The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-21

IL was not. what could he dor
How did it come outr'
"Well, I'll tell you. Mrs. Robinson kept
banging away at him, and he at me. /
stuck it out as long as / could, and finally /
half admitted that perhaps il might have
been so. Then he went to Jones and Jones
owned up he liked me pretty we'll"
What did he do thenr'
Then he went back to Mrs Robinson and
told her what he had found out, and she adj
vised him not to give it up, but keep at it,
and he'd find out all about il before long
So be went at Jones again, and they had
regular quarrel"
"What was said?'
II never knew what they said, but they
quarreled for a while, and my husband
came back to me and insisted on knowing all
about il. He brought Mrs Robinson with
him, and between them they made me own
up"
Ibid you confess it alp"
1.-THE whole thing / Just gave right up
1t was no use trying to conceal it any
longer"
when was this?"
This was last week"
what did your husband do on that?''
"He went to Jones and told him / had
confessed and Jones halfway confessed, too.
He gave him enough to confirm his suspic-
ior."
did they quarrel again?'
eS, tOel udu al AWFUL QuarTel.
did your husband threaten him."
moi
odd you ever hear your husband make
any threats as to what he would do2"
II don't know that ever did, but l
thought he would have vengeance before he
got through"
THE VICTIM.
The victim of the tragedy was a popular
exponent of Spiritualism. but had few Of the
peculiar characteristics which are usually
| found in its disciples. He was the opposite
| of the angular, long haired and pinch-faced
man who killed him. He appears to have
espoused the cause of Spiritualism from
belief that it was a form of philosophy,
which would in time revolutionize the
| world, and offered encouragement to all be-
levers in the theory. His Office finally be-
came resort for the class known
as mediums. phrenologists and
mind readers. The walls of his Office were
covered with pictures drawn from the
| imagination of mediums, giving views of
| characters known only in ancient history,
from the reign of the Ptolemys down to the
| nineteenth century. The pictures had all
been drawn by people in a trance, and were
| all crude caricatures which would have dis
| graced the imagination of child. Adjoin-
ing his main Office he had had a cabinet
lined with sheet-iron constructed, where
| mediums and other professors had their su-
| pernatural skill tested to his satisfaction.
The boxes and drawers of his desk were
filled with the so-called spirit photo
| graphs" and views of well known medi-
ums, including picture OF the damphool
/ known as the Dickens medium" who pro-
fessed TO have been empowered by the great
novelist to complete his unfinished Edwin
| brood" nt"
He was born in Barre, Vermont, in the
| year 1918. He remained upon his fathers
farm until, at the age of 10, he entered upon
the study of law, and was admitted to the
bar several years afterward. He practiced
as an attorney for several years in Hyde
| Park, Vermont, and remained there until
his removal to st. Charles, Illinois, in
the year 1888. He was married to Miss
| Lavina NJ. Camp in the same year, previous
to his removal to this state. He proved to
be quite successful in his profession, and
was twice elected judge of the county court
| of Kane county. In the year 1851 he was
engaged as an attorney for the Iowa Central
railway comp any, and during the years fol-
lowing remained in Washington for the pur-
pose of securing a heavy land grant to en-
courage the construction of the line, and
mainly through his efforts the grant was Sc
cured in the year 1855. He dated his con-
| version to Spiritualism from the year 1850,
and was led TO the belief from perusal OF
the works of Andrew Jackson Davis and
subsequent investigation. In the year 1856
he came to this city and commenced the
publication of the paper known as the Reli-
gio-Philpsophical Journal, in the promulga
ton of the new theory. His office was con.
sumedfiuring the great fire of 1871, and be
sustained q considerable loss financially
After the fire OF 1874 he constructed tn
building now occupied on Fourth avenue.
M. Zones was interested in a number o.
popular scientific movements at the time o.
his death, and was member of the philo
sophical society and regular attendant
upon the lectures in its course.