The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-30
AxOrHER MURDER.
One Man KILLED at sIac'.e's brewery
Three Others Wounded.

| SllcflH sent At Once LOT Ut JdCobS anu
hitchcd up his team, and in a few min
utes he and the doctor were en- route for
the brewery, little north of the city.
They arrived shortly after ~ o'clock,
and found Mr. Macke, wife and employees
up. The bar room was lighted and open
and in it lay one dead man, and one man
and a boy wounded. The dead man was
Mr.. Macke's brewer, Peter Buffet. He
had been shot in the groin. The wound
ed man was in a corner, apparently dead,
and covered with blood. He was too
much stunned by some blows on his
head and by an overload of liquor TO
answer any questions. The boy had been
shot in the left wrist, and DIR. Jacobs
proceeded to extract the ball and dress
the wound. Mr. Macke stated that
party of railroad men (men who were
laying track ON the narrow gauge had
come To the brewery about 10 O'Clock
and drank, and upon going away had
/ fired several shots into the room,
which had done the mischief there
The man who lay in the room insensible,
he said, was one of the party whom he
had prevented from going out, in order
to detain him as witness. The others
all got away, and he did not know who
they were or where they went to. Sheriff
Moon drove back to town, aroused Mar
shall Fleming and DIR. Trueworthy, and
the latter Immediately issued summons
for a jury to go to the brewery and hold
an inquest. After securing a jury. the
sheriff, marshal and policeman went
back to the brewery, arrested the wound
eel man in the corner of the room.
They took the wounded man to jail, and
when lie arrived there he recovered his
senses and told them where they mi ght
| find some of his comrades. After locking
him up, they found another of the party,
drunk, lying on his bed with his clothes
on, at the Emporia House, and locked
him up. Two others came to the court
house to get warrant for the arrest of
Mr.. Macke's brewer for assault, and these
two were locked up. They SAID the
man the brewer had struck had been
helped by them about 80 rods from the
brewery where they had TO drop him.
The sheriff and marshal went back To
the brewery and found the man lying
where his comrades had laid him, drunk,
and bloody from severe cash in his
head, and conveyed him to Jail. They
also found at the house a broken
gun stock and butt end of revolver
1 rrhnes. thaxr tool nd ,rfa ha nj
wounded man 10 Jail. All this took place
before and about daylight, and meantime,
before daylight, the coroner's jury was
holding its inquest at the brewery About
breakfast time it adjourned to the court
house, aud is still in session as we 90 to
press Mr.. Macke and household ut the
brewery were examined there, and the
five men under arrest are examined
separately at the court house.
The cOrOner's jury is composed of Geo
B. Cooper, d. s. Gilmore, l.. f. Boomer,
Clinton Keller, T.. Munson, and J. III.
Davis, Dr. TruewOrthy presiding, and
j. ID. Dawson acting as clerk. The
names of the arrested men, as near as we
can obtain them to-day, are James Nc
Carty,-Fuller, John Fleming, James
McCabe, and Thos. Moran Fleming is
the man who was found in the field about
80 rods from the house, with cash in his
head, and Moran is the man who was
found IN the bar-room with his head
badly mangled. Neither one dangerous
ly wounded.
| Mr.. Macke's testimony, substantially
verified by that ofhis wife, Caroline, his
son Lewis, and bar-keeper, Joseph Ped
roja, is briefly that the railroad men
came to the brewery about ten o'clock
Sunday night, and called for beer. There
were other parties present during the
time, one, Charley Bundrem, being on
hand when the party went away. About
eleven O'Clock Mr.. Macke decided he
could not keep open any longer and re-
: quested them to leave. They insisted on
being first treated, and Mrs. Macke treat
ed them. They then went out, appar-
emily peaceable, and Immediately after
, passing out began to fire shots into the
room and throw stones at the window
! 1 WI ANbSSS ASiii was
shot. The man Moran had not got out
and was prevented from going by Macke
and 1t was while Lewis Macke was
standing near his father at the door, to
assist him if Moran tried to 90 out, that
he received a ball in his wrist, and Mo
ran staggered off into corner, and Laid
down upon the floor, the subsequent pro
cecdings interesting him no more" The
Macke party all agree that the shooting
was done hy the railroad men, from the
outside of the house, and deny that the
parties inside The house used any fire
: arms or did any fighting. How Elem
l ing got his head gashed, or how Moran
: got his mashed, they do not explain
though the latter's head must have beer
A cut in the house, as he did not get GU,
z OF it.
p The railroad men say that as they were
I going out some one struck Fleming, but
he got out, and then began the firing all
from the inside of the house The broker
gun belongs to Lewis Macke, and the
y ownership of the broken revolver has mo-
G been ascertained. A cOlored man found
the chamber and barrel of that near tn,
Central livery stables this morning.
Some theoriZe that as Fleming was 90
ing out Peter attacked and hit him or
: the head with the gun, the load discharg
!, ing and entering his own groin. As hi.
clothes were sand to be scorched will
powder this looks possible. Lewis wa
= just as probably shot from a revolver, useC
by one of the party outside the house. w,
! will go through the testimony and Civ,
tomorrow what new facts it developes
AT present it looks as II the jury woult
l. have hard time to decide who begal
the row or did the shooting The coro
II ner, jury, and officers have been activ
Z and lost no time, and are doing thei
l. best To probe the affair to the bottom.
p From Tuesdays Daily.
al The cOroner's jury is still investiga
q ing the death of Peter Buffet at Macke'
% brewery Sunday night, and this morn
n ing adjourned to meet ut 7:3O thi
: evening, at which session they vii
n no doubt render verdict. Another c