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

railroad ana lhat the boy was going
to oklahoma This was day or
two before the murder"
John Edge and others testified
that Ellsworth had been a porter
In the Dewitt saloon on the Bowoy
and that before the murder he had
been away for a week or two When
he returned a day or two before the
murder he said that he had been at
Hereford and Canyon.
,Burk Told Ranchcrs About Murder.
The next and most extraordinary
chapter in the story Is told by cow
boys and ranch workmen from tho
Tandy ranch in Ochiltree county, a
hundred miles from Amarillo, and
far off the railroad. w. W. Tandy
told Of seeing the two men Els
worth and Burk at Glazler and Of
taking them out to his ranch to work,
At that time they had no money.
lie was at different parts of the
ranch while the men were there and
did not see much Of them. lie took
out suit case which looked much
like the one the state offered in the
court room for his examination.
Then in hating English, a Dutch
ranch foreman told how one evening
while the men were loaflng around
after supper that the party of seven
or eight got to telling stories Of see
ing fights and killings, Well"
broke In BurK, eve seen y man get
chopped in the face and dragged out
up at Amarillo the other night, and
they took him out and dumped him
along the railroad track While
Burk was volunteering this informa-
ton. Ellsworth, according to the tes-
timony of the Dutchman, was mo-
tioning him to keep quiet.
T.. ~ Staples, a carpenter VINO
had been working on the ranch at
the time, told substantially the same
story. "They said that they had just
come from Amarillo and that they
had spent a lot of money in Amarillo,
that they had blown In about $3.50
the night before they left. They
said they had been talking Of buy
ing a restaurant from a woman there
but that after they blew the money
in they gave that up. Burk told
one evening about seeing a man
chopped in the face, think he said
plugged" said the men were one the
sidewalk in front Of building when
the plugging occurred and that the
man that got chopped was taken out
along the railroad and dumped. Joe's
hand was sore at the time and | was
under the impression that he had got
| it hurt during his spree in Amarillo
Sam West, of Canadian, another
of the men on the ranch heard the
same story. He hauled the two men
back to the railroad and on the road
saw the suit case which looked the
same as the one the state offered.
Charles Geckler, an employe on a
neighboring ranch told of riding ia
the Tandy ranch on Sunday (the
day after the men arrived and how
these two men had repeatedly come
out of the house to watch him as
he was riding up to the ranch. Theil
watching his coming attracted his at
tention at the time. c. f. Saunders
OF the ranch, was another who had
heard the man relate seeing the mar
knocked in the head at Amarillo and
taken out along the railroad.
Picking Up the Clues.
Another chapter of the story dis
closed the picking mp of the clues
and the long tracking of the men
w. A. stewart, Of Cleburne, specia
officer for the Santa Fe, sketcheC
the result Of the work that LED Z
! the arrest of the men.
"T never saw Ellsworth and Burk,
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