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- City News in Brief
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Buschman G. Jaquett and Cora E. Champlia, Edward Krause and Anna M. Singer, Ambrose D. Hedges and Sarah E. Clark.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Sunday, 9 September 1888, page 10.
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- Newspaper notices of the births of Sarah and Ambrose D. Hedges' children.
LKH note:
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This would be Robert (1890-1893)
Death Returns
[list of people who died includes Robert]
Robert W. Hedges, 3 years, 539 W. Maryland, burn.
The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana. Saturday, 28 February 1893, page 7.
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This would be Ambrose (1894-1895)
Births
[list of births including Sarah & Ambrose Hedges]
Sarah and Ambrose Hedges, 5 Coe street, boy.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Friday, 11 May 1894, page 7.
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Unknown child – we don’t have his name
Births
[list of births including]
Sarah and Ambrose Hedges, 4 Coe street, boy.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Friday, 10 April 1896, page 6.
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This would be Pearl Hedges (1899-1900)
Vital Statistics – March 3
Births
[list of births including]
Sarah and Dudley Hedges, 1012 Rhode Island street, girl.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Saturday, 4 March 1899, page 7.
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- The City Defeated.
Some time ago the city brought suit against Ambrose Hedges, charging him with violating the city ordinance prohibiting the keeping of a dairy in the city limits. The case came up before Judge Howe yesterday, and the motion of Hedges to quash the writ was sustained. A judgement of coasts was rendered against the city.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Wednesday, 16 October 1889, page 5.
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- 24 Sept.
It Proves a Murder
Fatal Results of a Fight on the Commons North of the City.
Dan Gaddis Dies at Whitestown – Was Struck with a Neckyoke by Ambrose Hedges – No Arrest Made.
Dan Gaddis, of Whitestown, Boone county, died yesterday morning from the effects of a blow administered by Ambrose Hedges, of this city. Gaddis has been suffering for two weeks from a bad wound in the head, which was inflicted by a heavy neckyoke. He received the blow in a quarrel and fight that ensured over an argument with hedges. Gaddis and his wife have been traveling about the State trading horses, and two weeks ago camped in the river bottoms, north of the city.
One day, Ambrose Hedges, who lived in the commons east of the City Hospital, went over to the Gaddis camp, and became involved in a quarrel with the couple, which finally ended in the woman attacking him with a knife. Hedges was severely cut, but managed to get hold of a neckyoke, and dealt Dan Gaddis a blow with the implement that stopped hostilities on the part of the wife. Hedges was taken to the City Hospital, and Police Sergeant Kurtz went out to arrest the horse traders but learned that they had pushed on toward Whitestown. Hedges recovered from the knife wounds and arranged to swear out warrants for the arrest of the Gaddis woman, but learning that her husband was at the point of death from the injury received at his hands he decided to pursue the matter no further. Yesterday Coroner Beck received official notice of the death, but referred the Whitestown officers to the Boone cunty coroner. Hedges has not been arrested.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Sunday, 24 September 1893, page 8.
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- 29 Sept.
Hedges Locked Up.
He Is Charged with the Murder of Dan Gaddis, of Whitestown.
On a warrant from the Boone county coroner, charging him with murder, Ambrose Hedges, living near the City Hospital, was arrested yesterday and locked up. Three weeks ago Hedges got into trouble with Dan and Mary Gaddis, of Whitestown, while the couple were with a band of horse traders in camp at the end of Indiana avenue.
In the fight which ensued Dan Gaddis was struck in the head with a neck yoke wielded by Hedges, frm the effect of which Gaddis died last week. Mary Gaddis then attacked Hedges with a knife and cut him so severely that he was confined to the City Hospital for a week. He yet shows the marks of the infuriated woman’s knife. He states that he struck Gaddis purely in self-defense and to save his own life, as the latter came at him with murder in his eye. Hedges will be taken to Boone county for trial.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Friday, 29 September 1893, page 6.
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- 13 Oct
Arrested for Gaddis’s Murder
Mary Gaddis and Cecil Bunnells Brought Here from Boone County.
Deputy Sheriff Nieland yesterday afternoon arrested Mary Gaddis and Cecil Bunnells, at Whitestown, Boone county, and brought them to this city, where they were lodged in jail. The couple were arrested on a grand jury warrant charged them with assault with attempt to kill Ambrose Hedges. The latter is at present in the Boone county jail awaiting trial for manslaughter, his victim having been Dan Gaddis, the husband of the woman arrested yesterday. The affray which resulted in the death of Gaddis and fearful knife wounds to the person of Hedges occurred on the evening of Sept. 7 on the bank of Fall creek at the end of Indiana avenue. Dan and Mary Gaddis and Cecil Bunnells, all of Whitestown, were strolling around the State engaged in trading horses. Here they met Hedges, who lived with his mother near the City Hospital, and quarreled with him over a trade. In the trouble Hedges secured a neckyoke and struck Gaddis a blow over the head form which he died within a week. His wife got hold of a knife and severely stabbed Hedges, while Bunnell fired a shot at him. Two weeks ago Hedges was arrested on the charge of murder, and was taken to Boone county, but before leaving filed information before the grand jury which resulted in the arrest of the wife of his victim.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Friday, 13 October 1893, page 8.
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- 28 Nov
In The Criminal Court
Mary Gaddis on Trial for the Assault on Hedges
On account of the illness of Judge Cox Francis J. Reinhard was appointed special judge, and presided in the Criminal Court room yesterday. Mary Gaddis was place on trial before a jury for assault and battery with intent to kill Ambrose Hedges on Sept. 8. She was jointly indicted with her husband, Daniel Gaddis, and Cecil Bunnell, the latter of whom is now serving a term in the penitentiary for the crime, and her husband has died since the returning of the indictment. Gaddis and his wife and Hedges and his wife were all gypsy horse traders, and quarreled over the virtues of horses which they proposed to trade. Gaddis and his wife came to the city and met Bunnell, who was told of the trouble. He armed himself with a revolver and Mrs. Gaddis with a knife, and all three returned to Hedges’s camp, where the quarrel was renewed and ended in a fight, in which Gaddis received the injuries from which he afterwards died, and the Gaddis woman stabbed Hedges.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Tuesday, 28 November 1893, page 3.
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- 16 Nov
Indiana State News
Ambrose D. Hedges Not Guilty of Murder
(Special to the Indianapolis New)
Lebanon, November 16 – The case of the State vs. Ambrose D. Hedges for the murder of Daniel Gaddis in September last, which was begun on Monday in the Circuit Court, terminated this morning by a verdict of not guilty. The evidence showed that Gaddis and his family and Cecil Burk approached Hedges, while the latter was encamped near Fall creek, close to Indianapolis, and proposed trading horses. A quarrel arose, but the Gaddis family left at the time, going to Indianapolis. While there they became intoxicated, and Burk purchased a pistol, with which they returned and renewed the quarrel with Hedges. A fight ensued in which Hedges struck Gaddis on the head with a neck yoke, from the effect of which the latter died two weeks later. Burk shot at Hedges, and Mrs. Gaddis inflicted eight ugly knife wounds upon Hedges’s body. The verdict could have been nothing else under the evidence. Burk has been sentenced to two years imprisonment from Marion county for attempting to murder Hedges, and Mrs. Gaddis is indicted under the same charge.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Thursday, 16 November 1893, page 6.
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- 17 Nov.
Hedges Set Free by the Jury
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Lebanon, Ind., Nov. 16 – The jury in the case of Ambrose Hedges, who has been on trial here for the past week for the murder of Daniel Gaddis, returned a verdict of not guilty at noon to-day, after being out twenty-four hours.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Friday, 17 November 1893, page 2.
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- 27 Nov.
In The Criminal Court.
F.J. Reinhard Appointed Judge Pro Tem – Horse-Traders’ Trouble.
In the Criminal Court this morning F.J. Reinhard was appointed judge pro tem, in the absence of Judge Cox, who is ill. John Kramer, charge with grad larceny, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years in penitentiary.
Mary Gaddis, charged with assault with intent to kill, was place on trial before a jury. This woman was indicted jointly with Daniel Gaddis (her husband) and Cecil Bunnell. Daniel Gaddis has since died. Bunnell has been tried and convicted and is now in the State’s prison. The assault was committed on Ambrose Hedges. It occurred on September 8. Hedges and his wife were vagrant horse-traders. Gaddis and his wife followed the same occupation.
They offered to trade horse. The two women got into a quarrel over the respective merits of their husbands’ horses. Gaddis and his wife returned to town. Here they met Bunnell. They told him of the quarrel. Bunnell got a revolver and the Gaddis woman armed herself with a knife. They went back to the Hedges camp and at once assaulted Hedges. Hedges defended himself stoutly. During the struggle he inflicted wounds upon Gaddis, from which he has since died. The fight ended by the stabbing of Hedges by Mrs. Gaddis.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Monday, 27 November 1893, page 2.
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- Superior Court
Room 1
82654. Ambrose E. Hedges vv. Sarah E. Hedges, Divorce. James H. Storm.
The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Indiana. Wednesday, 11 January 1911, page 13.
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