Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELYTOLD. Two Members of a D; ncing Party at Upland Are Shot—Wealthy Man Heavily Fined for Tax Dodging— Kokomo Capitalist Is Lost. Two members of a party of dancers who were making merry at the house of Charles Marshall, a well-to-do resident of Upland, the other evening, were shot down without Warning by Harvey Deering, who had entered the door but a moment before, pistol in hand. The victims are Marshall, the host, and John Larkins. Consternation prevailed among the dancers when Deering burst into the room. Some jumped through the windows, carrying sash and glass with them; some fell on the floor to escape the bullets, and others huddled together against the walls, screaming with fright. The cause of the tragedy is not known, but it is supposed to have some connection with the separation of Marshall and his wife, which took place recently.

' Wealthy Tax Doiger Is Fined. William Cox, a wealthy farmer, was fined SI,OOO and costs in the Circuit •Court at Crawfordsville for dodging taxes. It was shown that for seventeen years he has made false returns and escaped taxation on over SIOO,OOO. As a result of the criminal prosecution the assessor has placed $50,000 on the tax duplicate against him. Capitalist Lost for Several Weekj. Allen Shewman, a local capitalist and electric railway builder, who has constructed roads in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, is mysteriously missing. Shewman was last seen in Kokomo Sept 15, when he .went to Chicago, idling his family he would return next day. Since then he has not been heard of. State News in Brier. An unknown young man was killed at Sommerville by a passenger train. T. J. Stanley, supposed to have perished in the fire, is alive and well at Marion. Henry Yarman, while dogging a ditch at Orion, discovered a valuable vein of coal. Claude Gaultney, 5 years old, was crushed to death by a rolling log at Evansville. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton G. Wiggins have closed Wawasee Inn for the season and will spend the winter in Florida. Harvey Warren, 21, shot himself in the presence of his sweetheart, Rosa Scott, at her home in Solon. She scorned his love. F. E. Henderson, a business man of Muncie, and Miss Edna Whiteker, daughter of Postmaster Whiteker of Kokomo, were married. Thieves stole forty chickens from August Pohlman at Dillsboro, after which his poultry house and one hundred fowls were consumed. Edward Bolling, 10 years old, has been sent to the State reform school from South Bend as an incorrigible, because he will not attend school. At Terre Haute Judge Piety holds that owners of Belgian rabbits have no right to recover under the law providing pay for sheep killed by dogs. Ernest Roberts, Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to robbing a Colfax store. Frankfort judge sent him to Jeffersonville reformatory one to three years. The Grand Hotel and residence of Mrs. Daisy Brown and Oscar Gilbreath burned at Dunreith. Loss $2,500. The fire was caused by a defective natural gas regulator. Judge James B. Black of Indianapolis delivered the principal address on the occasion of the reunion of the “Old Brigade” in Cambridge City. The brigade is composed of survivors of the Eighth and Eighteenth regimehts, and the First battery.

Jasper Jackson, who drilled a gang of boy thieves, was given ninety days in jail and disfranchised for five years by Judge Mount in Kokomo. Jackson had the boys equipped as waste paper gatherers, who visited business offices, and while collecting paper stole money, pens and whatever they could find of value. Fifteen Kokomo boys, under 12, were In court there the other day. Six lads are accused of stealing from business offices. Four are before the grand jury, charged with stoning another boy to death. Two pleaded guilty to train wrecking. Three did a heroic act in saving a burning school house and capturing a gang of tramps who fired the building. The general store of Thompson & Bernard at Howell was entered and the safe blown open. The robbers secured $l3O in money and several valuable papers. In a subsequent encounter with the burglars Marshal Sumpter was shot in the knee and one of the robbers in the side. Henry McCarroll was shot in the back and will die and William Dnmm received a slight wound in one of his arms.

Sixteen years ago William Traplett disappeared from Muncie. His family searched in vain for years. The care of a large family of children was left to tho wife, Avho could give no reason for his disappearance. Six years ago Mrs. Traplett, believing her husband dead, married Cyrus Walkison, Avho became a drunkard. One night William Stoll was found murdered. Walkison Avas suspected of the crime and his arrest followed. He was found not guilty, but shot himself within a week after his acquittal. The other day William Traplett returned to Muncie. lie Is bent and gray and few of his old friends recognized him. He refused to talk about the past or explain his mysterious absence. He set ouf at once to the home of his wife, who lives on a farm south of Muncie. The Jury in the Matthews murder ease at Frankfort returned a verdict finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Matthews shot and killed Adam Camp in July. The capital stock of the Noyes Carriage Company at Elkhart hns been increased to $50,000, and S. B. Pratt and P. E. Ebrentz of Owosso, Mich., have taken stock. At Lafayette Miss Tlllie SAvigert is detained as an insane person because sho labors under the hallucination that she is tho mother of four children, and that she died and was resurrected.