The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-02

! The murder mystery is approaching SOL
ution. This paper, which has given nearly
all the facts so far secured to the police,
said yesterday that it was in position TO
| give the name of the murdered man which
all the officers tried TO obtain in order to
commence the work Of solving the case.
The coal in the house of the murdered
man was examined by A reporter and
found to be that kept by Oliver Brothers
| The EAGLE sent a man there Immediately
where he ascertained the fact that the coal
was delivered from the yards of
! September by Daniel Courtney,
| and that the mau's name was
| Dow but his first name could not be
ascertained, as the scale house was closed
| for the night. Yesterday morning the
| officers went to the scale house of Oliver
brothers and found the delivery receipt
| 1t was not signed by Dow, for through a
mistake, the wrong half of the receipt was
! left with the murdered man, but fortu-
nately his name was on the half retained
| by the teamster who delivered the coal.
| This was an important point established
and the next thing was to find out where
his home WAS. 1t was found in the course
of very detailed search that he
filed on piece Of land at the
Perry land Office in the Cherokee strip.
| The postoffice WAS visited aud the money
order clerk had strong impression that
he cashed IA money order for him. but ow-
ing to the fact that the point from which
he got the money could not be given it was
impracticable to go through the various
| receipts as they are numbered and indexed
with the name of the forwarding office in
stead Of the consignee. Postmaster jew
EFT extended every accommodation to aid
in the search, but the task Was too hard to
be completed in 4 single day.
Dow Received Letters.
1t was ascertained that letter came
through the office for Dow, and by mis-
take iu was sent to man on the West
Side, but afterwards was returned to the
Office and given to Dow through the gen
eral delivery.
1t has been stated that the murdered
mans name was James Dowd. That is an
error. His name was Dow, which is an
other evidence in support OF the statement
made heretofore that he was Scotchman.
AT last clew was found to the location
of his home. He was a kentuckian and
lived back in the mountains, about
forty-five miles southeast of the town of
Springville. He came from there last
September, made the run into the Chero-
kee strip aud secured u nice claim in the
Perry land district.
That is all that is necessary to know at
present about the murdered man. The
barriers that kept his identity in dark
ness have been broken down and now the
officers have comparatively plain sailing
IN the voyage of discovery after the muir
derer. For further details they can write
to Kentucky or to the Perry land office.
In Augusta there lives IA mulatto, who,
doubtless, is possessed of considerable in
formation with reference to the murdered
man and his partner. While they
lived at 305 South Fifth avenue he was
seen with them on several occasions and
\ l..
man works in stone quarry near
Augusta and can easily be found. He
will probably deyelope into a valuable
witness if he is subpUned and examined.
Now then the next man to find is John
Webber. If he is not the man that killed
James Dow he can, in any event, throw
some light on the subject. 1t will
think that he is kentuckian
who came to Oklahoma with Dow, but
the EAGLE has reason 10 believe that he is
kansan and has some evidence that he
might be known either at Sharon, Barber
county or in Cowley county.
Coroner's Inquest Begun.
When IA reporter first ascertainsd that
he rented the house of Israel Brothers,
the first thing the clerk stated that he
was young man with peculiar sneak
ing look about his eyes.
Mr.. Petry the butcher also says that he
was young man with Il very peculiar
look about bis eyes and that he looked
more or less in his general appearance as
if he was a COW puncher.
Robert Irons says he met him twice at
the time they rented the house where the
murder was committed and that the first
thing he noticed about him was the pc
culiar downcast look abont his eyes. In
fact everybody who saw him noticed tue
popularity about his eyes-they were eyes
that always made an unfavorable impress
ion.
The Coroner's inquest was commenced
Yesterday with Jacob McAfee.
James Beard. Tom Glover. J. ID.
Jones. John Knight and T. E Enock
Previous TO the commencement of the in
quest County Attorney Boone and
Coroner McCollister held consultation
and Mr.. Boone instructed the coroner to
go TO the very depths of the case and bring
out every point that may be beneficial to
the cause of justice This suited the
coroner to a dot and he is making very
thorough ana detailed investigation.
Sherf fl Koyse is also taking an active
part in the matter and Deputy Sheriff
William Hays is doing excellent work
Sheriff Royse will request Governor Lew
eiling TO offer reward so as to give out
side officers an incentive to work on the
csse Sed.wick county is going to demon
Strite That a crime Ol bHdJ hlNu CduuOb DG
committed with impnnity within her bord
er-, Eve or six witnesses were examined
Yesterday and their statements agree with
those already published in the EAGLE.
The case is attracting good deal of at
tention and will be watched throughout
with interest.
He Wa1 Deceived.
"And what answer do you make to
nv annaal2" he asked. as he knelt at