Chicago (IL) Inter Ocean, August 31, 1874, p. 4. NOTE: Several accounts of this gruesome murder have been sent to the IN-South-Central Rootsweb list, many referencing Clark County where the murder happened. The fullest account is that in the Chicago (IL) Daily Tribune on September 2, 1874, p. 5. According to that article, August was born in France and was 23 years of age at the time of his death. He had was on his way to Louisville in search of employment when he was robbed and then tied to the railroad track. Bob Thomas and Lewis E. Clark were arrested on suspicion of being the murderers. >From Jeffersonville, Ind., there comes an account of a fiendish outrage that resulted in the death of a Frenchman named August J. Gardner of Seymour, in that state. Gardner was yesterday morning found in a culvert on the line of the J., M. and I. Railroad in a dying condition, one of his legs having been severed from the body by a passing train in the night. He was carried to Jeffersonville where he recovered consciousness sufficiently to tell his frightful story. While walking on the track the night before, near Henryville, he was attacked by three men. Not satisfied with robbing him, they tied him to the track over a culvert and left him to a horrible fate. By a desperate effort he succeeded in releasing his body from the ropes, but an approach train warned him that he could not clear his legs, which had been fastened with brutal ingenuity, in time to escape. Driven by despair, he wrenched his body from the track leaving a leg to be crushed by the train. He died at nine o'clock yesterday morning.