Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1909 — Page 3

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DeMOTTE.

Rain is very much needed in this locality. T. M. Burns stopped in town a few days last week. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Joktel, July 22nd, a girl. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stroup July 16th, a girl. The ladies’ aid met with Mrs. Geo. Coberly Wednesday. Rippel’s show was here on a larger scale than formerly. Mr. and Mrs. Ran Halleck and Opal went to Chicago Tuesday. Leslie Sayers transacted business here early part of the week. Bessie Traver, of South Bend, is visiting her grandma Cooper. J. M. Dickey and a party of land prospectors were here Tuesday. Rev. Payton remained at DeMotte Monday, fixing up church matters. Mr. and Mrs. Al Bierma and daughter are here for their annual visit. Clark and Oliver Tyler, brothers of Asa Tyler, were here to Jesse’s funeral. Miss Eva Pullins, of Medaryville, is here this week visiting her cousin, Eva McGinnis. Mrs. J. L. Tyler, who has been visiting here for several weeks, returned home to Chicago Tuesday. Alfred Fairchild spent Monday here with his wife and baby, who are with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hart. Mrs. H. Sparling and daughter, Mrs. D. J. Fairchild, visited with John Sparling and family, near Hebron, Friday. The DeMotte ball team played Hebron Sunday, and from what we can learn think they need to practice up a little. Mrs. D. J. Fairchild and son, Morris, visited here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Sparling, from -Tuesday until Saturday evening. W. C. Tyler, whp so faithfully stood by his brother during his sickness and death, returned home to Indiana Harbor last Wednesday. Mrs. Kammanga, a Holland woman, who lived a few miles west of Der Motte, died July 16th, and was buried the 17th. She was 49 years old. Senator Halleck and family and R. P. were over Sunday from Rensselaer. Mrs. S. L. Luce and children went home with them in the evening. Frank Bachefor, James Porter and J. L. McKinney representing the carpenters’ union of Indiana Harbor, of which Jesse Tyler was a member, were present at his funeral. The fourth quarterly conference of the M. E. church will be held at Wheatfield Friday at 2:30 p. m., July 30th. District Superintendent A. T. Briggs requests all official members and as many of the laymen as possible to be present. • •>- “Suffered day and night the torment of itching piles. Nothing helped me until I used Doan’s Ointment. It cured me permanently.”—Hon. John R. Garrett, Mayor, Girard, Ala.

Obituary of Jesse I. Tyler.

Wheatfield Review. Jesse I. Tyler was born in Wabash county, Ind., Nov. 2, 1864, and came with his parents to this county in the fall of 1868. Here he grew to manhood, and on April 23, 1893, was united in marriage to Eva M. Fairchild. To them were born two children, Josie and Herbert, and to these children and his parents Jesse was constantly devoted, his ever endeavor being to make them happy. Some eight weeks ago he became afflicted with the disease which resulted in his death on Sunday morning, July 18, 1909. All that medical skill or loving hands could do was done and although a great sufferer he bore It all with patience, and died without a struggle. His wife died five years ago last April. He leaves to mourn their loss, his -aged father and mother, a son and daughter, two brothers; William and Joseph, and a host of relatives and friends. Rev. J. B. Payton conducted the funeral services at the M. E. schurch Tuesday afternoon, and he was laid to rest In the DeMotte cemetery. The pall bearers were: Fred and Geo. Coberly, Fred Watson, Jay Spencer, Otto Schwankie and John Fairchild. Though Jesse is gone, the Influence of his good life will long be felt In our neighborhood.

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A PROCESS OF DEDUCTION.

“Mac,” said the chief to me, “take up the Peet case. He has been convicted of murdering Walker in his (Peet’s) house. They were friends, and Peet has borne a good reputation. Pettingill, his attorney, has been in and says he has got a ‘stay,’ so that one more effort may be made to solve what he considers a ’mystery.” I took up the case with interest and went with Pettingill to the house where the murder had been committed. He showed me the lounge where Walker was lying asleep one warm September afternoon and the hole in the window pane through which the bullet had either entered or left the room. Pettingill would have claimed that it entered, indicating that Walker had been shot from the outside. But it went clean through Walker’s head and made no dent in the room. I’m a methodical man. If I weren’t I wouldn’t be a detective. Pettingill said that a search had been made for the bullet within a limit of the carrying power of a revolver and it had not been found. I examined the hole in the pane. There was a clean sweep outside of a mile without an obstruction, except several different houses from 500 to 1,000 yards away. I made up my mind first to find that bullet if I had to hunt six months for it. After an hour chatting, thinking, examining, I went away, resolved to come back the next day with a small telescope with which to fix directions. The sun rose clear In the morning, with not a cloud in the sky. I brought my telescope to bear on different houses in the way of possible shots. There was a sideboard in the room, and one of the directions 1 noted was along its top. On this top rested glass table articles, consisting of tumblers, finger bowls, etc. I made a diagram in my notebook of certain points outside, intending first to examine them and, if no bullet was found imbedded in them, to hire an army of boys to hunt on the ground. One of the first points I searched was a barn in line with the sideboard and the hole in the window pane. I got a ladder and climbed to the peak of the roof. I hadn’t moved my ladder more than two or three times before I found a suspicious hole. With my knife I dug out a bullet. It was not a pistol bullet, but a rifle bulletr Of course It might have been fired into the barn by anybody. However, I got a piece of chalk and made a white round spot as big as a football. Then I went back to the house and, laying a cane on the sideboard, with little adjustment pointed it directly at my chalk mark. The hole in the window pane was in line. Still I had nothing to build on. I sat looking at the sideboard, racking my brain for some possible connection between it and the direction of the bullet. A decanter filled with water stood on the sideboard. Its body was round and smooth. The sun was shining on it, and the decanter concentrated the rays in a focus. Somehow I went out and got some gunpowder and poured a few grains on the cane where, if it were a rifle, the nipple would be. The focus of the sun's rays approached the powder which I had put in its path. Presently there was an explosion. Remote as were the probabilities in the case, I began to be interested in the hypothetical structure I was en-~ deavorlng to find a foundation for. I confess I smiled at the connection which I was building as showing how far a man may reach out for a clew. This was as far as I had got: A man pointing a flintlock musket over the sideboard would not need to pull the trigger—the sun and the decanter would do it for him. But we detectives must follow a trail blindly. What firearms were there in the house? I searched and in a closet found a rifle. I took out an exploded cartridge. The bullet I had found fitted the metal case exactly. This hypothetical germ that was developing in my brain suddenly took a start, but prudence forbade my hurrying on. I had found the rifle and the ball with which Walker had been killed, but had I not proved that Peet had killed him? Why had not the prosecution got on to the rifle? Lucky for Peet that they had not, though, since they had convicted him it made no difference. I found a box of cartridges with the I rifle and fitting one in it went downstairs, laid it on the sideboard and I pointed it at my chalk target. The 1 muzzle of my gun, the place where Walker’s head had been, the hole in the glass, were all in a straight line. Had it not been for the focus of the sun’s rays I should have proved Peet guilty. As It was the focus may have fired the gun. Here was a cue to the solution. I questioned Peet and he remembered that he had cleaned and loaded his rifle and laid it on the sideboard while he went upstairs. The sun, acting on the nipple through the decanter, had. fired the gun. In the excitement attending, the discovery of the murder had stood It ina corner from whence It had been taken upstairs, where it vias forgotten. Who took it away was never known, probably a servant This seems a very easy solution. That’s because I happened to be on the right track, tn ninety-nine in a hundred cases I would have been chasing an •>. absurdity.—C. Mason Bradstreet

RISE OF STATE FAIR

Was Once a Homeless Wanderer Over Indiana Bat Now Olio of Greatest In the Union. PRIZES FOR NEXT FAIR $75,350 Horseback and Long Wagon Trips to Indiana Exposition Have Given Way to Pleasure Rides by Trolley—Eminent Judges Who Will Tie Ribbons on Prize Winners. The Indiana State Fair will be held at Indianapolis the week of Sept. 6, and as the season of preparation for it advances, interest in it is widespread over the state, not only among livestock and other exhibitors, but among the tens of thousands of people who attend from year to year. The Indiana Fair is one of the oldest in the United States, and in the last ten years has grown to be one of the largest. From its earliest years, when the fair wandered over the state, using borrowed county fair grounds for its displays, to the possession at present of a fair ground tract of 214 acres, with land and improvements worth about >700,000, is one way in which the growth of the Indiana exposition may be measured. The first State Fair, held in October, 1852, was three days in length and was attended by about 30,000 people. The fair now continues days and evenings for five days, and the attendance approaches 200,000. -- At the first Indiana Fair the prizes consisted of silver cups, worth only a few hundred dollars.’- At the coming fair prizes amounting to >75,350 and a dozen or more expensive silver cups and gold medals will be awarded. People who attended the first' fair made the trip to Indianapolis in wagons or on horseback, camping by the roadside at night and taking two or three-days for the journey. Now the farm people of the state who live most distant from the fair can reach the grounds in a few hours. Most of them can hail a trolley car near home and make a pleasure ride of the trip. Two trolley lines from northern Indiana land passengers at the fair gates. The Lake Erie & Western railroad will run numerous special trains to and from the coming fair. All of the trolley lines out of Indianapolis will have special service during the week. The transportation question does not give the fair officials the concern It did a few years ago, for steam and interurban facilities for bringing the people to Indianapolis and getting them home promptly and in comfort, have been highly developed in recent years. It is doubtful if any state fair in the Union has the streetcar facilities to equal those from Indianapolis to the Indiana grounds. There are three double-track lines from the city to the fair gates, where cars arrive fifteen seconds apart, and handling 75,000 or more people a day is no longer a bothersome undertaking to the Indianapolis lines. Another way in which the Indiana exposition has grown is in its patronage. The receipts of the first Fair were >8,833,16 and the total income for the Fair of last year was >IIO,OOO. During its career the Indiana Fair has distributed perhaps >600,000 in premiums, by far the larger portion going to the farmers and live stock owners of the state. The exposition has come up to its present magnitude very largely from Its own energy, backed by the faith of the farming element of Indiana. For some years the Fair has received >IO,OOO a year from the legislature, all of it going toward paying premiums. The first appropriation by the legislature for a permanent Fair improvement was >IOO,OOO for the coliseum, three summers ago. The State Board of Agriculture added >30,000 to this amount from Its treasury that the coliseum might be made more complete. All of the real estate and other buildings which now comprise the Fair property have come from the profits of the exposition, and these profits have come from the town and country people from over the state who have bought admission tickets. As usual, the prizes offered at the next Fair are richest In the speed department, where the amount reaches >37,600, an Increase of several thousand dollars over any former year, and a corresponding Increase In the number of trotters and pacers and In the quality of the events Is expected. On beef and dairy cattle the total prizes reach >12,566; on show horses, >13,000; sheep, >2,931; swine, >2,078; poultry >1,980; fine arts, >1,417; agricultural products, >1,423; fruit, >848; flowers, >836; bees and honey, >248; dairy products, >214; table luxuries, >209. The State Fair will not only mean the assembling on the grounds at Indianapolis of the best products of the agricultural and livestock farms of the state, with many thousand people to see the richness of these resources, but an unusually brilliant array of judges will be present to decide how the >75,350 in prise money will be distributed. Jn making up the list of judges, the State Board of Agriculture has sought the highest authorities available for the different departments, and has chosen men who •re past-masters -tn passing on the merits of livestock and the products of field and orchard. ""Three new judges will tie the ribbons on the prize-winning horses, and some noted authorities wlUtie the cattle ribbons.

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