The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-09
Identified the Prisoner as Leav.
ing X. C. With Messenger.
PLAN OTHER CRIMES.
Suggested to j. G. Dehoney Once
That They Rob the Santa Fe.
Damaging Evidence Shown at
tho Marion Preliminary.
Will Probably Be Bound Over
to the May Court.

Marion, Kan, April 9.-Eight wit
nesses were examintd this forenoon by
the state in the preliminary hearing Of
William T. Carr charged with the muir
der of Express Messenger Oscar A.
Bailey. They were mostly employees
OF the Santa Fe company and the Wells
Fargo at Newton. Their evidence cor
roborated those that were on the stand
on Wednesday afternoon and made the
case look pretty serious for Carr.
It is safe to predict that the justice
will bind Carr over this afternoon for
trial at the May term of the district
court of Marion county.
Marion, Kan, April 9.-Identifica-
tion of William T. Carr as the man
seen at Kansas City with Oscar A.
Bailey in the car where the body of
the murdered messenger was found at
Newton on Sunday morning, March
29 was one of the sensational links
forged in the chain of circumstantial
evidence being woven about Carr at
his hearing on the charges Of murder
ing Bailey and robbing the car. Little
less sensational was the sworn state
ment that Carr, as early as February
1, suggested the commission of a
similar crime.
The state is represented by Sam
Burkholder, county attorney of
Marion county, and w. H. Carpenter.
while d. w. Wheeler is attorney for
Carr. The large court room was
packed today with people. many
farmers coming from miles around.
Carr's parents, his wife and his
infant child sat with him during the
trial. and much of the time Carr held
the baby on his lap and played with
1t. During the early part of the trial
he laughed and joked, but as the
hearing progressed he became more
The defense Introduced no evidence
Wednesday, contenting itself with
examining the states witnesses. No
indication was given to the probable
line of defense.
The state introduced it's evidence
in logical sequence. Walter A.
Stimmel night express agent at New
ton. told of finding Bailey's dead body
in the car when it reached Newton
DR.. F. L. Abbey, coroner of Harvey
county, and A. j. Duff, undertaken.
told of the wounds on the body.
Mrs Anna Bailey. wife of the mur-
dered man. and Mr. and Mrs ]. H
Shoemaker, her parents, identified the
bloody hatchet found near Wagner
as the one that Mr.. Shoemaker had
the morning before he went on his
run, March %.
f. L. Myers. an express messenger
on the Santa Fe, testified that he was
accosted on the Union depot platform
Thursday evening, March 26 by Carr
who asked what night Bailey went out
on his run.
r. L. Davidson and J. J. Suyak,
mail handlers in the Union depot,
Kansas City. testified to having seen
another man in the car with Bailey
when train No. 115 left that city.
Suyak identified Carr as the man he
saw.
j. G. Dehoney former employe of
the Wells-Fargo company. who stated
that Carr approached him in New
that they rob Santa Fe trains IL or
1S near Newton, bind and gag the
messenger and rifle the safe. He said
the job could easily be done, and
urged Dehoney to attempt 1t with
him. Dehoney said Carr also asked
/ means of which an express safe could
sSe opened. Dehoney's testimony
Created a big stir in the court room.
H. c. Spratt and ]. A. Cummings,
police officers of Newton. testified to
having seen Carr after the robbery
which the stolen property was found
Carr's father-in-law w. c. Simmons
who owns the billiard hall in which
the stolen property was recovered, tes-
titled to having seen Carr carry into
the hall and place in closet a packa ge
resembling that in which the overcoat
containing the stolen jewelry was
found. Simmons stated that Carr re-
turned from a two-weeks stay in Kan
sas City some time Sunday mornins
before daylight, but he could not tell
at what hour.
Under Sheriff A. r. Ainsworth OF
Harvey county testified to having con-
Quoted the search that resulted in this
finding of the stolen property and ide,l-
titled the overcoat and the cigar box
in which the jewelry and the money
were found.
The state introduced a score of Kan
sas City and Topeka express employees
to trace from the consignor until de-
livered to Messenger Bailey in his car
two packages. one containing 81 600 and
the other SO. that were stolen from the
safe.
E N. Stevens, assistant superintend-
ent of the Wells-Fargo company. gave
a history of Carr's work with tina,
company, covering in all about three
years He claimed that Carr under.
stood the express business thoroughly
He also stated that the person robbins
the safe was familiar with the express
business. as he took only the kind OF
packages that contained valuable
jewelry or money. opening only clever
Of the forty-two packages in the safe
Stevens also stated that Carr called
on him in Kansas City March 26 an6
asked for reinstatement in the service
which was denied him.
cyrus Stovall. a resident of Marior
county, identified the bloody hatche.
as the one picked up by him Sunday
March 29, on the Santa Fe right OF
way near Wagner.