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Crime
Crime on the record only: what this section is
The standing discipline · read first
This township's criminal history is unusually honest, because its central institution confessed its own numbers. The file that follows rests on the county's organization records, the county histories' court and township matter…
The county's first law: sheriff, constables, and a log jail
1830–1831 · the frame every township lived under
Law came to Terre Coupee Prairie in November 1831, and one of its first four officers was a man of this township. St. Joseph County was organized in August 1830; its courts sat at South Bend, and its coercive apparatus was built…
The counterfeiting case of 1837 — tested, and placed where it belongs
c. 1837 · the county's set-piece crime, in Centre Township
The county's one famous early crime was tested against this ground and found to belong to another township; the test and the placing both print. Chapman's "A Counterfeiting Reminiscence" tells of old James Odle, who about 1837…
The Terre Coupee Anti-Horse-Thief Association: the township's own law
1853/54–1880 and after · a mutual-insurance constabulary
For a quarter-century the most effective law-enforcement body in Olive Township was a private association of its own farmers, and it published its books. The Terre Coupee Anti-Horse-Thief Association was organized in 1853 or 1854…
Law in the township: justices, riders, and one disorder
1837–1880 · the small change of enforcement
Below the association, the township's formal law was a justice of the peace in every generation and, once, a pump. Israel Rush, the first Justice of the Peace, died in 1837. Henry H. Clark, the prairie holder, was elected Justice…
The dry years: the township answered liquor with a lodge
1875–1920 · temperance as the town's anti-crime institution
Where other towns of this build fought the saloon in court, Olive Township organized the second-largest temperance lodge in Indiana. Olive Branch Lodge No. 149 of the Independent Order of Good Templars was organized in New…
The Dillinger exclusion: Ohio's New Carlisle imports nothing
21 June 1933 · the name-trap, closed on the record
Every archive search for this town's crime returns another town's robbery, and this section closes the trap formally. On 21 June 1933 the Dillinger gang robbed a bank in New Carlisle — New Carlisle, Ohio , in Clark County, the…
The marshal's office and the modern record
2020–2026 · the department today, and one case in the appellate books
The town's modern enforcement is a marshal's department, and its modern appellate footprint is a case the town won. The marshal succession is carried whole in the government leg's file and at line strength here: David Combs was…
Crime Claims Checked and Not Found
Each negative at the strength of its search
The record keeps its negatives in one place, stated no stronger than the searches that made them. (1) Executions: Chapman's 1880 history — which prints the county's court organization, its jail and its crime reminiscences …
The enforcement succession, named in this section
1853–2026 · THE LINE AT ITS RECORD, WITH ITS GAP NAMED IN-FILE
The town's law was kept first by riders, and the succession from them to the present marshal is printed here whole — including the stretch no record reached fills. The constable era. From 1853–54 the Terre Coupee Anti-Horse-Thief…
Crime Records: Open Questions
November 2026 · WHAT COULD NOT BE SETTLED, ITEM BY ITEM
The appellate pull. Whitt v. Town of New Carlisle , No. 20A-CT-2279 (Ind. Ct. App., 20 May 2021): five Town Hall employees alleged that a town police officer, Brian Thompson, among others, had spied on private conversations in…
Bank robberies: the shape-of-the-record close, and the untested classes tested
items 5, 7, 8, and 10 — totals as totals; the souvenir object; the note-passer series; the federal tail
The close the leg owes, stated as totals: robberies of a bank on this ground, across the whole record — zero . Under what law they would have lain: the federal bank-robbery statute (18 U.S.C. § 2113) for the chartered house, and…
Serial killers: the four untested classes, tested one by one
items 3, 4, 5, and 7 — raised-here; the corridor; victims here; the fiction test
The banked set's homicide negatives were never serial tests, and this article runs the classes by name: raised-here / formed-here — no killer this town raised, whose series belongs to another jurisdiction, stands in the corridor…
High-profile murders: the docket, the line-of-duty class, and the family class
items 3, 4, and 9 — the counted docket; officers; multi-victim and family cases
Three classes, three postures, each printed: the counted docket — the banked set carries a tested negative (no prosecution reached) in place of an enumerated docket, and this article names the exchange honestly: the county court…