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.

1993 — Efforts by the new anti-pornography group, Enough is Enough, to eliminate pornographic material from video and book stores caught plenty of people’s attention and could play a role in the upcoming election of Kosciusko County’s prosecutor.

Interest in the pornography debate was rekindled this summer after a Kosciusko Leadership Academy white paper suggested the rise in local sex crimes is linked to an increased number of explicit films available at video stores.

Feb. 23, 1977 — One man is dead and his wife is in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Fort Wayne’s Parkview Hospital following a shooting in the family home in North Manchester last night.

Killed by three shots from a .22 caliber pistol was Donald Creager, 46, of Rt. 2, Hickory Hills, North Manchester. His 45-year-old wife, Wilma, is in critical condition at the Fort Wayne hospital. Their son, Richard, 14, is being held in connection with the shooting.

Creager suffered wounds to his neck, back and wrist while his wife is being treated for three bullet wounds to the chest. The incident occurred at 6:30 p.m. after the family quarreled over problems Rick was having at school, police said.

According to investigators, the youth had been difficult for both his parents and teachers to handle and suffers from emotional problems.

Feb. 22, 1963 — Officers today cracked the 17-day-old Louise White Bolinger murder case with the confession of Mark Alvin Wilson, 18, of 303 N. Detroit St. The youth broke down and admitted the brutal slaying during questioning that began at mid-morning at the county jail. He said robbery was his motive.

The slightly built youth sobbed out to officers how he went to the Bolinger home on the night of Feb. 5 with the expressed purpose of robbing the widow so that he and his 16-year-old girlfriend could elope.

Feb. 24, 1961 — Warsaw druggist Robert Brennan received the Kosciusko County “Outstanding Young Man of 1960” award from the Rev. Karl Lepper of Mishawaka and formerly of Warsaw. This was the second year of the award presented by the Warsaw Junior Chamber of Commerce.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels