Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-09-10
UNI mAYDEN,s MURDER.

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The Mystery Bcins cleared up
Evidence Pointing TO Bowen
Sanders ms the P%erpetrator Of
the Dced-Pat Lyons Arrested
as n Particeps Criminis-The
Clue by which the Case was
Worked up.
Very recent Development, of which our
reporters got information last evening,
point to the fact that the mystery Of the
Julia Hayden murder will he speedily
cleared up.
Capt. McGregor, Sheriff of Wilson
county, and Capt. Harper, of Lebanon,
came to the city by the morning train
yesterday for the purpose of arresting a
certain man whe had preceded them in
coming here, and whose name We sup
press, as q witness in the case. They
brought the intelligence that they arrest
ed day before yesterday, in the neigh-
borhood Of where the killing was done, a
married mar named Pct Lyons, On The
charge Of being implicated in the MUIR
der, and that they had placed him in
jail at Lebanon.
AN EPISODE.
There came down with them on the
train a. man who attracted their atten-
tion, and who, when the train arrived,
hurriedly sought q hack. Capt. McGreg.
or fastened to the same hack and asked
HIM where he was going. He replied.
"To the jail" That was where. the
Sheriff expected he was going, and, say
ing that was the hotel he himself was
bound for, got in the same vehicle and
was driven to the jail, where he warned
the officers not to allow his fellow>passen.
ger or anybody else to see Bowen San
ders, brought here from Lebanon last
Tuesday for safe keeping,
This was Q little episode possessing the
charm of mystery. Capt McGregor and
Capt. Harper had no trouble in finding
their man, and they carried him to the
Capitol, subjected him to an interview
and took him to Lebanon by the evening
train. Il is probable an effort will be
made to-day to secure the release of Pat
Lyons on a writ of habeas corpus, in
which case he will appear as a witness.
THE FIRST CLUE.
Day before yesterday this witness went
to Sheriff McGregor at Lebanon, and said
he was going to leave the country and
wanted some assistance. In the course
Of the conversation which followed, he
told the sheriff that be had heard a part
of a conversation held by a certain party
with Bowen Sanders the day after the
murder Of Julia Hayden, at a place with
in a few miles of the scene of the crime.
lie had heard the man say to Sanders /:
"You've killed her; she's Dead" to
which Sanders replied "No, | reckon
not; | just poked my pistol in the door
and fred, and / didn't shoot at anybody
in PARTICULAR YES, sir, you've certain>
ly Killed her, and I've come to tel you
she's dead,'' was the answer. The wit.
ness also told the Sheriff that Pat Lyons
accompanied Sanders on the night Of the
killing.
1t was with this clue that Capt. Nc,
Gregor and Capt. Harper set out to ar
rest Lyons day before yesterday. He
he'd already locked Sanders up in the
Davidson county Jail for a separate of
fence-that Of riotous conduct-and had
thus placed him in safekeeping to answer
d more terrible allegation.
SANDERS LATE MIsFoRTUNEs.
Sanders was brought here from Leba>
non a few days since, and confined in our
Jail fol safe keeping. Since his conf ne,
ment to Jail here, he has been visited by
a number Of friends from Lebanon, all oe
whom speak of his willingness to fight at
the drop Of the hat. It will be remem.
bered that he took position on the Public
Square at Lebanon recently, armed
with q double-barreled shot gun, and de-
fed a posse sent to arrest him in conse.
ouence Of his having INDUCED in very
d~isorderly conduct.
lie was overpowered, however, and
confined in the Jail at Lebanon. in de.