The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-05-05
Joe Eaton's Case Appealed to
a Higher Court.
He Dies Sunday ard Goes to Meet
His Victim.

joe EatOO, as frcsIe q CesptrdCO sS ever
| disgractd The fair name OF Benton county
The fact al' ne that Clay Jeans last living
act as to infiict a mortal wound upon his
,ssail mt ssvei Eaton from an immeiia e
lynching 81 the hands Of the iDfuriared
citizens OF Warsaw, who, lie roipg his eon-
thu quietly awsited the pleasure of
desth TO summon him hence, k-owi' g
that it was but matt-r of hours when the
edit wen d go forth for Eaton TO meet his
ii tim at the judgment bsr OF God.
Accordingly it was no surpri 10 them
when about I'D O'Clock Sstu,d Y night il
was ann, uoced firm the il that Ea'on
lad bre thed his last. From The moment
Of bis capture 10 The time OF his death
EATON WAS COOL
and collect d, bu: seemed fally to real re
his ii us,ion and have o regrets over il.
When asked shortly after being placed on
bed IN the jail il he kew what he had
done, he reIl ej,
IL HAVE KILLED JEANS
and he has kilIei me-" He m intaiued
that il was Jeans 6rst sho' that inf cted
the mortal wound, but the preponce- ance
of tie testimony is that it was when he
reached The street and turnei toward
Je rs Ia fire the fatal shot, that Jesns, who
fired first, hi him. Just before 10 o'clock
Eaton requested that his brother James be
allowed to come in. The request Vas
granted and when his brother appeared
4 ton took him by The hand and id:
"JIM IT is ALL OVER,
/ am dying man. The sheriff has my
revolver, saddle, bride and oyerc0at, when |
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keep them. Have me buried beside |
&c toward the well, groahed and gasped |
O-ce and all wss over sure enough so far as
his earthly carter WIS concerned. The
Warsaw Enterprise yesterday issued an ex-
ira containing the evidence given before
the coroner's inquest frUm which the fol
lowing l. taken:
STATEMENT or DR.. S. <. CRAWFORD.
Iexamined the body of Fl. c. Jeans, who
now lies dead, and find that he came to his
1eath by a gun shot wound in the right
Tempe The wound was necessarily fatal.
a h must have eDsu,d Immediately. /
vas called TO sse Jeans shout fifteen min
ltes sfier he had been SHIT. found no
,ther wounds about d ce sd, only IN ab-
.sion on the left side OF his c., caused
~ the fall consequent upon the wound
.bove named.
TESTIMONY OF V. NEWELL.
an tie sheriff OF Benton county. Ny /
lepui ; aIe X. n. Bib aud Clay Jeans.
Vet TO krerzky's restaurant this morn
ng in company with r. III. Bib and III. G.
eln-, for the purpose of arres!ing Joseph s
eaten on an indie ment. The warrant was
sued by tue clerk of the county court, |
placed IN my HANDS. We went into
be rffioe Of TIE restaurant and fo1nd Eat '
4. III re BIZ b ated 20 Eaten that he had {
warrstt for rim. Bib drew the warrant
nd began to read it. Elton jump up and
an. 1t the same time reaching un Ter his
oat. Ea OH went out If the back door
nth Je n ard Bibb after him. heard two q
bots while was still 10 the house; ran /
D the front DO n to head Eaton of; think '
saw Eaton fire the shot that killed Jeans, l
e 'aUse Jeans fell immediately afterwards. 7
lib and got out on the side walk about e
be same time Eaton ran around the co., a
er at the Has ain building. Bib s
nd followed ard arrested him, and now a
ave him IN charge. III c. Jeans ard X. c
1. BIB were my deputies aud were assist .
pg in the arrest of Eaton. They were ex- C
cutting my orders. We had heard that c
,aton had made threats about not being l
rested. We knew he was bad man.
R.H BIBB.
am deputy sheriff under T. Newell, snd
i've al Wsrssw, Benton county, Mo. In q
ompany Of the sheriff and Fl. c. Jeans
tho is also deputy sheriff. We went int The v
flee OF A. X. Krenzky's saloon to arrest
{ seph Eaton on 8 warrant issued to NE by d
he circuit clerk of Benton county, on an
1dictment that is now pending against {
o Eaton. i walked up and told him that
had a warrant for him. Eaton Jumped c
y and started for the back door on 4 run. '
lay Jeans stlrie1 after him. Eaton and !
ans GO out at the back door. / motion I
4 for Newell II 60 TO the front door. II
followed after Jeans and Ea'on into
be dining room. / heard two shots fired
sout same me. i rushed back to front
COR, when got to front door Eaton had i
lst fired The SIN IKE was coming from c
is pistol, and 1 looked aryund and saw .
Law Jeans in the act of falling on tie n
laiiorm i'm front of Krenzky,s restaurant.
,stsn started To run across tie street. 7
Jewell snd myself ordered him to halt, and A
e fred two sho At us. We fired about h
We shots at him. He ran around he cor v
er out of our sight. and We then started b
fter him; we arrested him in front of Cap 0
sin Richardson's dwelling, (the old bank =
uilding); found his revolver on his person &
18th all the losds out. His revolver was $
NTH & Wesson fve-shootsr, No. 80 cali /
re. When we got TO him ne said he had 8
othing with him; he had thrown them \
way. b
A number of other witnesses were exam 4
ned but their evidence was simply corrobor b
tive Of the above. The jury, alter short 4
returned the following \
VERDICT. o
We, the jury, summoned by j. E. Nor .
an, Justice OF the peace and coroner, to
lew the body of III. c. Jeans, who now lies 7
cad, and to hear the testimony concern
n his killing, find from the testimony of
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