Clore - Israel
Source: Crawfordsville Star Oct 27, 1881 p 1
Rumor was rife on the streets on Tuesday that a dastardly murder has been committed at Jackville, Fountain County. Jacksonville, or Jackville as itis better known, does not bear a very enviable name hence the public were not slow to give credence to a report that Is (Israel) Clore, a hard drinking citizen of that village, had been murdered by W.H. Spinning, a druggist at that point. The facts in the case are these, as related by Mr. Spinning himself while in the city on Monday. On Sunday afternoon Clore came into his drug store while no one was there but Sprinning's son, a young lad, and became abusive because he could get no whisky. He left after some words with the boy and returned again when Mr. Spinning was there himself and was finally ejected from the house. On Monday morning he was found cold in death in front of a house hard by. There were no marks or bruises on his body to denote death by violence, and the opinion of medical gentlemen and the coroner of Fountain County was that he came to his death from whisky and exposure having fallen in such a position that his blood refused to circulate. The murderer was whisky, and as usual he did his work
exceedingly neatly and welll --- kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Star, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana 27 Oct 1881 p 5
Dr. A.T. Steele and J. D. Vannuys were called to Jackville last Monday to assist in the post mortem examination of Israel Clore, who died very suddenly on Sunday evening. They report that there was no indication that violence had been used, as was supposed by many, but that death had ensued from intense congestion of the lungs. This is but another evidence of what dissipation and bad whisky will do. -- kbz