The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-23
OUTRAGEOUS VIOLENCE AND MUIR
DER

YOUNG MAN NEAR TERRE HAUTE COMMITS A
FIENDIsH CRIME AND KILLS HIS VICTIM.
The Terre Haute Journal, of yes erday
gives the particulars of foul murder near
that city: Between five and six O'Clock
evening before last an unmarried woman
named Eve Peters, well known in this city
as being a very industrious but moor resi-
dent, was found dead in bed at her home in
the Macksville suburb, mile west of the
river on the national road. Her hands were
chained to her back and her neck wss
tied down to the he'd. She had evil
IDENTIFY been ravished and then strangled
to death. The neighbors at once remem-
bered threats that had been made by a
young man named Tul. Jones. Marshal
Schmidt was notified, and Jones was ar
rested at the residence of Mr.. L. WYATT on
Osborn street, in the South End. He was
just coming out of the stable, where he had
been feeding the horses. He was taken to
Macksville, and an inquest wss held by Cor
oner Gerstmeyer, and a verdict rendered to
the effect that Eve Peters came to her death
from strangulation, her body having been
previously violated, and the jury believe one
Tully Jones to be the perpetratOr, one of
the perpetrators in the act. In
The get the e'ilence al
duced was such as to point cln
clusively TO Jones as the person that COM
mitted the brutal outrage. The witnesses
were from the immediate vicinity of the
neighborhood. Miss Julia Shepherd swore
that she bad seen Jones last Saturday, when
he had said that he had come all the way
from New Orleans to
SETTLE WITH EVA,
for the reason that she had written letter
to his father while he was gone, saying that
he had stolen money from his grandmother.
He had said he would leave his mark, ex-
hibiting pair of forceps, threatening to pull
her teeth cut. Eliza Woods testified that
she had heard Jones ask where Eva was.
A neighoor named Kennedy corrob-
GRATED this testimony. Jones, the
prisoner himself, denied the ac-
cusation. Being charged with having the
murdered woman's shoes upon his feet, he
| said those he wore bad been purchased at
Memphis, Tenn. He denied that he had ex-
changed p aces with another man in order 10
get an opportunity to kill the woman, as the
first witness on the stand testified. There
are other signs by which he is
charged with the Preparation of
up in the inquest. One is that one of his
gloves was found in the room. Another is
| that the stem of clay pipe was lying on the
| floor, broken off from the bowl, and the
bowl was found in his pocket. He has since
his return from New Orleans been In the
employ of Mr.. Wyatt. He has always lived
in this city, where he is known a. an
unprincipled and heartless Young
| hlan. He is seventeen years OF age
The woman has been known here during
the past twenty years. For sixteen years
she was in the employ of Mr.. Sedan, on
Center street, who is the grandfather OF
young Jones. The old gentleman is almost
heart broken at the evidence of guilt in his
grandson. The relatives of the young man
are in everyday respectable, and Mr.. Sedan
is one OF our best citiz-ns. AS noted above,
his trial is appointed for next Saturday,
day after tomorrow.