253. Winchester News.

 Jan. 19, 1952.   Have you ever called the Winchester police station and received no answer? Here's the reason and a suggestion by Chief  'Fozy' Holdeman. There's no radio hookup like most modern towns have, so when the officer is out in the patrol car, nobody is in the station. However, when a phone call comes in, the light bulb goes on at the top of the courthouse tower, day or night. That's the signal for the cruising policeman to get back to the station right away. Many times however, when they do get there the caller has "hung up." So Chief Holdeman's suggestion is simply this- "Hang on until you get an answer."  

Aug. 3, 1921.   Winchester Youth Meets Frightful Death.  Kenneth Ross, age 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Ross, of Winchester, was struck by an east bound freight train at 10 o'clock Friday morning. The accident occured at the intersection of the Big Four railway and Union street. The child was amusing himself by tapping the side of the cars and lost his balance and fell beneath the cars severing his head and left arm from his body. The child was playing with a little boy who ran to the Ross home and told about the accident to Mrs. Ross. The mother was the first to arrive on the scene and found the decapitated body. Her screams brought the father to the scene who had returned from his nights work at the city ice plant. The childs home was only two doors from the railroad track and he was playing along the right-of-way.

252. Body Of Baby Found In Old Well.

  

The Winchester Herald, January 22, 1919.

  Sunday afternoon, January 19, the coroner, Dr. G. C. Markle, was called to the farm owned by Mrs. George W. Fox, one and a half miles north of Carlos City. In an old abandoned well in an unoccupied house there had been found what was supposed to be the body of a baby. On examination there was nothing left but the trunk. The legs, arms and head had not been found. It was undoubtedly a portion of the body of a human being. This house had been unoccupied since the first of April, 1918. It is situated back from the road quite a little distance and was very seldom visited by the owners of the farm. On last Sunday, John A. Shoop of Richmond, father of Mrs. Fox, was visiting with the family and he and George Fox, in a ramble over the place, got a whiff of a skunk and thought they would find the hiding place of said animal, as the fur at these times is a very valuable article. Thinking probably they would find some trace of it under the floor of the old house, they approached it and started an investigation. In fishing around they found the old well, from the bottom of which they pulled the deceased body of the baby, which Dr. Markle is certain had been there about three months. The well is fifteen feet deep and nearly full of water. There was no way, of course, of telling whether or not the baby had ever breathed, what sex, or anything else except that there was enough left of it to tell that it was a human being. The doctor is certain that it was a plain case of murder by some unknown person who wished to get rid of a baby. (In reading following newspapers, nothing more was said about the baby.)  mh

251. Orphans' Home At Modoc.(1912)

 250.  Orphans' Home At Modoc.

  An orphans' home sprang up in a day in the vicinity of Modoc last week. Mr. and Mrs. Croker of Chattanooga, Tenn., business men of that city arrived on the train from the east with twenty-seven colored orphan children, for the summer outing and they are now located in an old store building near the depot, entirely too small for convenience.
  Tents and provisions have been shipped here and they will soon be living in the open air on the outskirts of this little city. There are to be 80 children in their new Modoc home.  Published in the Union City Times, May, 1912.

The Winchester city council has purchased six silent policemen to be placed at the four corners of the square and one to be placed on the corner of North and Meridian streets and on the corner of North and Main.  April 27, 1921.