The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09
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cook at the Occidental hotel, anG myself,
and told ME 10 tell them that sitting out
ia front of the Occidental hotel one even
ing and John Kitserell commenced talking
to me, aud asked me what | was doing.
toid him nothing: wanted to know IL /
would help him out i'll a little scheme be
was working OF; inquired OF him what
it WAS; he told me he MAS fixing up a plan
10 rob the Pacific Express company.
and waited to know if | would go ia with
ii: asked him who be had helping him:
Billy Reckmeyar be told me. Well, he
said he was going TO kill Hancher for fear
that Hancher would reccgnizs him, be-
cause Hancher knew him so well
that he might RECOGNIZES him.
told him that if he was going to
Kill Hancher tina: WAS going TO call an OF.
ficer, because Hancher was friend OF
mine, aud | would not see him do any
thing ike that to him, kill him; and he
pulled out a revolver and asked me II
had seen It. told him yes. And ne says
well, if you sQueal | will drop you the
same as am going to do Billy Beckmeyer,
meaning to kill me. Before this be told
me Billy Beckmeyer intended TO help him
and that he backed out, aud he told Billy
if he ever said anything about it he would
kill him; showed me the revolver and said
he would 10 me the same rs he told Billy
he would do him. Then | told him l
wouldn't say anything about it; ne needn't
be afraid of me.
This was what Hancher told me TO tell
these meu, so l can't quite remember 1t as
/ told Mr.. Burns here. Don't believe
remember any more of it.
Jack Beck in his statement said that he
was printer by trade; that he now work
ed for his brother as day and night clerk
off and on. He said Hancher first APP
preached him aud said be bad scheme by
which they could all go 10 Chicago. he
didn't hear the telephone message when 1t
WAS sent, but was present in Hancher's
room in the Occidental when they opened
the bundle containing the money. lie
didn't know where John. the cook. had
hid the money. but he had found it this
afternoon, what there was left OF II, 50. OOU,
under some dishes in store-room, back
s,ore-room He said he hadn't slept any
at all scarcely since the robbery.
W. Arthur Hancher was the next to re-
late his version of the affair. He stated in
substance as follows: l am bill clerk at
the Pacific express Office. The first person
that spoke to me about it was Doc Suapp.
night clerk at the Occidental hotel. Had
to be persuaded good deal before be
would consent to go III It, Finally IL was
John, the cook. Greer was to telephone
from the hotel. Jones answered the Call.
Then we started. for the train. Got down
on South Topeka, and had forgotten my
waybiifs; we turned and went back
to the office after them, and then
drove down to the creamery. As We got
fifteen Of twenty yards in the alley, Jonn
the cook got into the wagon, and the first
thing he said, began 20 think you wasn't
going to come" At the same time Jones
and l asked him what he had TO go out.
aud he said some stuff for Kansas City.
He had gun of his own, aud he took the
one out of my pocket and threw them
down one on each side OF US. he told US
to drive on. So we drove on down the alley
to the next street. and Jones started to
turn up there, and he told him to drive on
down the alley. About that time he told
me to get back aud open the safe.
l told him that | couldn't He
| said l WAS damned liar for he
mad seen me open it at the Rock Island
pot. / then told him that l didn't have
the keys. He then went in Jones' pocket
after the key. and then he went in mine
and found them. Then he told me to get
back and open the safe which | did. He
then took the run" the contents Of the
safe. and jumped from the wagon and
then told us TO stop The driver stopped
Then lie said, Now you get out here in n
hurry" which he did. That Is the last l
| saw of John, the cook. No, seen him
again as we drove to the police station.
As we drove up TO the police station Jones
ran up TO the office, and just at that time
John the cook come up that
street, Williams street, and seen the wagon
standing there. and shot down the alley
there. Then Jones came back and got
| in the wagon and we drove TO the express
Office. Mr.. Kyle was there and Hills, the
cashier. We told them we had been
robbed. Kyle jumped up aud pat on his
nat and started down the street, Kyle and
| l. We met the officers and told them
| where the robbery was. Jones and l went
to the Santa Fe depot, and there i met Mr..
| Dadisman, and lie and l went TO the place
where The robbery was. Dadisman found
the grip about a block aud half
| below the creamery. Went back TO
the express Office and wrote out
a statement of it. That part of the state
ment telling about three men doing the
robbiug was false. l knew John. the
| cook, when he jumped in the wagon. In
! the morning | went over TO the Occiden-
! tai and went up TO my room. Jack had
| told me they had gone up to the room.
| took the paper off the money and burned
| it up, aud also burned some drafts. The
pistol the Niger took away from
| me, he or Greer or somebody told me.
! he threw away in the Arkansas river. AT
! Doc Snaps Suggestion / took the main
spring out of one OF the reyolvers at the
! Office. | am single man. My parents
are dead. l am 10 years old. 1 don't know
where the niger is. He said he was going
| home to Columbus. and then TO Chicago
| / have been in the employ OF the express
company a little over IA year.
/ ".