The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-09-17
THE. NOEI.CkER III RIDER
ARRAN rs cool AND CONFIDENT.
The Prisoner Waves 4 H,aring Specu-
lators ana Eumors OF Interest

/ ARRANrS COOL AND CONFIDENT.
The Prisoner Waves H,aring Specu-
lations ana Eumors OF ln,ercs;
! Tie Investigation OF this shocking honi-
riGe stiI progresses, lint us all the proceed
/ in.,S are conducted i'll u priNlir manner and
as the authorities having the matter i'll
! charge are Very reticent concerning it, the
/ reporters, who are AWAY, on the gHi rir"
for news, experience much difficulty in OBJ
tanning any additional tactS relative thereto.
The States Attorney has been unremtting
! in his Investigations and has been making
/ almost daily trips to the scene OF the trag
rdy, in company with his secret service
| force and has secured the ad iaCen: ncighbor-
hood for evidences tending to point ont the
! murderer or murdererS and bring them to
! justice. After IL trip down there, on Friday
of last week, he came hurriedly back to
town late in the afternoon, and Immediately
/ started back, with the Sheriff. armed with
some kind "f Il writ, which caused all kinds
of rumorS to lily through the town, one of
| which was that warrant had been issued
for the arrest OF another party, who was
suspected Of completely in the crime, one
report being that it was AS Il principal and
another that it was an accessory. 1t turned
out that simply search warrant had been
/ issued and the officers do not ,livul.e the
result Of the search, that all sorts Of
wild rulnor> are floating around from mouth
-, Al,
sensational it will be well to receive them
all with many grains of incredulity. Under
these circumstances we will simply publish
the latest of these reports as we gather
them up, not vonching for the strict accu-
racy of them, and will leave Our readers to
draw what conclusions they may, taking it
for granted that any news about this revolt
Ing affair will he of interest At this time.
TIE PRISONER.
Arrants still remains in Jail cool and col
lected, stoutly denying all knowledge of the
crime and claiming his confidence of ac-
| quittal. His counsel are in constant con-
ference with him. and one Of them has ex-
pressed himself As being confident of clear
ing him. The demeanor of the prisoner is
certainly in his favor: and while u large
portion of the community really believe
him to be the murderer. still there are those
who believe otherwise, and as only one side
of the case is generally argued here, and as
he is not yet convicted, it should be r2mem-
bered that he is entitled to all the doubts,
and prejudice should not govern against
him until he has had chance to defend
himself on his trial for life.
The Wing, last week, gave the generally
accepted theory to where the deed was
committed, how the body was dragged for
a mile and half through swamp, thicket,
and ont Of the way places to the river
where it was found anchored, and followed
up the clne which seemed to point out Az
rants as the guilty man. Now, many think
that if he committed the deed, he must have
had help to drag and afterwards carry the
body to the river. few believing that a horse
was used, as the hoof tracks We're only seen
for Il short distance But on the other hand
it is held that he is Il large and stout man.
and that his fright at his deed, done in the
heat of passion. would lend him almost
superhuman strength in his terrible efforts
to hide the evidence of his crime. Be this
rs it may, we have learned from an anthem
tic source that the negro named Sanders,
/ who is now in Jail, was, and is, detained!
SIMPLY rs y WITNESS,
and not as an accessory, and should he be
able to find bail, lie will be promptly re-
leased. He does not bear y very good char
acter in his neigh orhood, and he has been
quite an associate of Arrants, and is said
to have been with him on the Saturday
night preceding the murder when he helped
him to butcher some sheep which the pris-
oner claims accounts for the bloody spots
on the shirt found in his wagon, and which
he changed for n new one in Wilmington.
This shirt, together with a number of other
articles which have been found with bloody
stains on them, has been taken To the labo-
ratory of a noted Philadelphia chemist,
where they will be thoroughly tested by
analysis to determine whether or not the
marks on them are those of human blood.
/ \ good many persons hold that the con-
tinued quarrels, and the bad blood engen-
dered thereIrom between Noelcller and Ar
rants, Lad such notoriety, that had the muir
der been committed by some other parties,
| it would have been part Of their plan to
leave the body near the house where he
lived, so that suspicion would attach to
! .Arrants, and that as Noecker seldom was
known to have any considerable sum of
/ money about him and WIS badly i'll debt,
murder with robbery as the object would
! have been out OF the question: while the
| old man was not known to have any par
! ticular or violent quarres with other par
| ties than ArrantS.
Among the current rumorS, is one that
may tend still further to flsteu the chain of
| evidence around the suspected party. 1t is
that the rope usod IN drayging the Lo'lH ana
| tound dround tie aCch rW he identified be-
yond ADMIT, and that the bloody shirt
found i'll the wagon is not indispensably
requisite for the connecting OF the circum-
| stantial Chain. but that other and much
more important evidences are in the hands
of the authorities, which they claim will
settle the question beyond Il doubt rs to
/ who killed Nicholas Noelcker.
| SOME DAMAGING MARKS.
Another seemingly authentic report is
that the secret service agent employed in
working up the case insisted, shortly after
Arrants was confined in Jail, that his per-
son should be thoroughly examined, and
that two OF our Elkton physicians had
caused him to be stripped and lad given
him IL thorough examination and that
decided mark or welt had been found on
his shoulder and across part of his breast
| and also on his hip, and that such marks
might undoubtedly be made by Il rope over
his shoulder while engaged in pulling some
heavy object. 1t is also said that Arrants
| was startled by the disclosure of the marks,
and that some days after lie sent for a ply
stefan froH North Fast, who happened to
be in town, and desired him to G%amin ne his
body to see if he could find any marks, so
that he might Use him as a witness, but the
physician, learning that some days had
elapsed since his first examination, declined
to do so.
The weapon apparently used-;ts blood
and hair wcrl found sticking to twas one
half of Il small fence rail- and the bloody
clothed part of it fitted the wound On the
head. This has also been taken t Phla-