The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-11-18
Self Confessed Murderer
Landed Safely i'm Jail.
Isaac GaStineau Breaks Int Two
Offices and Secures Very
Little Booty.
The Prisoner Tells q Remarkable
Tale About q Murder He
Committed in
Kentucky.

4 CeIaIla lainiuS Huiii anu LuIuDci
company ON East Second street, west
of The freight depot, were burg'arized
last night and quantity of clothing
including a rubber coat, was takent
the burglar had effected an entrauc
into both Offices by breaking window
psnes and crawling through the sash.
When the Offices were opened this
morning the work Of the thief was
discovered and the police notified.
At 4 o'clock this morning Officer
Gorrel noticed young man in Easl
SedaIia, who was acting strangely,
and he followed him into the yards
where he arrested him. He was
taken to the police station and
searched. He had on three pairs oil
pants, three coats and rubber coat.
He was slated for trespas-ing and
licked up. When the news of the
burglary and a descrioiion of the stol-
en- property was received at police
headquarters, Officer Goss age com.
menced to pump the prisoner, who
gave his name as Ad. CatiriOn. 1t
took only a few strokes of the piston to
make Cat;rion admit that he had
committed the burglaries.
Catirion was then turned over to
Constable Bob Ramsey, who took the
prisoner before Justice Levens. The
prisoner admitted bis guilt, waived an
examination and in default of $500
bonds was sent to Jail to await the &C
ton of The grand jury. The extra
coats, tape line and bunch of
printed envelopes found on Catirion
were turned over to Mr.. Martin, and
the two pairs o. pants taken ot of him
we're stolen from. Mrs. Muir's board
ing house on South Pacific street.
where he lodged Tuesday night, and
belong to some of the boarders at that
place.
Cstirion, as he called himself, is
only % years Old, having been born
April II. 1868, and is q murderer
having killed a man in Kentucky.
Shortly after he was locked up in the
county Jail, he was seen by BAzoo
reporter. The prisoner, who has q
boyish appearance, below the medium
heighth and slim built, gave his past
history 10 a cool manner and in a way
which was not a plea for mercy, nor
was it given in a bravado style of con-
fession. He admitted to having kill
ed man in Kentucky and to having
served term in the penitentiary fer
the crime.
81 did not give my right name this
morning." said the burglar. ''because
/ wanted to keep this bad break of
mine away from my relatives.'
"What is your right name then p
asked the reporter.
st is Isaac Gastineau, and my
family is of French descent"
sis it true that you killed q man in
Kentucky and served term in the
penitentiarys"
eyes, and I will you how it hap
pened."
Gastineau then proceeded to tell q
remarkable tale, if true, which is in
substance as follows;
Gastineau's father q number of
years ago was employed in the secret
service of the United States hunting
moonshiners in Kentucky. Through
this connection in running down the
makers of Illicit whisky, be incurred
the enmity Of the people engaged In
breaking Uncle Sans laws, and one
night he was waylaid by two men,
one colored AM the other white.
named respectively Brent Evans and
Clint Todd, who shot the revenue
official through the neck. The elder
Gastinesu never recovered from his
wounds and after months of suffering
died. The assassins were never
arrested, for at that time the local off,
GERS of the law were in full sympathy
with the moonshiners and the abrupt
removal offs revenue spy was subject
of rejoicing and considered no crime.
The murderous assault upon his father
ranked in the bosom of Isaac CAST
neau and as boy he had several
brushes with the two men he hated.
Finally on the night of Feb. 8, 1887
the three met in barrcom in a cross
road town in Lincoln county and got
into a rough and tumble fight in
which Gastineau was worsted. The
next morning Gastineau went gun
ming for squirrel, so he says, and met
Brent Evans, who was driving team,
not far from the village where the
scrap of the night previous took place
A few hot words passed between them