News of the past
From the Fort Wayne
Daily Gazette,
May 28, 1881
$200.00 Reward
The above reward is offered for the arrest and delivery to the sheriff
of Bartholomew county, Ind, of
Francis Marion
Fox, who
on Friday, the 20th day of May, 1881, shot and mortally wounded
Mrs. Mary Pittman, of said county.
Description of Fox - Aged 37 years, about 5 feet and 9 inches high,
weighs from 150 to 160 pounds, has black hair, blue eyes, and is rather
fair completed, a scar from a
musket ball wound,
(either in the right or left shoulder, not positive which,) the ball
entering in front near the top of shoulder and ranging downward, was
extracted from near the shoulder blade, leaving an ugly scar, was clean
shaved and wore a dark suit of clothes when last seen.
FL Whittington
Columbus, Ind,
May 23, 1881
From The Fort Wayne
News and Sentinel March 28, 1919
Plows Up $200 In Old
Fair Grounds Near Columbus
Columbus, Ind.,
March 28 - Odo
Boyer was plowing garden lots in the old Bartholomew county
fair grounds. The plowshare turned over a furrow and Odo discovered a
badly worn and decayed billfold. Two hundred dollars in gold and paper
fell from it as he opened the folds, the paper money falling to pieces.
Boyer says he will try to get the paper money redeemed.
From Sandusky Register (Ohio)
January 11, 1895
A Kiss for All
Shelbyville, Ind., Jan. 10 - In Union township Miss Emma Bedstadt
was found in her room with a vial of carbolic acid half emptied near her
bedside. She was found by George Theobald, in whose family she
was living, and when he entered the room she handed him a letter and
pointed to the acid, after which she turned over and died. The letter
stated that the world had no charms for her and that she would be better
off in the grave. She begged forgiveness from her aged parents, who
reside in St. Louis Crossing, Bartholomew County, and closed with a kiss
for all.