The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-06
BEARING THE MARK OF CAIN
Remarkable Story of Andrew Inflow, a
Boy Murderer and Fugitive.
One Brother Lynched and Another In the PEN
itentiary-How His Own Crime Was Com
mitted-Escsped from Plainfield.

Seated amid q group of men in Sheriff
Bob Emmett's comfortable little office, last
night. was q slender. dark-conplected boy,
who looked not to be o day over fourteen
years of age and, in truth, Is but little
more than sixteen. A rough pair of plow
shoes adorned the boys feet and his gen.
eral attire suggested nothing else b the
pillow boy. but the sharp, fox-llke face and
piercing black eyes as they restlessly roved
about the office. furtively scanning the
crowd. b~etokened something unusual about
the lad and impressed those who saw HIM
with q feeling of much more than ordinary
interest.
The boy was Andrew Inflow. brought here
yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Conway. of
Perry county. the Sheriff is on his way
TO the Reform School, at Plainfeld.
with his prisoner, and be landed
him at the jail, last night. heavily
ironed. for safe keeping until this
morning. In the life of this slender.
dark-faced youth there is a peculiar fatal
ity. and his brief years have been marked
with an experience such as few men are
brought to realize. Scarcely more than q
child. Andrew Inflow is cursed with the in
fallible mark of Cain. But no tells the
story Of his bloody crime without Q tremor
of the voice or q flush of cheek. There is
an old saw that says blood will tell, n
there may be some truth In the tradition.
If so. Andrew InlOw's veins teem with o
taint of awful crime, and his SURROUNDINGS
have certainly not been of that nature con-
ducive to hOnored manhood.
Dragged from his bed at night. when a
child In knickerbockers, and q witness to
the lynching of his brother by a brutal.
half-crazed mob; then, q few months later,
to hear O penitentiary sentence read to an
well schoolod In the viciOusness that sur
rounded him and hardened to a tempera-
ment that i'm pelled him to O deed OF muir
der in after years. The boy was raised
father Is o respectable. hard-working
farmer. Andrew failed to enjoy the prIvl-
leges of school, and grew up with little
knowledge except that picked MP on the
farm. He had q brother, Tom Inflow, and
two half brothers. Clay and John Davis.
In the year 1887 the neighborhOod
In which the Inlows lived was
startled into frenzy by a brutal
outrage committed in broad daylight with
in a few miles OF Unlontown and which
was directly connected with the Inflow
family. Annie Frank, q pretty girl or
eighteen years. belonging to one of the
best families, was found tied to q tree and
in q fainting condition. She bad been
cruelty mistreated, and as soon as she was
able TO tell the story denounced Clay
DAVIS, the half brother of Andrew Inflow,
as being the man who had assaulted her.
The accused could not be found, and the
mob, in searching for him. came upon John
Davis, and the latter, protesting his lnnO-
cence, was lynched within three hours
after his capture. Clay Davis. the really
guilty man. was caught a few days later
and sent to the penitentiary for twenty
one years.
careers and end were recountsd to young
Andrew Inflow until he believed himself
branded as an O~utcast. and on the Sd day
of August, 1891, he committed the crime for
which he has been, since last January, u
fugitive. On the date mentioned Andrew,
with his brother Henry. became involved
in a fight with TWO neigh boz BOYS. named
Tom and Dave Snyder. The trouble grew
out of q trivial matter, and was precipitat-
ed in the DOolittle sswmill. near Union
town. The Snyders were both attacking
Henry Inflow. and Andrew drew from bis
pocket q pistol and fired two shots. one
of which killed Tom Snyder, and an
other dan gerousiy wounded Dave. There
were many ~extenuatlng circumstances
connected with the killing. and the Jury
which tried the boy cut his sentence to two
years in the penitentiary. He lay in the
committed to the Reform school by Gov
ernor Chase. on account of his youth.
Andrew become q member of the institu-
ton in November, 1891, and escaped last
January while dong duty as q "trusty."
He went at once to his home in Perry
county, and was unmOlested by the officers
until last Friday, when his presence was
discovered by sheriff Conway. He was ar
rested at once, and is now on his way back
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