The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-15

| many IldHhS 1OI your AGIp, remain,
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ner and Allgood left for Greenwood county
They said they were going hunting. I wa.
! there the Monday morning they came
| back I went there to get round yokt
! dress pattern from Mrs. Ballard. I saw
! Augood washing his hands in the hall anC
I saw blood on his wrist bands. I asked
him what it was and he said:
al just killed a chicken. Come over
! and take dinner with US
Sheriff Simmons said yesterday that
when the party consisting Of himself,
! F'leeman, Judge Griffith and a reporter
! left Eureka for the New farm, they tried
| TO middle Ballard, but he was too well
acquainted with the country and scene of
the crime. The following account of the
trip. the sheriff says, is substantially cor
rect:
The start for the New farm was made
yesterday morning at o'clock. Ballard,
with his feet shackled together, was in a
two-seated carriage. Ballard had little to
say during the long drive across the roll
ing grazing lands southeast of Eureka. He
smoked a corn-cob pipe and looked
around. After four hours of driving the
teams came to the summit of hill that
swept around in the form of a semi-circle
In front and below lay a valley ten miles
broad and with an unobstructed view
twenty miles to each side. 1t was great,
broad stretch of brown stubbe dotted
with clumps of trees and farm houses,
;r,+
lines. This magnificent view came sud
denly as the horses mounted the crest of
the hill. Ballard, who was on the rear
seat, said excitedly:
Hold on"
The horses stopped and Ballard looked
up and down the valley spread out before
We are showing more variety of styles
him.
That's the place." he said. News
place is down there somewhere, but I can't
pick it out from here. It's over along that
creek away across tee. I know this
country down there. Drive straight ahead
to that creek and I'll get my bearings"
No one else said word. The horses
logged along. No one spoke. Ballard pull
ed away at his corncoh pipe AFTER drive
of a mile across the re-r1 country a small
yellow house at a cross roads came in
sight from behind a clump of stunted
trees.
That's Dobbs' house right there" said
Ballard
Ballard drove on and turned in through
News gate and drove up to the New
house.
The New house is a small one-story
stone and frame house with an L. About
eighty feet east of it is the hen house.
The road that goes up to the New house
passes between the house and the hen
house, curves around and goes on TO the
barn nearly 100 yards away. Ballard stop
ped the team about half way between the
house and hen house and said, pointing to
a spot in the dirt beside the buggy wheels:
That's where Joe New fell when he WITS
shot"
Ballard was helped out Of the buggy.
the shackles were taken off his ankles and
a pair of handouts out on his wrists Then
he told the story of the murder, leading
the party around as he talked. He was
little excited and impatient TO tell it in
al its details, not allowing one Of the
party to say word
Let me tell it all first and then If
you've got any questions 10 ask all right" /
he said.
ITO begin with, me and AUgood and |
Turner had been knocking around this |
country pretty much all summer. running
horses and cattle off and trading around. |
We Travelled some of the time on horse |
back and sometimes in a buggy. We used /
TO steal a bussy whenever we wanted one.
e were put on that Dobbs had sod a ,ot 4
@. stock. and thar he was a stingv Dutch
man and carried has money with him. and
1l'a' Mrs. New had $40 in a desk in the /
mousse j don't want to tell all about how
We got on TO this now. but I viii tell If
II ever 1 am put on the witness stand. /
mere were some people in it that 1 don't |
want TO teHabout now. But Jesse Dove /
was IN on II and knew we intended tn rob
New. We watched New of and on for -ar
DAYS. / watched him one day in Eureka
"heh he bought a load of lumber and maid
LOT H. one day Allgood and ne drove
paSl the place here and saw New and
b'oos building that corn crib there The
ln'aole Of the week before the killing mo
and Allgood and Turner left my .ro,,bsr.s
-''1Se III Wichita and told the folks we
"s'e coming 10 Greenwood county In bur-
10 Was exactly 9:l2 when the murder Wa
1''.e- We drove sixty-four miles and ao-
GO NitAita AT 8 o'clock the mex ro~ni,s-
ana Aiigood found out then THAI his ban6.
were o-oo1y and he washed them a- M.
il up" -''' '''eu