The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-08
This Is the Theory of the State rs
Outlined I'm the Opening State
ment Made at DanviIIe.
$4,000 FIRE AT GREENFIELD
LUMBER AND ICE COMPANY's MILL
Is DESTROYED.
Two Suicides by POison-Men Thrown
Over a High Embankment-
Fire mt Gr~eensburg.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DANVILLE, Ind, Feb. THE trial Of
the alleged murderers of Wilson Haynes.
ut CoStesville in November, began this
morning with a sparring match between
tie lawyers as to the rights OF the sew
eral defendants and the State in the mat
ter Of a trial. Charles Hampton and ODE
Hampton are represented by Otis E. Gull
ley. Frank Stewart and Fred Cassidy are
represented by John w. Mccormick. The
frm Of Brill & Harvey is assisting Everett
Cooper, prosecuting attorney. The ques-
tlon had been whether the defendants
would be tried together or separately. Mr..
Gulley, for his clients, asked that they be
tried together. Mr.. Mccormick asked that
his clients be tried separately. The man
ner OF procedure was argued for almost
two hours, and the court allowed separate
trials and gave the State the right to Sc
lect the one to be tried first. The State
chose to try Charles Hampton first. The
work OF impaneling a jury began at once.
At 2:30 the jury was accepted and was
sworn, as follows: David Higgins, Allen
Weddle. Frank Vestal. Perry Hunt. Allen
Simmons. Jesse StoSt. Oliver Amick, Will
liam Carter, NJ. f. McClung, Charles z.
Thompson. James w. Hughes and James
Adams. Eleven of the jurymen are farm
ers and one is a blacksmith.
The statement for the State was made
by George w. Brill. He recited the facts
OF the murder and said the evidence would
be largely circumstantial. Mr.. Brill dis
closed the main evidence OF the prosecution
In that Charles Hampton always insisted
that he had left the store about s o'clock
the night of the murder, and did not re-
turn that night. Hampton held to this
story on two occasions when he was before
the grand jury, but on his third examina-
ton he confessed that he was at the store
after he had left il about 8 o'clock. Mr..
Brill said the State would produce a man
who had been drinking some that evening
who stopped in a coal shed early in the
evening and went to sleep there and slept
until IL O'Clock, when he went to O'Brien's
drug store and tried to enter. The doors
were locked, but, looking through the glass
doors. he saw by the dim light of a lamp
some men sitting around the stove. The
man then went to the rear of the drug
store and saw Wilson Haynes coming from
the. lumber shed. where HIS horse was
hitched and where his body afterward was
found. Charles Hampton, the defendant,
who. clerked In this drug store. was seen
TO open the rear door and admit Haynes.
This man then heard voices in the drug
store, and recognized the voices Of Charles
Hampton and Wilson Haynes In a short
time the man heard sounds of a struggle,
and then the sound OF something falling
heavily to the floor. The man who heard
this then left, fearing trouble. Shortly
afterward another man, who lived close TO
the store, heard groans. The theory Of the
State Is that the murder was committed
In the drug store. and that the body was
carried 10 the shed, where IL was found
morning.
The first witness called was Matt Masten.
with whom Haynes had dealings that day.
Masten discovered the body and described
the circumstances. He was on the stand
when court adjourned for the day.