The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-31

A Missouri Murderer, after Twelve
Years Conceaimept, 10 Ar
rested IN Illinois Last
Sunday

Su0O0y
Some Of the older residents in this county
may remember the particular Of . c,urier
committed near Coles stOre. Henry county
by one Patterson, in 1865, still the bnsy
hand Of Time m,y have erased il from the
memory of xlmo-t all our citizens. The
facts Of the ea-e we're as follow:
j. W. Patterson wss q farmer residing
near Carriage In the winter OF 1863 he
was hauling lumber from Sedalia 10 his
farm, for building purposes. One day an
cd man named Clarke asked him if he
would allow him 10 ride from Sedalla Ga
Clinton with him. He told him that be
wou,d and they left Sedalia together on che
load of lumber. Clark, shortly after
they left town, began suffering from chills
and ague and Was se~n nv parties Posing
them 10 b.
LYING DOWN ASLEEP
on the load OF timber.
Tie next day after Patterson had paced
through Cole Store alone Oh the load Of
lumber, some schOoi children found The
dead body OF man concealed in q clump
of IA: eel bushes near the public highway.
1t WINS eviden, from the body when found
that life had been extinct but shor,
time, and msrks on the body showed that
the deceased had come TO his death by he
ing struck on the head by some article, sup-
posed to have BEEN . jug, sitter which has
th roat had been cut with Ratchet. Near
the body Was found concealed
grain sack, saturated with blood
il evidently having been u-ed to mop blood
of something, on the sack were some fre-h
lumber splinters and the name ''Hezekiah
Patterson, marked in ink.
There xxs also noticed the track made
by a broad-iired government wagon. turn
ing out from the road aud running near the
hazel brush in which The body WAS found.
The postmaster n; Coles store noticing
letter directed to "Hez-kiah Patterson"
being the same name a. the one ", the
BLOODY SACK,
handed IL over ca the officers 81 the law,
who opened it. The letter VAS from J. W.
Patterson to Hezekiah Patterson. his faith
cr, there being nothing in il that would AZ
sist in tracing up the murderer. further
80. n l. - a. a
son.
At the coroner'> inquest nothing definite was
elected ~ 10 the murderer, bu, in a few
days Patterson returned in The san~ broad
tired wagon over the same road Q" Ssrialia
for more lumber.
The broad wagon track Vas noticed. -x-
smined and found to coincide exactly with
The one leading To the viriniiy al the muir
tered Clark, aud Patterson ws- arrested in
ie.lalis and put on trial charged with the
murder.
BLOODY HATCHET
WA i"un.i nj the farm Of Patterson. - wss
slso new lumi~r h-spati-r-d with hlood.
The sack lad evidently be~n used Z" mop
he blood of the lumber, and thus chain
pf cirenu,su anriai evidence va. aisinced
3hich fastened the crime an the prisoner.
He war jsiled NJ Clinton. 4 change 81
verne was taken 10 Morgsn county and h.
<a- jailed At Versailles.
~. .--h- fail .i.--- -.s.' ',s'"'gn h-as'
'e~arris yer. offered ior his apprehension,
~ VITA never heart "f until last SUNDAY,
he was arrested in Illinois.
The following special from Dwight ILL.,,
q the st. Lonis Republican, OF yesterday.
ras ih. frat intima.ion 81 his arrest: -
nan PANIED J {. Williams has just heen
arrested near Belle Prairie in this county,
or the murder Of James Clark, near Gin
on, No. abou; twelve yesrs ago.
He vac arrested for the murder n the
ime, nut broke ii, snd escaped, since
time he has been re-;den, Of THE
county. His real
NAME WAS J. ". PATTERSON
The Kansas tity Times of this morning,
n sspeciaI from Dwight, Ill.,, ssys of him
AT the time Of his first srres. he con
esaesi tie crime, but escaped while await
ng trial. He wss discovered in Living
ton county, H., and brought back by
Deputy Sheriff Ha~ley. Patterson has
ived Of Pontiac since his escape. He
married and lived under the name al Wsr-
,er. and va. universally respected by his
eighbors. chad Accumulated considera-
lie property.
He WAS jailed a. Clinton yesterday and
as already been identified ~ many per
ons conversant with the facts OF the case,
nd with bis personal appearance rs
/. w. Patterson. Thus the IN .rch al JUS
ice may he slow. II required twelve
ears IN this case but it will now he in or
Ter for some smooth toneued attorney to
.cqut Patterson, by showing that il ~.
lear Gaze OF emotional insanity.
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