Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — MURDERED BY TRAMPS. [ARTICLE]

MURDERED BY TRAMPS.

Deputy Sheriff of Lagrange County Shot Down, Wednesday, at noon, while the family were eating dinner in the summer kitchen, two tramps entered the residence of a farmer near Lagrange and ransacked the house, taking money, gold watches and other valuables. They were seen to leave the house, and in a few minutes officers were on the track, Thev-werefollowed until just north of Kendallville, when Deputy Sheriff Herb undertook to arrest them, when they opened fire, shooting the officer through the head. One of the tramps was badly shot also, but he escaped to the woods.