The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-11
CHAS. BARRETT
ARRESTED FOR
GRAVE CRIME
Evidence Points TO Him as
John Henna88y'S Murderer
MONEY WAS The OBJECT
But a Good Deal Was Left
Concealed in Pockets.
MONEY WAS The OBJECT


Guthrie. o. T, Dec. 1o.-1Iore complete
details Of the murder Of John Hennessy
have been received here They are as
follows
As John Hennessy, an aged laboreF on
the Choctaw section at Calvin, was sit
ting on a log about 80 yards nofth OIL
the section house, Sunday afternoon
peacefully smoking his pipe, he was si'oe
in the head by some niscreant bent on
robbiug the lonely old man Of his hoard
ed savings. The body was not found uh-
I'll Monday morning and the pipe was
clu.ched in the old mans hand The oul-
let had entered Jhe head just above inc
left ear and had passed on through. Iol-
lowing horizontal course The discoF-
cry OF The body was made by Clark PTi-
man and another section man VINO were
on their way to work. They found 1haI
The old mans leather belt had been
un5ucked and his trousers opened III
front The robber had then seized and
cut of the trousers pocket. taking away
The pocket and the conten-s
The old man wore three pairs of trou-
sers. two coats and two shirts. The rob
Der and murderer had evidently not tar
ried long enough to discover this fact
Tor in one pocket Of the second pair OF
trousers was found a snuff box in which
there was a crumpled ron of $40 IN
greenbacks ia another pocket was an
other snuff box with the cover complete
Is rusted over. IL looked Ike a thing oI
absolutely no value. But when the rust
cd lid was pried off and an inner sack
had been emptiod it was found TO contain
& 81 gold piece and 1--WE odd looking
punches Of beeswax or putty Each was
about the size of an average mans
thumb. and there were marks of closely
drawn threads about them. one OF these
was cut-open by Deputy Marshal T. II.
Hhaley and it was found TO contaiq
two $50 bills, several years old and badly
crumDled; in fact so mutilated that they
would bee worthless unless redeemed by
tEe United States treasury. il is sus-
peeted with reason that the other w2ds
OF wax also contain money
Charles Barrett. youns man about .
gears OLD. who formerly worked on the
section with Hennessy. but who was re-
Gently discharged because serious
ohare, agains5 his honesty had been
made. was arrested by ar Whaley about
-four hours after the discovery of the
murder There were several things thai
pointed 90 his suit one was the fact
that he had 1T 4.l5 Sunday afternoon re-
turned 81 aIr. Woods. the Calvin mer-
chant rise that he he'd borrowed about
q week before The rifle fired 32-cali-
hef bah. III bore traces OF having been
recently fred. Tho bullet hole in Hem
nessys head was made bs a ban o. that
caliber a utcalIar track was found
near THE dead man. One heel was wide
and the otner narrow, and slightly in
clined ut one side. It was found that
baretts boots Etted the tracks exactly.
Evidently one of The heels of the boots
had been broken OFT and the shoemaker
VINO repaired it had failed to match the
good heel
Ii was also discovered that Barrett has
been very nervous since the commission
of the crime. has failed 10 spend any time
talking with the boys. as has been his
wont and he mad talked to a man of
buying some cattle. a matter which oc-
casioned surprise.
Crockett Lee went out 10 Calvin and
went over the circumstances incrimin-
ating Barrett and ne and Whaley
brought The suspected to town here Judge |
Wright setting his preliminary for this
afternoon.
Nothing is known Of Hennessy prior to |
his coming to Calvin TO work on the see
tion When asked his age he would |
al ways say with smile that ne was |
about a. but his appearance indicated |
that he was over GO. He began work at 1
Calvin last July. lie said that he was a
swede, but he never made any allusiou 1
L. his past lilc. lie was misery in his +
habits spending no more money than |
was absolutely necessary. His associates /
as a rule never suspected that he had
any great amount Of money about him.
il was his custom TO go off by himself /