A Hoosier's Terrible Crime

INDIANAP0U3, Ind., Oct. 10.- The frame dwelling of N. B. Wade, occupied by Mrs. Sarah Hoggins, his mother, and Mrs. Martha Cates, was discovered on fire at Knightstown early Monday morning. After breaking open the door Mr. Wade was found unconscious at nis mother' 8 bed. He was taken out, but died in a few minutes. His mother was dead before taken out. Mrs. Cates was not found until her legs and arms were burned off. She died in a short time. A shoe-knife covered with blood and a bottle of paris green was taken from Wade's pocket, and the indications are tbat he murdered the two women and committed suicide after setting lire to the house, the testimony before the coroner tending to substantiate this theory. Mrs. Cates was the widow of a soldier. She resided with Mrs. Hoggins, who had reared her from childhood. In 1876 Mrs. Cates was granted $1,400 arrearage of pension and a regular pension oí Í10 a month. Wade illegally assumed her guardianship and appropriated the money to his own credit. Recently she complained to the Grand Army post of her treatment by Wade. A legal guardián was appointed, and it was found that Wade had appropriated Í2,800 of her money. Monday ;Wade would have been! compelled to account for the money, and it is presumed he had been brooding over the matter so much that he became partly insane, went to his mother's house Sunday night, and after inflicting fatal wounds on Mrs. Cates set fire to the house, took paris green and threw himself into the flames.