Holloway, Ed - wrecked trin? - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

The case of Ed Holloway, charged with turning a switch at Fontanet, wrecking a train and killing two persons, is still fresh in the public mind. There seems to have been no new developments in the case, so far as newspaper accounts have been concerned, since it was reported that Holloway had denied having anything to do with the wreck and claimed to have been in Rosedale that night near 10 o’clock, and got something to eat at a restaurant. The Vigo County Sheriff went to Rosedale to investigate the matter and upon his return, it was announced in the newspapers that he refused to tell what he had found out, and they would have to wait until the preliminary trial. This seemed rather strange, and the friends of Holloway surmised that Holloway had at last come to himself and told the truth concerning his being in Rosedale.

Yesterday “Babe” Holloway, a brother of Ed, went down to Rosedale and called at this restaurant to get something to eat, and also to pump the owner about whether he remembered Ed Holloway being there the night in question. Babe Holloway did not make himself known, but became engaged in conversation with the restaurant owner, Samuel H. Hogan, who told him that he had made an affidavit concerning the matter and it was taken by the Vigo County Sheriff and delivered to the coroner. He then described a man who had called at his restaurant that night about 10 o’clock and asked for a piece of bologna sausage. He said that he looked something like his new caller (Babe Holloway). The sausage was not in stock so he fixed a sandwich of Ed, who sat down and ate it. Then Holloway narrated to him about how he had got run away from the train at Fontanet by the strikers, and forced to leave the place. He said the bruise on his forehead was caused by a rock thrown by a striker. It also seems that Ed told the same story to other parties in Rosedale before he called at the restaurant. After he left the restaurant he said that he slept in a box car and arose early and walked to Rockville, where he was arrested. From these facts it is seen that Holloway, to have thrown the switch at Fontanet, must have walked back, a distance of six miles, after 10 p.m. and after wrecking the train at near 11:30 o’clock, have walked seventeen miles to Rockville by early the next morning. All of these matters will be brought out on next Monday at the preliminary trial in Terre Haute. . – thanks so very much to “S” for all the typing