Omaha daily bee., 1891-01-22
MRS. SHEEDY BEHIND BARS.
She Takes Her Arrest Ooolly and Goes to
Jail With a Smile.
EVIDENCE BEFORE THE coRoNERS JURY.
leging That Claimant for DANA
ges Committed PERJURY
Lincoln News.

to THR BEE. Mrs. Sheedy has been for
mally charged with murder in the first de-
gree. She took the terrible arraignment with
the greatest nonchalance and did not see em in
the least agtatod. She cast the matter Off
lightly and few minutes later was smiling
as though she was going to the opera in stead
Of to jail. She devoted about an hour and
half to qualifying ADMINISTRATIVE OF her
murdered hus sband's estate and showed her
self to DO a thorough business woman. After
this business was flushed she was taken to
the county Jail and for the first time was put
behind the bars.
The first witness called this morning be-
fore the coroners jury holding an inquest
over the remains of John Sheedy was DR..
Winnett. He took part in the autopsy and
testified that he did not think Sheedy's death
resulted from the blow He saw Sheedy be-
fore his death and thought his symptoms re-
sembled those of morphine poisoning. Did
not think that q delayed shock would pro-
duce death or that the condition of the heart
had anything to do with death. Had the
condition of the heart had any connection
with the demise the autopsy would have
shown rupture of that organ.
Mrs. Charles Carpenter, who lives near the
Sheedy home, was the next witness. She
testified that she met Walstrom once at
Sheedy's residence before Mr. Sheedy was
shot at.
Mrs James Hood testified that Mrs. Sheedy
had told her that Sheedy was jealous and
mean hearted; that he carried a revolver and
she was afraid of her life; that she intended
trying to get a divorce from him; that Sheedy
had become angry because she invited Wal
strom 10 see her. Mrs. Hood further testi-
fed that Mrs. Sheedy and Walstrom had to-
gether visited her home. Witness thought
Walstrom too fresh. Was with Mr.. and Mrs.
Sheedy the night that the attempt was made
to shoot the former. Could not tell whether
the assailant was white or black. Mrs.
Sheedy said to witness afterwards: "Nobody
can accuse Harry (Walstrom) of the shooting,
as he was at work that night"
Miss Hood testified that MIR. and Mrs.
Sheedy had trouble after the return of the
latter from New York. Had heard Mrs.
Sheedy threaten to leave her husband. Had
heard Mrs Sheedy call Walstrom 'sweet-
heartn on several occasions.
Harry Shaeffer testified that he was at
Sheedy's after the assault by Mcfarland.
He heard Mrs. Sheedy remark that she did
not think the blow was hard enough to Kill
her husband, but that she thought that the
doctors were trying to get him out of the
way and were giving him something to take
HIM Off
c. r. Teas, agent of the Wells Fargo com
pany testified that no package of any value
hau ever been received by Walstrom through
the ONCE In Whlcn ne worried.
DIR. o. German testified that he saw Sheedy
shortly before he died. He was in a coma
tose condition. His condition was that of a
person to whom had been administered
compound poison
Adjournment was then taken until $3.50
p. m
On the evening preceding the assault upon
John Sheedy several people were attracted
| by the actions of mysterious person whom
| they noticed upon p street. Two or three OF
| the observers were so anxious that they in
| vestigated and discovered that it was a
woman dressed in mans attire. One young
| man approached her and, as a subterfuge to
get her to talk, asked her it she could inform
She did so by nodding her
She was then not far from the Heater block.
The inquisitive young man pretended to
| doubt that she had correctly informed him
and expressed the opinion that it must be
| further west on o street, whereupon the
| woman SPOKE. She evidently Immediately
regretted having spoken, started east on o
| street and eluded her inquisitive followers in
| the vicinity of Nineteenth and N streets.
| When the young man accosted her she was
standing in doorway near the Heater block
as if watching for some one He said he
| could plainly discern that she was u woman
and that she had her hair done up on top of
her head beneath her hat.
Another young man relates that on the
same evening he saw woman enter the
! Heater block dressed in mans attire This
| was evidently the woman who was in Wal
strom's room, but whether it was Mrs.
| Sheedy or not is not positively known.
Colonel j. b. Pickerell of Seward has
| known Mrs Sheedy from childhood, and two
| brothers, Marion and Warren Gabriel, were
| members of his company in the late war.
| According to his story, the matrimonial lives
of the family We're remarkable for their
| roughness, Marion, Warren, Aaron and Rube
| all separated from their wives. The two last
| named resided for time in York, but are
! now in David City, He says both of the
| sisters parted from their husbands, one run
| ming away from Illinois with her husbands
| brother named Smpkins, and living in Te-
| cumseh until the husband got divorce,
| afterwards remarrying. Gabriel, senior,
| died. and the mother married a man named
| Richardson but left him after a time.
| All three of the prisoners, Monday Nc
| Farland, Walstrom and Mrs. Sheedy, were
| arraigned before Judge Houston and entered
| pleas of not guilty to murder in the first de-
| grec. All are IN the county jail.
| At the evening session Of the coroner's
| Jury, necktie and three pairs of fine stock
| ings found in Walstrom's trunk were iden-
! titled respectively by Jimmie Smith, clerk
| at Schwab's, and James Gatschell, clerk at
| Herpolsheimer's as articles sold by them TO
| Mrs. Sheedy. The necktie was bought on
| tho day following the attempt to shoot