon. George D. Alden. Feb. 17, 1908, Opie Reed. March 6, 1908, Father Kavanaugh. Tickets for the full course $2.00.

A FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR JOB. A Washington dispatch says: Influential friends in Indiana and Washington are trying to obtain an appointment for Judge Palmer, of Monticello, to a Federal judgeship in Alaska. Judge Palmer has been on the bench twelve years, and is said to have made a splendid record; he was also president of the Indiana State Bar Association after ex-President Benjamin Harrison had been at the head of the organization. All these facts and others have been presented to Attorney-General Bonaparte in the last few days, and the Monticello jurist is under consideration for the Alaska position recently vacated by Judge Wickersham. Judge Palmer has the indorsement of both Senators Beveridge and Hemenway for the place.

SLAYERS OF SHERIFF OGLESBY.

Webb and Smith, the surviving hoboes who were implicated in the murder of Sheriff Oglesby at Winamac recently, have been taken from Knox to Michigan City for safe keeping, on order of Judge Nye. The man Jwho fired the shot that laid Sheriff Oglesby low and who later died from a bullet wound inflicted upon him by the dying sheriff, has been found to be Patrick Sullivan, says the Starke County Republican. His people reside in Canada and are well respected and prominent. Sullivan had not visited bis home in a dozen years, but his people knew be bad developed into a bad man. Minnie Webb, sister of Frank Webb, came down from South Bend Thursday to see him. Miss Webb is a well educated young woman and holds a responsible position as stenographer in a large manufacturing concern at South Bend. As the poor girl caught sight of her beother within the steel cage she exclaimed, “Oh, Frank, so you are in trouble again!” Webb was considerably affected by the visit of his sister. He had no excuses to make for bis present plight, but in the course of the brief conversation Webb said: “Well I had just as well be in the penitentiary anyway. I have always been in trouble.” And so it seems. Frank Webb is the one black sheep in the Webb home. He has a weak face which not only shows the lack of will power but shows the criminal disposition. In the hands of such men as sullivan and Smith and the others of the Allison crowd of cut-throats he has become as desperate and as hardened as any of them. It now develops that before Oglesby died he stated that Webb was the first one of the crowd to fire upon him, the bullet however, missing its mark. After shooting at the sheriff Webb started to run, whereupon the sheriff fired the shot that hit Webb in the back. While Sullivan’s bullet is the one that fatally wounded the sheriff, yet Webb’s attempt upon the life of the sheriff will make him equally guilty with the dead desperado in the sheriff’s death.

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