The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-01
ARRESTED on SUSPICION.
Probable Capture of the Murderer OF

Charles Hamilton.
The current issue of the Usage County
Chronicle publishes an account of the
arrest of man who was brought tO EN-
poria on the 2lst and lodged in Jail by
Sheriff Moon. The authorities here en-
Joined silence regarding the arrest, but
now that the Chronicle has given pub
licity 10 the matter, we place before our
readers it's account of the affair and
such other facts in relation thereto as
we save been able 10 gam The
Chronicles statement is IA follows:
Some weeks ago the body of "A man
was found In Lyon county, four or five
mics from the railroad track. This
man evidently had been murdered. twas
subsequently, nsccrtained that the mans
name WAS Hamilton, and woman liv-
| ing near by identified him as one OF
| three men who ale supper at her house.
| She described ono of the other men rs
being "a big Irishman," with peculiar
walk.
Abou: this time Patrick Burke, "a big
| Irishman, with peculiar walk" re-
turned from Colorado Ia Carbonate, and
one night, while drinking freely, let fall
suspicious remark which was To the Ct
feet that lac had to "beat his way back
from Colorado but had brought back
eighty seven dollars with him" This re-
mark reached sheriff Smiths ears, who
was familiar with the only clue 10 the
Hamilton murder. Burke was watched
| and "a consultation between sheriff Smith
of this county and sheriff Moon Of Lyon
county was had, notes compared, and the
woman who got supper for the three
men interviewed. She was positive she
could identity one of the men by his
walk, II nothing else.
Yesterday the two sheriffs and the wo-
man met at Osege City by appointment,
and Burke was arrested by Sheriff Smith,
he being ut work in one of the mines
Approaching the woman with the pris-
oner she exclaimed, That's the man."
and upon getting closer and looking
into his face, she again said, "fes, that's
the man; I'm positive of it."
Sheriff Moon furnishes US with the
following additional facts in relation to
Burke's arrest:
II will be remembered that some weeks
| ago Moon went 10 Twin Mound, Doug
las county, To interview Mrs. Hamilton,
the wife of the murdered man whose
body was found on Moon creek in Au-
gust, taking with him from Carbondale,
Marshal Robinson, oftlat town, whose CO.
operation Moon solicited in working up
the case, having furnished him with all
the facts and circumstances in his pos
session bearing upon the murder. Short
ly after the sherifi's return To his home
in this city, he received letter from
Sheriff Smith, of Usage county, stating
that an Irishman, whose appearance an
swered to the description of one of the
men who had been seen with Hamilton
the evening of the murder, had put in an
appearance Mt Carbondale, and while un
der the influence of drink had revealed
the fact that he had come from Colorado
and let drop some remarks concerning
the incidents of his journey from thu
west, that made il comparatively easy Il
trace his course. Moon, on receiving in
telligence of these facts, wen
to Dodge City and Larned, at both o
which places and other points he heard o
Burke as having passed eastward il
: company with two men, one of whom
J, correspondent in appearance with tn
a description given by different parties O
: Hamilton. At Larned Burke was al
rested for vagrancY, but when he reach
I ed Carbondale he had in his possession
+ over 800. On the evening that th
, murder occured-or at least the evenin
q that the shots were heard by sewers
parties on Moon creek, three men stOI
ped ut the residence of Leroy RambO, i
the eastern edge of Chase county, IN
iarried long enough to eat some brea
and milk which Hamilton paid fo
The young woman who served them
Il quenlly saw the corpse of Hamilto
and identified it rs the body of one {
! the men, and, as the Chronicle state
u also declares that Burke was another {
the trio. Sheriff Moon says that Mis-
# Rambo described Burke almost pcrfec
G ly before she saw him at Usage City, an
J. when he was brought into her presenC
i she Immediately pronounced him one {
the party who stopped with Hamilton 1
her fathers house on the evening of Ill
murder She declares herself as pc
fcctly sure on this point by virtue of til
fact that Burke bears II close resen
> blancc To II man who formerly wOrke
for Mr.. Rambo. and that this circun
stance was remarked by herself an
mother ut the time, thus directing sp
y cial attention TO the party in question
Burke himself has made nothing but
d weak denial of the charge and has col
u tradicted himself in different statement
which he has made concerning the tral
It saction. He is a large, ford Irishmal
II weighing nearly 200, and has physiqu
/ and features in which the animal largel
Ii predominates.