The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-07

discovered he was supposed to be
dead but by the time more
help was called he had come to
himself and risen to his feet. He then
asked for hotel and walked most of the
way there without help, but grew faint al
most on the porch. He was taken in and
put to bed and doctors called in, who pro-
nounced his injuries slight, and said he was
in no danger up to within 20 minutes OF his
death, which occurred at 8 a. m. Monday.
On Tuesday he was taken to Brazil and
shipped to Greensburg, where his relatives
reside for interment his wife not wanting,
as she said, to have him buried near the
scene of these difficulties.
JACOB HERRs STORY.
shaw and started for George Wiltse's, near
Mi0dleburg, about 10 p m. Sunday. The team
was "A spirited one. Shaw seemed TO be In
great hurry and drove very fast and reckless
against my frequent protests. We got TO
Bowling Green about midnight and got sup
per. Then we started on TO Middeburg, and
got about seven miles beyond Bowling Green,
about one and a half miles from Clay City,
when he dropped the lines and the team
got into Clay city the buggy was
smashed to pieces and ke fell out. l fell
out about half mile before he did.
When the horses began TO run, | staid In UNI
til they had run about mile, but the lines
were down and we had no control of the team
and of course could do nothing. l begged
him all the way down 10 either drive more
carefully or else let me- When the lines
dropped from his hands 1 was looking down
liking the blankets and did not see il i'm
mediately, but as soon as saw II threw off
the blankets and reached over the dashboard
to catch them, but they had slipped under the
horses feet and were out of reach.
| said Jim, you've dropped the lines; we'll
now" We shouted to the horses TO stop, but at
that time we were going down little hill and
the horses were going very fast. They started
on frantic. run "a soon as they
| found IOOSf.
buggy of course surged around. On &C
count of having thrown off the blankets was
as they ierked to one side i. was thrown
out but was not much hurt. The team
ran on with Shaw about nan mile
Clay City the box Of the buggy was knocked
| off and broken up and an axle broken. AT
that place Shaw is supposed TO have fallen
| out. / got up as soon as l could. Shaw was
on his feet when got there. BY that time q
number OF people had come out. Shaw did
not say much did not reply to any inquiry as
| TO whether he was hurt, but inquired for
| hotel and livery stable. lie walked about two
control of himself and fell down. We raised
| him up and carried him into the hotel anu he
remained unconscious until he died. We got
him not seriously hurt and went away about
| s o'clock a. IN. About9 he rose up and made
an effort to vomit, and also second one
| and fell back and died almost Immediately.
There was no possibility of there peing any
/ foul play. No one was near. / have an idea
Il that he was DOING Mnen ne urOppeu ine
| lines. He had been drinking, and when he
| left Brazil was somewhat under the influence
Of liquor. do not know anything further.
A BoNDsMAN's STATEMENT.
| Mr.. Acklemire desires TO enphatic;,lly state
that he did not tell Mr.. Shaw that If lie shaw
i he would go off his bond; that Shaw volun-
1 tarialy said that he would produce IL by that
\ time; that he (Acklemirel said he shaw
might look for other bOndSmen. without any
1 reference To whether the 1fil1Klf
duced or not, but advised shaw for his own
good TO get IL back, Mr.. AclSlemire further
1 states that the copy furnished by Mr.. Carter i
/ not correct, in this, that the original states
| that the letting OF the buildings was done OH
| the 9th of August and not on the sth, but fur
ther than this the statements are substantially
| correct.
! GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.
| Ii is hard for a disinterested party to de
| eide as to the correctness of the rival state
ments. Ii is, however, established beyond
| dispute that the Rrazilians VINO went after
| the records were hard set, and went pre-
pared for trouble to the extent Of two 10
inch navy revolvers each, or at least con-
siderable part of them. Still they all dis
claim any intention OF having any fuss, and
some even deny fat-footed the presence of
arms, but the fact that they did have them
is unquestionable. The first statement
| in the Sentinel was founded on rumor, but
| different statements show enough alleged
facts to bear 1t all out, except that Shaw was
not probably murdered, but instead came to
his death by too free use of intOxicants
The people of Bowling Green say that the
fight is not yet ended. and that they will
have the records back in the old court
house inside of 80 DAYS, but say
that under no circumstances will they
resort TO violent measures, unless pitched
into. If both sides will stay as peaceable a,
they talk, there will probably be no further
| trouble.