The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-24
CRIMES ARE PLENTIFUL
TWO MURDERS NEAR TERRE HAUTE.
TWO SUICIDES NEAR MUNCIE.
Detective Sues for Heavy Damages for
False Arrest-Death of an Aged
Richmond Practitioner.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April 2S.-Terre
Haute has two murderers in Jail to-day
One is George Cowell, who fired three bull
lets into Annie Hartley. aged fourteen, and
daughter of Henry Hartley, for whom
Cowell. who is fifty years old. worked as
farmland until last fall. The other, Ed
ward High shot and killed William Pa
walski, a Polish miner, at Fontanet in
drunken quarrel.
About o'clock this morning Cowell came
upon Miss Hartley while she was talking
who lived across the road from the Hart
ley home, five miles east of the city. He
put his arm around her neck, spoke to her
and shot her, almost in the same instant.
Three bullets entered her head. He shot
her in the arm as she fell and fired again
as she lay in the road. This ball passed
through her body. Mrs. Helm grappled
with him and succeeded in getting the
weapon away from him, and threw it into
pool of water.
Cowell went to Fred Sankey's farm and
secured a Winchester rifle. He expressed
the intention to kill his daughter Maggie.
He could not find her, and returned to the
Hartley place with the intent to kill Henry
Hartley, father of his first victim. AS he
approached the place he met Elmer Pierce.
a young man who had succeeded him as a
farmland at the Hartley farm, and he
fired at him. Pierce, who was on horse
back, was not hit, and spurred his horse
into a gallop and escaped. Cowell then
took to the woods, and word was sent to
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police officers were sent out and, led by
Cowells grown son, who said that perhaps
he could have some influence with his IA
Their, found him in the woods. AT first he
threatened to shoot any one who came for
him. The son persuaded him to give up
the gun, and then the officers started to
put him in vehicle. He resisted desper-
ately for time but was overpowered by
numbers. AT the jail here he pretended to
have no recollection of what had happened,
and expressed great solicitude for the fate
of the girl.
Dr. Grape and DIR. Standard. of Terre
Haute, were in the neighborhood when the
shooting occurred and attended the girl
One ball passed through a lung and her
stomach, and the first one is lodged in the
| head. She cannot recover. Cowell, who is
a widower with four children, had worked
on the Hartley place four years and was
enamored of the girl he shot. This morn
ing she asked her to marry him. He was
discharged by Hartley some months ago,
after a disagreement over wages.
While William Pawalski was helping
Thomas Potter, with whom he boarded at
Fontanet. in preparing supper last night
Edward High staggered into the room and
dropped into chair, too drunk to know
what he was doing. He became abusive in
his language, and PawalsK resented what
he said. Finally, as Pawalski turned
toward him, High fired at him, the bullet
entering the Poles head. He died this
morning at z o'clock. High is less than
twenty-five years of age. and a son of
Justice of the Peace High, of Fontanet.
Pawalsh came to Fontanet to work in the
mines about four months ago.