The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-10


& WAS tirst discovered by . man
named Allen. It looked as
e It had bsen dropped there.
Shaw described the missing
blow shovel spoken of In this paper yes
ieIdaY. He said il was eight or nine
inches long and about six inches wide,
and ran of 90 point The pillow was
ing and the shovel had bsen lately re-
moved. Shaw said that ROblyer was
when he reached the body.
WI. sTOGsDILL
was the next witness. He said he was
making fence on Saturday morning al
Pickett's about 3 quarter of q mile from
Inc ecene Of the killing. He saw Green
irst walking leisurely Giong the railroad
track. He then csme at an ordinary
gait up the lane to where Stogsdill was,
and after bidding him the time of day
and standing about for moment or 90,
told him that Roblyef had been killed
by the ears. Ssogsdlll told him that he had
better hurry 10 town and tell the boys
folks, and Green walked away At very
deliberate pace. Green told 6togsdill
his story sad il was in substance as ne
AfteEwaTd repeated il 30 the jury. Siogs-
dill, 10 company with G. Prout and two
persons by the name of Smith, went 60
the scene of the killing and found the
body AZ already described, and the IN
fortunate boy still breathing, and his
head moved slightly
EDWARD SMITH
was called. and corrobOrsted the state
ment of SIogsdiil az to the position Of
the body.
CONSTABLE VERSION
was placed on the stand aud gave the
following evidence: / have visited the
scene OF the killing every day since il
occurred. Yesterday went to the spot
IN company with Engineers Dempster
and FTisbee and Officers Wooster and
Romano. I cav the blood spot spoken
of by Shaw, twelve feet from the track.
It seemed to have been dropped rather
than carried there. The SPOTS between
where the boy is said by Green to have
sat down on the bank, and the track.
There gere cow-Iracks at the edge Of the
blood spot most remote from the track
bat none near the hrst pool.
The blood had apparently fallen up
on the grass when fresh. Yesterday
we took stuck and stuck It alongside of
the tie where RobiYer'B head rested,
so that it extended eight
inches ahoYe the surface of the
the tie, and when the train came along
the trucks nor oil boxes did not touch
it by two inches. Several of the party
then laid their heads down on the tie
beside the stick and q margin Of seY-
eral inches was left between their heads
and the top of the stick.
ENGINEERS BARHYDT AND FRIsBEE
both testified that il would be impossi
BILE for the cars to inflict such wounds as
were found on Roblyer's head, and that
if struck AZ represented by Green the
head would have been literally mashed
and the body either thrown some dis
lance from the track or drawn under the
wheels and ground mp. There was moth
ing about Q locomotive or car which
could make the incisions found on Rob
lyer's head.
ENTER GREEN.
Green was at this juncture brought H.
to the court room TO allow engineer
Barhydt to again see HIM. The cold
sweat stood out in great drops upon his
temples, and he seemed TO be suffering
terrible mental torture. He was ordered
to stand up beside twelve year old boy
who CHANGED to be in the house,
ana Barhydt said that they COM
pared pretty nearly in size
to the persons he had whist
led off the track Saturday morning. He
could not say positively that. Green was
the man, but he presented much the
same appearance. BaEhydt ssid it was
not more th an three minutes run from
the top of the grade to whore the men
stood and thst the tram was. not more
than fifteen seconds in passing that
point.
JOEL N. WRIGHT
was sworn, and stated that he had seen
the blood spot remofest from the track,
but thought it had been male by COW,
which carried 1t on her foot from the
other pool, ss there were cows around
while the blood was fresh.
GREEN on THE STAND.
Green having state that he desired to
change his account of the killing was
called 10 the stand. He seemed to gath
or courage as he proceeded with his
story which differed from his
first evidence only in the
representation that instead of seeing the
train he saw the smoke from the engine,
and that instead of having two buckets
with honey he said that they only had
one. He went oyer the whole ground
again at great length, and said that after
the killing everything seemed to turn
upside down and that he did not know
what he was doing. He reiterated his
professions of love for the dead boy, and
stoutiY denied that he and Roblyer had
had any quarrel.
stated that he had seen Green and lad
with a tin bucket walking slowly along
the track toward Emporis Saturday
morning about half an hour before the
train went south, he said they were
talking bnt that he heard no quarreling.
This closed the evidence.
THE VERDICT:
The coronor's jury, after . considera-
ton of all the testimony, brought in the
following verdict:
STATE OF KANSAS,
Lyon County,
An lnousition holden at Emporia, In
Lyon county, Kans., on the 5th, eth, and
9th days of April A. D., 1884, before me,
Chas. Fletcher, Justice of the Peace in
and for the city of Emporia, and acting
coroner for eaid county. on the body OF
Harry Roblyer, deceased, by the jurors
whore names are hereto subscribed:
The said jurors upon their Oaths and at
tirmations do say that said Harry Rob
lyer came to his death by some un-
known weapon in the hands of ]. B.
Green, on the 5th day Of April, 1884, in
Lyon county, Kas., with feloneous in
tent. A. L. HARRIS,
JOHN CROwNER,
T. Fl. JOHNSON,
D. BURGESS,
W. KITCHEN,
W. II. WHEELER.
Attest: CHARLES FLETCHER,
Justice of the peace and actiDg coroner.
HOW GREEN RECEIVED TIE NEWS.
Sheriff WIlhite was the first to inform
Green of the verdict Of the jury. he
manifested NO emotion OF excitement,
but simply continued to assert his limo
cence. He said that II he was PUNISHED
for killing Roblyer guiltless man
would suffer, and that if he stood con-
denneL in the eyes of the world and by
the law his hands were yet clear of
blood. Much Of the evidence
seems very conclusive against him.
and the apparent absence of q
motive for murder is about the only
point in Green's favor. The affair pre-
sents some exceedingly strange phases,
and the hope is entertained that some
thing may yet transpire to clear up the
mystsrY.
GREENS WIFE VISITS HIN
Green was visited by his wife at the Jail
this afternoon. The meeting is described
as having been quite affecting. Green
protested 10 his wife in the most earnest
manner his innocence and said he
would die before he would make con-
fessien II a crime which he did not COM
NIT: His wife SAID she had full faith
In him, and dad not believe that he muir.
dered Roblyer. She remained with him