People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-15
MRS. JANE WRIGHT MURDERED
AT KANSAS CITY.
THE PERPETRATORS ARRESTED.
John Clark, q Recently Released Kan
sas Convict, Harry Jones and John
A. Bartchey, Kansas City Cooks,
the Guilty Parties-Complete
Comics sion Made by
Each One.

Jane Wright, proprietor of Madame
Wrights employment agency in thi.
city, was found dead in her Office in
the Hall building Saturday evening.
She had been foully murdered and the
deed was committed within hearing OF
thousands of people, as her offices
were in the heart of the city and was
killed when most people are on the
streets-about 6 p. IN. When
found by the janitor of the
building she was lying upon the
floor with her hands and feet tied
together and her face presented hor-
rible sight as she had been struck
several blows which disfgured her in
a terrible manner. She had evidently
been strangled to death as finger
marks were plainly noticeable upon
her throat,
There seems little doubt now that
the real perpetrators of the crime
are now under arrest and that their
object in killing the woman was for
money. Yesterday afternoon the
police arrested one John Clark. who
was released from the Kansas peni-
tertiary September 3, after serving a
live years sentence for burglary, and
he has confessed his participation in the
murder, in the actual work of which
he claims to have had no hand, how
ever. Harry Jones was arrested last
night and John B. Bartchey, both
cooks, were arrested this morning.
A little Swiss watch, with chased
gold case, which had belonged to the
dead woman, led to the direct unravel-
ing of the crime 1t had been con-
stantly worn by her. 1t had been
stolen from her body by the murder
ers 1t had fell to the share of Clark
Within two hours after the crime,
Clark, unstrung and excited, sum-
moned an acquaintance and friend of
a week, Charles Cheek, a bartender
To him he showed his money, then
pulled out the watch.
'1've "a mind to throw it away"
said Clark.
"Why?' asked his friend.
"Well-rve mind" said Clark,
chats what I'll do, I'll throw it
away. No." suddenly changing his
mind, there, you take it and keep it."
Had he kept his first resolution re-
garding the little gold timepiece the
murder of Nine. Wright might still be
a mystery. But the watch was passed
to Cheek.
A little scroll upon the front of the
case bore the initials 81. w." And
when Cheek read of Jane Wright's
murder yesterday morning it flashed
upon him that he had in his keeping
the watch of the dead woman and
that he, probably alone, knew the
identity of her murderer.
The police were notified. A son of
Nine. Wright and her woman book
keeper identified the watch at
glance.
Last night Clark confessed that he
had had hand in the murder, but
that Harry Jones was the principal.
1t was Jones who knew of the woman
and her boarded wealth. 1t was Jones
who planned the robbery. Opposite
Madame Wrights office on Ninth
street the two men stood Saturday
until they saw Miss Williams leave
the office at els. Then Jones went
up and soon appeared at the window,
the signal for Clark to join him. As
Clark reached the door Jones was
beating and choking the PROSTATE
woman. They searched her body for
the money together. 1t was Jones
who found it and Jones who tied her
hands and feet with cord taken from
his pocket Then they fled and in a
vacant lot near the Jail divided the
booty-S3OO and the tell-tale gold
watch.
Harry Jones admits planning the
robbery which resulted in the murder:
Clark, the other murderer, was only
taken into the plot last Thursday.
Two weeks ago Jones and John A.
Bartchey, another cook, talked of the
robbery. according to the statement
made to-day by the negro porter at
Froisy & Purcell's employment agency.
He says that last week they met him
and asked him to be a party to the
robbery of Madame Wright, but he
refused to have anything to do with
the matter.
Bartchey was arrested at 1890
o'clock this morning at the Saratoga
restaurant on Main street. He con-
fessed to the fact that he and Jones
had planned to rob Madame Wright