Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-01-15
THE COYNE CASE.
How the Martins Ferry Man Happened TO
Get Away.
DETAILS OF HIS RELEASE,
Interviews With the Attorneys and City
Marshal Burns.

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Marshal Burns.
The SEARCH FOR A YALISE,
The Coyne case, since it is all over and
done with, is creating more excitement at
Martins Ferry and causing more com.
ment than it did while il was fresh.
The cause OF all this CommOtion i the fact
that City Marshal William Burns has been
openly charged by the lawyers lor the pros.
ecutiOn with aiding and abetting COyne in
his escape from the clutches Of the law and
lawyers.
4 KCGIaTEE reporter has made every
effort to ret a. the facts in the case, and
presents all sides OF the story below. 1t
appears that john $ Cochran and J. c.
Gray, attorneys for the State in the muir
murder case, after the defeat, became at
torneys for several parties who had claims
against Coyne, aud Immediately after his
acquittal had him rcarrested on Il cruelty
charge, it being criminal Ollensc. The
real purpose in his arrest, however, seems,
from later Developments, 10 have been to
hold him till some OF the EersOnal property
money which lie Is reported to have, came
tn light 80 II could hr levied upon
The sl,rhel which he carried away
wllh him The night he inst lett
towm WA supposed To contain i part
ul this money, and report became current
that the amount was 5000 This satch-
el Was ltit at the house of the iicmptrid
tunnel watchmnn, Just east Of tins city
and when it became known through the
testimony adduCcd At the murder trial that
the yalse was there Officer Smith, with al
order from Justice Keller, went after It,
ani learned that his time had been beaten
by Marshal Barns, WHO had gotten the
Satchrl on an order from Coyne. Burns
WAS asked by the prosecution where the
satrhel "ag, and he replied that 1t had
been deposited IN
IHE PEOPLES HANE,
in Wheeling. The bank WIS garnl-hrrd
by the prosecution hut when the writ was
served ON the bank it became known that
the satchel had never been left there.
Burns, refusing to tell the whereabouts Of
the satchcl, was also served wlih writ OF
attachment and Attorney DIncan. After
the arrest of Come Justice Keller became
III, aud the prisoner could not have hear
iug before him. The prosecution being
aware thai the time allotted hy law
wherein 4 prisoner must have a
trial lour days was about up,
proposed that Justice Howell, OF
Bridgeport come up and try the case
| Judge Cochran u.',rtS tnIi he proposed
this to Attorney Du"cm and that he re-
piled that little confinement would he
good for him, and to let the matter rest
til TIN Jusli,- got well enough to try him
Mr.. Gray asserts that Mr.. Duncan stated
/ that hc would stand good Tor all the claim,
/ Il CUync was released, and on the grounds
OF these promises of Mr. Duncan allowed
/ The limited time to expire Mr. Duncan
! says he made 40 such statements, and thai
| he tried to induce COvne 10
PAY HI DERT~
and leave in an honorable way, and t0lt
/ the attorneys for the prosecution that il
/ COyne could secure him he would secur,
| their claims COyRc refused TO do this and
grew inpatient at hr,ng kept IN prison,
/ aud Mr. Duucan, being under no ublIga-
lions to the opposing attorneys applied lOI
| a wit Ot habeas corpus for Cnln" release
! This writ WAS issued hy the Probate Court
ami served on Marshal Barns, and he took
| the prisoner tO court, when hr was dis,
missed Mr.. Cochran assets that he called
| to Mr. Bum, the day before the wit was
| issued, and informed him that there were
| two other warrants for Coync This, how
ever, Burns denies, ~ will he seen in his
statement below.
Judge Cochran says C0yue was in Gus,
tody under a criminal charge, and il was
the duty Of Barns to see that he was
properly prosecuted instead of trying 10
get him released, when the writ OF kobtor
,gipu was 40 secretly and quietly gottcs.
out. The Judge said "Euru7 LETT Mar
tins Ferry with the prisoner on the : a,
IN. train. The next day we tClcgmphod
the Probate Judge when We discovered
what was up, Iud stated that the State
wished to be- head, that We had two
other warrants for Cuyuc's Arrest, and
would he up on the n,Nt train, but il got
there too late. We were iBiormed that
this dispatch was made known TO Burns
in 81. Clair,yillc, or at least read IN the
Judges Office while nr Was there
MARSHAL ErENS.
Mr.. Burns was interviewed, with the fol-
lowing result
MI. HuIus, .uppuSe you know that
there hIv" been ,0mu pretty mean things
said about y0u in your official capacity in
this Coyue case, which has inst been fin
ishcd -
"Yes; and if these lawyers would attend
to their case they would not have occasion
to talk about me
"WeIl, bow did Coyne come to be taken
away,
A writ of huh,d, ,Drpi, was placed in
my hands at nine o'clock Oh the night of
the eleventh, and in obedience to its COM
mandS ! took Coyna to 1t. CIalrsyille be
fore the Probate Court the next morning,
on the train that Is usually travelled on by
persons going to St Clnirsville to attend
court "
AT what tine was that train to CO.
at leaves Hanover street at nineteen
IniuutJ~ from o'clock.
'Dld You know that the writ was To he
s-n5l before 1t WAS placed in your hands
No sill; did not F"
"Whal did Judge Faatou say 10 Oh in
81. Clair-vIlIrs'
"IIr merely asked me II C0yur htd been
kept in Jail more than four days
What was your answer
o | said he had been in Jail i've or six
days.
Did Judge GastOn read to you teIe
gram from Martin Ferry announcing that
two more warrants had been ISSUED for
CuyHC'
NO, he did not
Ibid he read or show sou any kilograms,
or in any way make it known TO you that
such was the case
Gle did not did not speal: to Judge
Castor after the trial