Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-05-20

ton with Amy, Sheriff Bridgman re-
turned, mounted a Lidder leaning
against the house, and said to the
crowd:
Fellow citizens, Amy has been
found Now / call upon you in the
name Of law and good order 10 restrain
your anger and let the law take its
course with this foul murderer / say
this az the request Of the county Off
rials. men whom we chose by our votes
20 act for rs We an have confidence
IN them We have as good courts as
there are on the face of the earth,
The mw-abidiug spirit Of the people
was put TO severe test but the feeling
soon became strong that Amy should
die dccently after "a verdict Of guilty
should be brought I'm from a regularly
constituted jury Mr. BHdenan stiH
perhed on the ladder said: Your
assurance that Amy shall be dealt
with according to law is satisfactory.
| promise that you shall all have an
opportunity 10 see him. Form in lines
each side Of the road and he shall
pass along between the lines"
Amy finally refused to come our of
the barn as he had promised to do if
guaranteed protection He sent for
Solicitor Mitchell, who went up iu the
barn on the hay, where Amy was sit
ting Mr. Mitchell reported as follows:
II went up into the barn in accordance
with the request Of Amy He sat on
the hay and said his leg was broken.
He had "A large revolver i'm each hand
and hourshtd them, pointing them
sometimes at me and sometimes at his
own head He asked me If would
guarantee him a fair trial assured
him chat | would most certainly do 50,
He wanted 10 know how much of his
past history / had found out | told
him we would not discuss that now
Pointing the revolver at his own head,
he asked me if l thought he had better
shoot himself The result Of the con-
ference was that he refused to come
out"
a. A. Smith, "a medical student had a
conference with Amy He said Amy
told him he didn't mean to kill Christie
He said he fired the first shot accident
ally, which threw him into "a frenzy;
then ne shot her again II Mrs Warden,
he said, had asked him TO the hc!:-a
he should have gone right along and
there would have been no trouble.
John NJ. Fuller whom Amy called up
for the conference, said: "Almy said
that he had been there since June a.
nearly one month prior to the murder,
and that he had been to the grove as
often as twice q week He expressed
the deepest love for Christie. Amy
said that when he found The empty
frit cans he took it into his head 10
leave, and went i'm the night down be
You'd Hartford, Vt, a village little
way, but he felt MS IL he could not
leave the place ana came back again.
While | was talking with him I could
at times almost persuade him TO sur
render, then ne would ask some question
about the Warden family after which
he would say he would not give him-
self up. He was smooth shayen, ex-
cept a heavy mustachc and he looked
pale and thin
At I o'clock p m. Auguts 20, the
decision was reached by the citizens
committee to catch Amy unawares and
shoot him, and thus put an end to what
was becoming grim farce. When this
conclusion was made known it was
greeted with wells of delight by the
people Almy was shot twice in the
left leg in the fusilade which preceded
his capture, and he got a bullet wound
in the head The leg was broken To
Salty the peoples curiosity the police
permitted them to march through the
room I'm which the prisoner hay. This
mhcmd-of performance was too much
for Aluy'S nerves, ana he tainted while
the procession was Still moving,
From his hiding place in the barn
Amy had Il fun view of the house at
tho time OF the funeral He said he had
been about the premises ever since.
making frequent visits to Christie's
grave by might and moving about for
food
After Army had recovered from the
excitement Of being inspected by the
crowd ne consented to talk about his
crime He consented that Amy was
an assumed name, and confessed that
he WAS hiding to escape arrest for a
similar crime fro which q price had
been set upon his hcad He refused alb
somtply 70 reveal his real name or the
circumstances which led bim to take
mn assumed name With regard to the
murder of Christie WapIen he said: