The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-06-07
HANNIBAL MURDER NYsrRY.

nibal dispatch was sold by Mrs. Hearne
through the agents, to A. r. Lever
ing of Hannibal for 81, 900. On her
Instructions a draft for SO, 800 was
sent TO her at Chicago by the purchas-
er and the balance Was sent to DR..
Hearne at San Diego. No explana-
ton of this division can be obtained.
T. H. Stillwell as administrator of
his fathers estate paid over to his
halt-s:ster Mpliie, s29, 05l 80 in mon
ey and Sny Levee bonds when she
came of age, and the Probate Court
on Saturday inc eased the annual al
lowapce for The care Of the two minor
children Earl and Harold. t. 5000
EACH This allowance 's pai To Mrs.
Heorne. or to her hu. ban: IL her
instructions.
The murder of old Siilweii has
been investigated by aro.h rand
jury-tbat of the May term but the
jury adjourned Friday without ;1ding
an Indictment. The Interesting fact
in this connection is not Generally
known in Hannibal. AID tia. there
were eight votes for returning true
bill and four against. Nine votes are
II, cessary for the finding of an indict-
nsnt. Hard work, much canvassing
and much bringing of pressure to bear
won over or forced over to the party
Of Two opposed to the investigation at
the beginning of the session two others
and the motion to indict was defeated,
though there is evidence enough in the
records of the grand jury to convict.
Hundreds Of men have been hung
IN evidence not a viii, more convinc-
ing than that taken by the grand ju-
RES that have inquired into the Still
well case There was no grand inquest
until the September following the MUIR
der, as the prosecuting attorney, r E.
Anderson. informed the grand jur-
ors in January and May, 1889,
that no new evidence had been
discovered since the corners inquest.
In September, 1889, the matter was
gone into fully. John Stillwell, the
murdered mans brother, WIS a men,
Der Of that grand jury and Mrs. Still
well was called before it. She and her
brOther.in-law had
A wORDY BATTLE IN THE GRAND JURY
ROOM.
Varied colored accounts of which
leaked into the gossip Of the city.
The were antagonis,ic before, and
they were bitter enemies afterward.
1t is understood that this grand Jury
did not vote ON the question OF finding
an Indictment, but the next grand
jury did. That was in January, 1890.
The marriage of DR.. Hearne and
Mrs. Stillweli had occurred but a few
days before and the pubic was indig-
nant. A hot-headed man could have
done q world of mischief for Hannibal
then by offering to lead in q lynching
bee. There were lots of men in town
then who felt just right for it. They
only wanted leader. The grand jury
read over the evidence taken in the
previous September, took some more
and voted eight to four Tor the finding
Of indictments.
No further inquiry was made until
January, 1891, when the evidence
previously taken WAS read and two
witnesses examined. No vste was
laken. The la.est inquiry occupied
Two days and some firleen witnesses
we're examined, but nearly all had
previously testified and to the same
facts. They we're called, a the record
If their evidence had, either acciden-
ally or otherwise. been destroyed.
When the murder occurred r. E.
Anderson was prosecuting. His
of the case has been severely
in private and in public.
One grand jury printed a card saying
hat if he would give them the proper
nd they could accumulate evidence
nough to warrant indictments.
1t was his inaction and obstruction
q this matter which
AIDED J. THAD RAY
n defeating him when he tried for
e-election. Ray had studied law for
wp years in the sheriti's office, was
dmi ted to the bar and Immediately
nnuuncsd himself as candidate for
ros cutting attorney. Though he is
uilt for popularity he could not have
on the office lad it not been for the
ate Of the public mind. But iu his
,rm Of Office he has not been able to
'cure an indictment against the
Iurderers of Stillwell, and Ander-
ms friends, hoping for a reaction,
ave put him to the front for prose-
lting attorney again.
Ray is candidate for reelection.
9th candidates look upOn the Still.