The Forrest City times., 1898-08-19
AN ILLINOIS lRAGtDY.
A Prominent and Wealthy Citizsr of Macoupin County Wan
 tonly Murdered.
THE CAUSE WAS A MERE TRIVIAL ONE.
Ex-stste Senator Hampton w. Wall. of staunton. Shot and Instantly Killed by Otto Matties. a Farm Hsnd-The Trag- edy Arose Over Attempt to Im- pound a Trespassing Horse.

SIAUNToN, H., Aug. o.-lne man. gled remains of ex-State Senator Hamp- ton w. Wall lie in the parlor at the family home here. He was murdered in cold blood one mile southwest of town at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon by Otto Matties, farmland employed by August Schadlich.
 Matties is a fugitive from justice and a sheriff's posse, guided by pack of keen scented bloodhounds, is securing the country in search of him.
 Verdict of the Coroner's Jury.
 A coroner's jury returned verdict of murder, and held Matties and Mrs. Ernestina Schadlich as principals. The woman is locked up in the jail here
 The facts of the killing, as learned from the testimony of eye witnesses at the inquest, show the murder of Wall to have been q most atrocious crime. Just after dinner Senator Wall, accom- panied by Ben Vessel and Eben Scrog- gins, drove to his farm, where the men were to do some work.
 The Mare Was in the Clover.
 As they passed a meadow forming a part of n farm they saw an old mare and colt grazing in the senator's clover field. The Schadlich family, it is al- legged, had occasioned Senator Wall more or less trouble for more than a year, and he determined to send the mare and colt to the pound. He told Vessel to hold the horse while he and Scroggins captured the trespassers. The mare took fright, however, and ran across the field to an orchard near Schadlich's house.
 Seized the Horse.
 Wall and Scroggins followed and the former seized the animal by the mane. They were seen by Mrs. Schadlich and her 15-year-old daughter, Martha, who at once ran out and remonstrated with Wall. Mrs. Schadlich can not speak English, and Wall called upon Vessel to act as interpreter and inform her of his intention to impound the animals
 An Infuriated Woman.
 The woman became infuriated, and declared she would get gun and kill Wall. Suiting her action to her word, she entered the house and returned, a moment later, carrying an old muzzle- loading shotgun by the barrel. When she was within few feet of Senator Wall she pointed the weapon at him and endeavored to fire, but she didn't understand it's working, and failed.
 A Struggle For the Gun.
 At that Wall caught hold of the gun with one hand, still holding onto the horse with the other. Just then Mat ties came out of the house and ordered Wall and his men off the premises. Mrs Schadlich told them, through her daughter, that they could not take the animals off her property. Wall in- sisted, telling Matties, who took an az gressive part in the controversy, that he wanted to make a case against the Schadlichs, and If he was in the wrong they could have redress through the regular channels of law.
 The Fatal shot.
 Mrs. Schadlich jerlSed the gun out o1 Walls hand at this juncture and step. ped back as though to shoot him, but Matties grabbed it from her, and rais. ing 1t to his shoulder, took deliberate aim and fired
 The senator saw the action and stopped almost to the ground in an eff. fort to dodge the shot. but the whole charge of buckshot struck the victim in the right side of the head, blowing away one side of the skull, spatterine the old mare with blood and brains.
 The Murderer Took to the Brush.
 Matties examined the gun to see whether there was load in the other barrel, but finding It empty turned and leisurely walked toward the house ano later took to the brush
 Death was Instantaneous.
 Senator Walls death was instan. taneous. He pitched forward on his face when the heavy charge tore of the top of his head and lay perfectly still. Scroggins and Vessel carried the body to the buggy and started for town, and Mrs. Schadlch led the old mare, the innocent cause of the trag. edy, back to the barn, aud was subse. Quently arrested