Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — PREACHER TO PRISON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PREACHER TO PRISON

HINSHAW FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERtNG HIS WIFE. Jury Oat Only Two Hour* When It Brings in a Verdict Defendant Killed His Wife and Said a Burglar Did It. Sentenced for Life. Rev. William E. Hinshaw is guilty of the murder of his wife and will spend the remainder of hi» life in prison. Bach is the verdict of the Danville, Ind., jury after being out two hours aud twenty minutes. Jan. 10 last William E. Hinshaw was found on the road in front of his house in Belleville, Hendricks County, with seventeen razor Cuts on his person and two pistol wounds. He said robbers had entered the house and shot his wife. Ho had engaged in a deadly encounter with them and they had inflicted the before leaving. He directed those who found him to hunt his wife, and she was found unconscious with a bullet in her head. She lived sixteen hours, but never spoke. Hinshaw lay in bed for ten days and was then well. His story was believed at first, then suspicion began to grow that the burglar story was not reasonable. In the snow on the ground his tracks could be seen, but no tracks of a .burglar. His conduct was flippant and ho continuecLjo preach. He was popular with the women and it was common talk he was a very light-hearted widower. The grand jury Convened and he was indicted, arrested, and lay in jail since May. friends gathered around him and visited him- constantly in jail. Sept. 4 his trial commenced. The trial has covered four weeks, one week of which time was lost through the sickness of a juror. The trial has been most bitterly contested,' there being expert testimony of the highest order on the point of whether the woman could have walked and talked after receiving the fatal woundJn. the head. Both sides had expert testimony on this. The case was argued five days and onehalf most exhaustively aud the short time the jury was out showed that the-_ -jury dctcrmiiH'd eveTy point'as they went along. The verdict meets public approval. When the defendant refused to go on thestand in his rwn behalf there was nothing more needed to convince most peoplethat he was guilty, although a hanged jury was the most they expected out of the trial. Hinshaw’s attorneys will file an application for a new trial, which, if granted, will result in a change of venue, MILES GETS THE COMMAND. Formal Order IssnetU bj" Lamont Assigning That Duty. Secretary Lamont issued an order Wednesday afternoon detailing General Miles to duty in Washington ns general of the army, and General Rugt’r, now on special duty in Washington, to the command the department of the East, with headquarters in New York. Colonel Thoipas M. Vincent, who has been Lieutenant General Schofielcf s chief of staff, has been assigned to duty in the

office of the adjutant general in charge of. the information bureau. Colonel Samuel Beck, who has been General Miles’ adjutant general at New York, is ordered to Washington to fill the place at headquarters vacated by Colonel Vincent. Lieutenant Colonel Ilenvy C. Corbin, who has been the ranking assistant adjutant at the department, is transferred to New York, to become adjutant general of the department of the East.

GEN. MILES.