Williamsport Pioneer (Newspaper) - August 11, 1916, Williamsport, Indiana 11. WILLIAMSPORT, AUGUST 11, 1916 15 TRIED TO KILL Harvey's Cowardly Attempt at Murder WILL LIKELY Apprehended in Room Two Hours Covington in an adjoining house caring for the prostrated The physicians made a careful examination of the bullet wound and relieved the crowd somewhat when they announced that the missile struck a bone and did not penetrate any of the vital organs of the run at large about two a posse armed with revolvers and shotguns being formed in the The crowd was scattered all along Mill street as far west as the C. E. I. while the officers and the twenty-five or deputies part of the city for the Once some little boys came Attica was the scene of another | running from the direction of the murderous attempt Saturday i Wabash bridge night a few seven i; got they've got at o'clock when Ben Harvey which everybody made a dash for ed to kill his wife by shooting the only to find that it was a in the breast with a 32 calibre false Very fortunate for the I About 9 o'clock Harvey sneaked young the bullet i in past the old hotel and strack the which | entered the Ike Garrett pool changed its course to the He a cigar and was a little upward and i paring to light it when ing near the left where | Springman grabbed his arm as he it was later attempted to get hold and his who was | the revolver in his Alma daughter of Mr. and j They got outside the pool Mrs. Eugene were there was plenty of ried about two years ago and it Someone took his and said that their wedded career has | Springman holding one CLASH AT ROAD Women and Two Men Thrown From ONE SERIOUSLY Car Completely Weeds Along Highway Cause of BOYS APPEAR \U I PINE VILLAGE JUVENILE COURT FRIDAY been as happy as it should they having had frequent quarrels scenes upon the street in front of their For the past few months they have claimed the home of her parents as their or at least Mrs. Harvey resided has been in trouble several times previous to this and is known as a character failed to reflect all that a man and especially a married He had been working for Hope the Mayor Reed in front and Marshal Rube Beamer in the the young was escorted to the city bastile where he was searched and then put into a A large crowd soon gathered around the but no demonstrations were morning Harvey was given a preliminary hearing before the who fixed his bond at in default of which he was taken to county jail at near but quit j ton to await the action of the MUST PERFECT Larceny and Incorrigibility Thieves Got Away With Sight of Danville Woman Made Against job the first of last week and went to a mussel camp near Delphi where a number of Attica men were engaged in mussel Saturday afternoon he returned to Attica on Wabash passenger and went direct to the Hoober home to see his but she not there at that so court on a charge of assault and with intent to operation was performed upon Mrs. Harvey Sunday morning and the bullet since which she has been recovering was The cause of the trouble got i is believed to be jealousy on very sad duty fell to the lot of Judge Berry last Friday when a case was tried in the Juvenile in which Chester Chester Ray Fred Iver George Douglas and Bowlie charged with petit the charges haying been made by the Board of Children's boys all live at West and this is the first time either of them have been in serious It was charged that the boys had broken into the Ringle hardware store in West Lebanon and stole three flash four six boxes of They then broke to Editor excite ment pre vailed at Pine Village Tuesday when it became known that robbers had visited the homes of Peter Thomas Cobb and editor Sterling About was taken the Cobb from the Brier house and 60e from the home of editor which considerably more money than an editor is supposed to have about the house at one morning Claire a member of the Horse Thief Detective had the Woodworth bloodhounds brought over from Danville to try to run thief The hounds were given the trail at the at Prayer in Cadwallader store where they home a mile south of a taxi and came to this city i part of the Mrs. Harvey i took a box of two cans of j they followed somebody's refused to live with and Velvet smoking some to In the meantime then on the dav before the had i etc. Later on j Marshal Beamer had arrested and more 1 filed suit for and tWs Placed in jail Sam Tarrett as he took on a few which helped to kindle his crazed mind for took two cases of i the Wabash depot at that the He made two or three thought to have angered the After hearing the evidence m trips over and back and then had i band a great Harvey de- j the Judge Berry found all the cab driver to let him out at the dared that he to kill two i the boys guilty and imposed hardware store in more before he one of them fences as Roy Powell and where he purchased a 32 being a young man named for which he paid the i who had been paying some sum of I attention to Mrs. Harvey of He stuffed tlie firearm in his and then walked to the | son Disappears From Hoober which is two England were committed to the Indiana School at I Fred Powell and Iver i Powell sentenced tQ the of the When the hounds got to they made a straight line for the jail where Tarrett was The accused man was then turned over to the county authorities and brought to this old adage that must have its perfect was exemplified last Sunday in Danville when Mrs. Lena an aged German woman who had been blind for a number of her sight restored while attending church services at the Trinity Lutheran of which she was a long-time speaking of the restoration of her Mrs. Kugler made this statement which shows explicit faith in the power of God to heal manner of did it. He is the greatest of all I was asking Him in my prayers to restore my sight when suddenly the lights of the church and then the faces of my friends and neighbors whom I had not seen in many became and I could My neighbors have been kind to and have assisted me to and from church for many but that the night God gave me back my I walked home Work Training School at and jailed He was closely while the other three questioned by Prosecutor Chester T the eldest son of I and Bowlie Quarrels were west of the Ledger given suspended sentences on found his wife and her mother Edgar the front room of her who disappeared from asked to speak to his Village for Epileptics at out on the front step after a I She was followed with another by her Standing an inmate of the same face to face with the woman he 1 institution is still missing IS known as to his the authorities of the institution claim to have known of no reason for his leaving and but months be- i fore promise to protect and Harvey said only a few words when he drew the from his pocket and w. at the bullet striking making toward little to the right of the left a scream of the 3'outog wife reeled and fell back into the near the feet of her aged Harvey then started away and met the aged i father of his whom he gave strict orders to stop before he got a similar Harvey then ran west down Mill firing a couple of shots into the air like a cowardly news of the shooting spread rapidly and the dooryard and street in front of the house was soon packed with Drs. Boiling and Hoi ey were called and gave the injured woman medical while a party having had an epileptic attack for five months previous to his His parents have heard nothing from him and fear that Something has happened to Others are still inclined to the I belief that he ran away to escape the monotony of the place and is probably working somewhere under an assumed name to hide his identity until the officials stop looking for Esther Luppold very narrowly escaped drowning while bathing with a party of picnickers in Pine Creek last Miss Luppold went down the second time 1)efore she was rescued by other members of the that they behave well and in no way any criminal the sentences had been pronounced by the there was considerable commotion in the spacious corridor of the third floor of the court Up to this no one had learned a single about the fate of the as the hearing was held in chambers as is provided by law in such Quite a throng of besides those who were called as witnesses in the had come over from West Lebanon to hear the but upon learning that it be held privately they had waited in the corridor and the rek room for the culmination of the A very pathetic scene ensued when Prosecutor ordered the boys taken to the county farm for the Mothers clung to their sons and vails of tears covered the faces of every one It was almost like a parting at deaths so intense was the grief of the four who had been spent Friday night at the county farm and on Saturday Prosecutor Mehaffey took the oldest Powell boy and Chester d to On Sunday he took the other two Powell boys in his car to the Works Training School at but the evidence did not disclose that he was connected with the robbery in any so he was had been working with a gravel road construction gang near Pine and his strange actions on the night before had aroused suspicion and his arrest I in Warren County Board of Commissioners were in session Monday and aside from the allowing of the usual bundle of their main business was the awarding of contracts for the painting of the Independence and Shawnee river bridges and the repairing of the riprap on the The riprap contract was awarded to J. A. Borders for The painting of the Shawnee bridge was contracted to Marshall of this for and the painting of the Independence bridge let to the Winamac Construction for Pearl Dennis and her a Mr. motored here yesterday afternoon from 111., for a short visit with relatives and Kugler was 20 years of and while still living in she met mth an accident which destroyed the sight of her right She fell while walking across a room at her home in the and a knitting needle penetrated the Eye specialists in and also in this country told her that it was useless to treat the as the sight had been permanently destroyed and could not be restored by medical or ten years ago the sight of her left eye began to fail and until a short time ago had become so badly impaired that she was almost totally She has spent a small fortune with specialists in Danville and other cities in an effort to recover her sight but their treatment gave her no makes the case of remarkable interest is that the sight of the right which had been totally blind for 56 was The sight of this eye was not lost as the result of any of the ailments common to the but was destroyed as the result of an and some of the greatest specialists in the country had repeatedly told her that it never could be sight of the left eye has not been fully but it is much and the aged woman expects it will continue to improve until she will be able to see as plainly as she could before she lost the sight of her right rather miraculous automobile accident happened at Riverside Monday morning when two machines collided at the road crossing just north of the Wabash tracks at that Dan Waymire and Mrs. Warren of and their Miss Edith of were driving a Ford touring car south from Independence and W. H. who was driving I one of the route carriers from was going east on the road fr om The horse weeds have grown very tall at this point and the view from either direction is almost totally Mrs. who was driving the thought she saw a train coming and speeded her car up in order to beat the train to the they being enroute to the home of Mrs. W. H. Cain at Riverside to spend the Haynes saw the machine coming across the but thought he had plenty of time to pass the crossing before it reached there and so paid no more both cars reached the crossing at the same time and the Ford smashed square into The impact threw the occupants from both but fortunately none of them were Collyer's car suffered the greatest both front wheels being smashed to pieces and one lamp Some of the stay rods underneath the bed of Rev. car were the fenders bent and the bed caved in at one rural route man had to telephone for another machine to finish the Began work began on the new Carnegie library in this city yesterday when teams were put to work excavating and men staked off the cite of the new This will be good news to our readers as many have been anxiously awaiting the beginning of As many men and teams will be used as can conveniently which is an assurance that the work will be pushed along to Open Sept. 4. schools of Warren county will open on 4. The trustee and city school boards have practically all the teachers contracted with and but there are still a few it is impossible to give the complete list at this The schools of the county are in the best shape they ever were and a good school year is Undergoes C. L. Messner underwent an operation at the St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette from which she is recovering very The was a so far as could be and it is hoped that her ailments be permanently
