Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-06-09

held at the court house I 'nesday morn
Ing, The state only byouA NJ IN wv
witnesses, Gap, Lehman, who Swore u
thought no saw Burrell In tben " una
night OF the murder but was not cor
tain. Tom Jones' colored hoy, swo.e
no saw him and talked 10 him,
In rebuttal, defense brought seVep be-
sides the defendant, himself, A livery
man vt Klngmar SAID he saw Burreh
early In the morning md fixed the date.
The sheriff SAW hun hyte NJ night and
early In the morning and heard OF him
earlier. Chas, Ross barber, saw him
about nine O'Clock the night Of murder,
Figured up date after his arrest.
Thought he WAS right.
The landlady of the Park hotel where
BurreDl roomed, the city marshal, a coll
ored hoy porter at the hotel, Nd Kelly
In hardware store, and David Possible
walt, sou OF Mrs, Poathlewait, who 10
with BUrrell running q restaurant In
Klngman, all corroborated this evil
dence and axed the date by some fact
or incident. Justice Campbell there
fore held the alibl TO be sustained and
Burrell was turned loose.
Some Of the lot arrested have broken
down and told the story Of the murder.
Just what II 10 the officials will not tell
further than to say that they have Just
all the evidence they want The story
however has leaked out and Is proba'
bly, somewhere near the truth, The
story as generally believed Is that the
next day or two after Mrs. pOsthle-
watts confession which nobody be-
lieved, the boys made one quietly which
IL about as follows: Clark hs we'll as
Harry, was angry at BOYD, probably
the result Of Jealousy over the woman
on Clark's part. and counciled Harry
to kill him He furnished Harry with
piece Of lead pipe about fourteen or
sixteen inches long wrapped with rope
ut one end TO prevent the hand from
slipping of, and with large burr or
something of that description screwed
on the other end Boyd and Harry had
Quarreled during the evening and just
after Harry had locked up and turned
down the lights Boyd went to the front
door TO get out. AS he stood ut the
door reaching for the latch Harry came
up behind him and hit him In the back
Of the head with the lead pipe, the burr
on the end smashing In the skull at the
back. He fell, but afterwards strug-
gled and gasped and then the other
blows were struck after he was down.
Harry dragged him to the back room
where he gave slight groan and then
he was finished. 1t was at this time
that Clyde, the little boy was sent after
Clark, who came and helped carry him
out.
There are great many people who
have been somewhat surprised at Il, &,
Clark'S completely In the affair. They
would not have been surprised at his
coming in after the deed was done and
attempting to shield the guilty ones
and act as their council even In such a
way as to make him accessory but 1t
was hardly thought he would become
principal In such gross and terrible
murder. He is known as an erratic,
half daft character, at war with the
world on general principles, but was
usually considered harmless. However
the planning Of the crime and attempt
at concealment was lust about we'll
enough done to have been his work.
They we're all brought up before Esq.
Campbell to fix date for preliminary
Friday and while there, 1t is said I lark
leaned over to Mrs. Posthlewait and
said: ~ want you to understand that
the truth In this 10 going to come out,
Everything has got to be told. The
crime must rect upon the guilty, and
not upon the Innocent"
Mrs Posthlewait seems to want to
keep away from Clark. tits peculiar
case. 1t is seldom anyone can be found
willing to accept the guilt of murder
but here are two, mother and son,
pleading guilty aud each telling the
full story claiming the other is inno-
cent. 1t really seems quite likely in
truth that Mrs. Posthlewait snew
nothing about the murder until told of
1t by her boys or Clark.
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