Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — WITNESSES ACCUSE FULTZ [ARTICLE]

WITNESSES ACCUSE FULTZ

Trial of Third Man Accused of Murder Begins at Bedford. Bedford, Ind., Feb. 2.—Trial of Joseph Fultz, formerly of Indianapolis, the third man implicated in the murder of James Mitchell, was begun. Fultz is charged with murder in the first degree. Oliver Younger, who turned state’s evidence, in a confession said that Fultz struck the blow that killed Mitchell. - . When Charles Mitchell, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his connection with thd crime, was placed on the stand he confessed his own connection and also testified to the fact that Fultz was the principal in the plan to murder James Mitchell, corroborating the confession’of Younger. The jury is made up of farmers exclusively.