Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-06-16

eternity, and heavens morning stars,
just fifty-five hours after the awful crime
had been committed upOn,Nettie Lyons,
looked down upon the dead body of Til
lott ComstOck Warner, hanging near to
the fatal swamp. The tragic scene was
indescribably awful and terribly solemn.
He was hung at 80 a. M, June 15sA. d.
1883.
EVIDENCES OF GUILT.
The acute analytical mind of the little X
girls Father COnfessOr, discerned in
taking Nellies confession on Wednesday,
that the girl was as competent to identi-
fly the guilty as was any person, and he
said Nellie's description of the man
would have enabled him to have spotted
Warner out of any crowd, that the ply
sique, clothes and face and mustache ac-
curately set forth Warner and his dress.
The child's father gives the same testi-
mOny. The childs physician gives the
same testimony. Nettie said the man
unfastened her drawers from her waist
by removing safety pins. Watchman
Paquette took from Warmers vest safe
ty pin corresponding exactly with those
used by Mrs. Lyons. Nettie said the
mans vest was fastened with pins, with
one button at the top; Warmers vest was
so fastened. The dark clothes, speckled
straw hat, mustache and hight given by
Nettie described Warner exactly. The
infallable test was made of bringing
Warner into Nettie's presence and she
instantly recognized him as the man by
crying and begging him to be removed.
The child's priest says Nettie is the
brightest scholar in her class, that he
has heard her recite, knows her well;
that her mind is strong and always lu-
cid; when they wanted to bring Warner
before her again she said on Thursday
as she cried: "Oh, don't; if he was not
the man l wouldn't told you so; l know
he is the man; bring other men, but not
that man."
Three skilled physicians examined
Warner on Wednesday. and found guilt
marks in fresh blood on the lining of the
pants, in marks on his person, and in re-
cent precautionary measuresto cover up
traces of guilt, which, taken in connec-
tion with Warmers absurd account of
these things, fixed guilt upon him with
out shadow of doubt. A skilled ply
sician. who had never seen Warner, gave
post mOrtem examination of Warner
and said that the only mark found on
the entire body confirmed his guilt. A
sober, honest, careful man saw Warner
with girl crossing the railroad track
about p. m. on Tuesday pulling her
along, and not knowing either party
thought it parent taking home child.
He is absolutely sure Warner was the
man. Hayden's little girl was coaxed
by man to go to the woods. She saw
Warner in the wagon on his way from
Mackinaw and instantly exclaimed:
"There is the man that cOaxed me to 90
to the woods" Other persons saw
Warner and the girl together on
Tuesday evening, and their testi-
mony confirmed Warmers guilt. War
ner was interviewed and examined
frequntly while in prison by
different parties, and his statements in
variably are simply crushing and over
whslming in establishing his guilt. He
was either fool or he knowingly gave
irrefutable evidence in favor of his own
guilt. He was the best witness against
himself. He did not tell the same tale
twice in accounting for himself when
the child was ruined between and
Tuesday evening. He did not sleep in
the bed he engaged at the fremont
house Tuesday night, but left that house
before IL and was seen and identified.
His story each time concerning
himself and acts between and 8 Tues
day evening was absolutely false, and he
admitted in prison that it was impOssi-
bic for him to satisfactorily account for
himself to others, but stoutly denied his
guilt, and asserted his innocence. Par
ties here who knew him say that his an
tecedents are foul as hell, that he is a
full blooded villain. He acknowledged
himself to be drunken sot, rake, COM
panion of female brutes, dead beats and
swindlers, bereft of any moral con-
seriousness. He impressed all who care
fully examined him as an incomprehen-
sible mystery of shrewd, accomplished
turpitude, and extreme depravity. He
was intelligent. with unusually strong