The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-23
PRISONER At MICHIGAN CITY
MAKES VOLUNTARY CONFESSION 10
HINSHAW's DANVILIfE LAWYERS.
Attorneys Attach Great Importance to
the StOry-NOah Baney Tells How
the Crime Was Committed.

| shaw, Jan. g. 1895, have consented to make
public the confession which has been made
! by Noah Baney generating the minister
| Of committing the crime and duplicating
John Whitney, known to the police as
| kid" Whitney, and Guy Van Tassel.
! Baney and the others are all from Indian
apolis. So much Of the confession as bears
on the Hinshaw case is made public. Other
portions are suppressed for the present.
The confession was made in the Michigan
City prison July last to J. o. Parker, of
Danville, one Of Hinshaws attorneys in
the famous murder trial, in the presence of
Alva l.. Spinning and Senator Hogate, the
latter of Danville, and who was also as
socated with Mr.. Parker in defending the
preacher. Baney's statement was in writ
ing. 1t is as follows:
Whereas it has been given out through
| various channels that l. the undersigned,
did make a confession to John Wilson, my
| former cellmate, that 1 was fully informed
as to who robbed the Hinshaw house in
| Bellville, Ind, on the night of the 9Th of
January, 1895, and murdered Mrs Hinshaw,
| and that 1 was implicated therein, and de-
| string to be set right before the world do
now voluntarily and of my own free will
make the following statement of my knowl-
edge of the facts and the circumstances
as my memory of the incidents related will
| permit
BANEY'S STORY OF THE CRIME.
"At the time of the tragedy I owned a
sorrel horse and had in my possession
set of single harness and a buggy which
| had been borrowed from Mr.. Hodges who
| lived on Shelby street, and just off of the
avenue Virginia avenue) and south of the
| foundry, and which on that afternoon had
| been used by the old man and by mother,
who drove out to the workhouse to see my
| brother Albert, who was then in there do
ing time. After they came back Guy Van
! TasseI and Kid Whitney came to my
mothers house and said they wanted me to
| go with them down to Danville, Ind, where
| they had little job. at first said would
go. and then Carey James, who was with
me at my mothers, said she did not want
me to go with them, and insisted that 1
stay at home as 1 was not we'll enough to
| go. AS a matter of fact L was not in good
health, and being persuaded by Carey, L
finally said 1 would not go. They, Van
| and Whitney, then wanted me to loan them
my horse and buggy, which L did do. They
| took it on the evening of the 9Th of Janu-
| ary, 1885, and left my mothers house, as
| understood, to go to Danville. / next saw
| them on Friday morning, when they
| brought my rig home, and they then told
| me they had been to Danvlle and had done
| that job, going into the house through the
| back door and kitchen. Whitney went. in
| with Van Tassel, who scared all the
| time. Directly after they got in the house
| they found Hinshaw's revolver and a razor
| in a bureau or cupboard, and took them to
| prevent their being used by any one else.
On going on further in the house one of
| them run against chair, and this caused
them to stop and listen to determine if any
one was in the house and if they had been
heard. Hearing no noise, and believing
they had not been discovered, they went
on in the house and got into the bedroom,
where they found Hinshaws S pocketbook in
| his inside coat pocket lying sofa. This
had no money in it other than bills. They
then got hold of his pants off of chair
bedpost, I forget which, and felt in the
| pocket for money About this time the
Hinshaw's awakened and made an outcry,
when Van jerked his hand out of his
pocket and spilled some of the money on
the floor He then began to shoot, and shot
| three times in the house and twice out of
doors, doing the shooting with a long
| barreIed single-acting gun. Hinshaw had
| hold of the Kid two or three times in
the house. but the Kid would back away.
were followed by the Hinshaws Van
looked back and saw the woman coming
after them on the back STEP and fired, in
tending to frighten her back but hit her
and she felt right there"
| MURDERER RETURNS TO THE CITY
! Van" then threw the Hinshaw gun
away, got the money out of the leather,
! together with the razor, and ran down to
| the buggy and came back to indianapolis
over the National road as far as Eagle
| creek, where they turned south across the
Vandalia Railroad and came in past the
stock yards over Belmont avenue"
(Here follows a portion of the confession
which tells where they stopped that night
which for reasons of their own Hnshaws
| attorneys prefer not to make public at this
| time.)
Continuing it says: "As I understand it
| the cutting was done when Hnshaw had
| Van over by the fence. They got,
think it was, $9S. Van offered me a part
of the money and 1 would not take it, but
he owed me 81 and paid that to me with
80 bill.
"At this time the indianapolis police We're
| Wanting me and were looking for me- at
l the same time threatening to arrest the
old man. Sunday afternoon, the second 1
think, after the Hinshaw job the officers
came up to mothers, where / then was
after me. Carey saw them in time and
warned me and got away, but they ar
rested her and walked her over to the
avenue and put her in the patrol wagon
and took her down town. l went over to
the Belt and from there down on South
East street and there met Van He went
after Whitney and had Whitney go down
TO the house after my shirt, which he
brought to me- Guy had been wanting US
to go to Cincinnati, but we then deter
mined to go to Chicago and went down to
the depot and went up over the Big Four
blind baggage 1t rained nearly all night
and we got into Chicago on Monday and
went out TO my sisters, on Curtis street.
John (Baneys brother-in-law) hired room
OF his landady for u.s.
Qaere follows detailed account of
| Baneys doings in Chicago)
'On the following Wednesday," it con-
tinues. I'VE came back TO Indianapolis over
the Illinois Central and the Big -Four road