The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-06-24

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the remaines were taken to OtterviIl,
for interment. The funeral was tn,
largest ever held in this county.
! TIE feeling ran so high last nigh
that citizens meeting was held, anC
at their request the mayor issued the
following
| PROCLAMATION
whereas. The assassination of Hon. Tom
Z. Cranmer, sheriff of this county, while in
the discharge OF his official duties, ha,
caused great public excitement in our city
and justly aroused the Indignation of oul
peopl. and
Whereas. Ii was the dying request oil
our sheriff that his frienfs abstsin from
acts Of violence toward his assailant, who
is now q defenseless prisoner, and that he
be punished in accordance with the forms
| of Law and.
whereas, The reputation of cur lay
abiding community, as we'll as the reuues,
oil our dead friend, makes il imperative that
our ciiize refiin from ali acls OF violence,
now, therefore,, Franklin Swap, Mayor of
the City OF BOouville. do hereby call upon
ali good citizens to discounienance and dis
courage all lawlessness to abstain from the
advocacy by word or act of snv breach of
The public peace, 10 aIliy all public excite
ment snd to abstain from gathering in
crowds upon our streets, and especially In
the vicinity OF the residence of the late
sheriff. This is in accordance with the dy-
ing request of Sheriff Cranmer. Let il be
complied with. FRANKLIN SWAP,
Mayor.
ATTEST: ED 81. REDNAN. Register.
w. w. Taliaferro, City Marshal
of Boonville, after capturing West
Hensley at the Olterv lie W ter-tank
brought his prisoner to this city and.
acting nnder advice from Boonville.
placed him in the Pet is county Jail
A BAzoo reporter h d an interview
WI n Hensley shortly af er his incar-
ceration. The aces, DRY to the MUIR
der If Sheriff Cranmer is tall, lank.
back haired and wild eyed youth
about nineteen years Of age. He
talked freely about his connection with
the sad affair but bis story would not |
ho:d water aud was full IF cont, adic-
tlCns. In substance he stated he went
to the Cooper county Jail on last Fri
lay afternoon and asked to see Tur-
ington. The Sheriff was absent at
he time and Mrs Cranmer told him
he C uld 60 into The yard and con-
,erSe with his friend through the gra-
ing. He went into the yard and tex
ng ladder he climbed up
. the window on the up-
,er tier of cells and passed
he revolver through the bars to Tur-
ngton. The latter. Hershey SAYS,
Did him that he had six $50 bills and \
bowed him one of them and promised I
0 give him al of the money as he 7
greed to do for browning The revolt {
az If !nnsinu --~--1J meet nIm at the | q
,t'ervll'e water-tank. Hensley en- n
hatically stated mat Tic gun rrt-s Gil
ty when he handed it to burlington t
1 pain lie) and suggests that the lat a
,ust have had cartridges or else pro- :
lred them from some one else. \
[ensely said he had carried
he revolver for two months (snother
e) but refused TO tell where he pro- C
lred it and said it belonged to Tur- a
ngton. He corroborated the story
I'D by burlington as to the plan of
eeting after the escape of the prison {
8 from the jail as regard to the sig l
ais to be given so that they could I
,cognize each other at the meeting
pint. v
LATER. z
Boonvi.le. Mo, June 17.-TSpecial1
Last night everything was quiet. a
'hile the people are indignant be- a
Iuse of the cowardly assassination of a
ne of the best known and most pop a
ar men in Cooper county, yet the n
ass have begun to think and they r
e beginning to see ihat:to lynch the d
urderer would not only be a moral a
Id social wrong, but would be det- Fl
ment to the county and the state to
i've it 60 abroad that in this part of m
e country mob law is enforced.
Of course there are some who do not
ink and never will, and do not take d
to consideration that they, if they 81
ould commit such deed, would be, A
measure, just as guilty and just o.
responsible for murder as the man II
hose existence they would in such a II
,rrible manner cut short. Ii
When the news that the governor ol
I'd ordered out the Sedalia Rifles to OF
to Boonville, in case they were Il
eded, it was a signal for the popu- n
&c to assemble in the streets and b
scuss the probable result arising m
I'm such an action. Word was re- oil
wed that body of forty men were b
their way from Otterville to take fO
arlington by force from the d
1 and hang him. But Mayor Swap
IS better informed. He knew that fir