The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-29

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SELF, and another didn't know. We stsrted
upon the hill al 10 minutes to IL. After we
called 81 the second house and were refused
admittance, told ,he boys to let 90 and not
be fooling around: started TO the depot;
| was near the bridge when the slots were
| fired; think there were about one ana one
fourth seconds between tie shots; didn't
| know Campbell was shot until this morn
| ing; Lewis Anderson is not my real name,
but the one i travel on; had travelled Oh it
since he was ten years old, and expected to
while he lived. The party had been
DRINKING SOME BEER;
were unaTmed excepting with pocket knives;
Campbell and Clark went to the door at
Ruble; woman opened the door; told
| them to excuse her, and ordered them to
| leave; then we went 10 the other house:
| Clark and went in; woman came to the
door, asked who we were, and told us TO
| leave; we left, and i came right on TO town:
Campbell and Clark went toward the first
house; l heard the Shots but did not stop;
! was fifty yards distant; looked around and
saw two of them coming up the street. Mrs.
Ruble-Lived in the county OF Decatur
] Greensburg. My house has two windows
| ana one door in front. The gate is right in
front Of the door, about twenty feet. 1 saw
| John A. Campbell al my door, with Clark,
after II O'Clock. They didn't come in Went
away and came back in five Or ten minutes.
| They knocked at the door, Mollie went to it.
| He asked, Have you any girls here ?"
She told him no. He asked, "Have you
any company?n She said no. He asked,
"Don't you want company?" She said no.
| IL was Campbell who was talking. He put
| his foot in the door and she pushed the door
| 10. He resisted, and and Ben went and
| helped her force the door shut. Then they
went of. l didn't hear the first shot. I
| heard stones thrown against the front of the
house / was in the kitchen, and immedi-
ately the last shot was fired, went right in
the front room; there was nobody but Ben
and Mollie there. Ben had gun in his
hand; Mollie had nothing. Mollie has re-
volver; she keeps it in the stand drawer; it
must have been loaded. The gun did not
belong 10 Us; Ben brought il there; has had
it four five weeks. Mollie and Ben said
there was a man lying out there; then
went cut and saw him; it was the man who
had at first come to the door, Campbell; ne
showed no signs OF life. This was about five
minutes after the shot was fired. IL was
dou bic barreied gun; one barrel was dis.
charged. Campbell used language not fit to
be published. Three or four stones were
thrown; we have three Of them now. Miss
Salie RGDle-Saw Campbell first lying By
the gate, about ten minutes after he was
shot.
TWO SHOTS WERE FIRED.
was sleeping in the bedroom adjoining
the room from where the shots were fired.
The first shot was from a revolver. Just
after the last 1 got up and went into the
other room. Ben had gun in his hands
shotgun. Ben first discovered the dead
man. He went to the gate and came back
and said there was a man there killed or
wounded Then we al went out. There
We're stones thrown. It was after the first
shot, and before the last Mr.. Wright,
physician and surgeon prscticing in Green's
burg-Have seen the body of John A. Camp
bell. Can't tell exactly, dut think il was
twenty minutes after twelve when I first
saw him. He was then dead. Had been
dead but lew minutes. His death was
caused by number OF shot, which struck
him on the right side Of the head and neck,
principally above the ear. A gun-shot
wound produced his death, two OF the shot
passing through his iugular vein. Some of
the shot were No. 6. The hat was black
felt; some OF the shot passed through it and
fractured the skull. / think he made an
effort to get away after ne was shot; think
he had taken TWO or three steps. He
was lying on his right side. Aided in
me examination of the body; found no
arms. George McKraner: Never saw Camp
bell, dead or alive; was in the north back
room at the time of the trouble; Was talk
ing with Mrs. Ruble about our trouble; 1
heard noise; Thought L heard stones
| thrown and two shots fred pistol and a
shotgun; Didn't see soul but the widow;
| Told her not to let the children know 1 was
there; The shots and rocks were all pretty
much at once. Mollie Ruble, one of the
defendants: One shot was fired before any
stones were thrown; did it with revolver:
shot to scare; didn't shoot at them; then
they threw the rocks; four were thrown
two came in at the door and two at the vim
| dow; one went clear through the front room
into the kitchen; then the other shot was
| fired from a shotgun; didn't fire it; this
was half-past twelve A. NJ !; this as the sec
ond time; there was about ten or fifteen
minutes between their calls; I sat in the
door during the time with my pistol beside
| me; it was a siX-shOoter, loaded: Ben was
sitting beside me; he had no gun; il was in
| the corner OF the room; they came back the
| second time-Campbell and Clark; ordered
| them
NOT TO COME IN,
but Campbell opened the gate and took two
or three steps in. Clark stood leaning against
the fence; when 1 first shot he (CampbelD
turned and said, "Shoot-we can shoot,
too" and they threw the rocks; Clark threw
the first one; the fourth was thrown Just as
Ben shot; Ben shot through the window;
Campbell was standing in the gate; might
have said last night that shot to kill. o.
B. Scoby, circuit prosecutor, assisted by
Judge Samuel Bonner, conducted the prose-
cution, Judge w. A. Moore and j. R. Ewing
Esq, for the defense. The case occupied
| the greater part of the dsy, was ably prose
| cuted and defended and resulted in the par
| ties being held to answer to the charge of
manslaughter. Bond, $1,000 Campbell
| leaves wife and one child. Witness Geo.
McKraDer is the brevei-husband of Mrs.
Bubble; he was present in the house during
the affair, but was too drunk to day to give
| evidence. Mrs. Rebecca Ruble the mother
of the mother of the family, is widow of.
about fifty years, not unprepossessing
in appearance, with enough nat
ursl intellect, but not much
that has been acquired. Mollie, one
of the defendants, is a woman perhaps
thirty years, not calculated to attract, but
giving evidence in her presence of nerve
| and spirit. Ben, who fired he fatal shot, is
q boy OF seventeen, who, judging from an.
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