The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-03
MURDERED THE HUSBAND.
Work OF n False Wife and Her
Lover.


Lover.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
ELKHART. Ind, April 2.--Wiliam
Kehres, the young farmer who was sup
posed to have committed suicide at his
home near this city Sunday night, the body
being found badly charred in a fence corner.
was decided by Coroner Kreder this after
noon to- have beer fou,ly murdered. A
careful examination of the body to-day re-
vealed that there were no bullet holes in
it, though a revolver with two chambers
empty had been found lying by it's SIDE
The head had been badly bruised with a
club which caused death and the body
placed in fence corner and set on fire.
When Kehres's wife heard the pistol shot
Sunday night, which is supposed to have
been signal to her, she Immediately in
formed the other members of the family
that she was going to Canada and left the
house, since which time she has not re-
turned, though sne and her alleged para
mour, Edward Mosher, a weil-known neigh
boring FARMER, were Immediately afterward
driven 10 Jones's Crossing, railway sta
ton a few miles distant, by Gilbert Brown,
who has been placed under arrest. These
facts were brought out in the examination
to-day. Detectives and officers on the
track of the couple.
A dispatch from Goshen says Bench war
rants We're issued to-day for Mrs. Kehres,
Eb Mosier her alleged paramount and Gill
bert Brown, all charged with the murder
of Kehres or of being accessories to it, The
coroner states that the deatl was deiib-
crate murder, that Kehres was, killed by
blows inflicted the head and that the
revolver with two chambers empty was
thrown the body merely as blind
evidence brought forth at the inquest points
strongly to the three persons mentioned
IS a woman of uncommon beauty and love
of admiration from other men than her hus-
band led to the trouble between them which
resulted in his brutal murder Sunday night.
Much excitement is aroused over the
tragedy and great interest is taken in the
pursuit of the fugtives.
His Luck Runs to Divorce Suits.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, April Am inter-
esting divorce suit filed in the Putnam
Circuit Court but taken to the Clay Cir
cult Court on a change of venue, has been
compromised. The defendant is Alfred
Hirt, wealthy lumber dealer of this city,
and the plaintiff is his young wife with
two children. The terms of the agreement
are that the plaintiff gets $1,000 alimony
the custody Of her children and the de de-
both sides of the case. The case will
be called Tomorrow at Brazil, when the
compromise will be ratified in court. The
defendant has been married several times
and this is the second $1,000 divorce suit
he has adjusted in the last few years.
Teachers Charged for Licenses.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
~ SHELBYVILLE, Ind, April 2.-Another
chapter in the story of the selling of
school examination questions, which was
published in the Journal some weeks ago,
has come to light in Johnson county. Last
Saturday, when the teachers assembled for
examination by superintendent Patterson,
Miss Jeanette Englebach, who was one
of the persons examined, asked him how
much the license was. Miss Englebach
then told him that Professor Owen, who
conducted the last examination, charged 80
cents for the license. An investigation
proved that every class examined by Prof.
Owen during the term of Patterson as
county superintendent had been charged
for their licenses.