The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-30

over the plan TO rob New. We did nofsin-
tend to kill him. Mrs. Moore told US she
| though New kept his money in a writing
desk in his house. That afternoon we went
to near r-aw's house and watched, and
while New and his wife and Dobbs were
! out to the crib Allgood sneaked into the
house and hunted for the money but could
! not find It.
''That evening we three went to Jesse
Doves house and got supper and played a
| game of cards with a woman named Hill.
At clock we went down to News and
| hitched our three horses to a tree that was
Topped over and lodged in another tree.
| We went up around the house and scared
! the ducks and they squawked. We
watched through the window and saw
Mrs New undress and Mr.. New sat down
| on the edge of the bed and took one shoe
off. We knew he had the money in his
vest pocket.
1--WE were afraid he would undress be-.
fore we could get him out, so we threw
| gravel against the window and made
noise and New lighted his lantern and
| came out. When he got forty feet from
1 the house Allgood fired both barrels of his
| shotgun into him. New fell and the Ian
! tern fared up with blue light and went
out Allgood turned him over on his face
/ and took s467 out of his pocket, which we
! afterward divided.
! Turner and l did not want to kill him.
! The plan was to get him out and rob him
! in the stable Turner ran up 10 AIgood
and said: What the devil did you kill
him for?'
.'AIlgood said: Dead men never talk
Mrs New came running out in her night
gown screaming and we three ran through
the orchard to our horses. Turner ran into
a peach tree and broke limb off and hurt
himself. We got our horses and rode to
Wichita, getting there at o'clock the next
morning
Ballard told where they stopped in Wich-
! tia, about dividing the money there and
about Allgood not washing the blood off
| his hands till the next morning. He told
| how Allgood borrowed his cigarette papers
and made a cigarette with his bloody
| fingers. Ballard says he saved this cigar
| cite package with the bloody finger marks
on it and told where the officers would
find IL
Two eeks ago it was decided by Warden
lands and Fleeman, after consultation
with different sheriffs, that Fleeman
should resign his place as guard at the
| penitentiary and come to Wichita to see if
| Billiards. story could be corroborated. He
and Sheriff Simmons worked together dur
ing the two weeks, travelling by rail and
driving across country. Here is what they
| found about the New murder:
| +H,o
| New home and surroundings is absolutely
correct. The limb he described broken on
the peach tree was found, as was the
| lodged tree where they hitched their
horses. A board he described as missing
| from the south side Of the New chicken
house was found as he told Of it.
Many persons in Eureka and around
| there will testify that Frank Allgood, Tur-
ner and Ballard, who were known there,
were around the New home and in and
out of Eureka and were at the Dove home
for several days before the murder They
| drove a rig exactly as described by Bal
| lard.
The little nteccs Of Mrs New have made
| affidavits describing how they saw New
| fall and told of the lantern faring up with
| a blue flame. Several farmers near the
| New home identified the picture of ALL
good as man who was Ioafng around
| there before the murder.
| The two women in Wichita at whose
place AIlgood, Turner and Ballard stopped
the morning after the murder, have made
aftidavits, which the sheriff has, that the
three men divided more than $500 between
| them there. They swore that Allgood
washed the blood from his hands there and
said laughingly, as he showed his money:
vt took blood to get that money"
The names of these women are withheld
| by the sheriff He also withholds the name
| Of a physician who saw Allgood at the
nome of the two women that morning. The
I sheriff has the blood-stained cigarette
! papers which A1lgood used. Mrs. Ballard
viii testify that Allgood told her last July
that he killed New and William Coulter
and that he was then watching an old man
near Quincy in Greenwood county, whom
he expected he would have to kill before
he could get mis- money.
After getting all of these corroborating
circumstances. Fleeman and Sheriff Sim
mons began hunt for Allgood. They
! found him Sunday afternoon in Jail at lola
under a charge of forgery. They will make
the formal charge of murder against him.
"BilP' Turner could not be found. Tur
ner's sister Is Mrs. B. L. Matthes. who
! lives on a farm twenty miles north of
! Hutchinson. Fleeman and Sheriff Sim
mons drove there yesterday through a Bit