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The Indianapolis Daily Sentinel
January 6, 1885


              A Forger Commits Suicide
              
           Special to the Sentinel.
           
           SEYMOUR, Ind., Jan. 5. - It has just come to light
        that J. S. MICHAELS, residing at Hardenburg, eight miles
        east of this city, has committed several forgeries in
        drawing spurious notes on several prominent business
        men of this city and selling them to innocent parties
        and getting the cash. Yesterday the necessary papers
        for his arrest were placed in the hands of JOSEPH W.
        SWIFT, special constable, who procured the O. and M.
        switch engine and steamed for Hardenberg. When the en-
        gine whistled for the village MICHAELS was attending
        religious services at one of the churches, and upon
        hearing the sound of the whistle MICHAELS said:
        "There comes that engine after me from Seymour." He
        then delivered a prayer as long as the moral law, and
        then left the church and ran over a mile in a southern
        direction, and entered a dense thicket with the officer
        close behind him. The officer not being able to capture
        him, went back to town, and, procuring help, hastened
        back and surrounded the thicket. MICHAELS, seeing there
        was no chance for his escape, drew a revolver from his
        pocket and put a bullet through his heart, dying almost
        instantly. His remains were taken to his residence. De-
        ceased had been a prominent temperance worker; was
        about thirty-six years old, and leaves a family. The
        affair has produced intense excitement. He knew that
        had he lived he was good for a term in the State
        Prison, as the evidence against him would have been
        positive.
        
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