The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1884-04-09
FOUL MURDER.
pa, and Charles Hamilton Con-
" fess their Guilt.
uox They Stood On the Bank to
see the Express Train Run
Over the Body of Their
Victim.
wsrrensburg Journal-Democrat- :

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| The torn. bloody and mangled re
,,;,s OF a man were discovered en-
,hs Missouri Pacific railroad track
east of the depot, at a point between
| the Miller and MCGUIRE street bridg
ss about II o'clock Sunday night.
| The horrifying discovery was first
made byMr Chas. Shields, brake
| man on a freight train, who at once
mortified the engineer and other tram
| men. As soon as possible the train
was s,de-tracked and the train men
repaired to the scene of the ghastly
| tragedy; night watchman Joe Dixon
and two or three citizens were early
on the ground. 1t was indeed hor-
ntying spectacle that met their gaze
there in the stiffness of the Sabbath
| night by the fittul glare of lanterns.
Near the south side Of the track,
cold and stiff in the ice of a myster-
Gus but awful death, lay the crushed
bruised and mangled body of
Young man not more than Is years
Of age.
Running along the track for sew
eraI feet was IL trail of crimson, show
Ing that the body had been dragged
under the cruel wheels. In the mid
die OF the track was the unfortunate
mans shees and nearly opposite the
body and on the other side OF track,
was heavy iron track wrench, with
blood stains on it. which at once IN
dicated that terrible murder had
been committed and the body thrown
On the track in order to create the
Impression that the man had met ms
death by being run over by the cars.
The remains were gathered up and
removed to the depot, where they
were viewed early on the following
morning by Coroner Smith.
Sunday afternoon message was
filed with the Pacific Mutual Tele-
graph Company at Sedalia. and d.
rected to Chas. Hamilton. porter
at The Simmons House in this CITY.
The message read: ''QuIt immed,-
ately and be ready to go with me-"
and was signed "B,lly Hamilton.
The office here beng closed the tel
legram was not received till Monday
morning. Billy Hamilton and his
victim took the west bound passen-
ger train at Sedalia Sunday evening.
but got off at Montserrat and walked
to Warrensburg. They siid not go
to hotel or a boarding house for
supper. but about seven O'Clock went
to The Simmons House and called
out the porter. who procured 4 lunch
tor the two men, and having resig gn-
ed his place at the hotel, went away
with Billy Hamilton and his victim.
Monday morning the city was thor
oughiy excited over the discovery OF
the body of what was supposed to be
murdered man. The dark crime
seemed enshrouded III mystery and
until Tuesday night there had not
been obtained the slightest clue to
the perpetrators of the dcvilish deed.
On Tuesday night, however. MIR. r.
Baldwin, a book agent residing in
inns city. was returning home from
Holden on the night express. He
aoticed on the tram the former por-
Ier OF the Simmons house, in COM
panv with male (Billy Hamilton),
ana a female by her actions hetray-
"a the tact that she was an abandon
20 woman. MIR. Baldwin. who had
known Chas. Hamilton while he was
porter at the Simmons house. was
naturally surprised at the great
mango IN the exporters dress.
moving that the aforesaid Charles
vas IN very Strengthened crrcumstan-
'es few davs before. while now he
vas dccked out from crown to toe in
,oran new wearing apparel and
"ghtiy aliuding to the change that
'aa came over the spirit of Charles
'ress, he entered into conversation
shh nm He learned that the par
.es had been taking IN Kansas City
ne dav before and were then enroutc
OF Sedalia. Thinking over the few
acts ofthe murder. Charles changed
and his present associates.
suspicion arose in his mind to the
uect that Charles bad something To
Q with the horrible crime that had
zen perpctrated III this city. We'd
ssast morning ht. informed Sheriff
.usseti ot his suspicious and gave
= reasons for the same Mr.. Rus
~ !, deeply inhued with the principle
Lei no guilty man escape at once
,aoe preparations TO secure the
'essfs. Hamilton and accompanied
All. Baldwin. icf, Wednesday
'orning tor Sedalia.
AT >eda!ia nothing could he seen