The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-14

| OF Minneapolis IL Acquitted by the
Change of Heart OF the Prosecuting
Witness, Who is Now In Big Trouble
Bim.elf-slot Mni IS Murder-Proroker
Crime News
Cincinnati O.. March ia special to
! the Commercial Tribune from Frank
| fort, KY. says:
| Governor Bradley tonight, with a con-
| siderable degree OF warmth. repudiated
| publications in the Afternoon papers that
he had respited Alonzo Walling.
| The governor said that the stories sent
out were based purely on conjecture.
and. while they might prove correct, they
may also be wrong.
NO living creaiuA" said he, has any
authority or reason for making the sta te
menI thar ] have decided on such &C
| ton
The governor took UP the Waning case
las, night. and, ii is understood. has
about completed reading the record and
his decision viii probably not be off,
ciaEy announced until Monday.
The belief TRAD Walling will be respi.-
ed IS still general here. but il is not
founded on anything the governor has
said or cone.
PERJURY OR LARCENY.
Minneapolis. Mimi, March 1S.-Ths
trial of ex-City Clerk Charles F. Haney
for offering a bride of $500 10 Alderman
F. Drew. came to sudden and sensa-
tional termination this morning, the
court directing a verdict of acquittal.
Alderman Drew. whose testimony was
depended on by the state for convic-
ton. refused on the stand TO connect Ha-
ney with the matter at all. He admitted
finding in book an envelope containing
$500 and addressed 10 him. He kept the
money and used il, but professed ignor-
ance as 10 who sent 1t or why II was
sent. This evidence was directly con-
trary TO that given before the grand
jury when the Indictment was found.
when Drew swore that Ne had been given
$500 by Haney for his vote in the paw
ing contracts. Judge Smith jim ordering
the verdict scored Alderman Drew Sc
verely. declaring that he believed that
the $500 was brihe IL must have been.
or larceny. He ordered the alderman
held in $1,000 bonds 10 answer TO the
charge of perjury or larceny before the
next grand jury.
PLAYED THE SLOT MILL.
A
TO the Star from Stanberry, Missouri.
says: DR.. Barber is under arrest az
Gentryville charged With shooting ana
fatally wounding Sam Patter. a drug
gist. The trouble arose in Patter's drug
store. Barber. il is said. lost a dollar
and half in a slot machine and. be-
coming earaced. ended by drawing his
revolver and deliberately shooting Pat
ter.
1SIAGTS EXTRACTION.
Albany, y. Y, March l3.-Governor
Eiack may grant the request of the gov
eT11or OF Massachusetts for the extradi-
ton of Joseph Isagi, the Turkish con-
sui at Boston. VINO is held in New York
City or the charge of embezzlement. On
Thursday next the thirty DAYS during
which Isiagi can be held in this state for
a crime committed in another state. ex-
pires. After that time the state author |
tiles cannot hold him and he must be dis |
charged from custody unless ne is ex-
traditeI
KEPT WHISKY BY THEM.
Beloit. Kan. March 13.-Deputy Unit |
ed states Marshal Neeley and five Off !
GERS have arrested Ava and Joseph Sim |
mons near here ana confiscated 500 gal |
Ions Of Illicit whisky said 10 have been
one of the men had a saloon. They were /
taken 20 Junction City for examination. /
The men have lived in this county for |
several years.
FOR KILLING \ WOMAN.
Louisville. KY, March IA special |
from Frankfort, Ky, says that Cover /
nor Bradley has just announced that he |
will respite the sentence OF Wallng for |
four days. This. coupled with the an /
last night that Jackson |
must hang. means that the governor in
tends giving Jackson every chance 10
make a confession, clearing. IL he so de-
sires, his companion in crime. Jackson
will surely hang Saturday, and every
effort will be made TO get him 10 con-
fess before he meets his death. Jackson
holds the life of Walling IN
his hands.
Wilmington, Del. March 13.-Detec;ive
Witzel today arrested john GOrdy,
young farmer living near Georgetown.
on suspicion OF being the murderer OF the
unknown woman who was found dead |
near Milton. Feeling against Gordon
runs high. He was seen in company
with the woman last Monday and il is
thought she was his life.