The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-20
DUESTROW TO HANG
MILLIONAIRE MURDERER CAN'T
BUY OFF JACK KETOH.

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Hold-Up Bill in Congress Watching
for Butler, the Australian Demon =
Story of q Savage SaIler-Crims News
in General.
Jefferson City. Mo-. Jan. 19.-The SUI
preme court handed down this morning
a decision affirming the decree of the
lower court in the case of Arthur Due
| straw. known as the St. Louis million
aire murderer, who killed his wife and
child. Judge Hirzel. of the Franklin
county court, in which Duestrow was
convicted. viii re-sentence the prisoner
/ The decision sets the date OF execution
| for February Is next.
The court also affirmed the sentence %
Peter Srr1idt and Samuel Foster, who
| killed Bertram Atwatsr, Chicago art
| ist. at Webster Grove, a suburb or 81.
Louis, a year ago.
| AGAINST TRAINROBBING.
Washington, jan. 19.-Some interest
! ing facts concerning train-wrecking were
| presented to the judiciary committee OF
/ the house today by Representative Hub
/ bard OF Missouri, who has introduced
/ A bill to provide the death penalty for
! the crime Mr.. Hubbard showed that the
number of train hold-ups in six years
were 1S3, in which seventy-three per-
| sons were killed and fifty-eight wounded
! by shots The record for 1895 was TWEEN
| ty-three holi-ups. in which thirty-two
passengers and traiDmen were killed ana
many injured, four robbers killed and
| two injured, The bill is a very severe
one and fixes the death penalty or i'm
I ,Nri-A Cor ~ ho n
for all hoid-ups or attempts AT train
wrecking.
WATCHING FOR BUTLER.
San Francisco. Jan. 19.-The police H.
thorities of this city, with the detectives
from England. are anxiously awaiting
the arrival of the sailing vessel Swan
hilda, on which Butler, the multi-mur-
derer OF Australia, is supposed 10 have
escaped as sailor. Arrangements have
been made with the police oucdeperso
been made with the pilots so tina, red
lights will announce if the fugitive is
aboard the incoming ship. From this
time until the snip swings into port po-
iicemen VIII be on duty day and night
waiting and watching for the murder
charged sailor. who is believed to be
aboard the vessel Elaborate arrange
ments have been made to prevent any
possible escape on the part of Butler
The various tusboat owners have been
officially notified that the criminal is be-
leyed 10 be aboard the ship, and the
captains are requested 10 hold no COM
munication or passing messages between
the tow and the vessel, until first board
ed by the police.
HE BIT THE BOS'N
San Francisco, Jan. 19.-There is a
sailor AT large in this city who escaped
from an English vessel and. perhaps, the
hansman's rope, only because the mas
ter of the vessel. the Forfarshire, could
not wait for the converting of the court
at Cape Town. Powels is the mans
name, and he is charged by Captain
Evans with having bitten the boat
swain. Joseph March. so badly in a
rough-and-tumble fight aboard ship that
the latter died of his injuries. The sail
or remained aboard the Forfarshire IN
til she arrived in this port a short time
ago. He came ashore in the first boat,
leapng out al the Landing, and disap-
peared.
TANNER REVERSES ALTGELD.
Springfield. ILL.,, Jan. Ex-Governor AIT
geld hOnored the requisition Ct the gov
ernor OF Tennessee for the surrender of
J. s. Buchanan. who was supposed TO
be under arrest at Uhbana. and wanted
al Dayton. Rhea county, Tenn, for al
legged embeZZlernent Attorneys for Bu-
chanan appeared before Governor Tan
ner. went over the case with him, and
claimed that Buchanan was being per
secuted, not prosecuted. and asked that
the requStiOn isued by Governor All
geld be revoked, as Buchanan had never
been arrested. Governor Tanner ordered
the requisiton revoked and expunged
from the records.
PARDON DENIED.
Washington, Jan. 19.-The president
has denied the application for pardon in
the case OF Houston Whiting, sentenc-
ed in West Virginia in 1883 to eighteen
years Imprisonment for murder, on the
ground that the sentence was lenient
and the convict's conduct has hardly
been moderately good in prison.
CONSUL DIDN'T CARE.
San Francisco, Jan. 19.-Private advi-
ces have been received in this city from
Cali United States of Columbia. telling
OF the arrest on November %, last. Of
two young Anlericans-H. X. Spring
and c. ". Nelson-while enrouts to
their homes in Southern California. on
a charge of numbering J. c. Hubbard. |
also an American. From all accounts |
thus far received. there was little, If any |
grounds for suspicion against either os |
the accused. Spring and Nelson were in !
generated in a dungeon for twenty-five |
days. and were then released on bail. |
through the intercession OF George c. l
Hall, an American resident of California |
who heard OF the unfortunate PREDICT |
'nent Of his countrymen. During MS i'm |
prisonme1t young Spring was taken III !
with fever. and had he not been re- |
leased would probably have died In pris-
on. According to a letter written by |