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Murder in Bartholomew’ County,Columbus is in a high state ot excitement over the finding of the body of a murdered man in the woods near, there. The murdered man was recognized as young Cooper, a farm hand in the employ of Mrs. Rachel Fix, who lives two' miles west of Newbttrn. The post-mortem showed that cne ball, in the forehead, had penetrated the brain, and the skull had also been broken by some dull instrument, which wounds probably caused death, and the several pistol shots tired into the body after Cooper had fallen, possibly were after death,' He was undoubtly hauled to where lie \va« found and everythingabout him arranged so as to indicate that lie was killed there, after a violent struggle. The toils are drawing closer around young Fix, who was arrested on Saturday, and the general belief is that he is guilty. The in-! vostigation shows that Cooper and Evan Fix worked together at Mrs. Rachel Fix’s, 0:1 Tuesday, and that Cooper ate supper there that evening. The Fix family swear that he started away after supper, saying that he was going to Newborn, a village some two miles east, but he was never again seen alive, and the body was found live miles in the opposite direction. The club that lay near the body was found to have been cut from an old rcaper-tongue in the Fix harn-lot, the other pieces and the chips hewn from it having been found 'there, also an ax with nicks in it corresponding to the marks on the club. Blood was also found on Fix’s buggy. The inquiry has developed that Fix and Cooper were engaged in stealing clover-seed, and a considerable portion was found stored in the Fix residence. The theory la that they fell out concerning this, or Fix was afraid that Cooper would divulge the secret, and determined to put him out of tne fray; that he was killed at or near the fix residence and taken to where found. There were a number of coon-hunfcers in the woods where the body was found, and the object appeared to be to eopvey the impression that he had been attacked while hunting.The inquest on the body of young Copper, the mowlered man,was finished Tuesday, and the verdict of the Coroner was that he c une to his death from a pistol-shot and by a blow on the head by a club in the hands of Evan Fix, and that Fix had accessories after the act. Fix is now in jail, and his preliminary trial will not be held for several days. The excitement is subsiding, but there is a feeling that the guilty parties must be hunted down and punished.
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Greensburg Saturday Review
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Sat, Jan 09, 1886
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