The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-06

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Arriving at the filling sta
ton, police were met by the
soldier.
He was taken Immediately to po-
lice headquarters, where he is said
to have confessed the murder of his
wife Helen, 40, in their home East
Thirtv-eighth street near Pendleton
Pike. on the morning of Jan. 5, 1888.
Solemnlv the soldier handed de-
tectives a yellowed newspaper clip
ping bearing the following story OF
the tragedy.
With a smile. Mrs. Helen Edge,
40. wife of Sergeant Otis Edge OF
Fl. Harrison babe her husband
get the family car from the garage
in the rear of their home on R. R.
II, Box As.
Argued over Trip
Sergeant Edge left the door of
the house open and started for the
garage. As he did so, he heard a
shot from the house. Returning he
found his wife's body lying on the
floor in the bedroom. The woman,
according to Edges story to Deputy
Sheriffs Edward Kasenbrock and
Gus Cato. had bIndfolded herself
and then pressed the muzzle Of a
30 calibre revolver against her fore
head and fire one shot.
DIR. E. r. Wilson, deputy coroner
who investigated the death of the
woman. said the couple had ex-
changed a few slight words just be-
fore the woman pressed the weapon
to her forehead. The trouble arose,
DR.. Wilson said. when Edge refused
to take his wife to the cemetery
that she might place flowers on
the grave of her former husband.
Edge said he proposed a trip to
indianapolis instead, according to
the coroner. and the soldier believes
that his wife was not satisfied with
the proposed trip
Besides the husband two chill
dren by a former marriage. Claude,
u. and Noel. 10. survive. The chill
dren we're not at the house. A
neighbOr. Mrs. Eva Apt. was called
by the husband and notified the
sheriffs office"
ut Got Me"
The detectives finished reading
the newspaper account Edge braced
himself against the table in the de-
tective bureau and sadly shook his
head.
I've been on detached service
with the Civilian Conservation Corps
in Brown county" he said. Down
there in the woods, it got me- and
I couldn't stand the strain any long
er. decided to go back to the house
where I shot Helen. and kill my
self Then on the way, I thought 1
would call the police instead
In a shaking hand. Edge wrote
the following alleged confession,
which was witnessed by L. u. Baker,
Everett Steele and James Sentpey.
My name is Otis E. Edge. Ser
geant, Company E, Eleventh In
fantry, on detached service at Nash
Vile. Brown county. On Jan. 5.
1888. at Lawrence, Ind, on Thirty
eighth street close to Peacock RooSt,
in the afternoon about 2 o'clock, in
the bedroom of my home, I shot and
killed my wife Helen with a 80
cahber gun.
I threw the gun on the floor.
Her brother now has the gun. as
far as I know. I told her that if
1 caught her using dope again I
would shoot her. That is the rea-
son I killed her. We were continu-
ally having trouble over the two
children
Dr. Wilson and the deputy Sher-
ifs who investigated the case origi-
nally said that they had been mys-
titled at the time of the supposed
suicide by the position of the gun.
Mrs. Edge had been shot through the
left temple and the gun lay at her
right side. DR.. Wilson said he had
probed the wound and found the
course Of the bullet downward from
the top of her skull. He was re-
luctant, he said, to pronounce her
death a suicide
Sergeant Edge was formally
charged with murder. following his
alleged confession.