The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-06

a hurried trip to the Columbus. O.. peniten-
tiary and took Carl Harvey with me.
can say. in this connection, that 1t was
learned Harvey had once known a certain
man in the Columbus prison and that this
the man we wanted to locate. / spent a
day at the prison going over the books Of
the institution. When / left [ had the COM
plete Bertillon measurements of one James
Burton. who is now in Jail. Burton had
left the Ohio penitentiary some time before.
l got photograph of him, and at once
sent out circular letters to most of the
1ails and prisons in the larger cities OF the
South. l had learned that Burtons home
was in Cincinnati, and naturally con-
Jectured he would be in that neighborhood.
For several weeks we heard of men in diff
ferent places that answered to the descr1p-
ton, but none Of them PANIED out. While
I was yet suffering from the results of a
telegram from the chief of police of Nash
vile. Tenn, asking me to come there IN
person, as he believed he had located Bur-
ton in the Nashville prison.
Just as soon as / got able to travel / put
off to Nashville, accompanied by the livery
man at Greenwood. Reaching Nashville,
we found our man was in the penitentiary,
serving six years sentence. We went TO
the prison and were shown James FenneS-
sey But he perfectly filled the Ber-
tillon measurements and l was reasonably
sure he was Burton. The Greenwood man
recognized him the instant he laid eyes on
him. He declared there was no mistake
that this of the trio that had
driven into his stable the night of Jan. p.
The Greenwood liveryman had already
now the chain Of evidence was complete.
| asked for a private talk with Burton, or
Hennessey, and he broke down and told
me everything. He gave every detail Of
the tragedy how he arrived in indianapolis
from Cincinnati that afternoon and ar
ranged for the robbery with Harvey and
Phillips, and how he killed Frank Red
mond while the latter was pursuing him.
He said the killing was an accident, that
he did not mean to kill the fireman, and
that he only fired to avoid capture. He de-
clared to me that he did not know he had
killed Redmond until he met Harvey and
Phillips at the Park Theater after it was
all over. From Redmond's story I learned
that he was the man who had his mus
tache shaved off in the Massachusetts
avenue barber shop that same night"
GETTING THE PARDON.
Chief Colbert gave the details of the two
trips to Nashville after Burton and of the
last successful one. He declares it does not
matter whether Burton sticks to his con-
fession or not. We've got the evidence
against these men complete and can con-
Wet them without this confession. In fact
I would rather Burton had not made it,
The glory of this thing belongs to no one
man, but to the department. Every man
in it did what he could towards the cap
ture of these men," Young Harvey thinks
the newspapers have not treated him fairly
in this case. He says he has been raised
in Indianapolis and there are many people
who know that he is not the bad man he
has been portrayed. He admits having been
in prison for one term, but denies that he
was ever in serious trouble before he was
sent to the Columbus penitentary Harvey
declines to say whether or not he knows
Burton and will not talk about the case
Phillips, before he was released on ball.
also refused to talk of it. Attorney Henry
Span will represent Harvey.
Burton still refuses to make a statement
to the newspapers. The description of him
sent out by the police early in the summer
was as follows: Now about thirty years
of age, five feet seven inches and a half
tall, light blue eyes, dark brown hair, sandy
complexion forehead high and square, eyes
straight and apart, ears large and close
nose medium and turned up, chin large and
round, medium built, cut scar top right
hand, India ink marks-red and blue
spread eagle, arrows and girls head sur
rounded by dots on inside left forearm
The police claim Burton was first sent to
prison in Ohio when nineteen years of age
He was again convicted of burglary in
Portsmouth o., being released from Column
bus, July 3, 1896. He was sent up the last
time with a man named Franklin.