Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

EVANSVILLE Mysterious features in the fatal shooting of Mrs. Henry Connors, fifty-five year* old, at the breakfast table caused the polio© to hold Henry Cononrs, her husbandand Alvey Brooks, a boarder. William Brooks, seven years of grandson of the dead woman, told themost coherent story, saying she had been' shot accidentally by the discharge of a revolver placed on the kitchen table, but later the boy admitted, the police say, that he told that story because his uncle, Alvey Brooks, coached him to do so. Alvey Brooks said he didn’t see the revoL ver when it was discharged, but that Connors had been fingering it a minute before the shooting. Connors says his back was turned when the shot, was fired. Mm. Connors was shot through the eye. the bullet coursing through the brain. She did not regain consciousness and died within an. hour.

LOGANSPORT Samuel Fredshman. sixty years of age, bolted thedoor of his room and turned on the gas in ap effort to commit suicide. The odor of escaping gas attracted the landlady’s attention and she called the police and a physician who broke down, the door in time to rescue Freishmanin an unconscious condition. Freishman was hurriedly taken to a hospital, where he is pronounced out of danger. In his clothing were found letters revealing his identity, a card showing that he belongs to the Red Men, and a letter from J. M. Shire of South Bend, written last July. Frieshman came to this city a few days agoand nothing is known of him ELWOOD Charged with using a gun in the effort to frighten a lower grade student, who, on account of his delicate nature, has been * made the butt of a series of jokes for several months, Meyrl Terwilliger, a. high school senior, was charged with pointing a deadly weapon. Gussie Hunt, thirteen years old, is the plaintiff. Practically every student in the junior and senior classesof the school has been summoned as witnesses, and the school authorities have threatened to expel all guilty of~ any connection with the affair The incident threatens to arouse the most serious student trouble in the history of the El w ood schools.

HAMMOND —When the two sons,, other relatives and friends went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Aubrey, expecting to, participate in celebrating the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the couple, they found theaged man and woman dead in their bed. They had been asphyxiated by gas. J. Aubrey, in the railroad business in New York city, was taken seriously ill after the discovery of tbetragedy. Another son of the couple is Edward Aubrey, controller of the town of Hammond. The arriving relatives were forced to break down the front door of the Aubrey home, after rapping half an hour and receiving no response.

BEDFORD James Mitchell was found lying unconscious in the road by Dr. H. M. Heckman and Elmer Peed, who were on their way to the Peed home to attend Peed’s mother. The body was not discovered in time to avoid striking it with the doctor’s auto. Mitchell died a short time later. He was in the city all day drinking and had been paid S7O by a local lumber man for trees. When found but 7 cents was on his person. Mie Younger, who had been with Mitchell during the day, and four members of a gypsy camp, two men. and two women, are in jail pending further investigation. OAKLAND A breed of hogs known as the “mulefoot” hog is being introduced in this (Gibson) county. The hog has a hoof resembling that of a mule and bears the distinction of being immune from cholera. The hog was brought here as a result of the recent cholera scourge, which has depleted several large droves. So far the “mulefoot**' hog has.proven its worth as a safeguard against the disease. MUNCIE All public dances havebeen strictly forbidden in the city of Muncie, as a direct result of the murder of Alta E. Hayworth, thfr telephone operator, who was shot and instantly killed by Charles McGalliard Jr., a young painter, at a masquerade public dance at Franklin Hall, Holloween night. The orders of the po lice commissioners are to take effect at once. SOUTH BEND Joseph Johnson of South Bend, a grandson of the late Clement Studebaker, millionsire wagonmaker, was killed when he fell from a tree with a pigeon coop built in the tree tops at Interlaken school, where he was a pupil. The boys had been warned to stay out of the tree. ’ PRINCETON The rescuers who found the bodies of Walker McDaniels and Commodore McClure, the shotfirers killed in Port Branch mine,, say that both men had crawled more than 200 feet toward the main shaft in an effort to save themselves from the black damp. FORT WAYNE James Nolan has been given a life sentence IT, Michigan City prison on his plea of guilty to the murder of his wife. She took in washing and paid for their home and h piece of adjoining property. , |