Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — BLOOD STAINED ARTICLES FOUND [ARTICLE]

BLOOD STAINED ARTICLES FOUND

Hughes Case Appears More Mysterious as Time Elapses. A recent issue of the Lafayette Journal contained the following dispatch from Monon: Monon, Ind., Nov. 3. —Scarcely a day passes that some evidence does not come to light to make the death of Earl Hughes, a Monon railroad brakeman, whose body was found in a badly mangled condition near Pleasant Ridge more than a week ago, more mysterious. M. M. Hughes of Buffalo, coroner of White county, returned a verdict of “foul play,” but as Hughes is supposed to have met his death in Jasper county, the White . county officials are powerless to carry the affair further. It was said a court of inquiry was to have been held in Rensselaer, the county seat of Jasper county, last week, but it was not and as far as is known no such Inquiry has been called. Recently a bloody undershirt was found near the siding at Lee, about eight miles from where Hughes’ body was found. It was a woman’s undershirt and is said to have formerly belonged to the wife of one of the members of the train crew of which Hughes was a member, and was used In the ca-, boose to clean lantern globes. A crow bar, on which there are spots that appear like blood stains has been confiscated. An analysis will be made to ascertain whether the bar is stained with blood. The people of Monon and vicinity are desirous of some action being taken in the case, to either convict the guilty ones or to decide whether Hughes’ death was accidental. The majority of the people, it is said, would prefer to have the matter threshed out in White county.