The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-12
VERIFYING THE STORY
NOAH BANEY SEES NUMBER OF
PEOPLE AT THE GRAND HOTEL
Proving Whereabouts of Van TnsseI
Pardon-FeeIing at DanviIIe.

Noah Baney, the convict who says w +.
Hinshaw did not murder his wife, and who
duplicates himself with Guy Van Tassel and
kid" Whitney in the killing. was brought
back to the city from Danville yesterday
morning after night spent on the scene of
the murder.
Baney, accompanied by Prison Guard
Coffin, Attorney ]. 0. Parker, Union B.
Hunt and ]. i. Hinshaw, a brother of the
imprisoned minister. arrived in the city at
1880 o'clock yesterday morning and went
straight to the Grand Hotel. Before dim
ner Attorney Parker went out with Baney
and the prison guard to look up some peo-
pie. At 1 o'clock they returned to the no.
tel and had dinner. None of the party went
out in the afternoon, but a number of per-
sons were talked to in Attorney Parker's
rooms at the hotel. Who these people were
the attorney declined to say. About
o'clock yesterday evening Baney was taken
to the jail and locked up for the night,
1--WE spent tho day very probably" said
Attorney Parker last night, but there is
nothing tangible to be given out just at
this time. We do not want to make a dark
secret or dark-lantern affair of this case
and We are perfectly willing to give the
newspapers everything as fast as ii is ready
" De Hldue PUBIC. To-Day we nave Deen
looking around trying to verify some adj
missions made by Whitney and Van Tassel
about the time of this murder-admissions
that go to show they were in this part of
the country at the time. They both claim
they were not here then-that they were in
Chicago. But 1 know just when they went
to Chicago and when they came back to
Indianapolis. Whitney, Baney and Van
Tassel returned to indianapolis Jan. "a
after the murder of Mrs. Hinshaw. l know
too, that they went to Chicago after this
murder was committed"
Baney will probably be kept in Indianapo-
lis the rest of the week, though he must
be returned to Michigan City by Saturday
evening. Attorney Parker said last night
that his movements to-day would depend
on certain reports he expects to receive at
the hotel this morning. 1t is the intention
OF the attorneys to lay this whole matter
before the Hendricks county grand jury,
which meets at Danville in September.
Baney and Van Tassel will be liberated
from the prison within the next two weeks.
WhitneyS time does not expire until some
time in October. 1t is the plan of the at
torneys Interested in the matter to have
Baney and Van Tassel rearrested the mo-
ment they leave the prison on another
charge, in order to hold them until the
Hendricks county grand jury has passed
the case. Warrants sworn out in any coun-
ty may be ser ed at the gates of the pent-
tertiary.
1T is our plan to lay all our facts be-
fore the grand jury" said Attorney Parker,
and, if possible procure the Indictment of
these men. We do not expect to ask for
Hinshaw's release until some one else has
been convicted. There is but one way IN
which he could be liberated before that,
and that would be by pardon. 1t is not our
intention to ask for a pardon. There is one
thing sure, and that is if Noah Baney was
in that Bellevilie house on the night of Mrs.
Hinshaw's murder, as he has confessed he
was, w. E. Hinshaw cannot be the guilty