Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-09
Arrested on Suspicion.
! DISCHARGED LAB0RER FROM
THR mRE BRICK WORKS IN
JAIL FOR FIRIN6 THE
BUILDING.

49,
Oscar Haynor Arrested at Louisiana
and Brought 20 Aexice-Hts Wife
vim Tell What She Knows
More OF the Gang
Implicated.
When the Fire Brick Company's
buildings were burned on Thursday
night, May 26, there was sufficient
evidence to warrant the belief that
the destruction was the work of an
incendiary. Acting at once on this
belief the company hastily detailed
several detectives to look into the
matter and capture the party or par
ties if possible. A day or two prior
to the night Of the fire several labor
ers had been discharged from service
by Superintendent Goodrich, some
of whom left the city shortly after
the buildings burned. Several of
these parties wer suspicioned and
after the lapse of several days they
were located at Hannibal. Jack
Nichols, one Of the men employed to
trace the discharged employees, left
at once for that place and after a
long search found the wife of Oscar
Hayfor, who was employed at the
works to keep tally Of the brick, and
who was discharged for stealing coal.
Mrs. Haynor, on being arrested,
stated her husband was in Louisiana.
Nichols took the woman in charge
and together they went to the latter
place Saturday afternoon. For fear
Haynor could not be found Mrs.
Haynor gave Nichols a picture of
her husband, which she took from
her trunk in Hannibal. At Louis
lana Haynor was soon arrested and
locked up until he could be brought
to Mexico Saturday night. Mrs.
Haynor was left at Louisiana under
police surveillance until wanted here
to testify. Nichols landed Haynor
in Jail in this city Sunday morning.
1t seems when the gang left Mexico
they walked out of town. After
Haynor was arrested he declined to
talk to any great extent, but was sui
len. However, he denies setting
fire to the building, but remarked to
Nichols, "Now that you have got
me I've no chance to get loose and
| suppose I will have to go to the
penitentiary." When confronted in
Louisiana by his wife he also said,
eff I had known 1 was going to get
into this kind of a scrape, | would
have got a boat and went over to the
Illinois SIDE" Haynor stated in the
presence of several persons after his
arrival here that he did not intend
to ask for mercy-that he would just
as soon go 70 the pen from the jail
as the Court House. "But, gentle
men," he said, ''it's too late to
kick, I guess"
This kind of talk looks very sus-
picious, to say the least, although
Haynor protests his innocence. He
claims his wife and self did not get
along together and it is a trap set
by her to get even with him. Hay
nor is about 40 or 45 years old, while
his wife is about 35. The prelimi-
nary hearing of Haynor's case is set
for next Friday before Squire Tom
linson, at which time the woman
will be here and tell, she says, all
she knows about it. Mrs. Haynor
said in Hannibal that her husband
went to bed about 10 o'clock on the
night of the fire, and she does not
know positively whether or not he
got up and went out during the night.
She knew, she said, that he was in
the habit of getting up from bed and
leaving the house of nights and he
might have done SO on the night of
the fire. She thought it quite prob
able that he did.
Mrs. Haynor was the only one
found in Hannibal. The others,
except Haynor, had fled toward
Keokuk, whittier a detective will
at once go in quest of them. There
are two men and three women who
are thought to be implicated and no
stone will be left unturned to appre-
bend them.
Mr.. Goodrich, the superintendent,
deserves much praise for his untir-
ing efforts to ferret out the perpe-
traitors of the crime, and it is hoped
everyone of them will be caught and
given their just deserts.
TWO MORE ARRESTS.
Arch. Givens and Harry Beal
were arrested yesterday afternoon,
charged with being implicated in
the burning of the factory.
RUSH HILL, NENS