The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-28

| jury toEnple1eu TOT me 1riti OF w hiidhi
| and George Taylor for MurderNeIiie
/ Meeks Is Positive of Bill Taylor. he hav-
ing Been an Employer of Her Father
| Father. Mother and Two Young Chill
dren BrutalIy slain and Nellie Left for
| Dead--s light of the Taylors and Their
| Capture Ill irkansas.
Carroliton. Mo. March 27.-The jury
! in the Taylor murder case was compile
| ted and the trial commenced today.
1 The prosecuting attorney presented the
! case to the jury and the defense said
they were ready for trial without max
/ ing statement.
Ten-year-old Nellie Meeks, the only
survivor of the Meeks family Of five
VINO were murdered on May 10, last
year, is in town to testify in the trial
Of William p. and George Taylor, which
/ began today. Nellie was permitted by
her guardians TO tell the story OF the
atrOcious crime this afternoon in adj
vance of the time for her appearance
on the stand. she is positive in her
Identification Of the Taylors, saying
she rememb ers Bill Taylor, he having
employed her father as a bar tender
and she had seen him many times.
She tells how the Taylor brothers
called for her father at Milan, Missouri,
on the night of the murder of Meeks,
his wife and three children were bun
died into wagon and started for
TayiOrs farm eighteen miles south.
When within two miles of the Taylor
farm. George Taylor got out Of the
wagon and shortly afterwards fired
a shot and killed Meeks snd his wife
and then beat the five and two year ola
children in the heads with rocks and
kicked them 10 death. After commit
ting this crime the TaylOrs are said
to have buried the family III straw
stSak.
Nellie was left for dead but she heard
the Taylor brothers converse about the
muredr. she keeping quiet, fearing
they would kill her. When day broke
she went 10 the farm house of Mr..
Pierce where she told her story. \
long hunt for the Taylors was inaug
urated but it was eight or nine months
before they were captured in Arkansas.
They had very bad regulations previous
10 the time the Meeks murder was fas-
tened on them by the story told by
little Nellie.
BROUGHT INTO COURT.
Before o'clock this morning groups
Of people stood in the court house yard,
and at . O'Clock. the hour set for the
Taylor trial to begin. the court room
was packed. while not One-fourth of
the struggling mass Of people could get
inside
At 10 o'clock the Taylor brothers. fol-
lowed by a struggling crowd Of men
and boys were led by Sheriff Stanley
from the Jail to the court house. VIII
liam's face was drawn as if with great
anxiety, while George gazed about the
court room apparently uncOncerned.
T. NJ. Dresenhen, prosecutor Of Linn
county. read the Indictment and made
4 brief statement Of the states case in
which he said that il would prove be
yond a doubt that the Taylor's murder
I'd the MeekS family. He referred to
the murder as the most afro y rs that
had ever been committed in Missouri.
When he turned and pointed his finger
at the elder brother, saying and there
sits the man, Bill Taylor, who planned
and helped carry out the CHASTITY muir
der Taylor shifted uneasily in his
chair. The attorney for the defense
said they wished to make no statement
but were ready for trial.
About fifteen witnesses were eXamin-
cd before court adjourned for the day.
the most important being Mrs. Meeks,
mother Of the murdered man. Her tes-
timony was a Confederation Of the pro-
ceedings on the night Of the murder.
as already related. and is considered
strong point already gained for the
prosecution. On cross examination
nothing new was developed.
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