, 1890-10-16

enne, Sept. 81, has been arrested at that
place. He has made a confession, saying
he killed his fellow travellers to get their
money. but will not talk of the details of
his crime nor tell his name. The prisoner
is a mere boy, who says he comes from
New York. The capture was effected
through the efforts Of the Cheyenne
sheriff.
The awful box car mystery is a fresh
memory. On Saturday. Septa7, the
city was electrified by the announcement
that in a car of an incoming freight train
were the bodies of two dead men.
Hundreds were at the depot when the
train reached Cheyenne. The objective
car was loaded with ties. At one end. on
top Of the sills. which were piled to within
a.foot of the roof, was the warm body of
a dead youth. In. the middle of the car,
where a few ties had been thrown. lay a
dying boy. The latter was taken to the
hospital, and expired in a few hours.
Each had been %silenced forever by a bull
{ 4 AnbO II Iikhb ttuuDlC.
1t was learned that the dead men we're
Ross Fishbrough and w. B. Emerson of
St Joe, Mo. The first was the only son
Of a widow. He had been employed in
commission houses at the Missouri town,
and bad good service letters on his person.
Emerson was the son OF a factory fore
man. The pair had left St. Joe Sept. %
for Denver. 1t was their first and last
tramp. They started with a common
purse Of $40, and one had an open-faced
silver watch. On the bodies here there
was found twenty-five cents and a pair of
diamond shirt stubs worth $40. Under
the corpse in the Gar was a small revolver,
A further search revealed a leather match
case. containing a pair of cuff buttons,
and a bottle half filed with whisky.
Sheriff Martin took hold of the case
and detectives came on from St. Joe.
A coroner's inquest was held here and
the conclusion maze that Robt. Lee Fra
zell had killed the men. He was a des-
perate crook who left St. Joe the same
day the boys struck for the West and was
suspected at that end. In the course of the
inquiry the freight train brakeman said in
passing by the cars at Hillsdale, a station
twenty miles east of town he heard a man
groaning and opened the car from which
the distressing means proceeded and
found the men in about the same posi-
tions they we're first seen at Cheyenne.
John Brooks, the power house engineer
at Hillsdale, told the %coroner's jury that
on the daYot the murder a lad of l6 or II
had taken dinner with him at the section
house. He came there as free passen-
ger on the train which brought Fishbrough
and Emerson to Cheyenne. In paving
for the meal he gave Brooks what he
claimed was the last of his money, a two
bit piece. He said he was from New
York and being agitated and confused
within himself gave at different times
Greeley. Colo, and Manhattan, Kas., as
his destination. Brooks asked the visitor
why he did not continue on the freight.
The response was that he was hungry and
wanted to fill up, but it was noticed that
he fed gingerly. After the freight had
gone the boy went to the station and pur-
chased a ticket % Cheyenne, paying with
a silver dollar. At Brooks he looked
stealthily at a watch.
Nearly everyone fell in with the St. Joe
theory that Frazell did the killing, He
was followed to Newcastle by the Missouri
| nEcials hut Loot OF n rraIa oop,n
Sheriff Martin went into the case in his
quiet way. He worked with elaboration
but satisfied himself at every step. He
found that Frazell did not travel with
Fshbrough and Emerson, but that a
youngster answering the description of
the man led by Brooks was with them at
Sidney and again at Pine Bluffs. The
three were thrown off a train at the fair
grounds west of Sydney and walked back
to that town. One of them drew a re.
volver on the brakeman.
Martin found out at Hilldale that the
young man who ate inquired of some one
about the depot the fare to Manhattan,
Kas. The Laramie county shirlff by in.
terviewing trainmen and residents of Pine
Bluffs and Hillsdale secured a tolerable
accurate description Of the person he sus-
pected. He then communicated with Of.
ficials at Greeley aud Manhattan and
points between these places, writing and
telegraphIng several times to Sheriff
Myers of Reilly county, at Manhattan.
The result Is all that he could have
wished. He operated on a theory that
was given scarcely a thought by anyone
else, and the outcome attests his shrewd.
ness and great detective ability. With,
out the least assistance from any one,
Martin has effected the capture OF the
perpetrator of the most dastardly cnme
ever committed IN the West.
A reporter called on Sheriff Martin last
evening, with a copy of The LEADERS
Chicago special. The newspaper repre-
sentative found the sheriff reading a dis
patch which proved to be a message
from Sheriff Myers of Manhattan. II
simply said that the murderer of Fish
brouVh aud Emerson was in custody, and
had admitted his guilt.
Sheriff Martin will leave this morning
for Manhattan, armed with a requisitior
for the prisoner.
THE LEADER made every effort to gel
, further news from Manhattan last night
, but without success.
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