The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-05-24
always denied this, and finally said
ne hit her behind the left ear with
billy" which he kept in the house.
Nav tmpIicate Others


ne hit her behind the left ear with
billy" which he kept in the house.
May ImpIicate Others.
Grover DeCamp, husband of Mrs.
Maude DeCamp stated this morning
that his wife had told him he would
know all the circumstances regarding
the burning of Mrs. Lucas before the
summer was over. Several weeks ago
she said she expected her father to
make a confession of the crime he had
committed. Mr.. DeCamp did not ask
his wife where she received her infor-
nation, nor did she offer to tell him.
"Maude was in Richmond at the
time of the fire and had not been
home for several weeks prior to that
time" said DeCamp. "She was en-
ployed in this city and spent most of
her time here. We were married five
weeks after the incarceration of her
mother.
after things had settled down, she
told me that her father would tell all
about the fire before the middle of the
coming summer. She stated that there
were other parties mixed up in the
affair and that this would all be dis
closed by Lucas. don't know whether
she knew of her fathers crime or not.
II do not believe that Lucas has
made complete confession but be-
lieve he will make another confession
later and that other parties will be i'm
plicated, just how, do not know. | did
not want to cause any i'll feeling be-
tween Maude and myself and for that
reason / did not press her to tell me
more. Things that she told me have
all come out true and other develop
ments which she predicted will probab-
ly follow.
Decamp's Hunt Successful"
my wife was not surprised when I
walked into the door of her aunt's
home at 1874 Blackford street, Indi-
annapolis. She had evidently been ex-
pecting me and was glad to see me. I
have asked her nothing regarding her
reason for leaving home. She said that
she was ready to return.
Mrs. Isaac Lucas also disappeared
three weeks ago and it was thought
that she had gone to the home of Mrs.
John Lucas where my. wife has been
for the last week. Both my wife and
Mrs. John Lucas said that they knew
nothing of Mrs. Isaac Lucas and that
she had not been in Indianapolis"
Is Not Insane.
Some of the police officials believe
Lucas is shaming and that he is not
insane. 1t was stated by the authorities
that he confessed hoping that his mind
would be relieved of it's terrible bur-
den. Now he realizes his predicament
and is trying to make the officials be-
lieve he is insane, it is said. WI
Chief Gormon stated that If Lucas
is insane now he was not at the time
the murder was committed. The main
cas- is the finding of the sleeve of his
shirt in the exact location he had plac-
ed it last September. He told Officer
Vogelsong Thursday evening that the
sleeve of his shirt was in the barn.
That evening Chief Gormon and sever
al other officials went to the barn.
They returned empty handed at mid
night and then questioned Lucas again.
The prisoner insisted that the sleeve
was in the barn and said it was behind
log about four feet long which was
under the hay.
Second Search Successful.
The officers returned to the farm
yesterday afternoon at three O'Clock.
They found the log described by Luz
cas- and in small hole under the log
found the sleeve. 1t smelt of coal oil
and is now in the possession of the
authorities. Lucas told the officials he
had torn the sleeve from the shirt be-
cause of the oil being spilled on it at
the time he poured 1t on his wife.
DR.. S. c. Markley was called to at
tend Lucas last night at the sugges-
ton of win A. Bond, counsel for Lu-
cas-. He talked incoherently and was
mentally deranged, according to the
physician. His pulse was stronger than
normal. Lucas refused to take medi-
cine believing that he was being pois-
oned a
Early on the morning of September
2S. 1912, the home of Seth Lucas,