Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1875 — Those Wicked Workmans. [ARTICLE]

Those Wicked Workmans.

Last Tuesday, says a recent number of the ElPaso(Ill.) Journal, Mrs. T. C. Workman, who was once tried for the murder of Mrs. Hedges, was indicted by the grand jury of Woodford county for larceny and burglary. Ever since the trial for murder, the Workman family have been living in Metamora. The family consists of Workman himself, Mrs. Workman and seven children. The oldest boy, Watson Workman, is almost a mau grown. Workman lias led a precarious life by plastering, endeavoring in the meantime to get a license to preach. Last fall, sometime in November, a young woman now living in the Campbell House, m ElPaso,. 'vent to Metamora, and was employed by the Workman family. The first day she was there, on going up stairs to make the bed, she found tucked away in one corner a waterproof skirt or dress, an apron, ahd low waist. She rolled them up, but the sight of blood-spots and splashes over the front breadth was sufficient to arouse her curiosity. The second boy was in the habit of saying to Watson: “I know who ki-lled the woman.” Mrs. Workman was ordinarily and Workman was in great fear of her. But his perverse spirit used to lead him to tease and hector her, and she would say: “Yon better go and get another Mrs. Hedges.” To which he responded one day:- “If I should, you would kill her.” . The girl, Katie, says that Mrs. Workman robbed the house of a German named Bauer who liyed next door, and for this Mrs. Workman has now been indicted. Katie also relates that one day Mrs. Workman took her into her confidence and confessed to her her complicity in the murder of Mrs. Hedges. She told her that she was aided in the bloody deed by Watson, who struck her over the eye, on the temple, with a strip of board. This stunned her, when Mrs. Workman, m a fit of fury, cut her throat with a knife, searched her person, and, aided by her son, threw the body into the hog-lot, where it was found. She told this story to Katie, with a curious air of dication, avowing her intention to kill Workman at last, and then was willing to die herself.