The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-07-30
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HOOSIER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


the heat in the barracks. hospital and
mess hall at the Soldiers home. The
pesthouse and guard box. landmarks
of the home. have been RACED and cut
up into firewood.
South Bend = Bishop Linneborn.
formerly superior of the Holy
Cross seminary at Notre Dame uni
yersity. died suddenly in Dacca. India,
according to word that reached here.
Michigan City.-William Edwards.
thirty-eight years old. sentenced Octo-
Der %. 1907. from Clark county to
serve from ten to twenty years for
burglary, is dead in the state prison.
Warsaw.-Ethel Profit. four-year-
old daughter of Mrs. Joseph Profit,
was drowned in a rain barrel She
was playing around the barrel and lost
her balance, falling in headfirst.
Angola.-John Baxter, an attor-
ney of Auburn, dropped dead two
miles north of Waterloo He was
driving from Hamilton, where he had
been at lake resort with his family.
1t is not positively known yet wheth-
er he died from heart disease or a
stroke of paralysis Mr.. Baxter was
one of the best-known attorneys in
northern Indiana
Terre Haute. = When Dave. alias
Dude" Turner, aged forty-five. ar
rived on train from Linton, he
was arrested on information from the
police of that town where he had been
passing counterfeit silver dollars His
pockets were filled with the counter
feits and his travelling bag also was
heavy with them. He admitted max
ing the coins and laughingly apollo
gized for their erudeness, saying that
he had not had time TO finish them.
The police say he is a much wanted
man. Captain Thomas Hall of the
government secret service has beer
notified and will come to be present
at hearing before United States
vansville.-Detectives of an Evans
vile agency arrested a man giving
his name as l. r. Edwin of Green
vile, KY, but who is said to be John
Hays, murderer and highway rob-
Der, who escaped from the Kentucky
penitentiary six months ago. The man
vas captured as he was about to board
1 traction car at Hatfield near here.
While making the trip to Rockport. he
.ried to stab one of the detectives, but
vas prevented. The man escaped
rom the detectives after a twomile
chase through the woods, in which nu-
nerons shots were fired. A number of
saws and files were found on the man,
tut these, he asserted, he used for
making butcher knives for farmers.
Terre Haute.-With seventeen lead
dollars" in his possession, David
'urner, forty-fve years old, was
rrested. charged with having coun-
erfeit money in his possession.
lie was taken from train No. on the
hicago, Terre Haute & Southern
abroad. The arrest was made after
ne police had received a long-dis-
ance call from Linton. where Turner
alleged to have attempted to pass
ONE of the bad coins. Turner was
nown in Linton as Dude" and he is
aid to have gone to that city from
hicago. He is said to have admit
I'd making the bogus coins The
ork was crude, and the police de-
are Turner said that he had not
nished them yet"
Tipton.-Mrs. Gilbert Robinson.
lirty years old, is in Jail here,
larged with killing Walter Warner,
venty-six years old, whom she shot
he attempted to break into her
)nfe. The woman fired six shots
ON a revolver through a door, three
them striking Warner The young
an then swallowed poison and sew
ed an artery in his arm. The cor
Ter decided his death was caused by
e bullet wounds. Mrs. Robinsons
ght-year-old daughter witnessed the
agedy. Mrs. Robinson testified at
e inquest that Warner had annoyed
r frequently and that she and her
sband, laborer, had appealed to
e prosecuting attorney several
onths ago for protection.
Rockport. = After being vainly
ught by officers of the law
roughout Indiana and Kentucky,
lillian Hosey, charged with the muir
r of Joseph Ashley at Hatfield,
ar here, about four weeks ago. came
the county jan and surrendered TO
Spencer county sheriff He gave
the reason for his surrender that
was tired of living on blackberries.
d roasting ears, and his first re-
IS! was for Sheriff Kramer to give
n some dinner. Hosey came into
IN from Evansville with the avowed
ention of giving himself up, but
IDENTIFY became afraid, for he got
the car in town and went back
o hiding. Since then the woods
IT Rockport had been secured for
fugitive. but no trace of him could
discovered. The story of the trac-
4 conductor, 10 whom Hosey told
his purpose OF surrendering. was
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