The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1884-04-09

Sas City importation mad registered
as man and wife, and had passed the
night at the hnstelry, but bad de-
parted when morning came. The
"dives' of Sedalia were then search
ed, and at one of them was discover
ed the above named female. From
her was obtained clue to the where
abouts OF the HamItons. She in
| formed the officers that Charles and
Billy had A room on East tth stree.
| The room was visited but the H.
were absent. \ guard was placed
over the room to notify the police as
soon as anyone entered it All day
! long not a soul went near 1t. but be
tween eleven and twelve at night
/ two men made their appearance.
| The Sheriff and police were notified
They went to the room and shortly
after Il o'clock Charles and Billy
| Hamilton we're in shackles and hand
cuffs. When taken INTO custody
Charles had on his person S43,45
and Billy $2S.o5.
They We're brought 10 this city.
but were not allowed to communi-
cate with each other. The coroner's
jury was called and held another ses-
sion with the result indicated below.
| THE CONFESSION OF CHARLES HAM
The following IS the statement of
Charles Hamilton. made YESTERDAY
afternoon before the corOncr's Jury:
Charlie, Hamilton. Fl years of
age, being duly sworn. on his oath
states:
My home is in Chicago. | left
Chicago IN '79. came TO Lexing-
ton and then TO ConcOrdia, where |
committed a depreciation and was
sent to the penitentiary for 5 years.
I was discharged from the peniten-
tIary in January or February -ahou,
six weeks ago. l went TO Sedalia
after | was discharged rom the pen
itcniary Stald in Sedal1a tyyo
weeks, then came 10 Warren>hurg :
weeks ago. Was porter in Il hotel
(Simmons). | know Billy Hamil-
ton: got acquainted with him about
two years ago III the penrtcntiary.
knew hlm BY the name of Frcnchy.
He went out about the 22d of De
cember, 1853. Met him at Sedalia
cir>t alter | came out. dom rccog-
nlzc the deceasea before the Jury |
know of a man being killed Sunday
night last east OF the depot III tins
city. | was over 1t Simmons House
2 ,.,r,ri- tS,iI,-
ilton, commonly called Frenchv.
came 10 me about nine O'Clock in the
presence OF Mrs. Cottrcii. Told me
he wanted me 10 go to Kansas Citv
with hin: and that he had fetched
this man from SedaIla on his way to
California. Wanted to rob this man
some way. He stopped off at Mont
serra,; he told the man he wanted to
stop off at arrensburg to see me,
and BY having the man to get off At
Montserrat he wante~i to walk up 20
this town SO that it would be dark
wheH he got here SO that he could do
the murder himself and get all the
money without me knowing it. 1t
was not dark when they arrived here
and therefore he could not do it.
They waited in the depot till 9
O'Clock, then ''Frenchy' came up
and got me, q was at the Simmons
House, telling ME to quit and draw
my wages and help to rob this man,
he wanted me to put up some lunch
tor him. | got the lunch and was
pa,d off. We came down to the
depot together and he wanted to get
a bottle of wine and went to Eads |
drug store. They refused TO give il
without Il prescription. Then We |
went up the street further ana bought |
some lemonade; from there we Went |
to the depot and eat the lunch. He |
(Frencny) persuaded this man 10 |
come out OF the depot. | went |
around behind the depot and got that /
wrench (prisone: pointed to wrench }
V { three walked east, past the first
bridge and | struck the man on the |
head with the wrench. Frencllv |
cd hin, he then land the man across |
the track and so let the cars run over |
him. We then went upon the bank |
and went block away TO see il the
cars wou',l stop. The cars did not
stop hut ran over hIm We then
walked up to the depot when he gave
me tbs. mans over coat We wa k
cd from there to Centreview-
Between mere and Ccntreview we
DESTROYED everything we took out OF
his pocket except the money. and we
divided that. He kept bacH two
twenty dollar gold pieces and one
ten. We bull, a fire To des,rov the