1907

Years:	1904 1905 1906 – 1907 – 1908 1909 1910

Significant events from 1907.

January

• 11th - "Spunk" Jones is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Alva Stevens at his lunch stand on Kirkwood Avenue near the Monon station. Fearing a lynching, officers sneak Jones away to Indianapolis.

February

• 13th - Preston Lang kills his father-in-law, Arthur Young, in self-defense.

• 19th - Auditors file a report on the books of former City Treasurer W. A. Rice. The report seems to have shown that Rice kept very little paperwork on his money handling. The books of City Clerk Henry Axtell were not called into question.

March

• 11th Policeman William Shinn shoots and kills Charles Carr. Shinn is later acquitted on the grounds that the shooting was in the line of duty.

• 22nd The town of Bakersville, in Van Buren Township near the Indianapolis Southern Railroad at Stanford, is platted. It has 16 lots, a general store, and streets named Glenn Avenue, Market Street, Calvin Street, Railroad Street and Bakewin Street.

May

• 31st - Harry Tell is crushed and killed by a falling stone in an accident at Johnson Stone Quarry.

• Oscar Morris is whitecapped in Ellettsville.

June

• Thomas Vanest is taken from his home near South Bethany and whitecapped.

August

• 8th - Harvey Hinkle shoots and kills John McClintock, and wounds his sweetheart Edna Rogers. It would be months before his capture.

September

• 15th - Otis Allen shoots and kills Raymond Sparks. He is acquitted of murder on the grounds of self-defense.

• 25th - Whitecappers attempt to invade the home of Tobias Gaddis. Gaddis shoots and kills Jesse Robinson in the event, and the whitecappers retreat.

November

• 29th Joel and Frank McCoy, father and son, are shot and killed by Edward Ford.

December

• The Indiana University main library is moved from Maxwell Hall to Franklin Hall

Unspecified

• The first Salvation Army officers arrived in Bloomington.