Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

JOKE ENDS IN DEATH. i

Indiana Student Id Shot While ElMating ••Fake” Holdup. A mock holdup planned by students in South Bend for the holidays resulted in a fatal ending, Claude A. Bagby of Durango. Colo., being shot through the heart and almost instantly killed—by Louis KoqUela of South America. The shooting occurred near the outskirts of the city and in the vicinity bf a ceme4ery~. According to- the story -of the men who were in the plot the “fake” bold up was to have been pulled o# on a young man who had sturted for a social function in holiday dress. He was known to be good-natured and in no wise dangerous. Alter completing the holdup and taking a new overcoat the intended victim was wearing it was the intention to substitute a badly worn garment and compel him to wear it to the dance. Unfortunately it was the stranger. Itoquela, who chanced to the scene just at the time at which the intended victim was to appear, and the boys, not realizing in the dark that they had the wrong man, went through the form of a holdup, when Roquela drew his revolver and shot Bagby. The authorities attach no blame to the South American and he was not placed under arrest. Both men were about 20 years old.

ROBBED AND NEARLY KILLED. Wealthy Indiana Man Decoyed Into Lumber Yard and Beaten. August Fellows, 53 years old trad one of the wealthiest men of Dubois county, was found unconscious in a lumber yard in Huntingburg. He had been beaten with a scantling and robbed of $l,lOO which he liad drawn from a bank through fear- that his wife. with whom he h£\d had differences, would get hold of the money. When lie recovered consciousness Fellows said William Bemen, a friend of the family, who was with him when he drew the money,’had inveigled him to the lumber yard and had there knocked him down and beaten him. Mr. Fellows thinks Bemen induitfl him to go to the lumber yard to meet someone with a view to complicating him with his wife aftif that lie afterward concluded to murder and rob him. Bemcn took an early train from Huutingburg to Evansville and then went to Princeton, where he registered at the Princeton hotel. He had once been a clerk at the hostelry and as soon as he was recognized the marshal arrested liim on a charge of attempted murder and robbery. When searched $9(50 of Fellows’’money was found on him. STORMS IS TO FIGHT REMOVAL. Indiana Secretary of State, Asked to Resign, Retains Connsel. It has developed that D. E. Storms, Secretary of State, whom Gov. Hanly has asked to resign because es alleged irregularities in his office, has retained counsel, and will inform the Governor that his resignation will not be tendered, nor will he submit to removal from office. Mr. Storms takes the ground that he can be removed only after impeachment by the Legislature, for which a special session would be necessary. He ■was accused by the investigating committee of having retained $20,000 of State funds and S2OO of a clerk’s salary and of other

BOY IS FRIEND’S SLAYER. William McKnight Says the Shooting Was Accidental; George Lawson, aged 16, was shot and instantly killed by William McKnight, aged 17, in Indianapolis. The shooting occurred in the alley between the City Club saloon and the Sentinel Printing Company. The boys were close friends for years, and according to the story told by McKnight, Jhe killing was purely accidental. McKijight is charged with murder and in his .cell at the police station gives every evidence that he is heartbroken over the affair. WOMAN FOUND DYED AND DYING Peculiar C'ircnnintaace* Surround DemUe'la Indlanapoll*. Mrs. Lowell Brown was found unconscious in her room in Indianapolis and was taken to the city hospital, where she died. When found her face, neck and hands had been dyed black as coal. She is thought to have .been stricken the previous night, and it is supposed she was dyeing tier hair at the time and in her struggles dyed her face, neck and hands. Her husband was absent from the city. 0 STOLEN PLANS RECOVERED. D. J. Ryan Held for Taking Model, of RacluK Launch. Daniel J. Ryan, who was arrested in Detroit charged with having stolen plans and models valued at $2,000 of the Black Diamond, the powerful racing launch built to participate in the races of the Chicago Power-Boat Club races next summer, is being held in Michigan City on a grand larceny charge. When Ryan was arrested the missing plans and models Were found in his possession. Anvil Explode, and Kill.. Herbert Bmidet was fatally injured while celebrating at Santaclaus by loading an anvil. When the powder explod-* ed the anvil went to pieces. ’A piece hit Smidet on the head, fracturing liiai. skuii. _____ Minor State Matter*, Miss Aloise Kimball, aged 22, killed herself at Evansville by taking carlmlic acid. John Gordon, son of G. S. Gordon, died in Sullivan from injuries sustained in a football game. The ateamboat Johu W. .Thomas was blown against the dock at Tell ,Uity by a high wind and sank. Robert McFall, aged 6, and Clarence Minner, aged 8, were drowned while •luting on sP popd near Weat Terre Haute. \ f •