The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-21
GRAND JURY,s REPORT.
Fitzpatrick, Charged with killing
DOnge, Released.

DOnge, Released.
Late yesterday evening the county grand
jury completed its work for the September
term and returned thirty-four indictments
to the Criminal Court. Among them were
the following George White. Sept 10. muir
der Of Howard Hansing, at Lawrence;
Louis Howard, assault and battery with in
tent to kill; Harry Moore, petit larceny
and receiving stolen goods; Cornelius Col
Inns, assault and battery with intent to
rape; Austin Jenkins and Arthur Kelley,
assault and battery with intent to rape;
John HEM, grand larceny and embezzle-
ment; Stoughton Bartell, grand larceny;
Edward Jones, grand larceny; Southern
Scott, grand larceny; Charles Madison petit
larceny; William Galloway, grand larceny.
The grand jury failed to find an indict-
ment against William Fitzpatrick, who was
charged with murder. Fitzpatrick killed
Frank S. Donge by striking him with
billiard ball at the Capitol House on the
evening of Aug. 16. The men quarreled over
q game of pool and Fitzpatrick hurled the
ball, as he after ward claimed, in self-de-
Tense. He left the city the night of the
tragedy, but returned the next day after
learning that Donge had died of his injuries.
The grand jurors, after hearing the story
Of the killing, recommended that FitZpat-
rick be discharged for lack of evidence on
which to find an Indictment. The jury rec
commended the discharge of others, as fol-
lows: Henry Matthews, grand larceny and
burglary; Thomas OBrieD, grand larceny;
Joseph Kefford, false pretenses; George w.
Brown and Charles Patterson, false pre-
lenses; Owen Darnell, assault and battery
to kill; Alice Hawley, arson; Carl Harvey,
false pretenses; William Taylor, assault and
battery to rob, and William Deakin, false
pretenses. The jury continued the cases OF
Della Arid and Philip Toner, charged with
grand larceny.
During the session the jury visited the
county asylum, and in the report to the
court yesterday made the following sugges-
ton: That steps be taken to remove the
insane occupants of the institution from
their present quarters, on the third floor,
to some part of the building easier of ac-
cess in case of fire. 1t would be prac-
tically impossible to handle. them safely
from their present quarters in case OF an
unmanageable fire, and there would be dan
ger of great loss of life in case of an enler-
6ency of this kind. The jury also reported
a visit to the county jail, where the food
was found to be of a wholesome quality.
While at the Jail the attention of the jury
was called to the apparent unsatisfactory
condition of the bedding in some of the
cells. 1t was explained to the jurors that
this was to be changed at once, and would
have been done earlier that day had 1t not
been visiting day at the institution. The
Jury was shown new mattresses which We're
to take the places of the old ones. In their
report the jurors recommended that better
hospital accommodations be provided at the
jail, and that quarters be set apart for the
proper care of insane prisoners, there being
one of these prisoners ir the Jail at the time
of the iury'S visit.