The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-28

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they walked TO the engine house and talked
about the affair for a while and walked on
down TO Illinois and Washington streets.
where they separated Harvey went 10
John Ferris's saloon. at 80 West Washing
ton street. and Phillips went TO the Occi-
dental bar. At $50 O'Clock the two men
met at Ferris's saloon and took a car TO
the Oak-street stable, where they secured
a horse and buggy and drove around town
until midnight, when they drove TO Booths
stable on West Market street. and put up
the rig and then went to the room Of
Laura Alice Spoon. in the Miller block,
and, spent the night.
They deny having been at Greenwood and
cannot account for their whereabouts dur
ing the two or three hours they admit
having been driving. 1t was probably the
coolest or the several nights or the pres
ent cold spell, and the men claim that
they were drunk, yet they cannot tell OF
a single place they went until they put
TO the woman'S room. This is the sub
stance OF their statement, as repeated by
Superintendent Colbert yesterday after
noon.
THE WOMAN DETAINED.
The woman is also detained at the police
station. She says she is twenty-five years
old, and has known Phillips for a number
Of years. She got acquainted with him
through the marriage OF a relative of hers to
Bernard Phillips, a brother of Edward.
Both families lived in Monroeville then, but
moved to this city several years ago. Ber-
nard Phillips has since died and his widow
is now living in the Sterling block, on Vir-
ginia avenue. She formerly had a MILL
merry store on South Illinois street, where
the Lake Erie ticket Office now is. Laura
Spoon was known by the name of Laura
Phillips. She talked freely about Phillips
and Harvey. She said ley came to her
room about midnight Friday. They told
her they had been driving and that the
horse was standing down in front. Harvey
went out, as he told her, to put the horse
i'm the stable, and returned in a few min
utes. They all ate a lunch. and the men
remained there until morning.
The police have investigated the mems
story at every point. and claim they have
learned that the statements made by them
are false clear through. In the first place,
they did not, according to superintendent
Colbert, close the feed store at $50 o'clock,
but some time earlier. and they did not
drive their. spring wagon up TO the Oak
street stable at the time they claim they
did. Superintendent Colbert says he can
show that at the very time of the attempt
ed robbery and murder, Phillips was in the
alley back of his store. The police also
learn that the horse and buggy was not
driven into Booths stable undl 3 o'clock
Saturday morning.
TRACING THE MEMS MOVEMENT.
Regarding the claim of the men that they
spent the time from abort 1870 Friday
night to $50 in Ferris's and the Occiden-
tai saloons the police are unable TO get
any information to verify or contradict
the statements. The bartender at the Occi-
dental saloon. who was on duty that night,
called yesterday and looked at Phillips. He
says he has seen the man in the saloon fire.
quently, but does not remember seeing him
Friday night. He says. however. he would
have emembered IL had the man been in
toxicated, as he says he was, and had staid
In the place for the length Of time Phillips
claims to have remained there. There are
no chairs in the Occidental barroom, and
a drunk mar spending two hours in the
no would hnNFA trnnfn H. & =
81 the bartender. think the police
Ever since the men nave been detained
at the police station they have been sub
Jected to pumping and sweating. but have
given little information. For a while they
talked freely to the superintendent and de-
t~ectives. but have now grown angry and
cess was continued yesterday morning. and
then for the first time anything like an adj
mission was made. Harvey was being
questioned and he suddenly turned to Su-
perintendent Colbert and said:
Why don't you turn Phillips CUTE
Il will if you will tell me ary reason
why | should not hold him." answered
We'll, he had nothing to do with this
case" And after a pause: Nor did i, for
that matter"
notwithstanding the denial of Phillips
and Harvey and their statements of where
they were during the night of the muir
wood Friday night. Not only did Frank
Hoyt and Tom Sanders Identify Harvey
when he was taken to Greenwood Monday
night. but they came to this city yeSter-
day and identified Phillips as the man who
was with him. The large man who was
with them was taken to a hotel. where the
three men and the two Greenwood men
sat about talking for half an hour. Phillips
had a bottle of whisky and before he and
Harvey left for indianapolis he gave the
big man a drink out of the bottle and said
TO him:
Brace up old man. Don't let a little
thing like this worry you"
THE BIG MAN DISAPPEARS.
1t was about 1 o'clock according to the
statement of Hoyt and Sanders, when
Phillips and Harvey started back to In
dianapolis and the third man went to bed
Saturday morning the big man ate break
fast and then went down to the other
hotel near the railroad and registered
again, and ate another breakfast AT both
places he registered under the name OF
Watson. but used a different initial. When
the train from Indianapolis was about &c
arrive the hotel proprietor told Watson
that he was going down and asked him Il
he was ready. Watson put him off. how.
ever. and when the train arrived, he
boarded it from the east side, away from
the crowd at the station, and paid a cast
fare.
Superintendent Colbert thinks the fac
i of the telegraph office at Greenwood being
closed at night prevented the arrest of the
tall man while there. He was unable &c
get a message there and the knowledge
OF the Redmond murder did not reach
there until the train on which the tall MAJ
started south brought the morning papers
Then people who had seen the three mer
at once notified Colbert and he attempted
TO intercept the man on the train. The
train had passed Columbus before a tele
gram reached the trainmen. and it wa.
found that the man had left the train a
Columbus. Every town on all the road:
leading out of Columbus was notified anC
there is still hope of catching the man.
Phillips is the son of Samuel Phillips, o.
the firm of Phillips * Pattison. clothing
street. He lives with his father at 246 Cen
trail avenue. but during the last few year!
has spent little time at home, though liv
ing i'm this city all the time. His father 4
well-to-do and was greatly shocked wheI
told Of his sons arrest. Il knew Ed wa.
pretty wild. but thought his wiidness wa,
confined 10 drinking and carousing." III
said: THE store at 211a Massachusett
avenue was mine. though he managed /
and did not have to make any accounting
of profits to me. ] set him up in business
thinking ii would cause him to settle down
The buggy which he drove Friday night
| suppose was mine. He frequently bOr
rOwed it, and had had it for about a weel
the last time
The police say Harvey has a bad record
the Ohio penitentiary on a sentence for
crime committed at Cincinnati. II was hi
record that led Captain SDlan 10 think o
him when il was learned that he had beer
staying at the feed store so close TO Ed
ridges store.
Both Harvey and Phillips refuse to tall
for publication.
Harvey was brought into the superin
tendent's office last night in the presenc,
of Charles Hubbard and had to sit and lis
as given above. He refused to discus.
what Hubbard said. but as he was beins