From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society

Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews.

Feb. 13, 1990 — Forensic specialists determined the bones found along the banks of the Eel River in Kosciusko County Saturday were the remains of Victor Cooley, who was brutally murdered in Oct. 1988.

Information for this retrospective series is courtesy of the Kosciusko County Historical Society. For more history of Kosciusko County in the news visit yesteryear.clunette.com.

Feb. 12, 1986 — Warsaw resident Ruth Dalton took an Extra-Strength Tylenol Tuesday night only to later sit down to watch the late night news and learn she had ingested medication with the same lot number as the one in a New York murder.

Dalton became at least the third Hoosier to report having Tylenol bearing the same lot number identified in the New York case that has left one person dead from cyanide poisoning.

“I took one at nine o’clock and then I heard of the warning at 11,” she said. “I wondered if I was playing Russian Roulette — I’m not going to take anymore.”

Feb. 9, 1977 — A fire of unknown origin destroyed the Quick Clean Laundry and Warsaw Home Appliance and TV, 500 E. Winona Ave., Warsaw, early today. Losses from the blaze, which broke out shortly before 4:25 a.m. today, were estimated near $250,000.

The fire apparently started in the laundromat, then spread westward into the adjoining appliance store, then on into a corner of the ceiling in the office in the westernmost portion of the building.

“That’s where we got it stopped,” said Warsaw Fire Chief Norman Banghart.

Feb. 8, 1969 — Leesburg, a community without an official governing body for five days, Friday evening began functioning again with a town board, town marshal and town attorney.

At a special meeting called at the Leesburg Town Hall at 6 p.m. Friday, town board members Richard Klopenstein and Frank Rader and town marshal Frederick Kammerer withdrew their resignations retroactive to Feb. 3, the date they submitted them.

After the board was officially in session, the two board members voted to accept the resignation of Harold J. Irvine, and named Donald Tarner as the third member of the board. They then officially appointed Stanley Pequignot, of the Rockhill, Vanderveer, Kennedy and Pinnick law firm, as town attorney.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels