Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-04-12

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POLICE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
detroit Free Press,)
Supt. Pittman received letter from
Thomas TebhO. a convict in the peni-
Tertiary at Kingston. Ont, in which
the writer stated that he had reliable
information about the Ever murder,
and could tell who the guilty men were.
1t was learned that Tebho was not a
hardened criminal. lie had been con-
fined in the Sarnia Jail on q trivial
charge. and was there persuaded by
two bolder men to join them in an as
sault on the jailer and an attempt to
escape. The attempt failed, and for
this crime Tebho was sent TO the peni-
Tertiary for six years.
Supt. Pittmm deemed the matter
worthy oil investigation. and Captain
Starkweather and Detective Manning
were sent to Kingston. There they met
Tebho and heard his statement, which
pointed to Ernest Roberts and George
Spurway as the Ever murderers. These
men were the two who got rebho into
the Undertaking scrape at Sania. They
were charged with arson and attempted
murder, subsequently, convicted and
sentenced to Kingston for fourteen
years each. The men were not prob
ably experienced criminals, as their
action in having tin-type taken,
showing rcvolYers held in their hands.
the day after the murder. would indi-
cate. Still. they have certain reputa-
| ton in the crook fraternity. and are
| known as "stroug-armed' men, or in
other words. men who would not hest
tate as murder in order to carry out Il
! planned crime.
Tebho commenced his statement by
saying chat he gained the confidence of
Roberts and Spurway through his con-
npction with the scheme TO break jail,
where the three were confined in May.
1856. They wanted Tebho to do the
job, and urging him ON, they told him
they had once put man to sleep and
had never been found out. Tebho as
sured his companions that he could be
relied on, and by degrees learned from
them that the man referred to was Don
Ever. Roberts told him that before
the murder he and Spurway saw Ever
in Port Huron. and witnessed his TAX
ing money out of bank in that city.
They followed Ever to Detroit. and on
| the night that the Port Huron man
was killed met him in saloon, had
several drinks together and then played
cards. Ever winning nearly all the
money Of the other two. After the
game Ever started for the Central
Depot, but finding the Lansing train,
which he intended 20 take, had gone,
went back to the saloon.
Here Spurway and Roberts, smarting
under their losses, tried to draw Ever
into a quarrel by calling him hard
names, but failed and went out of the
saloon. Sprway proposed to go back
and shoot Ever. They retraced their
steps, went to a back room in which
Ever was sitting and Roberts fired at
him, but evidently left without ascer-
tanning whether the Shot had taken eff
feet, going out of the back door. As
they passed out they told Ever they
would blow his brains out if he came
outside, and, if he didn't, would kill
him anyway.
Ever accepted the challenge, went
out and shot. hitting Roberts in the
knee, and the pair then got out Of the
way, concealing themselves in an alley.
Here they waited till Ever came along,
when Roberts shot and killed him.
The pair opened the dead mans money
belt. took the funds, broke his watch
chain and left revolver lying 10y his
side. hoping that theory of suicide
would be built on this circumstance.
The revolver left was an old one, the
pair taking EweT's with them. Then
they went around the block. came back
to where Ever lay and joined the crowd
that had by that time gathered. Rob-
erts and Spurway. of course, pretended
to be as shocked and ignorant as others
about the affair.
The next day the two murderers had
their pictures taken, wearing overcoats
and holding revolvers in their hands.
They then went back TO Port Huron
and spent some of the money in dis
reputable house. Here Roberts leg
began to trouble him, and he went over
TO Sarnia to have it attended TO.
When Tebho had learned this much
from Roberts, he was moved to the
corridor where Spurway was confined,
and learned The rest from that prison