The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-21
A NoBLEsyILLE MYSTERY.

GEORGE KINsEY'S DEATH-wAS 1T AN ACCI-
DExroR MURDER-TaE coRoNER's INQUEST
DEATH FROM UNKNOWN CAUSES.
Especial Correspondence Of the Sentinel n
NoBLEsvILLE, IND. Oct. 15.-This little
city OF ours is greatly perplexed over the
death of young George Kinsey. on Thursday
afternoon, and entirely unable to make NJ
its mind as to whether the young man
came to bis end by accident or design. On
the afternoon in question Henry Kinsey and
his son George, aged twenty two gears, lett
town, the one on foot and the other on
horseback tor their home, about
crossed the stream on the back oil
the horse, and separated on the
other side, the father cutting across the
fields on foot while the son continued his
ride along the road. Just east of the Klnsey
house is the home OF q colOred family by
the name of Richardson. On the day before
these events, George Richardson had been
engaged ia quarrel with young KinseY at
the latter's home concerning some trespass-
Ing horses and had intimated his entire will
lingness and ability TO whip any two white
men, and Kinsey had also said something
about compelling him to withdraw that offer.
1t would appear, from the tact that Kinsey's
pocket was found to contain several stones,
that he had prepared himself at the river
bank for a conflict. At any rate Henry
Deck and his two sons testified to-day
before the coroner that they droYe along
the road and saw Kinsev sitting on his horse
before the Richardson house, apparently
qusrreling with George Richardson, the lat
ter's law, Aleck Richardson, and
three other colOred people, William Russell
and his three sons, who bad stopped
their team in front of the house to
discuss, as they say, horse trade. Deck
advised the group to have done with their
quarrel and passed on, bat looked back
FEW MINUTES AFTERwARD
and saw them maintaining their positions
and apparently continuing their dispute. 4
short time afterward Henry Kinsey's path
across the fields brought him out upon the
highway at the same spot, where, to his
horror, he found his son lying upon the
ground dead, with his neck dislocated.
There we're no bruises upon his person, and
his clothing bore no marks of vio-
lence. Whist the Richardson's and Russells
todd the grief-stricken father he was too
much agitated TO note. At the inquest to-
day they unanimously denied having any
words with the young fellow, but said he
drove up like an intoxicated man or one
stricken with fit, permitting his horse to
go where the beast chose, and suddenly Tell
off and died in few minutes, groanlng and
fr0thlng at the mouth. Old man Russell
Old admit once tnaL something was SAlu Dy
or to Kinsey, but retracted the admission
minute sfterward. 1t should
be said, by the way, that the
intoxication theory is utterly disproved by
the boys father and several others who had
seen him that afternoon. Indeed, no one
in town has ever seen the deceased young
man under the influence of liquor. Neither
is there any evidence OF the boys being sub
ject to heart disease or fits of any kind, but
quite the contrary. The coroneI's jury made
as thorough an examination as possible, but
only reached an unsatisfactory verdict to
the effect that George Kinsey came to his
death from causes unknown. And
here the case must rest unless
some new evidence is discovered. The alb
sence of all traces of violence prevented the
jury from bringing In any other verdict
The matter IS most mysterious, but the
most rational theory, it seems to me, Is that
there was quarrel and that the young man
brought on a bit by his rage and fell with the
fatal result, and that the witnesses, fearful
of being suspected of foul play, agreed to
deny the quarrel in toto. +. j. s.