The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-05
:. MURDER MOST FOUL
Further Particulars OF the Big Springs
Tragedy.

Tragedy.
All Nebraska is excited over the
murder of Charlie Phillips, 4 boy of
eighteen years of age, whose death is
charged to a Mrs. Walroth and n con-
federate named Harry Duboise. We
alluded on Saturday to the incarcera-
ton of the accused parties at Sidney.
Since our last account Mrs. Walroth
grew temporarily insane and in her
rawlings confessed to her participation
in the crime, and gave other evidences
of the fact that she is thoroughly
stepped in villainy, hardened by its
worst phases. The Sidney cores
pondent of the Omaha Herald says that
in her Mysteries she infinitely described
the murder scene so graphically that it
appalled, the listeners. She told where
the bullets from Duboise's pistol struck
the victim, locating the wounds posi-
lively, and even describing the groans
Of the dying man.
When the body was recovered, the
bullet hole in the back of the head, the
shot under the eye, were precisely as
she described them in her hysterical
excitement; constituting the best of
circumstantial evidence. She said
Duboise was only Il few inches behind
Philips when lie fired-the hair of the
corpse gave evidence of having been
singed by the flash of the revolver. She
said Philips turned around as lie fell,
gurgling the name of the murderer,
and that Duboise fired the second shot
with the revolver held squarely in the
face of Phillips-the flesh around the
ragged hole under the right eye of the
corpse was burned and blackened by
powder.
Since her arrest the woman has twice
attempted suicide by morphine. She
is closely guarded and the drug was
taken from her in each instance before
she Id swallowed it. Her condition
is really pitiable. In her delirious
sleep she imagines she sees blood run
ming, starts up with wild shrieks, call
ing on 'tHarry" to throw the body into
the water, quick" In her somnam-
bulic spells she'lives over n life of crime,
and makes dark hints about a murder
she committed at North Platte. There
have been some facts obtained about
her North Platte life which may lead
to the disclosure of a great crime which
she committed there. During one of
the intervals of her enforcement from
Walroth she was married to a man
named Purdy. She lived with him at
North Platte for a few months, and
one morning he was found dead, under
circumstances which could be con-
strued into the suicide hypothesis. The
verdict of suicide was rendered, it
seems, after but little investigation.
The matter will now be investigated.
The guilty people were taken in
the presence of the corpse of
the murdered boy after it had been
made ready for burial. The icy water
had prevented decay, and there was q
striking ~hfe-likeness to the features Of
the corpse. Mrs. Walroth threw her.
self on the coffin and covered the face
of the dead body with kisses, and
called him her 'idarling Charlie
Dubois stood by the body Of his victim.
spit tobacco juice upon the coffin, and
refused to recognize him. There is a
very bitter feeling against them, and it
would only require a leading spirit to
collect a crowd that would take them
both out and hang them. Walroth was
himself arrested as accessory after the
fact of the murder was known to him.
He protests his innocence, but there is
abundant evidence to prove his guilt.
Charlie Phillips was the only child of a
widow lady who looked to him for her
main support. All those who knew
him speak of him in terms of the high,
est praise.