The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27
ARREST OF JAMES N. HoUGH,
Charged with the Murder of the FOremans
"A Weak Case Founded Cir
cumstantial Evidence.

James Nicholas Hough who lives near Traders
Point, was arrested early yesterday morning, by
James Stevens and Jean Brittian, suspicion
of being implicated in the murder Of the Fore
man women. The arrest was made by decoying
Hough out of a house where he had slept, and
when he attempted 20 escape he was overhauled
by the judcious rse of bulldog and two re-
volvers, shot from the latter in flicting slight
wound in his leg. He was brought to the city,
and waived preliminary examination before the
mayor. The testimony against him is altogether
clreumstantial, and, so far as developed, consists
of the facts th at his character is not good, and
that on the corning following the murder he was
seen, Goa less and hatless, near the scene of the
tragedy. The theory is that he In some way be-
came possessed of the coat belonging to the man
Kuhn, which was found at the Foreman house;
that he left it there, and that he tore UP his hat
to conceal some evidence of the crime. Concern
ing the latter, he made the following statement
to the coroner:
"Last fall, when moved from Tom Dicksons,
l left straw hat there, and last Thursday, after
being at my father-in-law's, l went by DicksOus
TO get the hat, my Old black felt hat was worn
out. After getting the straw hat tore up the
old hat. and scattered the pieces from John
H0gan'S for 200 yards or more along the road
toward Lees. The band l gave to George
Hongh's child, and cord L saved and put
around my straw hatp'
In his testimony he gave an account of his
whereabouts on the night and succeeding day of
the murder, but did not attempt to establish
positive slb
sHougn is regarded as a dangerous man by his
neighbours. On at least two occasions it Is known
That he made indecent proposals to women, and
in one case fined for the offense, judicial
action in the other being prevented by the death
of the woman. Yesterday John Marvel and one
or two others stated to the coroner that Hough
had told them that he on one occasion had
boosted of an alleged agreement between him,
John Wooden and John Kolyer, of this city,
whereby they were to kill a rich uncle of the lat
ter for his money Hough made TWO separate
statements to the coroner yesterday about this
matter, the first of which was as follows 81
saw John Wooden twice or three times while he
was keeping saloon at Royalton. He said
along last fall that John KOlyer had an uncle
that was going to visit this place, and said that
he was rich man, and that Koyer said there
were too many alleys in the town for him (his
unele) to carry as much money as he had"
In subsequent statement he said, 81 never
told John Marvel that I had been solicited by
John Kolyer and John Wooden to go INTO an
rangement to take money and to kill Kolyer's
uncle never had them even suggest any bust
ness arrangements of any kind to me-" Wooden,
who was called, also corrobOrated the latter
statement. From present indications the case
against H0ugh is not particularly strong, but de-
velopments will be looked forward to with in
terest.