The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-17

detectives and police worked hard 10 get
some clew as TO the identity OF the muir
derer"
At this junCture i'm the conversation De-
tective Timothy Splan. who has been con-
nected with the police force longer than
any other detective. and who was for a
number of years captain of the department.
came into the office. He was asked 10 give
an example of case where a murder was
committed i'm the early days and one
ever held for the crime After rubbing his
chin for few minutes he said:
There were quite a number of them,
but the only one that 1 can recall at this
time is the famous Foreman murder. which
occurred in 1888 near Traders Point.
small settlement a few miles west or the
city. An old woman named Foreman and
her married daughter lived together on a
little farm. Both of the women were well
along in years, the former close TO eighty.
while the latter was. l believe. about fifty.
One morning in the early spring a farmer
going by discovered both their bodies. and
they had been murdered either during the
night early in the morning. IL was.
however. supposed that the murder had
taken place early in the morning because
the daughter had an armful of corn. as
though she had started out TO feed the hogs
and was killed i'm her tracks.
AT the time this murder created a great
amount of excitement, but no one was ever
strongly suspected of IL. Ii was a most
brutal AFFAIR in every way, as the two
women had been struck on the back OF the
head with some kind of a sharp instru-
ment-presumably a corn knife
Then said Captain Kinney: You see.
there is also class of murders in which
il sometimes takes a long while 10 ascer-
tain who the murderer is. but finally he is
caught, as in the instance of the killing OF
Frank Redmond. the fireman at the No. s
engine house on Massachusetts avenue.
who was shot by a burglar engaged in rob-
bling the store OF Job Eldridge. directly
across the street from the engine house,
one night shortly after supper
''Eldridge gave the alarm. and number
mond IN the lead. He gained on the rob-
Der closely that the latter shot at him.
and the bullet struck Redmond square in
the forehead.
THE shooting happened at the first alley
running north. south of the engine house.
Just as the burglar turned into the alley
he shot the fireman, who was only few
feet behind him.
AT the time no trace could be found OF
the robbers. for there were three OF them.
and they afterwards turned out TO be James
Burton, Carl Harvey and Edward Phillips.
Burton, however. was the man who actual
ly did the shooting.
were brought here and every effort was put
forth TO get the men who did IL, but IL was
eight months before Burton was arrested.
and AT the time of his arrest he was serving
q term in the penitentiary In Tennessee.
We got him through the Bertillon system
He had served one term ut Columbus. o.
Carl Harvey and Edward Phillips were
both arrested not long after the murder
and the detectives ascertained that Bur-
ton had been with them. but he could not
be found. His picture was sent broadcast
and he was located i'm the Southern prison.
After rather hard fight" said Captain
Kinney. with the authorities down there,
for hax~ II IN oil hEn
was finally brought here and Is now serv.
ing a life sentence at Michigan City"