People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — LINSON NOT THE MAN. [ARTICLE]

LINSON NOT THE MAN.

Little Ida Gebhard’s Murderer Not Yet Discovered. Indianapolis, Ind., July 25.—John R. Linson is still held for the murder of little Ida Gebhard, but the officers have about made up their minds that he is innocent. He says that he can prove that he was in Danville, 111., when the girl disappeared. There is great excitement in West Indianapolis, where the crime was committed, and many citizens declare that as soon as they are convinced that the officers have arrested the right person they will lynch him if they have to break down the doors of the county jail. Further investigations to-day show the crime to have been of the most revolting character. The little child, after having been assaulted, was mutilatedwith a knife.