Evening journal., 1896-12-29
KENTUCKY WANTS HIM.
Officers En- Route to Bring a
Murderer From London.
HE is NOW IN DURANGO AT OXFORD
Arthur Platt Said He Would Rather BE
Tried In Kentucky For Murder Than In
England For Petty Larceny-Now Prom
ised Taste OF Blue Grass Justice.

Tried In Kentucky For Murder Than In
England For Petty Larceny--Now Prom
ised a Taste of Blue Grass Justice.
NEW York, Dec 29.-Two men sailed
on the Teutonic today to bring back
murderer from England. They are going
60 London fortified with extradition pa
pers signed by Secretary Olney, with a
personal message from President Glove
land to ambassador Bayard and with the
facts Of the murder recited above the OIL
cial signature and seal of the governor OF
Kentucky.
These two men are K. p Farrell, prose
cutting attorney of Fayette county Ky,
and sheriff H. 4. Gross of the same coun.
ty. They arrived in Jersey City last night.
II quite suppose, sir, said the sheriff,
chat you folks think we have so many
unpunished murderers close at home that
we don't need to 90 abroad for them. But
this, sir, Is an exceptional case. A keeper
In our Eastern Kentucky Insane asylum
shot patient under his care In cold blood
and escaped That was ten years ago. Now
he Is arrested for burglary in England,
with lots of other complaints piled up
against him when he finishes the term on
which he was convicted He thinks he
would rather stand trial for murder In
Kentucky than do sentence for n series of
petty robberies in England. Well. sir, we
are going to bring him home and teach
him that ho don't know what Kentucky
justice means when its back is up
The murdered man was Jesse 1yree,
and the keeper who committed the crime
Arthur W. plntt 10 Is said Platt shot Iy-
rec and fed
Locked Up In England.
Last April man giving the name OF Ed
ward Richard Taylor was locked up at OK.
ford England, for stealing a yalise from
the BletchingtOn station on the Great
Western railway. Tie had been wanted for
series of petty robberies, but Charles
Head, superintendent Of police for Oxford.
happened TO be the man that caught him.
When Taylor saw that tho jig was up, he
said TO Mr.. Head:
"You have no use for mo here. ] am
wanted for murder i'm America.
Mr. Head concluded that he had enough
to attend to at home, so he secured the
conviction of Taylor for six months hnrd
labor in British prison Then he wrote
to Scotland yard aboutit Meanwhile Tny
lor had written to Sheriff Gross, relating
the circumstances of his arrest in England
tradited TO Kentucky TO stand trial for the
murder Of Tyree This revived the whole
case, and tile sheriff with the aid Of NJ
Farrell, prosecuting attorney OF the coun-
ty. raked the Old murder up again.
They found an associate of plntt Ia the
ASYLUM who saw the shooting, bat who
was afraid at the time to say anything
about it They found people who knew all
about the circumstances under which
platt's relatives helped him to escape.
They took photographs of Taylor, sent
/ from oxford, TO these people and TO several
other people, and In no case did they find
anybody who hesitated to say:
Why, that's Platt
The result is that the affair was made d
state matter and if platt, alias Taylor, 81
entertaining the slightest hope that he ID
going to have an easy thing of 1t In kon
lucky, he is very much mistaken.