The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-01-12

Officer Mason's Capture Lands
at Home.
Details Of the crime for which
He is Wanted.

Trenton, No., Of one J. Logan Sig
man, wanted in Kentucky for muir
der committed twenty-iour years ago.
The BAzoo at the time stated that
Sigman expressed great apprehension
of being lynched when he shoul- ar
rive NJ tie scene of bis crime, and
the following account of his crime
and other exploits taken from the
Central Kentucky News, published at
Lancaster, Garrard county. Ken
lucky, fully explains why he feared
such tate, and at the same time goes
| to show that MIR. Mason has made the
capture of ont as hard a case as
ever struck Missoui soil. The article
begins by referring TO a statement of
the affair published in the Evening
Republican Star, of Trenton, Mo-,
which it says 10 entirely incorrect and
pronounces the murder of VIM. s.
Hgginbothsm, for which S;gman was
wanted q most
COLD FLOODED MURDER,
and referring to the statemeet pub
lished, which liz but repetition of the
story told by Sigman himteIf while
here under arrest. The News says:
"Sigman was no member of the
army at the time If the killing, but
had been a member of the Home
Guards, and, at the time of the muir
der was q guerrilla, robbiug and MUIR
dering people who didn't agree with
him politically. 1t can be proved
that he robbed q store before the kill
ing, and was afterward indicted for
the crime. Higginbotbam was
ONLY Is YEARS OF AGE
at the time IF the murder; and the
statement that he was q native OF
Rockcastle county, is false. as we'll rs
the statement that he was in the con-
federate. or any other army. His
father, who lived in an adj joining
county, had sent him to Rockcsstle
county, some six miles from his home
to get some lard kegs. S'gman was
at the house of his sister, standing in
the yard which bordered ON the road,
along which Higginbotham was pass
ing, and when opposite the house.
without word passing between them.
raised his gun and
SHOT HIN FROM HIS HORSE.
He had only heard that hia name
was Higgenbotham, and that the
politics of the family was adverse to
bis, which was sufficient, in itself Tin
his estimatiou), for the murderou-
deed. After The murder Sigman fed
the county and attempted to enlist in
q company that was made in his own
neighborhood, commanded by Capt
Jas. Hiatt, but the captain, upon Sig.
mans statement of the killing. would
not permit him to join his company.
He eluded arrest for six months the
in the meantime, offered a
reward for his apprehension which Sc
cured his arrest at Lexington, KY
He wSs taken to Mt. Vernon, and
edged iD Jail. j. NJ. Higginbotham.
, brother of the deceased, although
Informed that he would be killed if
be attended the trial, proceeded to
prosecute him, and Sigman was re-
handed tosjsil without bail.
KIRBY SMITH l.
vas then coming into the state and
he pressure was so great on the
Judge, by the friends of Signan, who
cared that he would be mobbed. un-
ess released, that the judge gave him
bail. 1t was after that time that be
oiDed the 18th kentucky regiment.
30 it was not on the merits of the
,ase that he was released on bail.
After the war was endel he joined q
band of horse thieves and made money
enough in that profession to take .
woman with whom he had been living
n adultery, for years, and leave the
country for parts unknown. This is
he plain, unvaruished truth regard