The Indianapolis Journal

Had Better Deposited His Money.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

MARTINSVILLE, July 29.—A very mysterious complication is reported from the Green edge of Sullivan county. Jacob Martin, a substantial and well-to-do farmer, belongs to that class who do not believe in banks, but instead kept his money, something like $3,500, secreted in his house. Some time ago his wife died, after a protracted sickness, during which she was waited upon by her sister, a Mrs. Dean. After the burial of his wife Martin went to the hiding-place of his money to get a small amount to pay funeral expenses, and was horrified to find it missing. He at once suspected his sister-in-law, and accused her of taking his money, but she denied all knowledge of it, and at the same time requested Martin to say nothing about the missing money and his suspicions on account of her daughter, a beautiful girl of sixteen. Mr. Martin was so wrapped up in his niece that he complied with the request, but kept a close watch over the expenditures of the Deans. He learned that Dean was wanting to buy a farm, and would pay cash for one. He also learned that the township assessor had told that Dean's wife had a considerable sum of money, but it had not been given in for taxation. A few days ago Mrs. Dean went to Sullivan, taking with her a bed-quilt, and going to a lawyer's office, sent for George R. Dutton, cashier of the Sullivan Bank. On his arrival the quilt was ripped open, and he found sewed between the top and lining about $1,300 in bills. After making a memorandum of the number and character of the bills, he was requested to make a special deposit of the money in the name of Amanda Dean. Learning of the above facts, Mr. Martin went to Sullivan, and filing an indemnity bond, got possession of the money. Mrs. Dean now claims that her sister gave her the money deposited in bank a short time before her death; that she had never opened the quilt, and did not know how much money was hidden in it. She further states that she believes she is entitled to the money in payment for months and months of attention to her sister during her sickness.