Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — Turpie vs Lowe Again Grinding. [ARTICLE]

Turpie vs Lowe Again Grinding.

Evidence is again being accumulated in the circuit court in the cause celebre Turpie vs Lowe. Judge Watkins is hearing further testimony in this long drawn out case, and the present hearing of the cause is likely to occupy the attention of the court for some time. This cause is being tried in the north court room, and many familiar figures are noted among those drawn down here by the |re-trial of the case. People who have been attending court in this case for the past thirteen years are here again, and from all present indications they may be kept in court for the next five or ten years, as the cause at issue is apparently as perplexing to all concerned as when the famous trial began. Among the lawyers interested in the case at present are Sellers & Uhl, of Monticello; DeWitt C. Justice, of this city; Capt. William Guthrie, of Monticello, and Judge R. P. Davidson, of Lafayette. The greatest bulk of evidence ever taken in a cause at the Cass circuit court has accumulated in this case, and this bulk will be largely augmented before the present trial is at an end.—Logansport Journal. This case has been tried in the circuit courts over and over and over again, and has been to the supreme court several times. Hugh Lowe, of Monon, son-in-law of our townsman, Wm. Bussell, is the defendant; and 8. P. Thompson, now Judge of this circuit, was one of his first attorneys. The case was first begun in 1886. There were, in fact, three separate cases originally; and claims and counter claims and complaints and cross complaints without number. The second time the case went to the supreme court was in 1891. The Repbulican printed the appellant’s brief, that time, and it made a book of 139 large, closely printed pages; and was far the largest brief ever printed in this county. The particular trial from which that appeal was taken, was held in Logansport, and lasted from Oct. 3rd, 1890 to Jan. 21st 1891. It was thought by some that the tragic death of James H. Turpie, in Lafayette a few months ago would end the celebrated case, but such is not the case, as it is now on trial and seemingly as far from an end as ever.