Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Slayer of Jennie Walters Takes a Change of Ventie-Mary Wallace Gets in Trouble—Sad Fate of Geo. Lncae —Victim of Jokers. Mnrdeyer Ends Hie Life. Milton B. Wells, the murderer of Jennie Walters, committed suicide at Goshen by hanging, using a rope made out of his bedclothes. He left an ante-mortem statement denying that he had auy part in the murder, intimating that he was drunk at the time and spilled the kerosen(£ which caught fire and burned Miss Walters. He claims that be does not know who fired the shots which struck her. Miss Walters. just before her death, said that Well's was enraged because she had agreed to marry another man; that .the evening of the murder he enticed her over to his house, while no one else was there, told her the story of his wrongs and then giro t her -th rec times. —None of the shots resulting fatally, he dashed a can of kerosene over her and set fire to if, The neighbors, attracted by 'the fire, rescued her frqm the building, but she expired a few hours afferwal'd, regaining consciousness just long enough to make statement. There was no doubtiii the mind of anyone as to Wells’ guilt.. She Kidnaped Three Children, Several months agp three qhildren appeared in Indianapolis from Danville, 111., and performed numerous tricks Upon the street. The attention of the maaag-T of the Nickelodeon theater was attracted to them. ' The children said their name was Wilson, and that they sent their money home to their parents, one of whom was siek aiid.iu destitute circumstances. Mary Wallace, who was pjaying at the theater under the uaiitCjof Mamie Quintette, disappeared with the children, and friends whom they had made caused a warrant to be issued for her arrest, on a charge »f kidnaping. The woman and the children were overtaken at Danville 1 , to which point she liad traveled on trustees’ passes, representing herself as the mother of the children and trying to reach her home in the South. She was tried before Judge McCray, lined SIOO tin,d'sent to the female reformatory for a term of two years. Killed by Remorse and Fear. George 1 aieas. «f Wulton. near ><okonio. is dead of remorse and fear. His life has been a. sad one and death was no doubt welcomed as a relief.. In 1804'Mr. Lucas, who was an ardent ahd uncompromising unionist, killed two soldier boys that were home on a furlortgh. they being By ton and George Knight, sons of :t near neighbor. Some one as a joke told Lucas that the“ Knight boys hailMi'serrviT and wen- plpt ting against the. Government. Lucas tried to compel the Knights to. .return to the service, and in the tight that followed he shot both of them fatally. When matters were explained Lucas ■went raving mail. and from Hurt fiour was a mental wreck, and for th fitly years has been a great care to his family. To ..the hour .of his death he was tortured by -fear that the dead men’s 'friends were seeking his life.

All Over the State. A spark from the engine set th- chair car on the east-bound Erie express tire iiear Rich Valley, n-nd the flames were .with difficulty gotten under control. Almost a panic prevailed among the passengers. The coach was considerably damaged. Jhmes Forbes, of Ripley township, near Rushville, and John Bash, of Hancock County. were piloting a traction engine along the highway when the wheels struck n big natural gas pipe lyifig above ground. .The pipe was broken and gas filled the cab of the engine in an.instant and. being ignited by a blast from the fnrnnce.'exploded with great force. The engine was wrecked and Hie two men Were blown’ fifty feet;— Both wero terribly timngled. Herman Hasper and Andrew Defries, of Chicago, formed a partnership and started ti hotel and saloon at Watervalley. on the Kankakee river, to accommodate fishermen. Things run along smoothly until Saturday night, when a dance occurred at the saloon. Some trouble arose and Defries fought Hasper ami pounded him unmercifully. Hasper strut Defeies just, below the heart and fatally wounded him. He claims he shot in selfdefense. After doing the shooting Harper walked twenty miles and gave himself up to the sheriff. Robert Harvey, one of the oldest citizens of Hendricks County, died Friday night. Just before his dea th lie flit I ten •>!. soiwething about his buried money. His sister began digging in the yard, and found n tin box, containing a large amoun; of money. Since that lime almost .M.IMMt has been found in various places, often buried in loose earth. His will gives this lot to his little granddaughter, and her guardian is claiming the buried coin. His other relatives also lay claim to the money, and the legal fraternity is.trying to decide who really is tile owner. As Mr. Harvey owned about 100 acres of land, and said before ho died th.it "there is money on the farm, too,” tilt! smirch for his fortune will be a long one. Monday afternoon Deputy Sheriff Wiley arrested George Jewell on the charge of having comm it ted-an assault at Edgerton. Late in the night the rumor of the erime Ix'come circulated.’ Jewell fled toward McGill. <>.. six miles distant. An Edgerton mob pursued him anti tins! shots nt his flying figure in t'h«> dark. One bullet grazetl his left side. Ho esci<|ie<l the mob. but a messenger to McGill headed him.off. and caused his arrest there, but fearing the mob. the marshal hurried his prisoner to I’ayne, O. The mob folio w<*d, when the prisoner wi«< spirited to Antwerp, anti Inter brought quietly to Fort Wayne. Jewell confessmi his guilt to Olticer Wiley. He is 40 years old mid ma rried. Sheridan, for the first time in several years, is free from saloons iml quart shopn,, A SIOO license imposml by the City Council and the rigid enforcement of the Nicholson law drove the whisky merchant to other fitdds. At Shelby vide. Mrs. Alice Girard, jealous of the attentinus paid tier husband by Mrs. Lina Spurlin, waylaid her while cu route home from church and, jerking her from her buggy, almost lieat her to death. She was kicked mid stamped almost into insensibility, and her condition remains serious Mrs. Girard is uruler arrest. Hall Brothers’ fruit jar factory at Mtnr-<-ie, which has turned out 3,1)00 carloads of glass fruit jars this seilson, has closed. throwing I.s<Hi hands out of employment until September. Tin l Port Green Glass factory, employing 21'0 men, also eloseil. ' At Newport, KyJ Judge Helm overruled the motion for a new trial for Alonzo Wulling. convieted ns an iiceomplh-e of Scott Jneksoft in the murder of I’enrl Bryan. The appeals of Walling ami Jackson cannot lie heard "liy the nppe.'lnte court at Frankfort bcfdfe the September term, mid the prisoners will remain in ju 11 under the death sentence some months before getting further hearings.