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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 association's own published accounting, and the modern appellate record — court, press and official sources only. It contains no murder. That is not an oversight: it is the finding the record supports, reached after the searches named in the closing register, and it stands in pointed contrast to the town's namesake in Ohio, whose bank was robbed by John Dillinger in 1933 and whose fame this section formally declines to import. What New Carlisle, Indiana, has instead of a crime legend is a horse-thief association that published its loss statistics, a temperance lodge that was the second largest in Indiana, and a marshal's office whose paper trail runs unbroken into the present. The record is quieter than legend. It is also, read whole, more interesting.
Sources
- Chapman (1880), organization chapter and Olive Township chapter, read first-hand; Indiana appellate record, as cited below.