The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
COESOVER THE SCENE
CONVICT BANEY MAKES A STRONG
CASE FOR REV. MR. HINsHAW.
Readily Points Out Places of Various
Occurrences on the Tragic
Night ut BeIIeviue.
THEY TALLY WITH EVIDENCE
HE WAS PRESENT WHEN THURZA
HINSHAW WAS MURDERED.
shows Where Razor and Purse Were
ThrOwn-Just Such a MOONLIGHT
Night at Time of Murder.

Convict Noah Baney last night cIinched
additional evidence showing, as the convict
ed minister's attorneys believe, that WILL
lam E. Hinshaw did not murder his wife
1t was the crucial test, amid strange sur
roundings and under peculiar circum-
| stances.
| AT 10 o'clock last night the convict was
taken into Belleville the scene of the muir
der of three years ago, and again went over
the ground and through the rooms he claims
he was in that fateful January night The
full moon shone upon dozen men, who
watched the actions of the man with
breathless interest. 1t was demonstrated
wherein it represented that Baney was not
there himself; that he had heard the story
from Van Tassel and Whitney If Baneys
account is true he was present at the
murder.
Late yesterday afternoon a carriage left
Indianapolis, west-bound. On the front
seat were Noah Baney and James O. Parker
On the rear seat was a guard from the
prison and a physician Baney was driving
| it being the object to have him drive over
the route taken in January, 1885, Very
| few words We're spoken in the twenty-mile
drive. AS the party drove into Belleville
Baney said: Il don't know wht ther l can
| tell the place. The leaves were not on the
| trees then"
POINTS OUT THE HOUSE.
Suddenly the Hinshaw cottage came in
| sight and he said
There is the place." striking the horses
| with a whip into a run.
| Mr.. Parker pulled on the rens and they
drove through the town west to a place
! where Baney says they turned around the
night of the murder. They then drove to
| DR.. Strongs Office, where a consultation
was held Soon it was announced that the
| great test had come. Baney was to go to
! the Hinshaw house and through it. The
carriage moved to the National road and
east on 1t. In front of the Hinshaw house
Baney said that here Van Tassel and Whit
ney left the buggy. He then drove down a
! lane south from the National ro5d on the
east of the Hinshaw house, as he said he
did the night of the murder He drove to
| the fence the east side of the lane,
where he said he hitched the horse that
night. There the team was left and Baney
stepped to the ground. He, the guard and
Mr.. Parker went to the house, entering the
yard by the east gate. Baney said that was
| how he entered. He passed through the
shed where Thurza Hinshaw's body was
| found and into the kitchen. Here he said
he found Van Tassel and Whitney the night
| of the murder.
TABLE STOOD THERE
| "a table stood in that said he
| and it did Here was a cupboard, and
| from 1t Whitney and Van Tassel handed
me revolver and razor 1 knocked a chair
| over here and sat under the table out of the
way"
| Baney led the way into the next room.
| "a bed stood there, but there is none there
now," said he. Baney then passed into the
east front room. A bed stood in a corner
| and he said there was none there the night
| of the murder. He was asked what was
| there, and he said he did not know, but
| there was no bed. Baney was right. He
| then passed into the room where Hinshaw
| and his wife were sleeping.
This is the ROOM" said he.
Two beds are now in the room, and he
said when he was there before there was
| only one, and ! either bed was located like
| the one was the night of the affray.
| bed into the position of Hinshaw's bed,
and Baney then lay in it as Hlnshaw lay.
He arranged chair where one stood,
| holding Hinshaw's clothing. He then de-
scribed the awakening of Hinshaw and wife
and the commencement of the fight Baney
| said he took the trousers and carried them
| out of the house. He went out and showed
| where he placed them, which was the
| identical spot where they were found.
! Baney returned to the house and passed
| within. He said when he returned the
| fight on.
| He then retraced his steps the night of
| the murder. He went out the west door
| of the shed and around the house.
| When he reached the east door
again he said that Hinshaw and
| Whitney were fighting in the street. Van
| Tassal stood in the yard, and just then
| Mrs. HinshaW came out the door, Van Tas-
sci fired at her from distance of ten feet
and she fell where she was afterwards
| found Van Tassel then went to Whitneys
| assistance, and Baney threw away the re-
volver, which he had been carrying all the
time. He did not know how hard he threw
it or where it fell. 1t is fact, however,
that it could easily have fallen where it
was found from where Baney stood
WHERE RAZOR WAS THROWN.
Baney then went toward the buggy. On
the way he showed where he had thrown
the pocketbook and razor. These places
! were nearly exactly correct. Baney also
mentioned the fact that a buggy stood in
| front of the barn that night This was
fact but it had almost passed out of the
memory of the people present. He said
| that while he going south Whitney
and Van Tassel were fighting Hinshaw,
and left him for dead All three got into
| the buggy again and drove rapidly away
reaching indianapolis next day.
| Baney thus acted over, as far as possible,
| the events of that winter night, in which
! he admits he was a factor. He moved ac-
| lively over the ground and never hesitated
in locating places and events. The night
air vsiby affected him. and he shivered
now and then as he pointed out where he
| had thrown the trousers and where Van
| Tassel stood. He looked at the moon and
remarked: The night was about as light
as tonight"
The story made marked impression on
! all who were present but Baney seemed
! Indifferent as he pulled his crush hat over
his ears Ills story agrees with the story
! OF Lewis Asher, who says that on the night