The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-30
DEATH SETTLES IT.

Effects Of Laudanum His Ante Nor
tenn Statement Concerning the
McGillivray-Sheppard Safe
Robbery.
Morrill, has been reported in the city
this afternoon that Green is still alive,
but q special inquiry by Train Dispatch
or Wood, at 5 p. M, confirms the report
OF death received this morning.
The DAILY LEADER yesterday con-
tanned an article to the effect that @. u.
Green. formerly in the employ Of T.. ID.
Sheppard, bad been over by a Mil
waukee reight train in Minnesota, and
that he had made Q statement In regard
to the McGillivray safe robbery which
circumstantially implicated Ed Shep-
pard. Green was being cared for by the
Milwaukee company's surgeon at Lake
field, Mimi, and this morning Train Dis
patcher Wood, OF this city, received q
dispatch announcing his death at 2
o'clock a. m. Tt seems that during the
temporary absence OF his nurse from the
room, Green obtained a bottle Of lauda-
mum from among the medicines that
we're being administered to him, and
drinking the poison, death resulted soon
after. II 10 not known positively wheth-
or he took the drug with suicidal intent,
but it is quite likely he preferred death
to life in his horribly mutilated condi
ton. The DAnY LEADER is enabled to
give the ante-mortem statement OF
Green, concerning the McGillivray safe
robbery, which has been 10 the hands 81
States Attorney Soper since Tuesday,
The deposition, since the death Of Green,
possesses no value in law, but is OF ines.
Unable value to the Messrs. McGillivray
under the circumstances. Our state law
don't permit the trial OF an acquitted de,
PENDANT a second time on the same charge,
but a convicted criminal may obtain q
second trial on the ground OF new evil
dence having been discovered. Hence,
in law, Ed Sheppard is absolutely free ol
the crime for which he was tried and 40,
quilted at the late term Of court, not.
withstand ding the statement by Green,
Following 10 the deposition:
Estate OF Minnesota, county OF Jack.
sons: G. G. Green, being duly sworn,
deposes and says: That he was at the
home Of r. D. Sheppard, at Lake county,
South Dakota, or December 8, 1892. On
the morning Of said day, Ed Sheppard
came to that place ON horseback. Hs
went into the house. Soon after he
changed horses and went away again,
HIS mother told me not to tell that be had
been there; that the officers were coming
TO search q trunk in the house for papers
they did no. want seen-that Ed and she
did not want seen.
ION Sunday, January l, morning, ]
CHANGED to open IN old tool chest in the
barn to get some tools to fix a sled and
found a roll OF bills there amounting to
800, in money. This chest Ed Shep.
pard had had access to. This money ]
took and went to Ramona, s. D., and
spent about s1s5 playing cards at Jake
Honneger's, at which place I drank con.
siderable. This was New Years night
January 2 / went to Madison and bought
some clothes and Q grip. AT the time /
found the money I knew Ed Sheppard
had been arrested on the charge OF steal,
ing NJ oney. I left Madison on the noon
train on January 2. Ithen went to Co
lumbus, Ohio. and other parts OF Ohio
! came back to Albert Lea, Mimi, about
ten days ago.
when ! was going from South Da-
kota TO Ohio, / wrote back from Albert
Lea, Mimi, to Ed Sheppard to send me
$50 to ~Johnstown, Ohio. When I got to
Johnstown, about a week later, / found
$50 in an envelope addressed to me in
what looked to me to be the handwrit-
ing Of Ed Sheppard. Enclosed with the
money (which was in bills, two $50 and
one s10) was a piece OF paper signed Il.
CT, and contained no other writing. At
that time neither Ed Sheppard nor his
father owed me any money.
"The'd day / left Madison I saw Ed
who said to me, Are you go
ing away? You must have been making
a winning The train was then due and
I went right away.
'The Saturday night previous to De-
cember 3 ! saw Ed Sheppard at his faith
er's home. He was there about half an
hour. When I found the money, / was
satisfied 1t was money stolen by Ed Shep-
pard from the store Of McGillivray Bros,
Ramona, South Dakota, on December
3, 1892.
"At the time Ed Sheppard came home,
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