The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-11-13
BIG BILL DAILY
FOUND GUILTY
CLEVELAND JURY RENDERS
A VERDICT.
Sentence to be Passed
Wednesday.
ANXIOUS ON THE ALLEY
ANXIOUS ON THE ALLEY

Confliting Stories Told by Court Streetc
Men, Who Knew Prisoner During His
Brief Residence Periods in Canton--
Prosecuting Testimony Greatly Out
verified That of the Defense.
Cleveland, O., Nov. 1O-"Altoona
BILL" otherwise Bill Daily, also known
as the King Of the crooks" was found
guilty today in the federal court as
charged.
Daily, with two companions, robbed
the Garrettsville postoffice and in the
fight which followed between the rob-
bers and the pursuing officers one Of
the fugitives was killed. The police
and federal officers established the iden-
tity of the prisoner after considerable
trouble. 1t was found that he was
known in most Of the large cities and
his record as a criminal was long
one.
Daily received the verdict with per-
feet stoicism. Sentence will be passed
by Judge Ewing.
Six Cantonians were called as witt
nesses In the case Horace, better
known as Alec Hurford, Thomas Ho-
gan, George H. Sheaffer and Thomas
Burk all went ON the stand in big
Bills behalf. Captain of Police r. F.
Patterson and Offlcer Thomas Brisbin
were there too, but not for Daley.
They were not called however. The
state considered that 1t did not ned
their testimony. -
1t was 5:46 when the jury retired to
it's room after instructions from Judge
Wing All day the case had been going
on. Witness after witness from the lit
tie village testified that they had seen
Daley In their town the night Of March
81, with kid" McMillen, who was
shot in the chase that followed the rob-
berry and Bradley, who is now serving
years in the o. p. for being mixed up
in the Job. isi'
Hurford said that he was a gambler
and ran room In the alley. He said
that Daley was here 10 days before
the robbery occurred On the 26th
Hurford's wife went away and he and
big BILL" he said, proceeded to get
gloriously drunk. They remained In
that condition for several days, during
the time the postofiice affair took place.
/ Burk says he saw big Bill' here
about the 9th. He couldn't swear that
Daley was here on the 2Sth. He might
have slipped sway for day or two.
Hogan and Sheaffer saw the accused
here about the same time that Burlt
did. They weren't any more positive
about the exact time than he. h.
Prosecution had rs or 80 witnesses.
The village blacksmith identified Dahl
ey as the man who came to his shop
on the night Of the robbery and ask
ed how soon the smithy could shoe a
horse.
"How will l get him into the shop?"
asked bill BILL"
The blacksmith told him to bring the
ANIMAL in the side door.
well the horse Is down the street
and II get time I'll bring him In to
get shod," said the stranger as he walk
ed away. That night the smithy was
entered via the side door and several
tools taken.
Marshal Ritter, OF Garrettsville, said
that he had seen Daley In company
with two other men In the town ON the
night of the 9th. They covered him
with revolver, bound his hands, gag
sed i'm and then escorted him to the
postoflce. Marching him upstairs they
made the frightened marshal call out
an old man named Kushman who livs
cd In the building and they then pro-
ceeded to treat the latter as they had
Ritter. The robbers then left the two
securely tied In the upstairs rom.
A. r. Gates, q grocer In the village.
testified that big Bill" had purchased
yellow soap In his store. This is the
kind used by cracksrnen to lamp down
the dynamite charge. Others saw
Daley, they said, in the village bow
ling alley.
Perhaps In no city is the accused
better known than in Canton. He spent
all Of last summer and spring here,
mingling with the card sharks Tower.
ing six feet in heiGhth, with a Her.
culean build, we'll Utmost fastidious-
ly dressed, Big BIZ looks little like
the story book safe cracker Always
"good-fellow" ready to spend bis
money with his pals. Daley was q fav-
orite here.
Yes, they said up in ths alley, he
had often gone away suddenly and re-
turned just as suddenly day, or two
or three afterwards. Sometimes he
was gone week. No one knew where.
No one asked.