The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-12
JORDAN WANTED.
Notorious Negro May Be One Of
Mcfarland Murderers.
Police and Detectives Are Look
ing For Him.
DROPPED FROM SIGHT
Officers Completely BafHed in
Their Pursuit.
Star Collins Witness Has An
other Chapter to His Career.

Johnson Jordan and ''BTl'' Collins are
wanted in the Mcfarland murder case
and officers are on their track.
Johnson Jordan is the colored man
who was such an important witness in
the Collins trial and Bill Collins is well
known to the police in Topeka James
Render, alias Denver KID and Dick
Williams, alias ''Trilby,'' who are both
held for the double murder at McFar-
land. have told different stories Rem
der connects Bill Collins with the crime
and Williams says that johnson Jor-
dan knows more about it than he wish
IS to tell.
Johnson Jordan has not been seen in
Topeka since the news of the murder
was printed He was here during the
races, June 20 to "a and visited his
familiar haunts- Mcfarland, the scene
OF the murder, and Alma four miles
from there, are familiar places to him
as he has relatives living at the latter
place and has visited there often
When Williams was resuscitated by
the physicians after the attempted
lynching at Alma on Sunday, the Off
GERS told him that he would be 1ynched
before night and he confessed and be
sides practically admitting his own con-
nection with the crime he implicated
James Render, Bill Collins and Johnson
Jordan. Render had implicated Jordan
before that time.
Pueblo and Bill Collins is thought to be
in Denver. Ex-Sheriff John NJ WiIker-
son and Special Officer FaSsIer of the
Rock Island are looking for the two
men The officers were told that they
were in Kansas City and another officer
was sent there to look for them.
All four of the cOIOred men suspected
Of the murder are well known to the
police of Topeka and Denver and places
4 between During the Collins trial John
son Jordan testified that John Collins
gave him his gold watch to kill his
father. A colored woman, who also
holds a police record, pawned the watch
Since then both the woman and Jordan
left Topeka At one time they were
arrested in Newton and the last heard
of the woman, Edith BivenS, she and
Jordan were run out of Hutchinson by
the police and shortly afterward the
BivenS woman was severely injured in
a fight at Wichita
THE Big Four Hundred club run by
Crook Wright figured prominently in
that all four of the colored men inpli-
Gated in the Mcfarland murder were
| there a few days before the murder
| William McCarty, the white man who
| had the watch which belonged to Harry
Iandy, one Of the murdered men. OBJ
! tanned possession of the watch in the
! resort the day after the murder.
Render claims that he had no hand
in the murder and knew nothing about
it until Williams offered him the watch
and said he 'siIenced" a man at Nc
! Farland to get it. The Wabaunsee
county officers do not fear further mob
! violence at Alma because the citizens
| there have been given to understand
| that others besides the two negroes in
/ custody are wanted to answer to the
| charge and that without the testimony
of the two prisoners the case cannot be
| worked up