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Thomas E. Bowles, a Montgomery County Farmer, Indicted for the Foreman Murder. The warrants on the indictments returned by the grand jury in the Foreman murder case day before yesterday were put in the hands of Eugene Britney, the detective who has been working at the case so long, and on them Thomas E. Bowles, of Emdale, Montgomery county, the farmer mentioned in yesterday's issue, has been arrested. Britney went to Crawfordsville night before last and put the pa pers in the hands of Sheriff Harper, of Montgomery county. Mr. Harper went to ‘Bowles’s residence at 5 o'clock yesterday morn ing and found him in the barn. Bowles turned deathly pale, and on being shown the warrants said: ‘This is worse than being murdered.” The two went to the house, where Bowles took leave of his weeping wife and children. On the way to Crawfordsville he was moody and had little to say, remarking once, however, ‘Jesus Christ was put to death unjustly.” He was brought to this city and is now in jail here. Bowles had known of the evidence against him, and had, of his own accord, come to this city, demanding to know what was being said against him. He stoutly asserts his innocence, and has engaged M. D. White, a Crawfordsville attorney, and John S. Duncan, of this city, to defend him. He thinks the indictment is due to the malice of David H. Fulwider, a former tenant of his farm, with whom he had some trouble, and whom he drove off. He thinks he made twenty or more enemies by his aid to the State in the prosecution of John W. Coffey, who was songs for murder last fall at Crawfordsville. Mr. White, the attorney, says he will do nothing to prevent a speedy trial. The Foreman murder was the one which oc currred near Traders’ Point in March, 1883. An old woman and her daughter, who was also past middle life, were found, one with her head chop ped nearly off, and the other butchered in a hor rible manner. The case was a very mysterious one, and several persons have been arrested on suspicion and subsequently released.
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The Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sat, May 15, 1886
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