Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
HEARNES AT BOWLING GREEN
Doctor and Wife Transferred From
Marion to Pike County Jail
Trial in January.

BOWLING GREEN, Mo-, Oct. 1S.-Dr.
]. G. Hearne and wife, under indict-
ment for the murder of A. j. Stillwell,
the pork packer of Hannibal, in 1883,
were brought here to-day on a change
of venue from the Marion County Cir
cult Court and lodged in jail to await
trial, which is set for the first week in
January. Sheriff Pratt of Marion, the
youngest sheriff in the state, brought
them. The prisoners appeared to be
we'll and cheerful, though Mrs. Hearne
seemed a little worn and nervous. She
was neatly dressed in a blue skirt,
basque and hat, with white shirt waist
and white bow at her throat. The
doctor was attired in black, and wore
a Masonic pin in his lapel. The pris-
oners entered a carriage and were
driven direct to the Jail, where Sheriff
Daugherty took charge of them.
DR.. Hearne was placed in a steel
lined cell, but not in the cage. His
room is Skis feet, contains a stove and
cot, and has new mating ON the floor.
One grated window admits a dim light
from the outside world. Mrs. Hearne
Jared better. Her apartment is not
a part of the Jail proper, but a strong
walled brick room on the second floor,
a part of the sheriff's residence, and
is comfortably, even tastefully fur
nished. Brussels carpet, with a pretty
| design of vines and roses, oak table
and chairs, one rocker, beadstead,
| washstand and dresser of ash, the lat
| ter with a French plate mirror. On
the mantel is a book called "Progress
of Four Hundred Years." also some
photographs of the sheriff, his wife
and children, and a quart jug, which
originally contained old Oscar Pepper,
but has been hand-painted and con-
yerted into a toilet ornament.
South and east windows command a
fine view of the old part of town, in
| GLIDING the small house which figures
as Jim Radburn's residence Sin Miz-
zura," and also the landscape and
road stretching away toward Louis
lana. Just in front of her south win
dow stand two modern cottages, built
on the site of the first hotel in this
town, at which Tom Benton used to
stop when be c~ampaigned in this part
of the state.
1t is understood that the case of the
Hearnes will come to trial at a special
term of the court, to begin the first of
January. Clark & Dempsey of this
city have been retained as local at
torneys for the prosecution; also Ras
Pearson of Louisiana, while the de-
tense have engaged Fagg, Ball & Hicks
of Louisiana.
Over in Marion county Pike county
has the reputation of not convicting
prisoners of murder in the first degree
and the impression has gone out there
that the people of this county are
rather opposed to capital punishment.
Whether this is SO or not, it is I'M
doubtedly the reason that the Hearnes
asked to be tried there. But the peo-
pie of Pike county are getting tired of
murderers being brought here fortrial,
and they feel very much in a mood of
stopping that sort of thing with a con-
viction or two. DR.. Hearne is getting
tired of confinement. He said recent
ly that he was anxious to get back to
his business, and did not believe he
| would be confined much longer, so he
evidently believes that Pike county
will hold her reputation and clear him
without much trouble. Mrs. Hearne
manifests that stony Indifference and
silence she has shown from the begin
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