Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1907 — TRAMP KILLS CHAS. OGLESBY [ARTICLE]

TRAMP KILLS CHAS. OGLESBY

Pulaski County Sheriff Shot In Dis- —- charge of Duty. [From Saturday'b Daily Republican] • I Word was telephoned here this Saturday morning that Charles Oglesby, sheriff of Pulaski county, was killed by a tramp at Winamac. The particulars of the shooting were learned by this paper from the home ot Jpbn Ryan in Gillam tp. Conflicting stories were sent over the phone from Winamac and Medaryville, but the facts as Mr. Ryan understood them seemed to be that Sheriff Oglesby had re ceived word from Logansport to arrest three tramps who were bumming their way on a freight train to W inamac. Mr. Oglesby went tp the railroad yards and located the tramps at 6 o’clock and when lie attempted to make the arrest one of the tramps whipped out a revolver and fired. The shot struck Oglesby in the breast and penetrated both lungs and his death occurred at 8:15 o’clock.

A posse of citizens was soon sfronsed and took ont after the tramps and shot two of them, killing one. . The man who did the shooting was not canght for some time but was finally located and placed under arrest and is now in jail at Winamac, unless indignant citizens have taken the execution of the law into their owp hands. t Mr. Oglesby formerly lived in Medaryville and was serving his second term as Sheriff. He was a high-class man and a fine official.

Before the man that done the shooting was caught word was .telephoned all over the connty to be on the lookout for the elan, and members of the farmers’ horse thief detective ass<&iatioo were notified and in this way Mr. Ryan, who is a member of the Medaryville association, learned of the. affair. Mr. Oglesby was about # iortythree years old, married and the father of some three or four young children.

The affair has, of course, stirred up the people of the country to a high pitch of anger and it will not be surprising if the tramp that did the shooting is taken from the jail and lynched: D. H; Yeoman came thru Winamac on his way home from Royal Center at abont 7 o’clock this morning and before Oglesby died. There was great excitement there at that time and it was growing as the crowd gathered. *