The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-30
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money for Mrs. HenkeIS return TO this
city and requested the authorities TO
send his mother home She was fur
nished with a ticket and placed on the
train al Antwerp to come TO TT. Wayne.
Her folks were al the depot to meet her.
but she did not arrive. 1t was learned
that she had left the train at New Haven
and was seen walking south a day or
two later she was seen by Surveyor
Branstratter. The story of the finding
Of the body is familiar TO the public
TT. Wayne Journal.
a dispatch from English. Crawford
county, gives the following sensational
statement; but everything i'm the dis
patch and sensational line from English
must be taken with due allowance for
its truth. 1t says: THE arrest Of Frank
Brown, the alleged hOuSebreaker at Tas-
well, IS developing a great deal Of Cos
sip. theodore Starr, marshal OF this
city, who arrested Brown, Denbo, Nc
Mabel and Nash. was the associate de
tective with James Jones, who died so
mYsteriOuSly two years ago. Messrs.
Starr and Jones worked up the case
against Frank Brown and Joseph Denbo,
who were accused Of robbing Joseph
WalnStOck a peddler Jones was pol
soned on the evening of the trial of the
accused. John Dicus. Mrs. John Pope
and Thomas Trusty all important wit
nesSes in this case. died when they
should have appeared in court. There
John c. Carr. who gave away the affair
at Taswell. was the witness who estab-
lished an alibi for Brown. and Denbo was
marshal OF English when Brown and
DenbO were first arrested. Last night
William r. Wright John Denbo. Sher-
man Hughes. all we'll known citizens,
were arrested upon charge Of robbing
smoke house in March last. The infOr-
nation was given ny Brown and others
already in Jail for HOUSEKEEPING. and
grave doubts exist as TO their guilt.
Wright is an eX-marshal of this town and
OF Leavenworth The jail at LeavenwOrth
is being guarded to prevent Browns re-
/ lease by his friends or punishment by
mob
Anthony F. Smith died here Satur-
day He was one Of the earliest se'-
tiers at the junction Of the Wabash ID
Eel river. When he came here the coun-
ty was not organized and L0gansport
was but an Indian trading post. He
was born in Harrison county, Indiana,
Dec. b. 1917. and came to this place in
1928 with his father, James Smith, who
was appointed Indian blacksmith
through the fundamentally of Gen. Tip
ton at that time Indian agent. An
thOnv Smith s father was a member of
the first board of commissioners of Cass
county which was organized in 1929 The
/ opportunities possessed by the deceased
of attending school early in life were
meager but such as they We're he made
the most Of the situation and with the
practical advantages obtained by depU-
tyship in the county clerks office with
Col. DuTet, in 1892. he became an accu-
rate and capable business man. He re-
NAMED in the clerks Office here until in
August, 1886, when he went TO Fulton
! county. then just organized, and made
that county his home for twenty-nine
years. his chief business being con-
nected with the Rochester mills. He
4 r-4a4 In, I,.
house of representatives at the session
of 1856 Upon his return he was
elected judge of the probate court of
his county and held that position until
1850 when he was elected county clerk
and recorder which office he held until
1856 In 1865 he left Fulton county and
went to Minneapolis where he engaged
in the undertaking business until 1868
when he returned to LOganspOrt where
he continued TO reside until his death.
He was ore year judge of the criminal
court of this city and afterward be-
came deputy clerk under Maj. McFadin,
acting as such deputy from the organi-
cation to the close of the old superior
court He then became court clerk in
the circuit court, which position he oc-
cupied for many years. His later years
had been occupied III less active en-
ployment When he received his last
illness he was serving in the capacity Of
justice of the peace of this township,
which office he had held for some years.
On the 5th of April, 1887, he was mar
ried to Miss Amanda NJ. Chamberlain,
daughter of Alexander Chamberlain, the
first permanent white settler in Cass
county. To this union were born nine
| children, only one OF whom, James, who
lives in Colorado, survives. Mrs. Smith
died in Minneapolis in 1858. Mr.. Smith
was again married in 1868 to Mrs Mary
Ann Barron) Heth who died several
years ago. In 1891 Mr.. Smith was mar
ried to Mrs. NJ. A. Myers who survives
him.-Logansport Journal.