The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-10-08
ISAACS.
Cas- County's Condemned xur.
derer.
A Basoo Reporter Obtains IN In
tervieW.
His Cool Confession Of Q Cold
Blooded Murder.


farm of one Clark, in Bates county, and
purchased lot of cattle frum him, agreeing
to pay for them when they we're delivered
at certain point. The cattle were deliver
ed to him and he started TO drive them to
the railroad. accompanied by q con Of Clark,
who was 10 receive the money for them.
After they had reached and p.ssed over the
Cas- county line. Issscs rude up behind
young Clark and shot him dead from his
horse. He left the body where il lay, and
took the cattle 10 st. Louis, where he sold
them for about $500. He then returned to
to his former home in Kansas. and was
upon the eve Of getting married and start
ing out in life upon his blood money when
he Was arrested.
After his arrest he confessed his crime.
The indignation Of the people Of Bates Was
aroused to such pitch that they assembled
in Jacksonville to lynch Isascs, but the
Sheriff outwitted them BY spiriting Isaacs
of to Kansas City, where he was kept two
weeks in Jail.
lie vas brough, to trial before the Cass
County Criminal Court, and an Wednes-
day, Sept. 18th. he Was found guilty and
sentenced To be hung the 25ih Of this month.
He manifests the utmost indifference to
his fate. and, in fact. says he wants to be
hung. His wish will probably he complied
with on that d.y.
A BAzoO reporter went to Harrisonville
on Friday last, and obtained admittance to
his cell. lssacs talked freely and unre-
servedly. and the following is the result Of
the
INTERVIEW:
Repor;er-Whai il your name?
Isaacs-My name il Richard T. Isaacs.
R.-How old are you?
IL was twenty-eight years old the 26th
day Of December last.
R.-Where were you horn?
Thirteen miles from Boone, C.
R-How old was you when you left
North Carolina?
IL was about twenty-one years old.
R.-Where did you 60 when you left
Missouri?
CONES TO MISSOURI.
IL went to Pineville, Mo, in 1874, and
staid there about four months. went
from there to Paola, Kansas. and worked
for different parties on farms Tor four years.
R-Hsve you any relations in this sec.
ton /?
I.-Ye., have married sister, an uncle
| and one brother.
R.-What is your sisters name!
L.-Mrs. Elisabeth Teen. Her husbamd
is farmer and they live near --,
Kansas.
R-Your brother and uncle.
MY brother Is . school teacher in
Kansas. Ny uncle lives in Kansas and j.
named Egger.
FIRST CRIME.
Rid You ever commit any crime be-
fore this one!
I.-Nevcr. Thi. is the fret crime Of any
kind that was ever guilty Of.
k-Wss you ever . drinking man?
IL never was drunk but o.ace in nv
R.-Wuh whom did you live last, before
this murder?
Ii have worked for Joseph Chilaom.
eight miles southeast Of Paoia. for part Of
two summers. He !. Baptist preacher.
R.-Are you married?
NO sir.
WANTED TO MARRY.
R-Had you not paid your attentions to
his daughter?
IL had courted Miss Alice some and
we ~ere engaged.
R.-lIow old Is she!
I.-She il seventeen.
RE she pretty and smart?
I.-Hes sir.
GOES INTO THE CATTLE BUSINESS.
R-Tell me how you happened to kill
Henderson B. Clark?
lon the END at last August went to
Robert Clark's, in Bates county and asked
him il he wanted to cell hia cattle! He
said he did, and bargained fDr thirty head
at S3S per head. l vent away and come
hack on the 18th Of August Ia Clark's and
got the cattle. H. B. Clark, son Of Robert
Clark, went with me. He was to 20 vith
me to Louisburg. On the N. X. 4 T., where
| was to ship the cattle. When ve got 10
Loui<burg could not get any csrs, so We
started To drive 10 West L:ne-seven miles
east. 1t was here that Clark agreed to &c
to St. Louis with me.
THE FATAL DEED
We stopped to water the stock two miles
from Lou.sburg. We both dismounted
from our horses and seated Ourselves on the
bank Of the creek. We stopped there from
one fourth to One-half Of an hour. I then
thought Of, for the FIRST time, the killing o,
Clark and concluded to do il. We started
ON, and when about six miles from Louis-
burg and one and one hslf miles from West
Line, I killed Clark. We we're riding |
along, nearly side by side-my horse being !
little behind, pulled my pistol and shot |
him in the back Of the head. He fell on
the opposite aide Of his horse from me on
to the ground.
Rid cl,rk say anything after you !
shot him?
I.-Not q word.
Rid be see you pull your pistol:
NO.
Rid he have pistol !:
Rid you say anything to him before
you shot?
Mot word.
Rid you have no quarrel or dispute
with Clark!
Nome Whatever.
R-How many times did you shoot.
I.-Only once.
NO COHCEALNENT.
R.-What did you do after You killed
him!
Ii turned my home loose and took
Clarke and after taking his pocketbook,
which contained Sci or Sc drove The
cattle on to West Lane.
Rid you Try To conceal the bsdy.
NO, sir; I left il lying in the grass
cloae BY the rOad.
R-what time did you get to West
Line!