The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-03
NO ONE is HELD.
Tennyson Jury Returned q We're
diet Last Night.
Held That Assassination Was By
Person Unknown.
ARE NOT MADE
Still Believed That There Will
Soon Be Action.
Officers Continue Their Inves-
tigatiOn of the Murder.

Frankfort, Kas., March 3.-''We. this
jury, find upon our oath that David
Tennyson came to his death at SOS
p. m, Tuesday. February p, 1895, by
a gunshst wouna in the back of his
head, inflicted by some person or per-
sons unknown to this jury"
This is the verdict Of the coroner'B
jury which for the greater part OF
two days examined witnesses concern
ing the circumstances surrounding the
prem ditated and brutal murder OF
aged David Tennyson while he was
enjoying the companionship OF his
wife in the sitting room of their home
on Tuesday evening last. The verdict
was returned by the jury at z O'Clock
last night, and the jury which rem
dered this verdict consisted of NJ NJ.
Haskin, James Wolfe. E. E. Knox.
James Van Vliet. George Van YIet,
and E. R. Leopold
In view of this verdict, which was re-
ceived with anything but eouanirnity
by the people Of the town. Sheriff Bar
rett did not feel. Justified in placing any
one under arrest. He has strong con-
vietions as to the perpetrator Of the
outrage and. has what he considers some
strong ciscun3stantial evidence. He
get. more evidence and is sure that ne
viii be able to positively fasten the
crime where it belongs.
2. A. Berry, the county attorney, who
arrived on the scens of the murder for
the first time yesterday is particularly
mum as to his opinions and theories OF
the case. He believes, however, that
the crime can be laid at some ones door
and he intends to work hard with the
sheriff to solve the apparent mystery.
AFTER ma king neTGnnn1 fT7Wnaffzy ffrv7
| OF the scene Of the murder yesterday
morning and talking with those who
knew anything about it Mr.. Berry con-
| vened the coroner's jury, which mad adj
| journed on Wednesday night yesterday
! afternoon, and examined a couple of
WITNESSES who had been before the jury
! before.
One of these was George W. Tennyson.
/ the 2l-year-Old son of the deceased, and
who had trouble time and time again
! with his father over money matters.
/ He was searchingly examined for the
I third time as to his whereabouts during
/ the hour on Tuesday night when his
1 father was killed and the result OF this
/ third examination was just as unsatis-
/ factory as the first and second one. He
was in town shortly after o'clock
1 that night and called on his girl at
/ $50 o'clock but his movements in the
interim are not properly accounted for.
/ He told again for the third time yes
/ terday afternoon of being at several
Z
he was not. He stuck to his story with
/ great pertinacity and bore up well un-
/ der quite a severe sweating. The ses-
! sion Of the jury yesterday afternoon
/ was held behind closed doors as has
/ been the custom at the other sessions
/ and this is a most unusual thing
/ When the word scattered over town
i last night that the jury had failed to
/ charge anyone with the crime the ex-
element ran pretty high among the
/ townspeople. There is hardly a man
/ in town who does not have almost
positive convictions about the murder
and it's perpe TRAITOR, and a number OF
/ them have offered their services 10 the
sheriff to help IN the investigation
which is to be continued to find evil
/ dence which viii warrant the arrest OF
/ some one Many believe that there is
sufficient evidence at hand now. 1t Is
said that County Attorney Berry ad-
vised the jury that the evidence pre-
! sented to them vas not legally strong
/ enough to warrant them fixing the
crime on any person.
Some Of the jurors, it Is understood,
/ felt that a good deal Of the evidence
was morally strong enough to bring in
another verdict, but so serious and
1 mysterious was the matter in hand
/ that they did not care to take a step
/ which might possibly be a wrong one.
but the people of Marshall county
I would have applauded a verdict which
/ would have warranted the arrest OK
some one. They are certain the crime
/ can be placed where 1t belongs and are
| going to use every honest effort to see
it is and the guilty party punished.