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Extract: The Independent Attempts, from a communication signed "Jackson Township," to create the impression that J. R. Gray had taken it upon himself to secure the establishment of a precinct at Baker's Corner, in Adams township, at the request of the Foulke family. This precinct was established by the commissioners at their last session upon the petition of thirty citizens in the immediate vicinity of the place. They are old men, many of them, and good citizens; and what is more, many of them are Democrats, Reformers, and Anti-Secrets. The petitioners working in the matter recommended the appointment of John B. Foulke as Inspector. Mr. Gray and Mr. Hall were both opposed to the establishment of the precinct, offering as a reason that two precincts in a township that size was certainly enough, and an unnecessary expense was incurred by making another. Mr. Gray took it upon himself to notify such of the citizens of Adams township as he could find upon the streets, and asked them to come up and oppose it. Some of whom did so. But the Board finding no special opposition from the township, and through a desire to accommodate the petitioners, established the precinct. And if anything, it is against the interest of the Republican party.
Mr. Gray has repeatedly said that no lawyer should be permitted to extortion off of the county as Dave Moss attempts to do every time he gets a chance. That the tendency to employ lawyers in criminal cases at such enormous figures, as has been practiced in our courts, is wrong, and ought to be abandoned. That when an attorney is appointed to attend to criminal cases, a just compensation only should be allowed by the courts, and not such fees as private parties might pay. Judge Craven appointed Moss to attend to the Foulke  case [Amasa Foulke, ID0097] and after the trial he referred the further prosecution to the commissioners. The Board tried to employ Moss to continue before they spoke to any one else. And they considered his fee exorbitant and could get no concessions form him; they then employed Judge Garver & Losey for less than half the amount Moss demanded. They considered Garver & Losey competent, and did not propose to allow further extortion upon the treasury. Of course, the Independent is grieved that its corps o' editors could not get another grab.

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State News, 2nd paragraph:
Tom Barker, sentenced to the Penitentiary from Howard county for two years for grand larceny, but afterwards granted a new trial by the Supreme Court, and on a change of venue went to Madison county, which resulted in a commutation of his sentence to thirty days in the county jail, has made a confession, on his death-bed, of the murder of Mrs. Foulke, over a year ago, at which time her husband, Amasa Foulke, was arrested for wife murder, tried and sentenced to prison for life, but acquitted upon a second trial. It seems that Barker was one of the number who attempted to rob Amasa Foulke, on that eventful night, and Barker shot Mrs. Foulke to prevent her giving the alarm, he fearing that she had recognized him.

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Prosecutor Stafford, of Noblesville, states that the telegrams about the dying story of Tom Barker, relative to the killing of Mrs. Amasa Foulke by himself, are all bosh.

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The wife of Amasa Foulke, near Cicero, Hamilton County, was killed in her bed on the morning of the 15th, by a pistol shot. Her husband, who occupied a lounge near the bed, stated that he was awakened by the report, and sprang up to see two men in the room. He pursued them to the kitchen where one of them shot him through the arm and then they escaped. The grand jury it seems doubt Mr. Foulke's story, and have found a true bill against him for murder.