The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-10-28

to run. They obtained only 8 cents
from the cash drawer.
There were three men in the gang,
and they were seen running in the
street Immediately after the shooting.
In the meantime several men had been
around and all started out in search OF
the burglars, but they made their es
cape. Three suspicious strangers were
seen in Bronwstown. and it is supposed
they are the guilty ones
There are two postoffices at Browns
town, one for Brownstown, and one for
Ewing, a small town near Brownstown.
JURY OUT THIRTY-ToUR HOURS.
At 10 o'clock last night the Jurors in
the case against Harry Hiatt, at
Noblesville. charged with the murder
of his wife. had been out thirty-four
hours. and there seemed to be no pros
pect of agreement. Nothing has
come from the jury room indicating
how the jury stands. and 1t is believed
1T will disagree. At o'clock last night
Judge vestal was called to the Court
House by the jury and asked to read
again his instructions. He complied
with the request and then went home.
saying that If a verdict was agreed up
on he would not receive 1t until this
llof nS nc III VI NiiHt
the Jury is celebrating on the case is a
surprise to the public. II was thought
verdict would be returned in few
hours.
OBJECTS TO USE OF HEARsE.
James Davis, age eighty eight. Of
Thorntown, ten miles from Lebanon,
objected TO the usual way of bearing
| the bodies of the dead to rest. and on
his dying bed one of his requests was
| that no hearse or any similar vehicle be
used at his funeral. His body was TAX
| en- TO the cemetery in an open sprin 6
wagon. Mr.. Davis had been married
| four times and widow, four sons and
| a daughter survive
POSSUNS ARE CHICKEN THIEVES.
A new kind of chicken thief was kill
| ed at the home of Rel Crisler. in the
shape of a possum. Crisler. who lives
southeast of Shelbyville, was seated in
| his house a few nights ago, when ne
heard a commotion in his henhouse. He
obtainer a lantern and. with Mrs.
Crisler, went to the chicken yard. Near
an old tree they saw the possum eating
| a fat spring chicken. AS soon as the
animal saw the two people it climbed
the tree. Mr. Crislee took a rifle and.
after the third shot brought the chick
en- thief to the ground.
| NINE YEARS WITHOUT TRIAL.
The cases of Mordecai Cole versus NJ.
E. Pangburn ct al, Mordecai Cole
| versus Lewis Chapman and Nj. e. Pang
burn versus Lewis Chapman, of Yer
non, which have been on the Jennings
circuit court docket since 1902, have
been sent back to Clark county. They
were sent to Soft county once on a
change of venue, but have never been
tried.
| The suit are the result of the alleged
defaulting of a deputy county treasur-
ler, and a large number of prominent
men have been engaged in them Ward
Watson, willard New, Burt New,
Charles Jewett and others have APP
peared as counsel in the cases which
have been so long delayed.
ANTOxIN KILLS CHILD.
/ Nellie the nine year-old daughter OF
| Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Woodfill of Green's
burg, died fifteen minutes after re-
ceiving an injection of antitoxin as a
preventive against diphtheria. The
house had been guarantined because
some of the children had germs, but the
Quarantine had just been lifted and in
order to be perfectly safe the parents
had called In the physician TO give