Arizona republican., 1900-10-05

cannot tell how long l was in the car nor where I got off and have but lit tie recollection of occurrences. I know that when I got ready to go to work Mir. Lane was standing his back to me. l fired on him and he started to run to the door. He did not make a sound ul- til he got to the door, When he got there he cried out. l shot him several times. emptying my gun.
 ''I took the money and goods from the safe and then shot Lane again with his own revolver. I do not know how many times l shot him with his own revol- Yer. I left the car at the next stop. l did not know the name of the town and man told me where to find a h1IeI. 1 went to a room and rxed the envel- opes and other evidence of the robbery and made them up in a package to get rid of them and shipped them to Lock- port, N. Y, in the name of C. w. Cay Tor. by way of Cleveland"
 The deed was attempted and con- summated by Terrell alone. He took no one into his confidence believing that one man could do it better than two, and knowing that by having no accom- plice he reduced the chances of detec- tion to a minimum. Every detail of the plot had been decided upon when at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. August 10, he took the Panhandle train, No. B from this city to Urbana. There he waited for train No. 8, on which was Lane, the express messenger. and which he knew usually carried a con- siderable sum of money. He boarded the eastbound train at Urbana and i'm mediately went into the express car He had been not only acquainted but friendly with Lane, who made no ob- jections whatever to his riding in the car, thus saving him the expense of the fare back home. The job. he knew could be done in a very few minutes It was all planned and the robber did not hesitate a second to carry it into execution as soon as opportunity off 70 cred.
 The murderer was calm and cold blooded almost beyond conception, for he gossiped with his friend and even helped him in little matters about fin ishing up the work.
 Lane was absolutely without suspi- cion, and at point which is probably just east of the first stop this side or Urbana. Terrell opened fire. In one of
 
 with the utmost sang froid, he said that Lane was sitting down with his back toward the robber when the shoot ing began.
 The first three shots struck him in the back and he lurched forward and fell to the floor. To make assurance dou- ply sure, he picked up Lanes pistol, which lay near at hand, and emptied two chambers of It into the prostrate form.
 Terrell then took the messengers keys from his pocket and opened the safe and extracted the packages which his experience told him contained valu- ables. His knowledge there went to- ward his undoing, for it told the ex- press officers later that a man who understood the express business had committed the crime. I was Ferrells $ intention to come to Columbus, drop off the train at one of the two stops in the edge of the city, and thus avoid the danger of being seen on the train or in the act of leaving it. But the one little defect of plan which is almost in variably found in a deliberate crime happened in this case.
 Just as the train was pulling up to the Plain City railroad station the rear door of the express car was jarred open by some lurch of the train. The mur- derer fancied that some one was open ing the door, and that he was about to be discovered. Hastily snatching the valise which contained the booty. he jumped from the slowly moving train to the dark side of the track He was not sure as to where he was. but he walked calmly and boldly up to the hotel at the station. l. was the Smiley house and he knew then exactly where he was. He knew also that no one had seen him jump from the train. Terrell took room without registering, that being an easy matter in a country tav- ern. In the morning he arose. not hay ing slept well, ate a hearty breakfast, and sent an express package to the address of c. w. Caylor Lockport, N. Y.
 This package was stopped at Colum- bus and examined. It contained the wrappings of the express packages which had been stolen. Terrell came back to Columbus on the Saturday morning train, arriving her at 2 o'clock. He had the money on his per- son and he proceeded promptly to pay  up some small debts and to prepare himself for his wedding. He rC0med in the house of J. M. Mulford, an ex- press messenger, who lives not far from the home of Messenger Lane. He gave Mrs. Mulford $7.5O room rent, and paid $40 for board and $2.S0 for laundry. He paid bill of s for medicine which he had used. bought the ready made suit which he wore when arrested. paid $42 on a wedding suit, which was to be made to measure, and purchased $69.29 worth of household goods, which he sent out to his sweetheart's home.
 Most of the time after his return from the scene of his crime was spent with Miss CostlOw, with whom he left the bulk of the money that he had stolen. He explained to her thar the had been saving money for years, and thought it best to leave it in her charge.
 The Columbus detectives, when they reached Plain City on d special train sent out Friday night after Lanes dead body was found in the car in the Union depot, here learned of the OVpr-Dipht