100 years ago,
Sept. 20, 1924
DANVILLE — Rose Garrett, 15-year-old high school girl who disappeared after the first session on the opening day at the first new high school, and for whom a wide search was being made, has been found. She is now in jail at Harrison, Ohio, locked up with 18-year-old Stanford Deadwiler of Danville and charged with the theft of an auto. Both are being held under the Dyer act and the youth in addition will have to face a charge of violating the Mann act, it was intimated today…TERRE HAUTE — Delbert White, 25, is held in Terre Haute today in connection with the murder of Mrs. Ruth Gates, friend of friendless children and patron of the needy. Mrs. Gates’ body, with the throat slashed, was found last night on the Lincoln School grounds, after children had told police of seeing a man and a woman struggling there. The man had disappeared. White was arrested after he is said to have gone to the Gates home and told Dorothy Boyle, a niece of Mrs. Gates, that he had killed her aunt. “Your aunt is better off where she is. She’s dead. I killed her,” White said, according to the girl’s statement…