HAM, Nehemiah
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 28 Nov 1874 p 8
Sheriff Boyd of Fountain County explained in our Circuit Court last Monday why he has not arrested Joe Ingersoll, the man who has confessed to the murder of Nehemiah Ham near Alamo several years ago. He stated that he visited the residence of Ingersoll in the latter part of July but found him too sick to be moved. He visited the house again some time afterwards and could not find him. He afterwards heard of him running at large at Crawfordsville under the very nose, so to speak, of the vigilant officers of our own county and then he didn’t make any further attempt to arrest him. This whole thing looks like a farce. If Ingersoll had been wanted he could have been arrested almost any time within the past two months. He has apparently made no effort to conceal himself. - kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Saturday, 19 September 1874
The Review this week publishes the result of an interview with Joe Ingersoll, who confesses to the murder of Nehemiah Ham near Alamo several years ago. Ingersoll is living with his father in the edge of Fountain County. The Review says he talks freely concerning the murder, though greatly troubled by the memory of the horrible deed. He came home last year in what was supposed to be the last stages of consumption, but The Review thinks it is less consumption than the heavy weight of crime on his conscience that troubles him.