Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1900 — Bad Affair at Crawfordsville. [ARTICLE]

Bad Affair at Crawfordsville.

A terrible tragedy occured at Crawfordsville, Sunday Two young men named Doyle and Parrish went to call on a woman of ill-repute named Douglas. The woman had gone to Lafayette on a visit. Her husband was at home, however, and shot both men at close range, with a shot gun. Parrish’s eyes, nose and practically his whole face was shot away, and Doyle received a full charge of shoe in his lungs. Both men were alive Wednesday, bat their deaths were only a matter of time. Dr. Ensminger, well known in Rensselaer, is attending the wounded men. He pronounces their recovery impossible.