The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-06

struck me as being country boy
who looked Ike good worker and
! told him TO come over to the gem
eral offices the next morning and we
would see what we had for him, lie
never came and afterward found
that the boy was Earl Dockray.
u was not here on the night OF
the murder but returned as soon as
could after / heard about Il, I
got here Saturday night following
IT, when | first saw the body az
the morgue, / thought | knew the
boy but could not locate him TN aft
err the clothes had been found Then
we put the clothes on him and !
recognized him positively,
THE Saturday night got back
we watched all trains to find out
who left town. Later | went up to
Canadian, Glazler and the ranch in
Ochlltroe county and spent several
days After / learned what | did ]
camo back here and began 10 trace
the grips. / found that the grips
had been expressed from Canadian
TO Woodward, OKLA and when | got
TO Woodward, / found that they had
been expressed again to Wichita,
Kan. Then at Wichita, / found the
grips In the express office, Yes, the
grip here in the court room was one
Of them. | gave orders TO have the
grips held and came back to ANA
rillo. / had never seen either Ellis
worth or Burk at that time so far
as knew and / did not know where
they we're.
"rhe first time | saw them was
when I went back to Wichita after
the officers there had arrested them
and had them in jail, warned both
Of them that any statements they
might make might be used as evil
dence against them"
City Marshal ]. n. snider testified
that at the time of the commission
of the crime he was out Of the city
on official business, but that he re-
turned on Friday and begun work on
the case. on Saturday he heard a
man say that he saw pair Of shoes
in a Denver water tank. On Sun
day morning he borrowed B, T..
Mares horse and buggy and asked
Mr.. ware to 10 With hiH,as snyder
found traces of the clothes in the
water tank, whic hthe man had mem
toned. The tank car was on track
s, three or four blocks from where
Dockray's body was found and con-
tanned water to a depth of four or
four and a half feet on this being
drained off the full wearing apparel
OF the boy with the exception Of the
hat, which was found short dist
ance from the car. The coat, vest,
shirt and undershirt were all togeth-
er and were turned wrong-side out
as If hastily torn off. The trousers
and drawers we're taken off the same
way. Both sox were together in one
shoe and the supporters we're sti!l on
them. The undershirt was torn in
taking off, around the collar Of the
shirt there was blood. The next
morning they we're placed on
the boy at the Eakle morgue and
were found to fit perfectly. A few
days later pictures were made of the
boy in the clothes and we're sent by
correspondents to out OF town papers.
Arrested in Wichita.
z. T. Cubbon, chief of police, of
wichita, Kan, told the story OF the
trapping of the men at the Kansas
town. 1--WE were at the Santa Fe
depot in wichita testified Mr.. Cub
bon, con the afternoon of the 18th
OF November when / first saw the
defendant and Joe Burk. Ellsworth
had Just jumped off a car when
saw him and he went at once to the
express office in the depot. | FOL
lowed and as he went up to the
counter directed Detective Kern'
to fall in behind MIN. / heard him
ask for the suit cases addressed tt
Ellsworth and Burk and tell the
agent where they had been shipped
from. The agent told him that the
suit cases we're not there, / stepped
IN to him then and said;
lis your name Ellsworth? He
hcsltated aud did not answer bu'
after / repeated the question he ad
mitted that he was Ellsworth. then
! ,o tho sIvn IN notpctivp Kprng