Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1911 — Page 1

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EVIDENCE PILING UP IN POOLE CASE

That Defendant is Insane and Not Responsible for Acts MISS GRACE POOLE TESTIFIES And Several More Jasper County People Summoned for Tomorrow to Testify for the State In Rebuttal, It Is Understood. Edward Bullis, Joseph Thice, George Davisson, Grant Davisson, Steve Comer, Thomas Baker, Harvey Davisson, Joseph Nagel. Charles Bartee, Harvey Dexter. Horace G. Daniels Arthur Stewart, Charles Armstrong, Judge Hayley, L. P. Shirer, J. D. Lowe, George Coffman. Sim McCloud and Frank Miller go to Lafayette Thursday as witnesses in the Poole trial, to testify for the state. They are wanted, it is said,, to testify regarding a case Poole had in court here, when he was arrested for assault and battery In attempting tfc> embrace a woman. Several of the parties summonetl were jurors in tne ease. Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 2.—William W. Poole of Wabash county, brother of John W. Poole, charged with the murder of Joseph Kemper, told the jury yesterday that all through life his brother had exhibited symptoms of insanity which led alb his relatives to regard him as a person of unsound mind and not responsible for many of his acts. The story was interrupted at One point by the defendant’s illness, it being feared for a time that the trial would have to stop. The jail physician, however, said the prisoner was threatened with pneumonia, but it would not endanger him to proceed with the trial, and on the statement of the physician the court allowed the case to go on. Poole displayed outward indications of being very sick. ' William Poole said he visited his brother several times and observed his actions. John Poole also came to Wabash county to see his brother. The elder Poole related several instances of John’s insane temner. He said once he was in a hotel at Kokomo when his brother rushed into the kitchen and with oaths demanded that coffee be served to him at once. He was finally calmed. William Poole sajd that in Monon he slept with his brother and in the middle of the night John awoke and exclaimed, “I am dying!” The witness also testified that in the spring of 1909 he went to his brother’s farm in Wabash county and his brother did not recognize him for half an hour after he arrived. He said Poole was poorly dressed and looked ill and he conducted himself as a man laboring under many delusions. Mrs. Belle bay of Jasper county testified that she first mer Poole in 1905 at the home of her father. She and her husband were later tenants on Poole’s Jasper county farm near Rensselaer. While they were there Poole staid at the farm much of the time. They were there from March until July, 1905. "The property, she said, was in a dilapidated condition for Poole never accomplished anything. He would start to do something, she stated, and then before it was finished, he would switch over to something else. Her husband, Edward Fay, corroborated her testimony, and said Poole was a very profane man. He said that he told him that he would have to quit swearing in the house, and Poole said that he did not realize what he was saying, that he would stop, but he never did, the witness testified. Poole couldn’t hold a conversation, he said, for he would ramble from one subject to another Fay said that he oftenup

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AN ELECTRIC ELEVATOR

And Remodeling _of Furniture Store Planned by W. J. Wright. W. J. Wright is preparing to put in an electric elevator in his furniture store and make extensive improvements thereto. He will take out the stairway on the west, close up the present front entrance and make a vestibule entrance where the stairway now is. By* the easy access to rhe two upper floors after installing an elevatordie will use those floors for storage and display and move his undertaking business from its present quarters west of the Rensselaer Garage to his furniture store. When the improvements are completed Air. Wright will have one of the most commodious and up-to-date business properties in Rensselaer or in this section of the state.

RELEASED TOO EARLY.

Bader’s Presence at Winamac Not Desired Till Monday.—Explanation by Governor. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 2. The correspondence in the office! of the Governor concerning the release of C. L. Bader, of Winamac, from the state prison in order that he might appear at home to testify in two cases in which he is wanted as a wit-' ness does not dislose that any! time was set for the release of the prisoner under the temporary parole by the Governor. Warden Fogarty, of the state prison, it was said at the Gov-! ernor's office, evidently took the' Governor to mean that Bader was to be released on receipt of. the executive order? The fact! that Bader was thus enabled to spend Thanksgiving with his family at home was a coincidence, the Governor said. The request for the presence of Bader at the trial of the cases came from attorney Burson of Winamac. In Burson’s letter to the Governor it was set out that Bader’s presence was desired on December 4 and 5. ■ On receipt of the Burson letter Governor'Marshall wrote to Warden Fogarty, directing that Bader be released for the purpose desired, with or without guard, as the warden thought best. Nothing was said of the dates when Bader was wanted. This, the Governor said, was an oversight. “I did not have Thanksgiving in mind when I wrote the warden,” the Governor said. “I wrote the letter last Tuesday, and thought that Bader was to be released only for the trial.” . It was said at the office of the Governor that the wording of the letter to the warden was such that Mr. Fogarty might take it for granted the Governor intended Bader to be released on receipt of the temporary parole, but the Governor contended he meant only that Bader should be released to be in Winamac at tne time he was wanted as a witness. He said that because of the conditions of the case, he must assume all blame, if any attached, for Bader’s having been permitted to go home five days before he was wanted as a witness. Bader was formerly president of the Winamac Bridge Company, now defunct, and was sentenced to the state prison last May on a finding of guilty on a charge of presenting a false claim for money to the commissioners of Jasper county. Attention was called to his case largely because after a finding of guilty in the lower court, sentence was suspended by the Governor, pending the result of an appeal to the supreme court. The cas6s in which Bader is wanted to testify are two brought against the old bridge, company. Prior to the request that Bader be released to appear, depositions had been taken from him at the prison for use in the case.—lndianapolis News. < A new subscription, remember, counts 3,000 votes for each year. If for five years, 15,000 votes; a renewal counts 1,500 votes for each year renewed. -_1 ' J Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office ■

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1911.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—! Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Marriage licenses issued: Dec.' 4, James Welford Gainer of Niche. N. D., aged 23, occupation farmer, to Margaret Pris-' cilia Wheelen, daughter' of John J. Wheelen of near Parr, aged 20, .occupation housekeper. First marriage for each. —o— four boys arrested rte-< cently for interfering with grade pupils attending a class party at Dr., Hansson’s and clipping the hair of a son of Chet Zea, who filed the complaint against them,! were taken before Judge Hanley by probation officer C. B. Steward Monday and given a severe lecture and released. It is hoped, the action will have a wholesome: effect on other boys who are similarly inclined. ... —o —• Clinton L. Bader, former superintendent and general manager of the defunct Winamac Bridge Co., was in the city Mon-1 day. It is said he was here with! a representative of the Rochester, Bridge Co., who put in bids cn bridges at the meeting of the, county commissioners on thati day. Just why, in view of the 1 experience Jasper county has had with Mr. Bader's peculiar busi-j ness methods, the Rochester man thought Bader could be of as-j sistance to him, is not apparent/ It was reported that Bader left! here for Chicago to. take in the ( fat stock and land shows, but we will not vouch for this. —oProceedings in the circuit court since our last report: No. 7779. First National Bana of Medaryville vs. Jesse Lowery; judgment for $75.27. No. 7782. Cordelia M. Williams vs. W. Frank Osborne, et al.; ar-! gument heard on demurrer and taken under advisement. No. 7784. Emmet L. Hollingsworth vs-. William Ellsworth Shearer, et al.; judgment for $594.42. No. 7786. State, ex rel. Everett Greenlee, vs. Edward P. Lane, trustee Newton tp.; court now-submits names of Judge Woson, Wm. Isham and T. B. Cumingtom from which to select a special judge to try the case. No. 7797. Harrison Wasson vs. Joseph G. JacksOn; plaintiff files amended complaint making Frank G. Kresler party defendant,

Ex-treasurer F. M. Coovert of Newton county was enabled to reimburse his bondsmen in full last week for money advanced him to make good losses sustained '"by the failure of the I Gilman bank at Goodland and the Bank of Roselawn in which he had county funds deposited.! There—was—about s3,oooin the Roselawn bank, and when the funds were deposited there John F. Judy of Williamsport was a partner in the bank, retiring be- ■ fore the failure. Suit was j brought against Judy and a judgI ment secured. Judy appealed but the supreme court upheld the {verdict, and last week he paid I the amount of the judgment, en- | abling Coovert to repay his i bondsmen and have $618.82 left. —o— Owing to the death of the aged mother of Commissioner I Pettet he was not in attendance 1 at the meeting of commissioners this week. Following is a report of Monday’s proceedings: The county officers reported fees collected for the quarter as follows: Recorder, $519.45; auditor. $96.30. The Attica Bridge Co. was awarded the contract fori three hew bridges at a total of $2,699, they being $1 lower on the total bid than the Rochester Bridge Co., who also bid on the work. I Interest on funds in the vari-

ous county depositories for the month of November was reported as follows: First Nat. Bank. Rensselaer. .$91.81 Trust & 8. Bank, Rensselaer 47.67 State Bank. Rensselaer..... 49.83 State Bank. Remington 43.55 Bank of Wheatfield 22.36 The report of the poor farm superintendent showed receipts for quarter as follows: J Knapp, 123 bu corn, 64c. $77.66 ‘ I A Glazebrook, 6bu corn. 3.69 i Ham’n & Kellner. 124 b corn 79.55 Roth Bros, .4 calves at 5c 4b. 145.00 P W Clarke, 7 bu c0rn..... 4.1,1 DS Makeever, 1 cow, 1 bu 11.107.701 C E Prior, 159 lb old roosters 6.36 Nbah Zeigler, bu pears...... .50 W A Irwin, 5ame..?....... .50 Butter fat ............ ... 29.06 S R Nichols, 3 hogs. ....... 52.50 $506.24 The expenses for the quarter were $95522. Number inmates poor asylum. 16.

CORN SHREDDER VICTIMS.

Pulaski County Man Loses Arm In Deadly Machine. Joseph Buisic. . a young man living near Pulaskiville, had his arm so badly mangled in a corn .shredder a lew days.,., ago that amputation was necessary near the shoulder. - J. W. Fay lor of Union tp.. Jasper county, brief mention of whose having his , right hand taken off in a shredder Friday forenoon was made in Saturday’s Democrat, is getting along as well as can be expected. We were unable to learn the particulars of the accident before going to press Friday afternoon, but later secured them: It seems Mr. Fayior was shredding at John Miller's, south of Virgie, and the rollers of the machine becoming clogged he attempted to clear them of husks. His coat sleeve was caught in the and the hand drawn between the so that the mitten was caught and the han ddrawn between the rolls. The machine was stopped before the entire arm was drawn in, but the hand was crushed so badly the thumb, which escaped the rolls, could not be saved, and the hand was amputated at the wrist. It was necessary to cut the skin of two of the crushed the machine was stoppel to release the hand.

New Officers of the C. O. F.

At the regular meeting of the Catholic Order of Foresters Sunday the following officers were elected:

John Eiglesbach, Chief Ranger; Jerry Healy, Vice-Chief; Frank Putts, Secretary; Lonzo Healy, Recording Secretary; Louie Ramp, Secretary of Finance; Arnold Luers, Joseph Sheurich, Jr., and E. P. Lane, trustees; Louis Moosmiller and John H. Nagel, conductors; William and Fred Feldhaus, sentinels. Following the election of officers, a smoker and card-party; was held and light refreshments were served. Music was furnished by the Foresters’ orchestra. •

The Grim Reaper Gathers In Two Victims.

Mrs. S. M. ePttet of near Laura, who was stricken with paralysis several days ago, died at 8:30 o’clock Sunday morning. The funeral, conducted by Rev. Downey, was held yesterday at 10 a. m., at the House, and burial made in the Hersnman, cemetery in Walker tp. Deceased was the mother of county commissioner, John F. Pettet and Mrs. S. A. Brusnahan of near Parr. Obituary will be published later.

Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy, who has been in poor health for several years and who for the past two years has been confined to her bed from a broken hip, died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. L. P. Shirer, at the north side of town at 12:30 o’clock Monday, aged about 73 years. She leaves three sons and two daughters—Otis of Wheatfield; James of Kingman, Ind.; Ott of Superior, Neb.; Mrs. L. P. Shirer and Mrs. Geo. F. Meyers of Rensselaer. The funeral will be held today from the Presbyterian church, at 1 p. m.. conducted by Rev. C. L. Harper of the M. E. church. Burial in Weston cemetery.

CLOSING DAYS OF THE CONTEST

Prove to be Rosiest of AllCandidates Realize ALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY N To Win This Choice Piano and Are Putting Forth Their Best Efforts—Just 17 Days Left Now. While The Democrat anticipated a rush during the closing days of the contest, the unprecedented Hood of votes more than lives up to expectations. Each contestant realizes that she-has an equal chance to win; all are treated alike; no favorites; no advantages to one not given to another, and all are loing their utmost to win one of these beautiful premiums. Just 17 days remain in this, the greatest piano contest ever held in this section of the country. Now is the time "to get Remember it is new subscriptions that count up fast. The standing of the contestants is: A fine $350 mahogany piano is. something everyone would like to possess, while the splendid $35 F'ree sewing machine or the elegant S2O silver set —6 each of knives, forks, table and teaspoons—are articles of both ornament and service, and the winners of either may well feel proud of them. The cash prizes for those finishing 4th, sth, 6th and 7th—sß, $4, $2 and $1 — should induce every contestant to make the best possible showing in the wind-up.

Ida Hurley, Parr Loretta Nagel, Rensselaer Mari bell Kays, Rensselaer Lizzie Wiseman, Virgie Ethel M Fisher, Rensselaer Alice Daniels, Rensselaer Bessie McElfresh, Rensselaer R-l Victoria Marsh. Rensselaer 11-3 Fairy Pollard, Rensselaer R-4 Lucy Morgenegg, Rensselaer R-l Stella Platt, Rensselaer Arkana Ritchey, Remington R-3 Mildred Rush, Rensselaer 11-3 Wilda Green, Remington Mary Bice, Rensselaer, R-4 - Myrtle Leavel, Rensselaer Ruth E Bull, Rensselaer Mary Halsema, Rensselaer Lena Trulley, Rensselaer, R-l Elsie Smith, Rensselaer May Shook, Kniman Ruth Wiltshire, Rensselaer Bernice Yeoman, Rensselaer R-2 Hazel Shumaker, Rensselaer R-4 Lucy Fulks, Remington R-4 Lois Spencer, Wolcott Martha Critser, Rensselaer, R-3 Edna Ward, Rensselaer R-4 Anna Marion, PMrr Mary Gaunt. Remington R-3 Marie Moore, Rensselaer Star Route

The free voting certificates given with purchases at the stores also c Stint up quite fast, and candidates should urge their friends to be sure to ask for them with each cash purchase at these stores. The following stores give certificates, one vote for a cent, with each cash purchase. Cut the list out, and carry it with, you every time you go shopping. And ask everybody you see to do the same, reminding them, of course, to save their coupons for -YOU. The list is: D. M. Worland, Furniture and Rags Cleve Eger, Hardware C. Earl Duvall, Clothing and Gents Furnishings B. F. Fendig, Drug Store Sam Fendig, Dry Goods Mrs. Mary Meyer-Healy, Millinery Scott Bros., Harness Home Grocery, Groceries Jessen, the Jeweler Depot Grocery, Groceries B. N. Fendig, Exclusive Shoe Dealer C. A. Roberts, Buggies, Wagons and Storm Buggies and Fronts. Spencer’s Jewelry Store, Remington. Peck’s Drug Store, Remington. Worden’s Harness Shop, Remington. Surrey Store, General Merchandise, Surrey W. L. Wood, General Merchandise, Parr Aix Store, General Merchandise, Aix Reed’s General Store. Virgie Remember there are but 15 more week days of the contest. It closes promptly at 8”p. m., Stet—'

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on Saturday, Dec. 23, and the names of the various candidates with the votes cast for each will appear in the Wednesday issue following. Urge your friends to help you with subscriptions and renewals and to be sure and ask for the trading certificates at the stores handling them and with their holiday purchases at these stores, and to save them for you.

Public Sales. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Wednesday, Dec. 6, D. W. Mauck, 3 miles north and 1 mile ea s t of Mt. Ayr. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs and farm implements. Tuesday, Dec. 19, Ruth M., Miles, Adm., 7 miles southwest of McCoysburg. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm implements. etc. W ednesday, Dec. 20, Maurice Gorman, 2 miles west and 2 miles north of Medaryville. General sale of horses, cattle and farm tools. Wednesday, Dec. 20, John Knopinski, 4 miles 'east and 1 mile north of Pleasant Ridge. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs and farm tools.

St. Augustine’s Church Notes.

Next Friday is the feast of the Immaculate .Conception, which is a day of obligation and must be observed the same as Sunday. In the council held in Baltimore in 1846, the assembled fathers. twenty-two bishops with their theologians, solemnly chose the Blessed Virgin Immaculate as Patronesses of the United States of America. They desired to add this crowning glory to all they haddone in her honor and wished to show their zeal for the interest of this country by placing the United States under Iter patronage. The Pope has dispensed the world from the law of abstinence on this Friday, hence-all may eat flesh meat, on this particular Friday. - she celebration of the Forty Hours will open with ten o’clock mass on Friday, Dec. 8, and will continue until Sunday evening.. Ihe services will be in charge of the Reverend Fathers of St. Joseph’s College. The order of services for Friday are as follows: School children’s communion mass at 8 o’clock; Exposition mass with sermon at 10 o’clock; 3 p. m., Euchristric Stations. At 7. :30 p. m., recitation of the Holy Rosary and. sermon, followed by Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament. Each evening during these three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, there will be an interesting sermon on some doctrine of the Catholic Faith. An invitation is extended to all to be present at the services.

“HOOSIER LIMITED” -

Kills Two Students of Deaf and Dumb School Friday at Broad Ripple. The “Hoosier Limited” Friday evening run down George J. Malotin of Hammond, and Bertrand Mobley of Rushville, two 15-year-old students of the State School for the Deaf, near Broad Rippled The boys were walking on the Monon track, facing a blinding snowstorm, and did not see the train when it rounded a curve at a high speed. The engineer sounded the whistle but could not make the boys hear nor could he stop the train until after it had struck them. ~ The bodies were picked up and placed in the mail car and carried to the Broad Ripple station, where D. E. Hudson, formerly of Parr, is the agent, and later turned over to the coroner of Marion county.

Presbyterian Ladies’ Bazaar.

The bazaar to be held by the ,’adies of the Presbyterian church vill be opened to the public Dec 14, 15 and 16„ Thursday.and Friday afternoons and all day Saturday. A market will be held in connection Saturday. Many useful and beautiful articles, the handiwork of the ladies, will b< offered for sale and people will do well to visit the bazaar for Christmas presents.

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