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Knowles - Warren

Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Friday, 25 January 1895

A special from Logansport gives the following additional particulars of the shooting of Warren Knowles, of this city:

Warren Knowles was assaulted last night in this city and fatally shot through the left lung. He will hardly live till night. Harry Warden and Riley Ellis, two widely known local roughts, are in jail charged with the crime. In his ante-mortem statement this morning, Knowles stated that the two men came up to him and John Lawler, a Vandalia switchman, as they wee talking, and without the slightest provocation, Ellis struck him over the head. At the same time Warden drew a revolver and discharged it directly against his breast. The ball barely missed the heart. Knowles had been employed at a restaurant at Crawfordsville Junction for several months, and he came here last Saturday in search of work. On account of the previously bad record of the two prisoners, public feeling is aroused and all day crowds have thronged about the jail and court house, in anticipation of sensational developments.

Col. Anderson, proprietor of the Junction House, went to Logansport on Tuesday to attend the bedside of Knowles, who was still alive. Col. Anderson brought Knowles here from Illinois having known him all his life as a good boy. The bullet was removed from Knowles’ body Tuesday.

Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Friday, 25 January 1895

A special from Logansport to the Indianapolis Journal says: Warren Knowles, aged 20, of Crawfordsville, Ind., was fatally shot at 8 o’clock tonight in front of the Vandalia depot here, by Harry Warden, aged 20 years, a teamster of this city. Knowles was attacked by Warden and Riley Ellis, the latter holding him while Warden deliberately put a revolver to his heart and fired. There was no provocation; both were drunk. They ran after the shooting and were a mile from the scene when captured. Knowles was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where Dr. Hetherington dressed his wounds. The ball entered the lung two inches above the heart. Knowles, whose condition is critical, identified both of his assailants when they were brought to the hospital. The parents of Knowles live at Virginia, Ill.

Knowles has officiated at the Junction House lunch counter for quite a long time, coming here from Beardstown, Ill. he has many friends in Crawfordsville and is known as a quiet, inoffensive young man. - thanks to S for both of these -- great work on the obit pages - so greatly appreciated, too :)