Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

BOONVILLE—WiIIiam Lee, the self confessed murderer of three psrsons has filed a petition here in the circuit court asking that he be permitted to use the proceeds of insurance policies earned on the lives of his alleged victims to Employ counsel to defend him against a charge of triple murder. In the petition Lee now avers that he is not guilty of murdering his father, mother and brother, and says that unless permission be given* him to use . the SSOO insurance money he will be forced to ask the court to appoint | counsel to defend him in court. • The filing of the petition marks the opening of what is expected to be a spectacular fight between relatives of the three victims for the insurance money now held by Homer Sutton, administrator of the estate, and an uncle of William Lee. All of Lee’s relatives have turned against biro. SOUTH BEND While a I.akr Shore train was speeding along sixty miles an hour between Mishawka aud South Bend, F. A. Higbman and J. Parsons, in the custody of officers from Madisonville, Ky., made a desperate effort to escape, and a free-for-all fight resulted, in which many of the passengers also participated The prisoners were finally subdued as the train pulled into the South Bend station . The prisoners were arrested at Buffalo, N. Y„ on a charge of embezzling from a lodge. They were in the charge of Sheriff Y. B. Stanley and. Deputy Moeley, who were both injured in the fight. INDIANAPOLIS The epidemic of diphtheria in the state has spread to virtually every county, according to J. P. Simonds, head of the pathological laboratory of the state board of health. All the test tubes the laboratory had on hand have been made nse of, and additional help has been procured to aid in the handing of the cultures. The state board authorities are bending every effort to handle the cultures, as they believe early action in this respect is responsible for the small death rate that has characterized tbe epidemic thus far. SHELBYVILLE James J. Corbett, sixty-two years old, who says his home is at Chicago, entered a plea of not guilty in circuit court to a charge of child stealing, and will be given an early trial. The aged man was brought here from Toledo. 0., and is accused of having enticed Harold C. Albert, thirteen years old. away from his hotne here three weeks ago. He had been held in the worghouse at Toledo-since the boy was located in his company at that city.

MUNCIE That “baths were •nly for dudes and women” was one of the principles of living of Ephraim Riffle, according to allegations in a complaint for divorce filed in the circuit court by Martha Riffle Riffle stated this principle, it is charged, three mouths after his wedding, during which period his wife vainly had pleaded with him to take a bath. Then she left him. INDIANAPOLIS The board of public safety and a committee representing the city council has approved of Mayor Shank’s- plans for reducing the cost of living by making it possible for the farmer to sell direct to the consumer without interference. An arrangement will be made so that the retailers and wholesalers will be separated at the city market place. SOUTH BENO Daniel Smith of this city was run down and probably fatally injured when an auto truck and the motorcycle which be was riding collided. Smith is in a local hospital and although he recovered consciousness, is unable to relate anything in regard to the accident, having suffered a complete loss of memory. MARTINSVILLE William George and Mrs. Loretta Cox, who attempted suicide in a lawyer’s office here by swallowing chloroform and remained unconscious for several hours, I seem none the worse for their experience. Both George and Mrs. Cox told the officers they had had enough and would not attempt suicide again with poison.

ALEXANDRIA Three hundred finishers who are empolyed at the Lippincott glass factory in this city went on strike because three non-union men from Tulsa, Okla., were given positions as blowers in the bulb department. Six hundred men are affected by the strike and the factory is temporarily closed. EVANSVILLE being discharged from police court in a minor assault and battery case, Charles Fairchild, sixty-three years old, a furniture worker, dropped dead in a physician’s office, where he had gone for relief from faintness. It is believed the excitement of the trial hastened his death. GARY —A number of merchants and saloonkeepers were swindled out of between $5,000 and SIO,OOO by six well dressed men who flooded the place with counterfeit pay checks of the Illinois Steel company. One of them, James E. Moran, was arrested. MARION Edward Scott, aged twenty-four years, is in a serious condition as a result of a bullet wound accidentally inflicted by Chauncey Shanahan, aged seventeen. Shanahan did not know the revolver was loaded and snapped it as Scctt passed him.