THE MIDDLE YEARS
arrested by Dennis Stone, a constable who lived in the house directly across from the church (now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Olsson). The arrest was made so late in the week that he was obliged to hold his prisoner over Sunday, and having no lockup, he kept him with him in his house. Mr. Stone was not accustomed to attending church, but on that Sunday he went to church, taking his prisoner with him. He selected one of the front pews, where everyone could see him. The pulpit was occupied that day by a Rev. Mr. Carpenter from Birmingham (now Derby). Public sentiment was greatly stirred, and suspicion was running high against the prisoner. Knowing this, and assuming that the prisoner was guilty, the preacher took the opportunity to address him from the pulpit in scathing terms.
The following day E. K. Foster, who has been called one of the ablest State's Attorneys in the County, was called in to prosecute the case, to determine whether the accused should be bound over for trial. This he did in the Orange Church, with an insistent crowd of citizens about him. But the prisoner was discharged. The State's Attorney said he thought the Orange people were the most unreasonable set of beings he had ever met. They had an intuitive conviction that the prisoner was guilty, but to him they seemed an unreasoning mob. As he left the church after his acquittal, Bowen noticed in the crowd on the steps the minister who had preached at him the day before, so he approached him saying: "I don't know any reason why I shouldn't punch you in the nose."
Eventually Bowen and the wife left town, and Alanson, brother of Ira Clark, took the four children to his home to live.
On the morning when Bowen drove to the house of the grand juror, it was found, by following the tracks of his wagon, that he stopped and tied his horse to a fence at George's Cellar Hill. Search was made along the wall on the side on which he had tied his horse, but nothing was found. Before the murder Bowen was accustomed to
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