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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1900
Page
2
A woman, claiming religious inspiration, woke Sheriff Foresman at the Lafayette jail and delivered a message for Elizabeth Lydia, the Fowler murder defendant. She asserted Lydia would be acquitted and that Lydia’s husband would testify at trial.
John Locke, held on murder charges in Anderson Indiana, attempted to hang himself in a jail bathroom with a blanket rope. The improvised cord snapped, he fell unconscious, Mrs. Moore notified officials, and a guard was placed over him. This marks his third suicide attempt.
Albert Priest, 14, pleaded guilty to forgery in police court and was bound over to the circuit court. In default of bond he was jailed. He had been selling old newspapers to Keller chair factory, inflating weight slips to gain extra pay, and has a history of arrests, likely to be sent to the reform school for boys.
In Muncie Indiana 158 of 212 Benbow descendants attended the annual reunion. A committee report discussed a 1 million estate in Wales tied to Joann Benbow in the seventeenth century. Officers were elected including President Frank Benbow and Treasurer Van Benbow. Next meeting slated for Municie or nearby.
Otto Marsh a WWI veteran and noted local swimmer drowned in the Ohio River near New Albany Ind. He ignored a doctor’s warning about heart trouble and rheumatism and began a swim with three companions. Cramp and exposure ended the crossing, his body later recovered.
A modern arched frame church with seating for 400 will be given to the denomination whose representative can best state its government and creed. The church sits near Steele in Adams County and was built by local farmers showing unity across sects for community upbuilding.
Terry Bachner 18 was arrested on counterfeiting charges after fake 5 10 and 25 cent coins passed in Princeton. US marshal traced him from Chicago to Princeton and plans to take him to Evansville. Molds and money from the Bachner Time Piece Co. plant reportedly found. others implicated.
Contracts of a brush company and a saddle tree company for convict labor at the Indiana reformatory in Jeffersonville expire. About 300 workers affected as machinery ships to Mansfield Ohio. Prisoners without other assignments will learn trades as the reformatory shifts toward being a training school.
Police report the Keating brothers linked to the murder of Allen Robinson. Evidence includes bloody trousers and knives found at Chase Ditty's home near Lob Lolly swamp in Jay County. Charles Keating reportedly changed clothes to hide his involvement.
Numerous incidents across Indiana on September 3 include Will Lew shot by a jealous assailant nicknamed Sugar Dude in Evansville. Elijah Shock, 60, of North Manchester, died instantly after a rifle shot. Mrs Samwel H Young, 48, of Rushville, fatally injured by being thrown on barbed wire. Mrs Lew of Murphy Union City died after a gas explosion. George W Warner, a temperance leader in Muncie, died in county infirmary. Pinkeny A Davis, longtime Frankfort merchant policeman, hanged himself.
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