Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1903 — Rev. Hinshaw is Paroled. [ARTICLE]

Rev. Hinshaw is Paroled.

Rfev. William E. Hinshaw, one of the most noted convicts in the state prison has been released on parole, and has gone to the home of his mother, in Randolph county, and it is thought probable that he will never be returned to the prison. He was serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Thursha Hinshaw, at Bellville, Hendrick county, in 1895. The murder and the trial was one of the most sensational that ever ooeured in Indiana. Hinshaw was the popular pastor of the M. EL> church at Belleville. One night he was found outside the house near the front gate, with a number of Blight cuts and a slight bullet wound, while back of the house his wife Was found dead, flinshaw’s story was of a terrible midnight fight with burglars, who killed his wife and wounded him, and with his own revolver and his own razor. A light fall of snow had occurred earlier in the_night, but no tracks of the alleged burglars could be found. Hinshaw had preached tho evening before, and at the close of the meeting suggested that she accept an invitation to pass the night with friends. She refused this with such vehemence that many noticed it and it started a chain of circumstances which ended in Hihsliaw’s conviction. It being supposed that ue was enamored with some other woman, # and killed his wife to get her out of the way, and that he inflicted the wounds upon himself to divert suspicion. Tbe trial was one of the greatest ever held in the state. Hinshaw has served about tea years of his life sentence.