Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

RICHMOND There was an echo of the mysterious and unsolved Joseph Lucy murder case at the trial of Earl Dubois, charged With robbing the Jones store at Milton. Miss Emma Gunsaulus related a conversation which she alleged she over* heardt between her brother, Guy Gunsaulus, and Dubois on the night of the robbery. Dubcis, she said, was urging her brother to come to Richmond and get a "jimmy.” Gunsaulus, the witness said, declared he was afraid to tackle the job. To this Dubois replied, according to Miss Gunsaulus’ story:: “Oh! .I’m not afraid, for I hafe been in scrapes before and never was caught. I killed old man Lucy, and they did not get me.” Duboos, on taking the stand, flatly denied that any such conversation took place with any persons. Joseph Lucy was murdered four years ago. Lucy was a recluse and was known to have considerable money. One morning his body was found in the house. His head had been mashed with a club and the house was in disorder, indicating that robbery had been the motive for the crime. The murderers failed to find Lucy's secreted wealth.

INDIANAPOLIS Miss Florence Woods, fifteen years old, who took carbolic acid with suicidal intent, is dead at the city hospital. The suicide follows that of a sister, Anna, seventeen years old, who took poison about six weeks ago at St. Vincent’s hospital, where the girls were employed. The reason for the older girl’s act was parental objection to a young man to whom she was engaged. Through her parents the attention of a probation officer was called to her and she became despondent under surveillance. Her parents say the younger girl was despondent over the death of her sister, the ill health of her father, who was in the hospital, and the general bad luck of the family. ANDERSON Some mischievous boys cast a large doll under a street car here and the car wheels crushed a sawdust limb from the doll. A man thinking the doll was a baby, called for an am’ ulanee. Galls brought two ambulances to the scene, but the man discovered the hoax and dropped the crushed doll to the pavement. The first ambulance men to arrive on the scene promptly gathered up the doll and haJuled it away although they discovered they also had been the victim of a prank by the boys. The street was filled with people when the ambulances dashed to the scene of the supposed accident. SOUTH BEND Stepping on a burglar crouching in his bedroom, Justice J. N. Calvert, aged sixty-five, engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with him and finally threw the burglar headlong downstairs. The burglar then escaped by jumping through a window. Mr. Calvert awakened during the night by a noise in the house, but found no one. His wife then suggested that he look under the bed. As he turned to do so, he stepped on the n.an’s foot, which protruded from under the bed. After throwing the intruder downstairs, Calvert dressed and started in pursuit, but the burglar escaped. INDIANAPOLIS After Judge Remster of the circuit iourt had filed his conclusions of law and special findings of facts in the constitution case, : the necessary formalities for taking an appeal from Judge Remster’s re- | cent decision, that the act for the proposed new state constitution is unconstitutional, were disposed of and ■ Judge Remster granted the petition of , the attorneys for the defense for an appeal to the Indiana supreme court. MOUNT VERNON Mayor Moeller has started a new system of punishment: for city prisoners w ho refuse to work. William Saxton refused j to work on the streets, and Mayor Moeller ordered his ankle adorned with a twenty-five pound ball and : chain and turned him over to a police- ’ man with instructions to parade him through the principal business streets until he decided to work. EVANSVILLE A dastardly attempt was made to assassinate William Wriver, aged twenty-five, night watchman at a basket factory. Two men in ambush fired several shots at i him, one shot taking effect in his arm. | He opened fire on the'assailants and j thinks he wounded one of them, i James Reddish was arrested on svis- | picion. j OAKLAND CITY A man and a woman, who are not known, drove to the home of Mrs. Houston Montgomery, and left a baby six months old at her house. There was no mark on the child’s clothes to identify it, and Mrs. Montgomery says she will keep and rear the child.