The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-01

arrested the Adamses, who had just got
ready to remove the coffin. Mrs. Lee
had come to town after Downing to haul
the remains and Crump found her as he
returned to the city with the other two
prisoners. Mr.. Downing. knowing moth
ing of the circumstances, had agreed to
go up after noon and take the body Of
Miss Pickett to Goshen. Mrs. Lee was
tried Thursday, found guilty by a
Justice, and bound over To cOurt.-Rich-
mond Independent.
VILLA Clara Vanlue is only fourteen
years of age, but she is evidently bent
on seeing the worlds fair if it takes
the last calf on Farmer Nanlue's farm
and though prison gates yawn for her
on her return from the great White
City. With $65 of her fathers savings
in her reticule and a fixed determine
ton in her mind, Villa Clara. for all
her youth and inexperience, has sue
ceeded in eluding the police of Kokomo
and outwitting the constabulary of
Greentown. If she has succeeded in
evading the Chicago officers, Villa Clara
is no doubt at this hour munching an
tique ham sandwiches in the court of
honor, gazing on the blue waters of
Lake Michigan from the peristyle, or
feasting her wondering eyes on the
marVels of the midway. Sunday after
noon the girls father. William Vanlue,
a prosperous farmer living a short dis
lance northeast of the city, missed her
from home, and q short time thereafter
discovered that a sum of money-S65 in
all-which he had secreted about the
house, had disappeared with her. The
fact that Villa Clara had informed some
of the neighbors that she proposed to
quit home, and the further fact that
she had been receiving attentions from
young man objectionab BILE to her pa
rents, led the father to suspect an
elopement. In this, however, he was
mistaken. Villa Clara had simply gone
on a sightseeing tour-in this particu-
lar instance-vcry wisely declined to en-
cumber herself with a young man.
Kokomo Dispatch.
The news is going the rounds of the
press that John Condor, the famous
Chicago gambler, who got his start in
Rochester, has lost 50 heavily during
the past year that he is practically gone
TO the wall" Condor and Sam Doll COM
menced their careers Of fortune-making
at the game table in LoganspOrt and
Rochester. This was fifteen or twenty
years ago and their first year in this
city melted them $4,000 clear profits
The Logansport end Of the tiger was also
quite profitable and the firm was soon
rich enough TO go to Chicago and
plunge" in everything from cards to
prize fighting Condor drifted into horse
race gambling and everything he touched
turned into money. But the gamblers
fate has overtaken him. He was one OF
the principal owners of the Roby race
track and il is said that he lost money
heavily i'm his endeavor TO down Ed Cor
rigan the owner of the West Side track
in Chicago. COrrigan was very success
full in his business and finally got the
better Of Condor and started him on the
down grade, snd as he went down there
were many who. during his prosperity
were his friends, that gave him kick
and a push after he once began 10 slide
This report revives the story of Con.
dOls early boyhood days in Fulton
county aud his long search for his young
est sister. who was lost in the separation
of the family of small children at the
death Of theeparents. But there is lots
of maple lear tint in the story and il is
of the Same dazzling hue as when pub
lished In these columns year ago.
Rochester Sentinel.