Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. ALLEGED SLAYER FOUND DEAD Body of Youth Suspected of Murdering His Grandmother Discovered by Jeffersonville Police —Boy Had Taken Poison. Jeffersonville, June 18.—While the police of this city were looking for George Kelly following the murder of hiß grandmother, Mrs. Mary Louise Kelly, they discovered his dead body lying on the banks of Sugar creek. Kelly had taken poison. He was nineteen years old and had been reared by his grandmother. When her dead body was discovered Kelly was suspected of the murder because a bureau drawer in which she had kept her money was open and empty and Kelly had been seen leaving the house. Kelly was mentally weak.