The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-06-13
Prosecutor Says Young Man
Enormously Believes Alb
bington Residents Seek His
Return to EaSthaven.
Holds Opinion Holler Placed
Vitriol in Spring Supplying
Village With Its Water
Supply.

Prosecutor Keller said today that
by Thomas Lamb, an uncle OF VIII
Holler, paroled Easthaven patient liv-
ing near Arlington, which would tend
to alter his opinion that Holler' was
responsible for placing blue vitriol in
the spring which furnishes Arlington
with its water supply.
The prosecutor said that seemingly
ali the foundation Mr.. Lamb had for
the statements he made yesterday was
the information Mrs. Holler, the
young mans mother, had furnished
Mr. Lamb, pointing out that it was
perfectly natural for a mother to de-
fend her child and be biased in her
opinions.
"Hollers mania is that the people
OF Abingdon have it in for him and are
seeking TO accomplish his undoing,'
Mr. Keller said. When Sheriff Bayer
talked with HOller right after the
spring poisoning incident, telling him
that some people had suspected him
to be guilty of the OffenSe, HOller re-
piled eXcitedly that he was not guilty
and that if he was to be arrested on
such a charge then arrests should be
made of the people who had poisoned
the spring on the HOllcr farm. He
told the sheriff he could taste some
of this poisoned water if he SO de-
sired OF course the spring on the
Holler farm was never poisoned HOl-
Ter also complained to the sheriff that
his hogs had been sprayed with poi
SON.
Sees HolIer Armed.
Despite Mr.. Lambs denial that his
nephew has been going about the
country in the neighborhood of Abing-
ton recently heavily armed, Sheriff
Bayer was informed that an Abingdon
man who talked with him had report
ed Holler to be armed with rifle and
two revOlvers.
The local authorities have no infor-
nation today as to HOller's wherea-
bouts. Mr. Lamb said Holler left his
farm last Sunday.
Prosecutor Keller scouts at the the
Ory that certain persons had plotted
for young HOller'S return to the in
sane hospital to remove him as the
direct heir of his mothers $4,000 es-
tate. The prosecutor points out that
If HOller was sane, as his mother and
uncle assert DR.. S. +. Smith would
not permit him to remain an inmate
Of the insane hospital. Further he
points out that If arrested on an in
sanity charge there would be no
chance for the authorities to rail
road" him to Easthaven because ha-
beas corpus proceedings could be at
once resOrted to by HOllerS family, in
which case it would be necessary for
the state to prove HOller to be an in
sane man before he could be returned
to the asylum.
Line of Inheritance.
AS fnal argument to refute the
assertion that HOIler might have been
victim of plot to remove him as
his mothers direct heir, Mr.. Keller
points out that the person supposed
to be most Interested in the success
of this alleged plot would not be the
direct heir to the estate. even though
Holler was declared to be incurably
insane. The direct heirs in such an
event, the prosecutor said. would be
Mr.. Lamb and Mrs. Holler's two
young grandchildren, the children of
a son who died some time ago
No Credence is placed in the charge
that a responsible resident of Abing-
ton asserted he had never detected
the pollution of the water supply in
that city, for, the prosecutor said Mr.
Lamb admitted to him that this man
had told him he had never examined
the water at the time its pollution
was discovered,
What is more" Mr. Keller conclud-
ed Il know that blue vitriol was plac-
ed in the spring because | found some
of it myself and brought il back with
me to Richmond"