The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-15
The Story of the TRAGEDY Revealed
to Mrs. johnson slower, an EIwood
Medium, Alleged to BE True.
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ANDERSON, Ind, April 14-It was
learned to-day that tEe solving of the
Foust murder mystery, which attracted so
much attention at the time ofsthe murder,
on the morning of the Sth of last July,
and also during the past month, when
George Hires was arrested and last Sat-
urday sentenced to thirteen years in the
penitentiary, was due to spirit rappings
and the clairvoyancy of an EIwood medium,
Mrs. Johnson Slower well known in that
city and among the spiritualists of eastern
Indiana. The Stovers live a short way
from the Panhandle track, where the body
was found on the early morning Of July
by some workmen who were coming
from their nights work at a glass works.
1t was lying to one side on the enrbanh-
ment, the face turned up and the arms out.
AS soon as Mrs. Slower heard of the find
ing of the body she seems to have had
presentiment. Her husband was out of the
house, and she took her son and went into
a room to one side. II was made dark, and
she went under control The questions
and the story told by the spirits through
her were to the effect that the mans name
was Foust; that he had not been hit by a
train, but had been shot in a fight at
house on North Tenth street. which was
further described so that it could not have
been taken for any other than the Bolton
brothel 1t went on further to say that the
reason of Foust's death was because he
knew too much about the burning of a
barn north of Elwood, which, it was
claimed, was destroyed for the insurance
of a stallion owned by her husband. but
which had been taken out and cheap
horse put in it's place. These suspicious
had been entertained, or were afterward,
but as the story implicated her husband to
a greater or less extent she kept it a se-
cret
Weeks afterward the officers who were
Immediately put to work on the case, and
who battled with it four months without
finding a single clew that would lead to
the finding OF the place where the deed
was committed, or to the murderer, hap
pened to get an inkling Of the seance she
had held with her son, and they went to
her and she told them the story just as
she had received it, including every detail
They followed it. and, by locating the deed
at the Bolton house, were enabled to get
a good clew. The Bottoms had moved away
in the meantime, however, and could not
be found readily. AT last, after several
days work, the two boys, aged nine and
eleven, were found in the poorhouse and a
line was thrown out for them..l They had
been nursing the story of the crime
they had seen it, and when questioned told
what they knew. They admitted that it
had been committed att thefile mothers
house; that they had been awakened by
noise and had run to the door which
leads from their room to the kitchen,
where the deed was committed, when they
saw George Hires raise in his chair, pull
"a revolver from his pocket. and, leveling
it at Foust. who was sitting down, pulled
the trigger. causing instant death, the bull
let passing down through his heart. They
also swore that the accessories were Will
Cox and George and Ephraim Gruil, all in
jail at present and ready for trial. They
mad, however lost run of their mother,
who was also needed. Another two weeks,
and she was located at Kokomo and placed
under arrest. She told the same story, be-
fore hearing the boys testimony, and said
that she saw the deed through another
door-the one leading from her room. 1t
was upon this that the grand jury returned
anrindictment and the arrests were made
a mystery for eight months.
Hires has been sentenced TO thirteen years
medium, and by which, and no other, was
the mystery even thus far unearthed.
From present indications. however. it will
take another and a greater seance to clear
UP the mystery that is even more of mys-
terry than before the arrests. After Hires
was convicted Mrs. Bolton made an alleged
confession, and swore to it, that 1t was
she who did the shooting, and that she did
who was arrested in the north part of the
State Thursday night after the officers,
who have wanted him from the first, had
adjoining States. She says that she and
Kelly were in bed when Foust entered the
room. She got up, and. taking Kelly's re-
yolver. fired it, more to scare than to hurt
third man present at the time, she says,
and she describes him so that Johnson
Slower, the mediums husband, the man
who owned the stallion that was alleged to
have been burned for insurance, has been
accused. "A majority Of the people do not
standing the fact that he has been SEN
fenced. for it. and greater majority do
t r, lna5 sne canfession ust
Dan Kelly will land is still mystery. He
is, however, charged with the same crime
the first degree, ard as he was the last
man seen with Foust, and then under sus-
majority, charged with the commission of
the crime.
was shot with was taken off of his per-
son the morning after the killing, and is
now in the hands of the officers The fact
that he disappeared from Elwood directly
after that, and has been lodging the Off
GERS ever since, running over the greater
part Of Indiana and Ohio. ana finally set
Ford, in Fulton county, small out-of-the-
way station, where it was not likely that
get trace of him. is against him. To this
his attempt at cutting out OF the wooden
caldhoOSe at NORTH Judsoii, WINE DelnS
brought home adds another score against
him. He would in this case have made his
escape. in another FIVE minutes. ne having
that in another five minutes he could have
forced out a piece of plank and made an
opening for liberty. With the public there
is greater mystery than ever as to the
murderer. but Spiritualsts are in happy
state of mind this morning, the above story
having been acknowledged by the os1icers
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