GREENE COUNTY NEWS
Bloomfield IN
March 21, 1899
Twelve years ago Elisha Rainbolt was murdered in the eastern part of Green County by John and William Brown, who escaped. Last Wednesday Sheriff McLaughlin, of this county arrested the two men at Humboldt, Illinois. and they are now in the Bloomfield jail. The murder was committed in August 1888, in the little town of Jonesborough. The Brown boys are brothers, and a few days before the murder Rainbolt, who was a constable, had arrested a cousin of the Browns, handling him so severely that the Browns swore to have vengeance. The following Saturday they came to Jonesborough, picked a quarrel with Railbolt and beat him to death. The murder was committed in day time in the presence of a crowd. The grand jury at the last term of court found a new indictment against the Browns.
Bloomfield, In.
Dec. 30, 1898. Dr. E.E. Gray, who stabbed to death his companion, Lizzie Skinner, yesterday, got out of Bloomfield none too soon yesterday. The prisoner was taken to Bloomington by Sheriff McLaughlin to avoid a mob and then to the prison in Jeffersonville. For Three yrs, Lizzie Skinner had been living with Gray. Recently she became false to him and received attention of men at Bedford and Bloomington, which aroused Gray’s jealously and he announced his intention of taking her life. On the evening before the murder the woman failed to keep and engagement, and yesterday, when he learned she was going away, he killed her. Lizzie Skinner’s body was taken to the home of her parents today, and buried this afternoon.
March 21, 1899
Twelve years ago Elisha Rainbolt was murdered in the eastern part of Green County by John and William Brown, who escaped. Last Wednesday Sheriff McLaughlin, of this county arrested the two men at Humboldt, Illinois. and they are now in the Bloomfield jail. The murder was committed in August 1888, in the little town of Jonesborough. The Brown boys are brothers, and a few days before the murder Rainbolt, who was a constable, had arrested a cousin of the Browns, handling him so severely that the Browns swore to have vengeance. The following Saturday they came to Jonesborough, picked a quarrel with Railbolt and beat him to death. The murder was committed in day time in the presence of a crowd. The grand jury at the last term of court found a new indictment against the Browns.
Bloomfield, In.
Dec. 30, 1898. Dr. E.E. Gray, who stabbed to death his companion, Lizzie Skinner, yesterday, got out of Bloomfield none too soon yesterday. The prisoner was taken to Bloomington by Sheriff McLaughlin to avoid a mob and then to the prison in Jeffersonville. For Three yrs, Lizzie Skinner had been living with Gray. Recently she became false to him and received attention of men at Bedford and Bloomington, which aroused Gray’s jealously and he announced his intention of taking her life. On the evening before the murder the woman failed to keep and engagement, and yesterday, when he learned she was going away, he killed her. Lizzie Skinner’s body was taken to the home of her parents today, and buried this afternoon.
Indiana Notes.9,14,1898
The 8th annual meeting of the Greene County teachers’ institute is being held at Bloomfield, County Superintendent H.E. Cushman presiding. The instructors are Prof. W.H. Mace, of Syracuse, N.Y. and Prof. D.A. Owen, of Franklin, IN. About 200 teachers are enrolled.
