The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-14

Two arrests were made yesterday in con-
nection with the Jane, Dow murder Case.
j. NJ Webber was arrested at Chanute
and Dave Patton was arrested near God
dard, the former by Sheriff Royse in per
sou aud the latter Uy one of his deputies
They are both in the county Jail. Both ar
rests add still further mystery to the mur
der.
At the time the murder was discovered
the EAGLE estimated that Dow WAS killed
about Ee night of the ~ h of February,
and showed good reasons for suspactiug
John Webber as the murderer. The j.
NJ. Webber that is now in Jail left Wich-
ita on the night OF the 13th of Februtry
and went TO Winfield, where he attended
H show the next night and hsd plenty of
money. The next night after this he took
freight train on the Southern Kansas
road and arrived ut Chanute early
in the morning His own story is
that lie left Wichita on "A train
end went to Winfi'ld but he is not qni,e
able to tell over which road he travelled
A Winfield restaurant keeper says that "A
man of his description arrived at his place
ABOUT daybreak Of the morning of the IL of
February and took his lunch there. He is
quite satisfied that he drove team of
horses and that be seemed TO have travelled
all night 1t will be recoiected that
some witnesses testified that Dow had a
span OF horses which cannot be found or
any trace OF them.
The chain of circumstances are remark
ably aud dangerously complete against the
man in custody and yet it seems impossi-
BILE that lie could be the Webber that
killed Dow. According to the evidence ai
The coronor's Inquest every witness stated
that Dow's partner in their bachelor quar-
ters WAS no. more than % years old while
the Webber in custody is over 60.
at the jul last night Webber
was in bed but neither addressed or asleep.
He came out in the corridor to meet the
reporter but begged hard that nothing
about his imprisonment should be stated
in the paper as il woul1 nearly kill bis
sister, Mrs. Tracy, that lives at 446 Mort b
Washington avenue. "See Is of a very ner-
vous disposition" said he, "and the shock
will almost Kill her."
He was shown how much better it would
be Tor him to tell his side of the story in
preference to hearsay, cut yet he was un-
willing to have any mention made of it in
the paper.
He admitted that he left Wichita on the
night Of the 18th, that he went to Win
field and attended the opera there, and
| that from that he went To Chanute on a
freight train. He said the money he had
| at Winfield was some pension money he
got. He admitted that he had claim in
| The strip. that there was contest filed Oh
il by some one he did know, aud that be
had gone to Chanute to get
some testimony from a man named
Mullens, VINO lives near Erie. that
he went into the stlp with him. He said
his claim was near Medford, but tnat he
had not been near it since early In the
fall. A few days ago when Sheriff Royse
went TO his sisters house her daughter
told him that her uncle was in the terri
tory while he says that he was not in the
territory siuce early in the fall. The
whole thing is very strange.
The second man was arrested near God
dard aud his name is Dave Patton. Dave
is he man that Fl cured in a duel on South
Fourth avenue alb lut six weeks ago with
"A cousin of his from Conway Springs. At
| ention was attracted toward him
since the discovery of the
murder by his curious actions
out in the country. He went about among
| the farmers looking for work with brace
Of rrvolvers strapped about him aud when
| he went to bed at night with other young
| fellows he woulo put the revolvers nndel
his pillow and carry on strange and weir6
conversations with some imaginary per
sons in bis sleep. He told several persons
that he did not have TO work, that b.
made IA raise or some money recently aud
| shat he could live Without work.
The upshot of his Nightmares, bis mill
| tary Equipments aud his antics generally
was that the country people put MIN down
| as having Something To do with the FIFTH
| avenue tragedy.
While Webber has the name of the mar
| who was supposed to have killed Dow. ye'
| Patton comes nearer filling the descrip
| ton of Dow's partner aud supposed mur-
| derer, and this com oinatlon of facts lnten
SITES the mystery.