The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-10-16

- 1norS LeAk WIN the three hAo1 Ar
rested Tuesday by Detecs4vs Dassan-
Developments that Tend 70 Confirm the
Suspicion that They Arc the Right Par
ties.
Topeka Commonwealth: Whether the
three men, James FOrneY, August For
ney and William Mound, arrested Tues
day by Detective Dnstan on suspicion Of
being the parties who attempted TO
wreck passenger train No. 5 on she
Santa Fs road, near Emporla. Sunday
morning. are guilty or not still remains
to be proven, but Developments made
yesterday tend very strongly to tighten
more firmly the suspicion, and many are
positive in their opinions that
they are the right parties.
A Commonwealth reporter was
permitted 70 visit and talk with
them last evening in the Jail. August
Forney, who is the oldest one of the
trio, and evidently their leader, has been
around Topeka for two weeks past, and
the reporter remembers having seen him
several times on the street. He is q man
of heavy build, thirty-six years old, five
feet seven inches high, weighs 167, and
dresses like q gentleman of leisure; that
is, always wore black suit, Prince Al
bert coat and silk hat. Sometimes car
ried gold-headed cane. While OF the
light complexion order, hIs face looks
flushed, and IL Ornsmented with q red
moustache and imperiel or goatee. In
answer to the reporters questions he
said: al came here two weeks
ago from Lima, Ohio. Am q cOntrac-
tor and plastereE by trade, but
don't have to work now-live off the IN
terest of my money" Subsequently he
admitted being a resident OF Rochester,
New York, and was sent to the insane
asylum at Buffalo from there two years
ago, where he remained crazy four
months It was through q conspiracy
OF friends, he contended, that sent him
there. After leaving Lima, three weeks
ago, he travelled TO Chicago, thence into
Iowa, Missouri and f1nally here. His
story was very contradictory and mixed
First, all three, meaning himself and the
two young men who are under arrest
with him, went away from Lima togeth-
er, then afterwards the statement was
made that b is brother, James Forney
had been here q week, and the other
man, VIM. Mound, with his partner, q
man by the name Of Daniel Bowers, ar
rived here Tuesday night.
Mound spoke up at this point, saying
Yes, Bowers and arrived in Atchison
Sunday morning, with pair of horses
and buggy on the train. We unlOaded
them there and drove across the country
here. But he could not tell readily
where they brought the horses and
buggy from. Ali denied strongly thai
they hsd ever been at Emporia or knew
where the place Is. They seemed TO think
it outrageous that they should be locked
up and kept there without any oppor
tunity of proving their innocence. Au.
gust Forney gave out the impression
that he is worth about $40, 900, and told
the reporter that he has q trunk full Of
Understanding bonds and mortgages.
His brother and Mound are very roughly
dressed. and look as though they had
been seeing hard times.
Tuesday morning they and the man
Bowers hired themselves to s. F. Grosch
as plIsterers, and worked until Dustar
arrested them. Bowers is still at work
August FOrney says that he has been
twice married. His first wife is dead
the other living, though they have sep
arated.
The railroad company is still pur
suing vigorous and uncessing search
investigating thoroughly every clew and
leaving nothing undone that will even.
fully fix the dastardly crime where u
Tightfully belongs. Several letters were
received Yesterday, among them one
from Chief of Police Speers, at Kansas
City, telling of three horses
swer In description to the animals
here, claimed by the three prisoners now
in jail. Two of these horses were stoleE
IN Vernon county, Missouri, and the
other near Emporia. this state. If thai
is the case, it will be remembered tha
Mound says that he and Bowers drove
from Atchison county here. Vernon
county, Missouri, is in the northwestern
part of that state, and of course they
weuld naturally cross the river at Atch
ison to get here.
Home. Yates, eng ineer of the freig h
train that was wrecked. says that he saw
Sunday morning, near the fatal spot
where q team and buggy had beef
hItched to the orchard fence, and ais
found lot of apple andsquInce peeling
which the men had stolen from the or
chsrd and been eating.