McClure - kills Newlin
Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier 25 Oct 1949 Tue p 12
Crawfordsville, Oct 24 – Frank McClure, 51 was indicted on two counts today by the Montgomery County grand jury in the 30-month-old slaying of William Newlin. Newlin, 70-year-old trash hauler, was robbed, beaten and thrown in Dry Branch Creek at the south edge of Crawfordsville, April 5, 1947. The grand jury charged McClure with first degree murder and with murder during the commission of a robbery. He had been held in jail here since Sept 7 when he was arrested at the end of a penal farm sentence for drunken driving. Harry Stonebreaker, who had been held along with McClure, was not indicted and officials said he would be released. One of the grand jury witnesses was the dead man’s daughter, Mary Newlin, she had been housekeeper for McClure.