The Shelby Republican
Tuesday, February 13, 1906
Page 1
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AMSDEN SAID TO HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED
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Is Found by Prison Authorities of
Jeffersonville Reformatory
by Bertilon System to Have Prison Record.
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(From Monday's Daily.)
According to information received from the
Jeffersonville reformatory, Harry L. Amsden, the young man
who was sentenced to two to fourteen years in the penitenitary on a charge of
false personation has been identified as a paroled prisoner. He is the
only person now serving time in the Indiana reformatory for the offense of false
personation. He was identified by Assistant Superintendent
Barnard as Bert Pile, thirty-nine years old, convicted of
larceny in Marion county in 1896 and transferred from the Indiana Reformatory to
the Sate prison at Michigan City. Again, in 1899, he was convicted of
larceny in Delaware county, but was paroled in 1901 and he worked in Michigan
City till he was formally released.
While visiting in
Shelby county he was introduced to Miss Rachel May Mohr
by Eleazer Amsden, who represented him as a brother, and then
it was that he assumed the named of Amsden and pressed his suit with
such ardor that he soon applied for a license to marry the young woman under the
name he had assumed. Previously he was known as Miles.
The commitment
also accuses him of forging a check on J. A. Craig, of Union, Ill.,
which was cashed by Robert Thompson, of Marshall, Ill. While
here he gave his age as twenty-three years.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Shelby Democrat
Thursday, November 16, 1905
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The Amsden Propertyb for Sale.
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The two -story frame
dwelling, containing eighteen rooms, suitable for a boarding house, large lot,
barn and fruit, at No. 346 Circle street, together with a side lot upon which a
part of the big house could be put and convert the premises into two good
residences. Also a one-story frame dwelling house, lot, fruit, and barn,
two lots without buildings, and two lots with a barn on each -- making five lots
adjoining on the south side of west Circle street.
Prospective buyers should
give these premises careful inspection before investing elsewhere in
Shelbyville, as the property must and will be sold, in separate parts or in
whole, to the best bidder at private sale.
JOHN HOOP, Exr.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming for Beverly Plank
THE SHELBYVILLE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Saturday, July 29, 1899
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Secretary Amsden of the fair association
was over at Martinsville yesterday and to-day advertising the greatest fair on earth.
Submitted by Phyllis Miller Fleming, Jan 2001
THE SHELBYVILLE REPUBLICAN
Tuesday, September 13, 1898
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Mr. C. E. Amsden will attend the State Fair on Thursday and Friday and he would be pleased for all persons who won premiums at the fair to call and get orders for their money before he goes away.
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