NOTE: The information noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from an original document located in a Monroe County civil court file titled Alonzo B. Jones, Lee Jones and Milton Toliver vs. Habeas Corpus, Box 322, available at the Monroe County History Center. There was little else in the file. On March 2, 1875, according to a document in Box 322, Thomas Moody was murdered in Orange County, Indiana. (According to an account of the crime in 1893, the evil deed took place on March 7.) His alleged killers included Alonzo B(entley) "Bent" Jones, Lee Jones and Milton Toliver. Following their arrest, they addressed the Supreme Court in the November term of 1876 alleging they had been deprived of their liberty by Williamson M. Alexander, the sheriff and jailor in Monroe County. According to an article published in the Bloomington Saturday Courier on October 28, 1893, the three alleged killers were sentenced to life in prison in June 1876 for their involvement in "one of the most atrocious murders that has ever occurred in the state." The trouble began in 1871 over a land dispute. The Joneses and a few of their friends destroyed Moody's Lawrence County home in a fire on June 24, 1871. Thomas subsequently moved to Orange County, and the Joneses relentless pursued them. On an evening in March 1875, the Joneses and their friends concealed themselves in bushes and waited for Thomas to come home. He was killed instantly. Bent Jones, his younger brother, Lee Jones, and Eli Lowery were all tried for the crime and sentenced to life in prison. In 1893, the governor pardoned Bent. The other two men had been pardoned a short time earlier.