Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1914 — WOUNDS HIS WIFE; KILLS HIMSELF [ARTICLE]

WOUNDS HIS WIFE; KILLS HIMSELF

Wabash Man Slashes Woman With a Butcher Knife. CHILDREN WITNESS ATTACK Charles Raueey, Who Falls to Get Divorce, Cuts Throat of Spouse and Ends Own Life by Drinking Poison. Wabash, ""c/ButTSs*" Roussy fatally wounded his wife, aged'Vwentyeight, and/ believing she waA dead, swallowed two ounces of Carbolic acid, >dying immediately. Going to the (home of a neighbor where she had been staying since her husband failed to get a divorce in proceedings GjZee weeks ago, Rousey attacked the Jwoman with a butcher knife and in the presence of his two children slashed her throat from ear to ear. She fell to the floor unconscious. Rousey believed his wife dead and rushing to his own home drank the poison. He died immediately. Nude Woman Stages Row on Street Richmond—Mrs. Caroline Martin, entirely nude, gave battle to her husband. John Martin, while they were in a covered moving wagon, en route from the east to some point in western Indiana. The fight was staged on one of the principal streets of the city in front of the Market house. It was witnessed by a number of interested people. A policeman drove the crowd away and then separated the combatants. He drove the wagon to the woman’s jail, wrapped Mrs. Martin in a blanket and carried her into the building. While the officer was taking the woman into the jail Martin hurriedly drove away and has not been apprehended. Domestic troubles caused the fight. Mrs. Martin had disrobed to take a nap when the row began. Will Go Back to Prison. Jeffersonville. Fred -Clarke of Grand Rapids, Mich., sent to the state prison at Jackson, Mich., for forgery and paroled to Detroit, Mich., was arrested here by Mike Wall, chief of police, following the cashing of a check for five dollars, made payable to the Ford Motor company or George C. Mason, and drawn on the Provident hank & Trust company of Cincinnati, and signed. N. Silverglade. The check was cashed by Don Williams, agent here for the Ford, and the- Ford company in Louisville refused to cash a check for $lB5. He was staying here at the Reilly hotel, as Mason, and had stayed at a Louisville hotel as A. C. Woods.

Russell Given Indorsement. Newcastle.—Prof. Elbert® Russell of Earlham college was unanimously Indorsed in the Henry county Progressive convention for the nomination for congress from the Sixth district. Professor Russell and Clifford Jackman of Huntington spoke. The following ticket was nominated: Representative, Robert White; judge, Albert W. Hammer; clerk. Morton Reggor; auditor, Fred White; treasurer, Ezra T. Nelson; sheriff, Al R. Syphers; prosecutor, Gilbert Conwell; assessor. George P. Beach; surveyor, Charles L. Ratcliff; coroner. Dr. J. O. Paul; commissioners, Orlando Holaday and I. N. Henley. Indiana Debaters Win. Terre Haute.—The annual Interstate debate was won by Indiana State normal. W. W. Wright, H. E. Stork and E. J. Hemmer, orators for I.nidana normal, took the honors from Thomas Lancaster. Robert Grubb and Edward Freeman, representing Illinois State normal. The question, ‘Should Minimum Rates of Wages Be Fixed by State Authority?” wa9 debated, the Indiana team taking the affirmative. Horses Stop When Driver Falls Dead. Columbus. —Four horses hitched to a sod cutter stopped when Carl L. Boaz, aged twenty-one. fell dead from the driver’s seat. The body would have been cut to pieces by the blades of the sod cutter had the horses continued. Boaz is supposed to have called'to the horses to stop as he fell. An autopsy showed that death was due to heart disease. Horse Dashes Into Crowd; Child Dies. South Bend.—Maggie Kenna, five years old. was killed and Steven Mantz, ten years old, was badlyhurt when a horse, frightened by a train and beyond control of the driver, dashed into a crowd of children who were playing on a sidewalk in the factory district here. i" ’ - Four Crushed Under Auto. Shelbyville.— John Brill, William Schoelch, Oscar Haehl and Bert Paxton of this city were injured, the first two seriously, when a touring ear turned over and caught all of them beneath it. the accident was due to the slippery condition of the road and occurred while they were driving 18 miles an hour in the rain. Mr. Brill’s shoulder blade -was broken and. he and Mr. Schoelch were both injured ini ternally. The car caught fire and WM badly damaged but the men to get from under K.