News Items taken from News Papers

Mortality Schedule for Perry County as a drowning death.

ROY  LITTLE  s/o GEORGE W Little was born September 01, 1902 in Perry Co., IN, and died July 19, 1931 in Perry Co. IN. 28 y, 10 m, 18 d.  He married ESTHER PHILOMENA KELLEMS February 09, 1921 in Perry County, IN, daughter of HENRY KELLEMS and RHODA HARRISON.  She was born December 18, 1900 in Perry Co, Indiana, and died March 23, 1983 in Indiana.

CHARLES ‘CARL’ RHEINLANDER was born May 13, 1837 in Germany, and died March 20, 1899 in Tell City, Perry County, Indiana.  He married (1) MARIA REICHART.  She was born March 06, 1840 in Germany, and died July 15, 1875 in Perry County, Indiana.  He married (2) FRANZISKA LEX April 17, 1876 in Perry Co., IN, daughter of GEORGE LEX and THERESIA RAAB.  She was born February 10, 1850 in Indiana, and died August 22, 1891 in Tell City, Perry County, Indiana.

Notes for CHARLES ‘CARL’ RHEINLANDER:

Carl Reinlander came to America from Germany as a butcher. He was about 5 ft 5 in. tall with extra long arms. He was claimed to be the strongest man in Tell City; they say he did not know his own strength. He was famous for his sausage.

Carl opened a meat market in Tell City. His son, Theodore, became his partner. After the marriage of his daughter, Anna, to Jacob Birchler, Jacob also became a partner. Rheinlander & Birchler Meat Market was located on 9th Street in Tell City, Indiana.

Perry County Tribune, 7 Oct 1913, Jesse Bailey, son of Robert, Suicide, Grandview.

Tell City News, 8 Nov 1913, Jesse Bailey, son of Robert burial in Shack Powell Cemetery.

Cannelton Enquirer, 15 Nov 1913, Jesse Bailey, 22 years old, suicide, burial Tell City.

E & R – 2 July 1887

 It is reported by a man living in the neighborhood of Riceville on the Air Line RR that Nathan Seals brutally whipped his child from the effects of which it died the next day, and that the White Caps visited said Seals and hung him up to a limb to dry.  He was taken down and placed away in the ground.  Seals had always born (a) a very bad reputation in that part of the country but there are so many conflicting stories about the matter that it is hard to tell whether it is true or not.

Hunter’s Arm Shot Off
[Special to The Indianapolis New] ENGLISH, Ind., November 17. – Benton Underhill, age forty, when hunting yesterday four miles south of Eckerty, fell with his gun, which was discharge. His left arm was torn off and he was taken to Louisville to have it amputated.

Tell City, IN.  Otto Thurman Speaks 14 years of age commented Suicide – with a Gun Shot wound through Heart.  He was the son of Wesley G Speaks and Bettie Elizabeth Roberts.  February 24, 1911 – September 08, 1925

Doolittles Mills
April 27 1903, Winfield ( Wily, Wildman ) Naulton (Nulton) shot
and killed Elijah King, Near Doolittles Mills, Perry Co., IN
Naulton is a cripple and the Uncle of the wife of King. King and
his wife had trouble and she applied for a divorce. She owned
the farm on which they lived. When King went to her home
Trouble arose and he was shot. Naulton (Nulton) gave himself up and is now in jail in Cannelton. Sat. morning, May 16, Sarah (Clark) King, the wife Bertha King, the daughter Gottfried Throop, Mary (Clark) Throop, Thomas Anderson and Herman Anderson, and Harman Wright were Arrested for having conspired with Naulton to Kill King. They were Tried and acquitted Sat. Jerry L. Suddarthe presented them. Quite a lot of feeling has been aroused and much trouble is feared.

The English News
22 May 1903
Reel # 284561= English News Jan-Dec 1903
Crawford Co., Library, English IN.

LEGLESS MAN WILL BE PLACED ON TRIAL FOR MURDER

Special to The Indianapolis Sentinel

CANNELTON, Ind.  Nov. 2 – Next Wednesday Nov 4. Wiley Nulton will be arraigned in the circuit court here charged with the murder of Elijah King.  The killing took place near Doolittle’s mills last April, and is said to have been the result of a conspiracy.  King’s wife had sued him for a divorce and it is alleged her attorney advised her to keep him away from the place at all hazards.   One night before the killing several persons, including his wife it is charged took King out of his bed and gave him a severe beating running him a half mile from his home in his night clothes.  On the day of the killing Nulton who is an uncle of Mrs. King emptied the —- of a double-barreled shotgun into King’s —- from which he died a week later.  Nulton is a legless individual, using a couple of stumps to get about on.  He has been in jail here since May 7.  Every few days he gets an idea that a mob is coming for him and the most unearthly yells proceed from the Jail.

JURY GIVES MURDERER NULTON A LIVE SENTENCE

CANNELTON, Ind.  Nov 4 – Wiley Nulton was given life sentence yesterday afternoon for murder of Elijah King.  The jury was out but thirty minutes.  The verdict was brought in shortly before 4 o’clock and found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree.

The state made out a strong case against Nulton.  The sworn statement of King was standing in front of his own door when Nulton shot him without —-.

The defense had no case, but made a plea for ——– on account of the helpless condition of the prisoner, he being a legless man, having had his legs frozen off over thirty years ago.

Wiley Nulton died in Michigan Indiana prison in 1918.