Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — Indiana Slate News [ARTICLE]

Indiana Slate News

FINDS $5,000 IN GOLD. Discover* Money Secreted ia Shop Where Father "Worked. Jacob Moore, a young farmer •« living one mile from Hagerstown, found $5,000 in gold in the fc&iwnet shop formerly used by his farther, Benjamin Moore, who /died some months ago. It was believed by the family that money was hidden or disposed of by their father without their knowledge, and that he had died without imparting his secret to anyone. He was an expert worker -in wood and when young Jacob Moore was looking around the old shop, he saw a carefully mortised joint in the ceiling timber where there was no occasion for it. An investigatin revealed a perfectly fitting block of wood dovetailed into the ceiling frame, and so adjusted that it could be removed with care and replaced intact. When the piece of wood was removed the young man discovered a pile of closely wrapped coins. Upon examination he found that there was $5,000 in twenty-dollar goldpieces, . all carefully counted and arranged in tliousand-dollar cylinders. With the extreme care and nice " workmanship used. by his father" you fig Moore found that the piece had been hollowed out of a solid beam without marring or defacing any of the surface except the small opm* ing, which had been so perfectly closed with the dovetailed block. COUI*LE MURDERED BY ROBBERS. Indian* Farmer and "Wife Are Fonnd Slain in Their Home. George W. Hudson and wife, who sold their farm near Xoblesville a few days ago, were found murdered the other morning,. on the return of a daughter who had beep absent several days. The murder was committed some time the previous night. Tire house had been ransacked from top to bottom, and if the money referred from the sale of the farm was in the house it was probably secured by the murderers. When found the body of Mrs. Hudson was lying in bed, and it is supposed she was shot while asleep. Mr. Hudson was found near the same room, and there are evidences of a struggle, the furniture being displaced and a chair broken. An old revolver which did not belong to the family was found in the house with four exploded cartridges in it, but there is no evidence that more than two shots were fired in the house.

REFORMER IS KNOCKED OUT. Hurleil Through Plate Glass Window by an Irate Saloonkeeper. Dr. M. A. Mason, a prominent Fort Wayne dentist and a leader in the law and Order League, has learned that the way of the reformer is hard. lie was watching a saloon for evidence of violation of the Sunday closing law when he was attacked by the proprietor and knocked through a plate-glass window. J’he doctor was badly cut and bruised, but he declared he would be on hand again the next in an effort to catch violators of the law.

PASSES SPURIOUS PENNIES. A Well-Dres*e«l Stranger Swindle* Many Indiana Merchant*. Counterfeit pennies are being circulated by the hundred over northern Indiana. A well dressed man entered Claypool, visited several stores and restaurants, and made purchases always tendering pennies in payment. A subsequent examination of the coins brought out an indignation meeting bf the citizens, and Sheriff Edward Haas was asked to arrest the man but he had fled.

LIFE TERMER FLEES PRISON. Trusty, Sentenced to Michigan City for Murder, Abandon* Team. Nelson Fritz, a life-termer who was sent up from Bedford in 11)01 on the charge of murder, ran away from the State prison in Michigan City. lie was a trusty and hafl been sent a mile away with a teqm, which he abandoned. Fritz was convicted in connection with his son, George Fritz, but Gov. Hanly paroled the latter after be had served twO years.

Find Dead Man’s Purse in Mine. A searching party found among the debris a pocketbook containing ss3»i and some valuable papers belonging to F. T. Delashmutt, receiver of the Shelbtirn mine, who was killed by an explosiou iu the mine Aug. 5, with a miner named Anderson. NeurnlKla Tablets Nearly Fatal., Mrs. E. G. Iteed of Howard county had a close call fsr life from taking two neuralgia tablets to allay the pain of tootlibehe. She was seized with heart failure and a physician’s servicer were required to restore her. Plans Funeral} Droits Dead. Just after making all arrangements for funeral, even giving the names of pallbearers and singers, Captain Elijah Blackford, 82 years old, died suddenly iu Warsaw, of apoplexy. i ... Brief Btate Happenings. Frank, son of I’eter F. Wilson, living near libation, was killed by a pony. The animal tramped him to death. * Oscar KnolteigJW was fatally scalded and seven others Injured whrn a thrashing machine on the farm of John Sharpe, south of Peru, blsw up. Five horses were killed. The body of Orl’ey Bordner. who was drowned in Kiddle's lake, south of South Bend, while bathing, has been recovered. Three masked men, with Colt automatic*, held up the night agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Syracuse and bis brother afl :M0 o'clock the other morning. The robbers cowered the men through the window, then raided it and climbed in. They bound ami gagged the two men and removed them to the freight house. The robbers then blew Open the safe, broke the till, and took $2.75 from the aafe. Valuable papers in the tafe wero left. ?.