The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-12
RANDE.
He y Fully Identified % the ellison
Murderer.


Galesburs. ILL.,. February s. The Rande
trial opened this morning. With fully 1000
people in the Court room. Cpunsel for the
deiense made . motion and 6le1 IN Aida
vit fne the separation Of witnesses for the
prosecution. which the Court, however,
ovesrulea, On account Of the insuf6ciency
Of the s6idsviss. The examination Of Wit.
nesses for the people then began.
wOODrORD PIERCE
testified: Live 1t iiiI~n; on August S
last my house Vas robbed u SO in money
and SIS Of other property; the family
were all at church; found out the robb ~
immediately after my return; found tracks
leading from the nOust through corn
field; followed the tracks to the timber
snd then aroused the nsighborhood; did
not ses the man.
MINERvA PIERCE
his wife, teati6ed ~ to the value Of the
property had seen the money in the draw
e. Just before she left for church; identified
the scissors found in ksnde's valise a the
pair that had laid on her center table 70.
fifteen yean.
HENRY N'DowELL
sworn for the people: Live Eve mile'
north~ass Of Gibson; vent to Sunday
school IN August 5sh Last; when church
commenced started for home; vent ps-,
Pierce's houss at II o'clock; saw . man
croa the road about ten steps ahead Of my
teen; il wss the prisoner. Rsn:ie san
hin n to the door Of the house positively
identified the man; didn't see anybody elss
on the road fns over two miles.
WILLIAM z. CLARKE, JR.,
. young man about twenty-five. described
the whole hunt, in which he "a. IN active
participant he vas notified Of the .bbesy,
and followed the tracks vilh several Others
in the eight which followed, Ransle cred 6rs
at Mr.. Holiday. and then started to run
stepping tn shoot man when Lis pursner.
9os near him witness saw the whole al ,ir
saw Beld~n fall end saw McKnovn ahol
through the chest; only Holloway VA
armed. and the witness gut pistol an'
ired two shots At Rsnde. whom be iully
identified.
WILLY KELLER.
bright intelligent boy 81 eleven, proved
the most straightforward and careful vit
ness Of all. He and another ycunestel
joined the punuit. in the course Of which
he vas shot in the leg BY Rsnde. Aske,
- to identity, he said ''thst il the man;
am sure Of it," and nothing could shake hi.
testimony. He say oil the shooting. AMI
was strOng in his evidence a n all facts
connecting the prisoner With murder.
J. cRENER
sworn, testified: Was ut Clark's when ve
heard of the robbery started in pursuit q
title boy saw the tramp IN the timber; "
called ia him to stop: he answered BY
firing. then Holloway fred kept up run
ming eight and firing with him half mile
or 10 iili he went into eorn Geld; did mol
zee him sgain; was caring for the little
boy, Willie Keller. that vas shot.
JAMES RKHsTocK,
sworn, testi6ed that be il brother in lav
Of woodforj Pierce; went home With him
to dinner on the day Of the robbery found
TRACKS leading to the corn 6eld; followed
up to near the place where the tramp va
found found the same tracks in soft plsce'
IN the eorn-6eld where the men we're shot
did not see the shooting.
AN UNEASY YKKLiNo
prevailed lsss evening. owing to the pses.
ence Of unknown strangers in the city. and
extra precautions are taken in guarding the
Jail and the prisoner 10 and from the Jail
Il IL . rsscue rather than q lynch,ng that il
nov feared. No lynchine will b had
unle~ the jury fail n 6ad R,nds guilty ol
murder in the 6nss degree. In that event j,
10 certain. The evideace thus far i con-
vincina. and the jury will surely hang him
A careful reeosd il being kept, and probably
the c.se will b passed upon By the Su
pseme Court o. 10 the Lao Of hue and cry.
ABLHS PHOTOGRAPHED.