The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-03

lapSeS when a Shrewd question throws
hini temporarily off his guard. Butter
is displaying much cunning, but it is of
rather a low order. He refuses to even
look at reporter unless the newspaper
man keeps him supplied with cigars,
which he smokes necessarily. When thus
bribed he will listen to questions but will
return no replies.
HIS WIFE HUNTS HIM UP.
Naps, Cal, Feb. Mrs. Eta Butler
of Nape thinks that she may be the wife
CT the murderer Butler who arrived on
board the Swanhilda. She was married
to Butler five years ago and lived with
him III San Francisco a few weeks, when
he deserted her She afterwards heard
he went to Australia. she has boy
three years old by him, now in the Vale
jo orphans home Mrs. Butler has gone
TO San Francisco to see Butler.
A DEGENERATE KINSMAN.
Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. "A degener-
ate relative of Horace Greeley, the great
editor, is now confined in the county
jail, confessed horsethief Behind his
capture is a story of wild, reckless riding
by the robber over snowclad mountains
and the logged perseverance of Frank
Griffith, deputy constable of Hanford,
who pluckily trailed the gang for five
weeks and arrested young Greeley this
morning. Still another member of the
crowd is Fred Rood, who is also in Jail.
and the third will soon be apprehended.
They are accused of having stolen thir-
teen head of horses a little over five
weeks ago, about fifteen miles south
of Hanford and some distance from Tu-
lare City, close to the Tulare county line.
Griffith. accompanied by Deputy Sheriff
White. arrested Greeley white the latter
was eating breakfast at his fathers
house here. Greeley. who is about 25
years old, confessed the crime, but re-
fused to divulge the identity of his part
ners. His father. who claims 10 be
cousin of the editor. said his son had
Only recently given indications that he
was Or the wrong course.
BUNCOED ON THE TRAIN.
Kansas City. Feb. John Pauley, a
Harvard, Neb., farmer. complained TO
the police this morning that Michael
O'Farrell and K. f. Hartman, Denver
confidence men, had filched him out of a
$500 draft. The trio met in Denver and
came east together, the confidence men
giving Pauley az alleged st. Louis draft
for $1,000 and graciously permitting him
to keep the difference Of $500. They
bought hin, ricket for st. Louis here
NJ
then deserted BIN.
WILL Pr; HIS TURN, SOME DAY.
Anderson. Ind, Feb. Peter Able, a
glassWorker, was arrested last night for
a most inhuman act Valdisto Kunlkow-
ski, 16-year-old lad, is his helper. Able
became angered with him for some little
mistake and knocked him down. Not
being satisfied, he took the boy and stuck
him in through the gathering hole. He
only kept him there second, but il
was enough to burn the lads face and
shoulders horribly. II is feared he will
die. The furnace was the one in which
glass sand was melting, and the intensity
of the heat cannot be realized.
JEALOUSY. PROBABLY.
Apollo, Pa, Feb flames Scheiham-
mer, son of well-to-do farmer, shot and
killed Grace Clark and then turned the
pistoi on himself, inflicting fatal wound.
The tragedy took place in the sitting
room of the Clark residence, and as the
couple were alone. the cause will proba-
bly, never be known. Jealousy, however,
is believed to have been at the bottom OF
it. The young lady was II years of age,
and Schelhammer was two years older.
WON'T HELP QUESTION:.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. 1.-THE SUI
preme court today overruled the motion
for rehearing in the case Of the state
versus Arthur Duestrow, the St Louis
millionaire murdeder, who is to be hang
ed on February 16. The sentence of John
Schmidt. who was convicted, with two
Others, for killing B. Atwater of Chicago,
at Webster Grove, a suburb of st. Louis,
a year ago, was affirmed, and his execu-
ton fixed for March 10.