The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-24
KNOWS WHO DID IT
BUT IT TAKES MONEY TO MAKE
LUTHER AKIN TALK.

Five Hundred Dollsrs offered For the Ar
| rest and Conviction Of the Murderer of
! j. N. Clayton of Arkansas ID Not suf-
hcient Inducsment-The Guilty Mar
Supposed to be . Convict In the Georgia
Pen-hrs. waikup Finds Old N-Iehbors
Thorn Trial Resumed-PresidentiaI
| Pardons-News OF Crime
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. Ex-Governor Jones
OF Arkansas wires the Journal today that
ne VIII give reward Of $500 for the ar
rest and conviction of the murder of j.
N. Clayton, who was assassinated in
/ Plummersville, Ark, in November, 1858.
Luther Akin. convict guard Of Pitts,
Georgia, tells the Journal that he know.
the murderer and has sufficient evidence
to convict aim, but that reward of $500
would be no inducement for him to dis
close the guilty party. If Akin's clue is
reliable the murderer OF Clayton is prob
| ably convict, who is now serving in
the Georgia penitentia.y.
! A KETCHAM COINCIDENCE.
| Chicago, Nov. pa curious phase OF
the Ketcham case developed today. Two
women interested in the outcome have,
unknown to each other. Been near neigh
bors in this city. They are Mrs. Ketcham
| and Mrs. Frank L. Titus, niece OF John
Walkup, ex-mayor OF Emporia, Kan,
who made Mrs. Ketc.lam, then 15-year.-
| old Mabel Wallace, his wife, and died
| Shortly afterward from arsenic poison
| ing. Mrs. Titus was quite young at the
| trial in Kansas, but remembers distinct
| ly the mysterious death of john Walkup,
the trial Of the child wife for murder and
the speedy and dramatic acquittal. By
strange coincident Mabel Wallace and
Mrs. Titus have been living within a
few blocks of each other in Chicago but
neither know Of the existence Of the otsl-
er and it was not until the sensa ton
| over the death Of John B. Ketcham again
drew public attention 10 Mabel Wallace
(Mrs. Ketcham) that Mrs Titus knew
that the dark-eyed woman VINO was ac-
Quilted fhaving caused the death Of
her uncle, had been her neighbor.
THORN TRIAL BEGINS AGAIN.
New York, Nov. 23.-In a little more
tnan an hour. three additional Jurors for
the trial of Martin Thorn, the alleged as
sassin of William Guldensuppe. We're Sc
cured in the criminal branch of the ST.
preme court Of Queens county. This
made ten Jurors chosen, those selected
today being Nicholas Blake. carpenter.
of Freeport; Charles Schrefber. real es
Z. Ellard. Oysterman, Great Neck. The
impanneling of a jury was completed
when the time arrived for noon reces.
the last two Jurors chosen being Valen
tine Walz, farmer. Lynnbrook, and
Elias Velsor, carpenter of Fort Wash
ington.
District Attorney Youngs opened the
case for the people in an address which
was for the most part repetition of his
speech to the jury when the trial began
two weeks ago.
John Mcguire, one Of the bows who
found the first bundle of Guldens1ppe's
remains in the East river, was called as
the first witness.
The testimony Of the several witnesses
examined this afternoon related solely
to the finding Of the different portions Of
the body. 1t was practically the same
as that gone over at the first trial and
nothing new was elected Several OF
Guldensuppe's fellow workmen at the
bath house described the, marks by
which they had identified the BODY as
that of the missing rubber, and at 4:5o
O'Clock the court adjourned until tomor-
row.
THE PRESIDENT PARDONS.
Washington, Nov. 23-The president
has granted pardons in the following
cases:
Stephen NJ. Folsom, New Mexico. con-
victed April Il. 1894. of making false en-
tries in the books of national bank and
sentenced 10 five years in New Mexico
penitentiary.
Justus j. Het.ch. Kentucky. indicted
for embezzling postal funds, pleaded
guilty and sentence suspended until De-
cember I. 1897. TO allow defendant TO ap-
peal for executive clemency.
j. F. Young, Arkansas, sentenced
April q, 1886. served for two years. citi-
zeIship restored.
John Timmons, Alaska, sentenced June
8, 1895, TO six years in the state prison
at San Quentin, California.
Frederick W. Griffin. Illinois. indicted
for embezzling fund. of a national bank
pleaded guilty and on May "a. 1895. SEN
tenced to five years in the Illinois peni-
tentiaTy.
AN EXPLORER ROBBED.
Marengo. Ind, Nov. 23.-Evelyn 3. |
Baldwin, the We'll known Arctic explor- |
er, has just returned here from an ex-
pioration OF Wyand0tte cave The |
thieves who during Mr.. Baldwin's alb |
se1ce robbed the leading no
tel here, stole from his baggage a part !
OF the American flag which ne carried /
on the Peary expedition to Greenland |
and also to Spitzbergen. besides secur-
ing dress suit, storm coat. sum O.,
money and other articles Of value. Sew
eral valires and overcosts were also tax
en- from other guests.