Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1914 — YOUNG SLAYER IS SENTENCED [ARTICLE]

YOUNG SLAYER IS SENTENCED

% Youth Is Convicted of Killing J. A. McCullough. COMMITS CRIME ON JUNE 9 Ernest Hawkins, Twenty Years Old, of Kensington, Will Serve From Two to Twenty-One Years In Prison. Boonville.—Ernest Hawkins, twenty years old, was convicted here of killing James A. McCullough, an aged bachelor, at Kensington, June 9, and was sentenced to from two to twenty-one years In prison. Three Hurt Near Rushville. Rushville.—Three persons were injured in two automobile accidents, resulting from" skidding in frcsh’ gravel near here. R. H. Berry may have received fatal injuries and James Anderson, trustee of Richland township, Rush county, has severe bruises as the result of the mishap which befell Anderson’s car, in which the two men rode. Buford Winship escaped fatal injury In the second accident when lie was hurled from the automobile'ns it turned a complete somersault and fell in the ditch. Both machines were badly smashed up. Auto Jumps Into Ditch. Muncie—While J. Parker Davis, aged fifty-eight, agent of the Standard Oil company here, and his son, Arland, were driving in an automobile at a point eight miles north of Muncie, their machine skidded and rolled down a ten-foot embankment. The elder Davis was seriously, perhaps fatally, injured, while the younger was unhurt except for a few bruises and scratches. The younger Davis, who was driving, says that the steering wheel of the automobile stuck as the embankment was approached and that a wheel also broke. Speaks at Peace Meeting. Muncie. —Dr. Robert B. Kelly, president of Earlham college, gave an address here at a large mass meeting held at the High Street M. E. church in observance of Peace Sunday. Doctor Kelly expressed the opinion that there would have to be a new type of civilization formed before wars would cease. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the neutrality policy' of President Wilson and Secretary Bryan Thief Admits Guilt; Jailed. Indianapolis. Seventeen months after his arrest as one of the yeggmen who attempted to rob the safe in the Plymouth post office, W. A. Gallagher, alias James Gallagher or William Taylor, pleaded guilty before Judge A. B. Anderson, in the United States district court, and was sentenced to two years and six months in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. Stabs Man He Sees Talking to Wife. Lafayette—-Herbert Edwards is in a critical condition in a local hospital as the result of being stabbed with a knife by Bryant Swigert. The assault on Edwards was made on a downtown street, while he was talking to Swigert’s wife. The knife wound was on the left side. The police are looking for Swigert. It is feared that Edwards will not recover.

Shot Trying to Escape. Laporte.—A. A. Johns, said to be from a Chicago family, who has been employed here as a draftsman by a local firm, was shot by a policeman when he made a dash for liberty after being arrested on an alleged forgery charge. Johns, who lost his position, is reported to have cashed worthless checks at local stores. Narrowly Escape Death. Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Aikens of this city had a narrow escape from death on the Erie crossing here when their car stopped on the track in front of an approaching train. They jumped, but Mrs. Aikens was struck by the machine, which was thrown onto her by the train. The machine was demolished. Shoots Himself by Accident; Dies. Petersburg.—Walter T. Wiley, eighteen years old, a stepson of James Kieth of near Giro, 15 miles west of here, while handling a loaded shotgun, accidentally shot himself in the breast. He died. Car Kills Street Laborer. Terre Haute. —Henry Jones, colored, foreman of a street repair gang, was Instantly killed by a Paris line interurban car here. * Slayer Sentenced to Prison. Boonville, —Ernest Hawkins, twenty years old, was convicted here of killing James A. McCullogh, an aged bachelor, at Kensington, June 9, and was sentenced from two to twenty-one years in prjHcn. New Normal Board President. Terre Haute. —The trustees of the Indiana State Normal school In session, elected B. F. Louthaln of Logansport president of the board. His predecessor was Capt. William H. Armstrong of Indianapolis, now dead.

Columbus.—Daniel Lovelace, fiftytwo years old, a business man of Elizabethtown, six miles south of here, was shot to death with a revolver in the rear of the home of John Barr, seventy-five years old, a veteran of the Civil war. Four shots were fired, one passing through the head and clipping both ears, one taking effect in the throat, one in the breast and one in the hip. Anderson.—At the annual meeting of the Indiana Retail Merchants’ Mutual Fire Insurance company in Anderson, the following officers were elected: President, T. J. Kierman, Fort Wayne; vice-president, L. H. Rulo, South Bend; secretary and manager, R. B. Clark, Anderson; treasurer, J. F. Cannon, Greencastle; general counsel, G. B. Slaymaker, Indianapolis. The secretary reported of insurance in effect.