Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — CHARRED WITH MURDER. [ARTICLE]

CHARRED WITH MURDER.

John Eckert, the man who was m company with Ambrose Rude when the latter lost his life on the Kankakee river, some weeks ago, has been arrested charged with murdering Rude, and is now in jail m Valparaiso. Both men were residents of Starke county, living about four miles south of San Pierre, and Saturday evening, May 20, went fishing. They secured a boat and started down the river together. About 10 o’clock that night Eckert called a neighbor living a short distance from the river and told him that the boat that Rude and himself occupied, tipped over and that Rude was either drowned or swam to the other shore. He started away, as the neighbor thought, for help, bat instead went borne and went to bed. The neighbor waited all night for the help which he supposed would be furnished and it was not until late in the morning that he summonedhelp, Eckert not returning. The body was recovered in the afternoon of Sunday. Mrs. Rude and intimate friends cltim that her husband was murdered, as braises were found on the head, nose, and over one eye. Eckert was with Rode when the latter drew $l5O from the North Judson bank a few days before the fishing excursion and it is .pid, knew that Rude had it with him. The body when found, was in a bayou on the Porter oonnty aide of the river, henoe the arrest of Eckert was made in that county.