The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-07

poor woman died, and that man Is the pris-
oner at the bar Her lips are sealed. No
anman beng stood BY While In tine moon tSsir snq
courses through the heavens and saw that
tragedy except the prisoner. No one knows
shaw. In ali this world no one has been
found who can tell about 1t except him.
There was not a track of one burglar or
of the hand Of any man save his. Not
door had been touched, not window
ovsd as burglars % mould dS % Mn the HI65aw ngs5 0r
has not rested on any man except her nus-
band, William r. Hinshaw. Who killed
State s will sre e. tsas efS her rs murderer was the
prisoner at the bar. Murder will out. No
man can commit murder IN the good county
| of Hendricks and go uncaught. No muir
derer can tell an untruthfui story without
| being found out. Although her husband
| may have borne an unquestioned reputa-
| tion, he is the only man that was seen Win
| her. He was the only man that was with
| her.
HINSHAW's EIGHTEEN STORIES.
1.-The State will prove. gentlemen Of the
! jury, that the prisoner has told a lie from
| the beginning to end: a story that is in
| consistent with human experience. II
| man is honest. IL he is truthful. he has
| only one story he can TELL instead Of the
eighteen different stories he has told about
| the affair Yes, gentlemen of the jury, the
| State will bring you eighteen different peo-
pie who have heard from the prisoners
lips eighteen different stories in which he
purported to tell the details OIL the crime
An honest man has one story. Is
he an honest man. an innocent man,
| god among his people. They could not
| think he had lied. They could not but be-
eve his story They could not
| ton was set on foot. The prisoner told
| short story before the coroner, but after
wards he. was, brought from Randolph
| county virtually under arrest TO be ex-
| amined by the coroner He employed a
| lawyer before he would testify again be-
| fore the coroner to show that he was inno-
| cent. There he forgot the details which he
| had told before and he did not remember
| anything. He had forgotten all he had told.
| He had forgotten how 1t had happened.
| His friends looked for signs that would aid
| HIM. They were as scarce as rain In the
| desert
There were no signs. no evidence that
| burglars had been about After all that
terrific struggle which he had described to
some, the furniture was not disarranged
We will prove to your satisfaction that the
prove that the doors between the rooms
| were closed. The State will prove that his
story is a lie gotten up to save his neck
from the gallows. DR.. Strong, a warm
| friend OF the prisoner. who was early on
the scene, ordered the level-headed men to
take lanterns and hunt for tracks In the
snow, and all these men could find no
| tracks, save the barefoot tracks of the
prisoner Where Hinshaw claimed the ter
rible struggle occurred. near Tincher's
fence. there were no signs of 1t in the snow.
The tracks OF the men searching could be
seen, and also Hnshaws barefoot tracks,
but those were all. There was not a track
| OF burglar"
Here Mr.. Spaan took from a paper a
skull and showed on it where the bullet
had struck Mrs. Hinshaw. Continuing, he
said:
the part known as the motor area, and a
person receiving such a wound as that
would never move or speak ;;ntelligently
on the right side, just In front of the fs-
sure OF Orlando. slightly above the assure
of Silvius. went straight through the brain
going directly through what is known as
| the motor center OF the brain. The nei gh-
bors Immediately Investigated the premises
and found that pillow on which the head
| OF the poor murdered woman had last
| rested was powder burned.
WAS SHOT IN HER BED
cit will be shown beyond any controversy
that this woman was shot through the head
when she was lying on her face. and that
the murderer who fired the fatal shot did
1t deliberately by placing the pistol against
her head. leaving the powder marks on
the pillow and the side of her head.
''The neighbors also found. within short
time after the tragedy. a pair OF trousers
lying near the woodshed, with bloody marks
on the suspenders and on the pockets. These
were laid on a block near the woodshed
with their pockets turned inside out A
little south of them was found a razor,
bloody; little south Of that, along the
same line. was found pocketbook. Strange
ly as 1t may seem. gentlemen of the jury.
longed to the defendant. There was found
also, within few days after the tragedy,
within twelve feet Of that place where the
body OF his wife was found the revolver
with which she met her death The re-
volver also belongs to the defendant. Ii
will be strange, indeed, to conceive that
burglars would break into a house and xii
with a revolver belonging to the defendant
and with a razo. belonging TO him.
at was found that the defendant had
to maintain that all of those wounds were
self-inficted Two wounds appeared Ct
M ett tse S nsde ann "f Se ar on and few
gashes were found upon his breast, ever,
one of which is superficial. going very 1T.
regular in their outlines. Not wound wa.
found near vital part, and the evidence
will show that within ten days after he re-
cured.
"He was shot also. One shot entered the
left breast in a glancing direction tSwar,c
lower down, superficial in its character Ane
both of these wounds. the evidence VII
show, could have Deen SelI-lnulcteu
1.-The State will show that In the wood
shed, the opening of which was found
within few feet of where the trousers
razor and pocketbook were found hao
bloody marks on window SILL left there
| by the defendant, where he stood when ht
himself threw the trousers. the razor anc
| the pocketbood out, in order to give Color
to his story that burglars had committed
| the crime The revolver was found with the
chambers and barrel pointed away from ih'
house, and little scooped-uf dirt, show
ing that it had been thrown there, and that
too from the direction where the body o.
the wife lay.
NO TRACE OF BURGLARS.
"All about these articles diligent searcl
had been made for tracks. None was found
showing that there was studied effort oI
the part Of the murderer to conceal the di
rection from which these articles cam
when placed there"
Mr. Spaan then directed his sarcasm
against Mr.. Barnhill, the coroner, who ha'
conducted the examination throughout, an'
said that it was mot difficult to see tha
Mr.. Barnhill had nailed his flag to the mas
of the defense"
..Instead of turning over the weapons an
clothing to the State" continued Mr.. Spaan
''he turned them over TO the attorneys AM
relatives OF the prisoner. He employed Z
take evidence a Mr.. Parker. who was aft
erwards retained by the defense in tn
| case"
The post-morten examination at Winches
| ter was severely criticised, and one of tn
| Friday But garbled as are some OF tn
| ranorfs i, this case " said Mr. Spaan. "the'