The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-03
DAMAGING EVIDENCE.
UNRELIAsnlTY. OF CIRCUMsTANTIAi-
TESTIMONY Al TIMES.

HIS Hired Exam 20 the GaIOws Had He
Suspected the Latter Knew His Secret.
he Had the Confidence of Many Friends.
a party Of men who had been discussing
the abolition OF the death penalty, and one
Of the number had just told of an execu-
ton by hanging of which he had been a
witness, when John Z. McDonough re-
marked:
81 have seen Just one hanging in my life,
and issued the warrant for the arrest Of
the man | saE hanged. 1t was rather a re-
markable Case, and 1t taught me always to
look UpSa purely ciFcumStautial evidence
as not very good +"
'How Is tazat? Let Us hear the case"
said one of tnePcr6y.
well, it8aS ike this. 1t was in 1872;
was quite young then, and had just been
elected p0liSe justice IN Dunkirk. One
morning German whom4 knew came to
me, bringing with him d Polander, and
said.
This nan tails avery strange story;
either heis crsEzs- CT else a murder has been
committed x -IsznestoWu2
Naturally l WIS interested at once, and
oUsst4oQez 6Se GeTIaan. The Pole could
not zPeak 5.nssiisz, but he spoke dialect
OF German and zaG made his story intelli-
gibie 30 the German The Poles story, as
interpreted To ne, W2s about like this:
'He had hseo working for a man named
MARROW, 4 vel Known brewer in James
town, vine sta5Z veil in the community
Some days pnSsio7Is an acquaintance Of his
named BachEEaa bad been stopping with
him at AzTIow's ih4,use MARROW and Bach
MN had SCDoebc2s GOasn together consid-
erdbiy and E.as 5eeame quite well ac4uaint-
- ed, aPPzrJR.tZys ia SO shert time. One
evening 31aHipEg ;sSe1f tho Pole If Bach
Inan had any money ahouG him. The Pole
replied thst be Thought he had He
thought AlgTioW' question q queer one at
the time, but soGn 1DTget about it until
subscqUeg5 eTsltsTeoallad it TO his mind
sSUsFICIeSEs ACTIOES.
The next day the Iacie was working
about MRrloW's place as usual when Mar
low and BzchIaaR came up from the vii
lage together. Bschman carried parcel.
When they reached the house they went
into the cellar together, and remained
there long time. Then tho Pole heard
what sounded to him like a shot. Soon
afUerwaTd NARROW came out OF the cellar
alone. About that time some one droveup
with wagon to get q barrel Of beer. In
stead Of sending the Fole into the CELLAR
for it, Is he usually did, ,-daFlow went him
self to fetch it. When le reap9eared with
II The Pole noticed "a ss55t OF blood upon it
ana another ca M2rloV's clothing. Then
he began To think that something awful
had been dOne. A15er the customer had
driven away with his beer MARROW ordered
the Pole to hitch up n team aud drive to
the woods alter load of wood This order
added 10 the Poles suspicious, for there
was no particular need of going for wood
at that tiLne. However, he went.
when be returned, ono of the first
things be nCticsd was that there had been
fire IN the furnace under the brewing
kettle. The embeTs were still smolder-
ing There was another strange circum-
stance. No brewing han been done. There
was quantity OF water in the kettle which
bad become heated, but that was all The
Pole, who, though he could not speak in
English, could think and reason quite flu
emily in Polish, began To put together all
that he had heard and seen that seemed to
him unacCountable or strange, at least, and
drew from IS conclusion that was as vet
vague, butsuggested something horrible.
TIE HIRED MAN TELLS.
''The next morning the Pole asked Mar
low TO allow him to take day off He
said it was holiday among his people and
he wanted TO visit same OF his acquaint-
ances- NARROW gave his consent, and the
Pole started Off. Instead of visiting his
friends ne took the first train for Dunkirk
and sought fo- some one to tell HISTORY to.
For a long time he was unsuccessful. as no
one could understand him. Finally he
found the German, who brought him to
me.
We'll, you may believe that the story
impressed me, 1t was told in a straight
forward manner, and there was nothing
about the mar to indicate mental derange-
ment. Stu ! hesitaOed TO issue a warrant,
for Marrow as ! said, was a citizen Of good
standing, and 1t seemed impossible that he
could have committed such crime. /
went to an old judge, to whom l frequent
ly applied for advice, and laid tho matter
before hin. Eo listened with great inter
est. Issue the warrant ne said. I took /
the necessary afSlayIts, filed out the war
rant and e5aFe 1t to an officer, with instruc- /
tlons to 60 To Jamestown with it, When |
we reached the depot where the train was
ready and about to start we learned that |
Marlow's brotherin-!aw, who lived in Dun |
kirk, was already aboard. Evidently he /
had got wind Of what Was going on, and 1
was going to warn NARROW. We had him /
taken from the train and detained while |
the officer went On. To make sure, we tel |
egraphCi 10 the Jamestown authorities tc /
arrest MARROW for murder In a short time |
we received al answer in the form of /
question Do you mean NARROW, the |
brewer? said the dispatch. y eS, NARROW, |
the brewer we replied.
PERFECT FAITH II THE MURDERER
"When our officer reached jamestown /
NARROW was under arrest nominalIy. The |
whole affair was regarded as a joke, how
ever. Narlow's friends chalfed him and |
be laughed loudest at their raillery Our |
officer presented his papers. The deputy |
who had arrested NARROW looked them
over. 'Yourpapers are all right. but you're
all wrong; NARROW wouldn't hurt a fly,' he
said. Then our officer told b story. a
party started to examine the ashes in Mar
lows furnace. In few moments some
one had found q kneec5p. Bones Of fingers
and other portions OF q human skeleton
were discovered. Then there was no more
chatting, and NarlOI was under arrest in
earnest.
"On the trial the defence admitted the
killing, but said that it was done by Mar
lows wife. VINO struck Bachman on the
mead with a hammer because ne insulted
her mother while NARROW was away from
home But after the killing had once been
admitted the Jury toOk no stock in that
story, especially in view of the testimony
given by the Pole NARROW was convicted
and hanged
Il thought then, and still think, that If
NARROW had had any suspicion that the
Pole suspected him and intended 70 inform |
the authorities he could have turned the