Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1907 — SHERIFF OGLESBY’S SLAYER IS DEAD [ARTICLE]

SHERIFF OGLESBY’S SLAYER IS DEAD

The tramp or perhaps more correctly the desperado who killed Cnarles Oglesby, the Pulaski county sheriff, and who in turn was shot, by- his mortally wounded victim, died Monday night in the office of Dr. Thompson at Winamac. Just before dying he admitted that he fired the shot that killed the sheriff, and said “I am sorry I killed him, because he has three small children depending on him.” f J Before he died the authorities Succeed in getting a picture of him. -His name is thought to be Thomas Shea, altho at first the name of Gear, an escaped Colorado convict, was applied to him. He gave his home as Lowelll, Mas?., but refused to make any statement regarding himself or family. He was about forty years of age and w>m his manner aud conversation seemed unlike a tramp. He was well educated and possed an air of refinement that bespoke good early breeding. It is presumed that he was unused to tramping. He was buried iD the potter field Tuesday. The men who were with him at the shooting are still iu jail at Kuox where they will be kept until the November term cf the Polaski county court, when they will be tried. One ol them is wounded iu the shoulder by a shot from Oglesby’s pistol. The county commissioners Mod day appointed David W. Bowman, of White Post tp., Oglesby’s democratic opponent at the last election to succeed him. It had been urged that the place be given to Benjamin Oglesby, the dead sheriff’s brother and deputy, but political lines are drawn to closely iu Pulaski county for a democratic board of commissioners to appoint a republican even iu a case of this kind. The Oglesby funeral was attended by a large crowd of people. The body was broughc to Medaryville Monday and the funeral held Tuesday morning, several ministers acting with the Masonic lodge. Members of this order in a Dody from Medary ville and Franoesville and many different places followed the remains to the Osborne cemetery, iu Hanging Grove tp. this county, reaching there shortly after 1 o’clock, where old neighbors and friends of his boyhood in that town ship had crowded to pay their final respects to him. Here the Masonic burial ritual was also used..