Holmes, Ab - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Marshal Ab Holmes, of Cayuga, Fountain County, was shot and instantly killed Tuesday afternoon about 1 o’clock by Alf Campbell. From the facts learned in the case the murder must have been a most atrocious and cold blooded affair. Campbell had been drinking excessively, and was raising a disturbance in Groenkyke’s store. He had tipped over a box of vegetables on the porch in front of the store, and when Marshal Homes attempted to arrest him, Campbell pulled a revolver from his pocket and shot Holmes. The bullet entered his abdomen and caused instant death. Campbell fled immediately after the shooting and was pursued by a posse of enraged citizens. The last seen of the murderer he was swimming across the Wabash River.

(*Note that Cayuga is in Vermillion Co.)