Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-23
Beveridge Was Made the Accomplish
of Burns, Helping Him to Drag Cor
coran to Place Where the Dead Body
Was Later Found-other Details of
the Crime.

Burns administered morphine to Cor
lcoran and robbed the unconscious man,
and confesses that he himself knew
ICorcoran had been drugged and rob-
bed, helped Burns carry the uncon-
scious man to the spot where his dead
body was found and that emfwypo
Burns negotiate the $3S.S5 check which
Burns took from Corcoran's pocket.
Beveridge was under arrest within
Ififteen minutes after the inquest over
ICorcoran's remains began at the po-
lice station, Sunday afternoon. Before
1.-THE third witness had testified Burns
was under arrest. Later in the day
John Ba These and his wife. who live
at 116 East Court avenue, Were under
arrest also. These four, only, have
been arrested in connection with the
case. Ba These and his wife are held
/ because Beyeridge intimates that they
had knowledge OF the dragging of
Corcoran.
The confession of Beveridge was
made to Detectives Hardin, Brothers
and Yeager. 1t was Detective Broth
fers and detective McNutt who arrested
/ Burns. The statement of Beveridge
was, in substance, as follows:
AT 6 p. M, Saturday night, I met
Burns near Second and Court avenue
1 in East Des Moines. We were standing
on the walk talking when Corcoran
came along. He came out of the saloon
lin that neighborhood Burns called
| to him, and we talked together while
4 Y, yal 10 M
/ East Court avenue, where John These
and his wife live.
1 1--WE went with him. We went into
] the middle room, which is bed room.
Burns got can of beer and we drank
it. Burns got a second can and we
drank it. Mrs. Ba These asked Burns
! to go get Ba These and he went after
him When they came Ba These told
/ me to go get can of beer, and
went.
.Trhen Burns went to McAfee's saloon
| for two hot WHISTLES. One was given
| to Ba These and the other to Corcoran.
Then Burns told me to go get hooks,
which did.
| when I got back Corcoran was on
| the bed. The Ba Theses We're gone.
Corcoran was unconscious.
CaShinq the Check.
BURNS got me to help him carry Cor
coran out into the back yard and we
laid him in few feet of where his dead
body was found the next morning.
This was about 1880 o'clock Saturday
night.
Burns and / then went to Kennedy's
saloon. Burns talked to Moore. the
bartender. Burns then left and came
back in few minutes. He had Corcor-
JAMS check for s3S.s5, drawn bp Presi-
dent Ellsworth of the Iowa Falls &
Northern railroad. Burns asked Moore
to cash the check. Moore refused 10
do it.
"rhen we went to the Exchange sal
DON on the west side. Burns gave me
the check and told me to represent
myself as Corcoran and get the check
cashed. offered the check and they
refused to cash it.
Then we went to another place near
by and arranged to get $40 on the
check / tried to sign Coreoran's name
and started to spell it wrong. When
the man saw I did not know how to
spell 1t he refused to cash it.
Then we went to Zickafoose's sal
Don and the bartender said he was
too busy to cash it. We tried at other
places. Then / gave 1t to a man named
Waller Of East Walnut street, whom
we met. Burns suggested that sign
Corcoran's name on the back SO Waltz
er could get 1t cashed. Walizer was
to get So commission.
1--WE then returned to 116 East Court
Iayenue and Burns put me to bed. was
drunk. He was not there when I woke
up in the morning. Ba These woke me
up and told me that Corcoran was dead
and that Burns had told him so.
During the time Burns was away
from Ba Theses house Saturday after
noon we remained in the ROOM Burns
was gone ten or fifteen minutes. When
he came back he had bottle of NOR
phiBe. He took the cork out with
table knife. In my presence he put
three or four chunks in the tea cup
out of which Cercoran was drinking
his beer.
Sunday forenoon I saw Burns. He
wanted me to leave town and I refused
to go. Burns remarked to me that he
must have put too much morphine in
Coreoran's beer.
II am commonly known as Whitley
now live. My father works in Logan
q Canield's coal mine.
i have known Slim Burns for four
weeks. We met in the room back of
the Big Dipper saloon. with Fingers
McVey. Two weeks ago / slept at his
house on Shaw street in southeast Des
Moines. / am skinner (mule driver)
for the Iowa Falls road. I went to
work first six weeks ago. worked
off and on. worked till got enough
money to get my overcoat from Jahn-
sons saloon, where / had borrowed So
on it.
Il met Corcoran Saturday at 1915
lat Klondyke junction. He was with
Sweeney and others. They left the car
at East Sixth and Locust streets.
Shorty, Yelton Of Ames, another man
with red hair, and / came over and
cashed our checks at the Iowa National
bank Mine was for So. The three of us
started to go back to the East Side and
stopped at saloons. / left them and
again saw Yelton at East Fourth and
Court during the afternoon.
Between 4 and o'clock we went
to house of prostitution at 116 East