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 — records no judicial execution in St. Joseph County; the county's capital record, if any exists, postdates or escapes that history, and none is attributed to this ground. (2) Homicide: no homicide prosecution seated in New Carlisle or Olive Township appears in the county histories, the cemetery and newspaper records reached, or the appellate record searched; the township's one recorded killing-adjacent death, Mary Garoutte's freezing in 1831, was exposure, inquested by no one because there was nothing to inquest. (3) Bank crime: no robbery of a New Carlisle, Indiana, bank appears in any record searched; the famous one is Ohio's. (4) The drug era: no federal prosecution seated in the town was found in the searches made; the county's drug-era record is carried in the county's builds. (5) Modern homicide counts: the town keeps no separate published homicide series; the marshal's department is a small-town force whose calls run through the county's dispatch, and no official count attributes a homicide to the town in the years of the modern record reached. Each of these is a statement about the record as searched, printed so that a later pass with a deeper record can overturn it cleanly.

Sources

1. Chapman (1880), read in full; Indiana appellate opinions as searched (Justia); the searches named in the articles above.