Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1906 — HINSHAW BACK TO PRISON [ARTICLE]

HINSHAW BACK TO PRISON

Rev. W. E. Hinshaw hid hi parole revoked Friday, by Governor Hanly and Saturday he was ; take” back to the state prison at Michigan City, to again begin serving hid*life sentence for the murder •of his wife, and for which crime he had been in prison nearly ten years before be was paroled by Gov. Durbin. The special acts of criminal conduct for which bis parole is now revoked are right al ng in line with the kind of man he was believed to be by those who considered him justly convicted oa the charge of wife murder. In spite of his solemn promises tn Gov. Durbin and the many friends who enterceded for him, and i i spite of his ministerial profession, and that no sooner was he out of prison than he began preaching again in any church that would open its doors to him; yet he also began his immoral conduct. How far this extended can only be surmised, for only one case has come to light. He had been ’out only a few months, at most, when he began a systematic attempt to draw within hie influence again a respected married woman, and the mother of several children, who had been a sweetheart of bis before -either were married. This woman, who is the wife of George Freeman, sheriff elect of Wabash county, undoubtedly had a happy home and a kind and indulgent husband, yet Hinshaw, by his infernal arte and persistency, accomplished the ruin of her reputation, has broken up her happy family and separated her children. And tho Hinshaw, with characteristic effrontery, denied his complicity yet the evidence was so .complete against him that at the hearing before Gov. Hanly he saw denial was useless and admitted the charges against him, and then asked for mercy, because other men do the same things. The governor, however, did not spend much time considering these appeals, but as his duty was, he promptly revoked the parole and ordered Hinshaw back to prison. He may not stay there all his life, as bis sentence directs, bat he is; sure to stay until he is too old to wreck any more families by his immoral nature. These acts of Hinshaw’s since his release, are generally and properly considered as being a strong confirmation of the original charge of wife murder; for that charge was based on the theory or his moral licentiousness, and that he killed his wife, either to secure aimself more freedon in that line, or to prevent her from exposing himself and some other woman he is believed to have had in the house with him on the nignt of the murder.