Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — MURDEREDHISSISTER [ARTICLE]

MURDEREDHISSISTER

That’s the Way It Looks Now and the Accused Is in the City Lockup. TELLS A BUNCH OF STORIES All of Them Lies, but the Truth Seems To Be Plain Murder —Story of a Cat. Indianapolis, Sept. 18.—Murder la the formal charge placed against nine-teen-year-old Charles Gelsendorf at police headquarters. The boy shot his sister Margaret, aged sixteen, at their home, 1035 West Michigan street, and three hours later the girl died at tiie City hospital. Charles said the shooting was accidental, as he did not know the -weapon was loaded. His conflicting statements, however, got him into trouble, and he is now held without bond until the police make a thorough Investigation. Begins By Telling Two Lies. Blcyclemen Wilson and Golnisch hurried to the Gelsendorf home when they heard of tiie shooting. At first Charles told the police his sister had accidentally shot herself, but after being questioned he admitted shooting the girl. He said he took the weapon from a drawer and playfully snapped it at hi< sister and the bullet struck her near the eye. She Chased Him with an Iron. Margaret was a feeble-minded girl, and after Investigating the bicyclen.en were of the opinion that there had been trouble between Charles and Margaret. Charles had a scratch on his face,, and a flatiron was found on the floor. The boy, was questioned until he admitted that his sister was ehus ing him with the iron, and that he shot ftt her from an adjoining room. The powder burns on the girl’s face show ed that the weapon had been held close to her head. Charles said she fell In another room adjoining the one in which the police found a pool of blood.

Loaded the Weapon Himself. The boy at first said fie did not know Pte;revolver was loaded, but when questioned said he loaded the weapon a short time before he fired. The mother of the boy and girl was in the house with a visitor, Mrs. Elizabeth Overman, when the shot was fired. Charles told so many conflicting stories that the bicyolemen decided to lock him up in spite of the protests of the mother.

THIS STORY IS OF A CAT But It Everlastingly Discredits the Feline as an Enemy of the Rodent. Columbus, Iml.. IS.—John Carr, of this city, has a eat that !:as failed to make good. Everybody in Columbus knows John Carr and everybody knows that his word as good as his bond, so when lie tells the story tiie-v. is no one in this place, at least, that will doubt it. Carr's eat was sit ing near a hole in an alley fence gazing complacently at the view through the hole, when a full grown rat came In view in the alley. The cat did not move, and peop'e who were watching expected the rat to scamper away. But instead of making a hurried getaway, the rat came closer to the cat and finally, to the astonishment of those who were witnesses, put its paws on the oats head, and some sort of goo-goo ronversation took place between the eat and the rat. Then the rat crawled through the hole, joined the cat and they walked away together.

HEWS FACTS IN OULTINE Thrde hundred and five eases and 115 deaths from the Asiatic cholera were reported at St Petersburg for the twenty-four hours ended at noon yesterday. Rlshops of the African M. E. church have complained to the Interstate commerce CQpimissiori of the “Jim Crow" car matter in the south, and demand “no discrimination" against I’nlted States eiti/.eus traveling in the I'nited States ' ■

In his speech to tjie convention of the Interparliamentary Union at Berlin Prince von Buelow declared that Germany wanted nothing so much as universal jpeace. ',The president since July 1 has passed upon ninety-six applications for par don, and granted forty-six. Thetotal immigration Into this country during August was 27,783, while during August, 1907, the Immigrants numbered 98'825. For the first time in the history of the eastern Wisconsin Methodist conference there are no applicants for positions as pastors in the various churches of the district. Count Leo Tolstoy has been elected to honorary membership in the faculty of the University of St. Petersburg. The plant of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company at Creighton, Pa.,closed since June, will resume work next Mionday. The board of directors of the Westinghouse Airbrake company has declared a quarterly dividend of 2% per cent. A six and one-half-inch rainfall Inside of teti hours caused the streets In the business section of Galveston, Tex., to be flooded.