Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Women Reveal Murder Because Con-. eicnces Hurt— Old Feud Ends in Crime— Burglars Shoot Operator and Rob Railway Station. Three women told the Terre Haute police of the murder of Linn Woodall, who was supposed to have accidentally been killed by the cars at Linton several weeks ago. As a result of their confession, forced by stricken conscience, Joseph Fiske is in jail, accused of the crime. The young women are Blanche dark, Lillie Tipton and Minnie Meyers. They say that they were with Fiske, Woodall and a third man at Linton on the day Woodall was killed. A quarrel started between Fiske and Woodall, and Fiske struck Woodall pt> the head with a club, knocking him down. Fieke warned those who saw the deed that if they told he would kill thenj. He then dragged the body to a track and laid it across the rails, where afterwards it was mangled by a passing train. When the women told the story the officers for the first time heard of the murder theory. The women said the tragedy had weighed on tiheir consciences and they agreed to tell the story. Shoots Three and Himself. In the presence of a great number of persons at the Trfetate fair grounds in Evansville City Detective Tiioinas Hutchens shot Police Chief Fred Heuke and Police Captain Ffed H. Brennecke. accidentallywoundedJacob .Lutz, a member of the City Council, and then committed suicide. Hutchens and Patrolman Crowe were sitting in the German village tent, when Heuke and Brennecke entered. Hutchens drew his revolver and began shooting at Brennecke. Brennecke was shot iu the breast, Heuke received a bullet near the abdomen, and Lutz was shot near the. heart. Hutchens then placed the revolver to his own temple and fired. He fell to the ground a corpse. It is feared' the Jthree men are fatally wounded. Exposes Alleged Murder Plot. Mrs. Edward Oasker, ’ wife of a paroled convict at LaPorte, warned Harry A. McCormick that her husband had sworn to kill him and his father, and the plot had reached a stage where their lives were in imminent peril. The elder McCormick was formerly sheriff of the county and was instrumental in running down and sending Casker to the penitentiary. Young McCormick is a clerk in a bank. They notified, the officials .of the... disclosures made ,by Mrs. Casker, and a search is now in progress for the-con-vict. Robbers Shoot Operator. Herbert Aughenbaugh, night operator Of the Erie Railroad at Laketon, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by two robbers, who fired a bullet into his head after he had resisted their demand for the.road’s money iu his possession. The robbers escaped. They secured several hundred dollars. “Blind Tiger” Is Blown lip. Brown County’s “blind tiger,” a saloon operated at Nashville in defiance of law for a year past, was blown to atoms at 2 o’clock ou a recent morning by a charge of dynamite. All Over the State. Field rats have destroyed many acres of eastern Indiana corn.

A $50,000 appropriation for repairing the Goshen court house was defeated through a technicality. A Vandalia passenger train struck a carriage containing Frank Milner and Mita Kate Bilby near Terre Haute, killing both. Dr. Hugh Morrison Lash, one of the best known phfysicians in Indiana, died nt Indianapolis. He was born at Athens, Ohio, in 1844. Fully 5,000 people attended the fourth annual musical festival at Brazil. Blinds took part from Greencastle. Danville, 111., Decatur, Etta Morgan, G-year-old daughter of Mrs. William Morgan of Brazil, was run over by an interurban car on the Terre Haute electric line and almost instantly killed. Mrs. Ruth Bryan of Fort Wayne has discovered that her mother, whom she had believed dead thirty year.-, resides at Cookesville, -111. She is now Mrs. Rachel Parr. Mother and daughter were reunited Sunday. The people of Porter were thrown into intense excitement by an attempt to blow up the saloon of Fred Sievers.*’ A dymtaiite cartridge was thrown into the building. The cartridge was seen in time to prevent an explosion. Death stopped the confession of Grace Demmen at Griffith. She had begun a statement that she was’ implicated in thb robbery of Michael Johnson, her ejn--ployer, who was beaten by thieves two years ago. The housekeeper ran for help and saved his life, so that Johnson, who was a wealthy farmer, hailed her as his preserver. Mrs. Belle Fountaine pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill after she had confessed to chloroforming the Harnish family near Dora, and was sentenced to from three to fourteen years in the Indianapolis reformatory. Miss Lola Harnish, of whom the prisoner was jealous on account of Hie attentions of All»ert Turner, is recovering. Several well-known Indianapolis business men offered to make affidavits that they had seen an airship with two men-in it sail over the city the other day. At noon in a field several wiles from Irvington some boys found a large torpedoshaped, paper-covered craft, thirty, feet long, with a canopy and two dummy figures in it. It is believed to be a model of an airship. Rose Polytechnic freshmen, in a class fight in Terre Haute, captured a halfdozen sophomores and, tying them with rope*, took them in a wagon to Fort Harrison, on the banks of the Wabash above the city, and left them there to get home the best they could. “How knig do you think I will live?” af-ked Benjamin Buchwalter of Mary Williamson, a fortune teller. Before sh»could reply he dropped dead of heart disease. Buchwalter was a fanner of Gardner, HL, and while visiting relatives in Elkhart went with a nephew to have his fortune told. He wm 70 years old. <•