Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. Love of Music Causes Girl to Commit Crime—Will Be Tried for Old Murder—Woman Pound Gnlity—Change of Religious Views. It was love of music which caused the 1 young woman arrested in Indianapolis to raise $1 bills to $lO. She broke down and told the whole story. First she admitted giving the false name of Miller, saying she was really Miss Dale Matthews of Angola. She was poor, she added, and found it impossible to make enough money teaching to educate herself in music. Hence her forgeries. Miss Matthews has been a student in the Marion Normal College for about eight weeks, where she made many friends. She seemed completely in love with music and was regarded as one of the most promising students in the school, her voite being susceptible of high cultivation and her assiduous practice* showing an earnestness that was highly commended by her teachers. Held for an Old Murder. Justice Kloenne of ’.Cass County has fixed the bond of Isaac Stover of Servia at SI,OOO after a preliminary examination for murder. This was the case in which Stover’s sister, Mrs. Harriet Bittner, caused the arrest for the killing of her husband in a quarrel twenty-five years ago, she having guarded the secret ever since and only divulged it in a fit of anger. The justice thought the woman’s charge should be received with a grain of salt and held Stover for involuntary manslaughter. Mrs. Bittner on the witness stand told the story of the assault, relating how Stover had hurled a stone at Bittner, which struck him on the head, causing instant death. Stover has lived an upright lift aud has a wife and three children. '

Find Mr». Talbert Guilty. in Shelbyville the jury iu the case of Hattie Talbert, charged with the murder of the infant child of Eva Cochran in September last, agreed upon a verdict of “guilty of voluntary manslaughter,” which involves an indeterminate imprisonment in the female prison for from two to twenty-one years. The prosecutor says he has au intimation that the womau will make a further confession implicating others thought to be connected with the crime. Profess Faith at Funeral. Standing at the bier of their dead brother and son nt Michigantown, the father and brothers of R. E. Baker, who had long claimed to be infidels, publicly joined in prayer and professed their faith. This revulsion of feeliug was the climax of a dramatic'scene, during which a man named Purciful, a brother-in-law of the dead man and a devoted Christian, publicly denounced them for their lack of • religion. Killed by Explosion of Stove. Julius Schultz, aged 22, died in great agony os a result of severe burns caused by the explosion of a coal stove in his ; home in Wabash. Schultz arose and lighted a fire, but upon its failure to burn he poured coal oil on the coals. A terrific explosion followed, aud Schultz’s body was terribly burned. Man Meets Death on Track. William Stninbrook was instantly killed hear his home in Shelbyville by a Pennsylvania freight train. He was walking ou the track, when the engine struck him. Both legs were cut off.

Brief State Happening*. -Tames Cunningham, tmmairied, was killed by a Pennsylvania train at Galveston. Gov. Durbin has declined to be a candidate to succeed Mr. Beveridge in the United States' Senate. , Semi-official rumors are being circulated concerning a proposed new railroad from Terre Haute to Chicago. Fire at Urbaua destroyed almost the entire business portion of the place, causing a loss of $20,000, with SI,OOO insui> ance. A Big Four passenger train crashed into a street car in Columbus. The car had one occupant and he was not injured. The receipts nnd property of the “Respetti” company was attached at Bedford to satisfy a debt contracted at Bloomington* \ A street car at Peru hit a buggy and Mrs. Peter Mednry and Mrs. Silas Fisher were badly cut and bruised. Two children also were injured. Sirs. Charles Trook, wife of a farmer seven miles west of Marion, dropped dead of heart failure in a bargain counter rusk in a city store. A freight train and a work train on the Sullivan branch of the Southern Indiana Railroad came together near Latta. Brakeman John Stafford of Bedford was killed. Conductor James O’Dea, Brakeman Frank Baker and Brakeman John Osborne were seriously injured. A pitiful case of poverty nnd desertion has been reported to Marshal Pretyitt of Seymour. A woman named Crockett came from Columbus and told the following 6tory: She and her husband, with their two little girls, had been living in Colunjbus until a few days ago, when the husband left. Not returning for several days, she started to find him. He was found living with another woman in n covered wagon just outside of Seymour. She pleaded with _,him to return home with her, but he refused, and drove her out of the camp. She then came to Marshal Prewitt nnd asked assistance. The deserted woman and children are in destitute circumstances, they having not enough clothes to c<Jvcr their bodies. Blnnclie Kaiser, a young lady of Wabash, dropped dead while sewing at her home. It is presumed she was stricken with heart disease, though it was not known that she suffered from any disease. She was 18 years old. George Theaman, alias George, Bender, of Chicago was arrested in Bremen for passing forged checks of the Studebakcr Brothers of Chicago and South Bend. The checks were on the First National Bank of Chicago for $25 each and when arrested he had a pocketful in reserve. He was taken to Jail at Plymouth.