The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-09

Saturday, on charge of grand larceny,
After a preliminary trial before Judge
Passmore, they were bound over for next
term of court, in $1,000 each, Baggage has
been rifed and missed from this station for
some time Mr. w. R. Robinson, OF Cincin-
natl, general baggagemaster OF the o. IL NJ.
railroad, suspecting parties here, started a
trunk containing several articles of his own
property, and when be arrived at Mount
Vernon watched his trunk and saw it opened
and contents taken. He had the parties ar
rested with the above result. Most of the
Court the Waterman.
Detective Ten BroeolS's Theory of the Atkin-
son Murder.
Lafayette Letter.
Ten Broeck's theory is that Alexander
Potts, who had recently been discharged
from the Michigan City penitentiary, and
William Boyer, man of unsavory reputa-
ton, living in the vicinity of Oxford. met at
Oxford and determined to reconnoiter for
the purpose of looking up a suitable place
from which to steal hogs on that or some
other night; that they did not wish to be seen
together; that Boyer went southwark to
Theodore Cuppy's house, while Potts sneaked
into the woods on the west side of the main
road and came out on tie road near the At
knson place; that they intended to look over
Atkinson's hog-yard, but saw Jacob Melting
working there and did not dare go down
there. that the house seemed unoccupied,
and they remembered the neighborhood
stories of large SIMS of money that Atkinson
was supposed to keep in the house; that
Bower, who was we'll known to all
the Atkinson family, should remain
outside and watch while. Potts, who
had been away to the penitentiary
long time and had so changed that he would
not likely be recognized if he should en-
counter anybody, should go through the
house; that Potts entered by the side door,
and knowing that moneyis usually kept in
sleeping rooms, went at once upstairs that
as he looked in at Ada's door she was stand
ing with her back to the door, making her
toilet before her mirror; that she saw Potts IN
the mirror, and turned toward him; that he
sprang toward her and struck her on the side
of the head with a set of brass knuckles; that
she screamed and he ciutched the handker-
chief about her neck and silenced her voice;
that he asked, where's your fathers
money! and she could not tell; that he
whipped out his knife and said, Where's
the money!" and still she gasped through
the frightened kerchief, II don't know"
Eyes you do; where is it?'' mo, don't
know That she struggled to get away, and
he threw herz against the bed and then to
the the floor %oDsr Come oh s YO"' W6 don's
know" That he threw up her
clothes to torture her, but, though
she struggled, she could not tell where the
money was; that he pricked her with the
knife to make her tell, and still she could
not; that be pricked her deeper and deeper
and finally, in his rage, plunged the blade
in to the Hit; that in the ecstasy OF pain and
fright she threw herself over on her back
and received the fatal abdominal wound;
TIT she now fell back SPECIFICS, and the
villain saw that he had committed the great
est of crimes; that the desire for money now
gave way to q desire for his own safety, and
he cut her throat to make sure she should
not rise against him; that there was now no
time to stop to look for plunder-escape,a and
eseape only, was on his mind; that he hur-
ried down the stairs and out at the back door,
where he beckoned to his companion, who
came to him, and together they hurried
around back of the house. climbed over the
south fence and ran through the grove, the
patch of tall weeds. the deep, dry run, and
sneaked along inside the hedge where they
could not be seen from the road-bloody-
hearted murderers skulking beyond the reach
of auy human eve