Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-02

wiring a confession from the brut,i
murderer was prepared by Defective
B. D. Way, who was assisted by tn,
local police, Detective John w. Ora:
and Henry Williams, in ferreting GU
the crime
Detective Way arrived in Ottumws
Tuesday and the start was made theI
In unraveling the chain of mysteries
that resulted in laying the crime A
Junkin's door. The following morn
ing, last Wednesday, the second de
tsctive, j. o. Smith, a colored man
qrrived on Burlington No. 8, Detective
Way and United States Marshal F. B
Clark met him at the depot, and, il
furtherance of the plan to trap Jun
hin, Marshal Clark placed Smith, the
@olored detective, under arrest on tbs
charge of robbing the postoffice and
numbering the postmaster in Virgin
3e town. Clark, and the two detec
tives, one fthem in the role of q
prisoner, then went to Abba on the
same train that Smith had come in
on.
arriving at Abba Marshal Clark
and his supposed prisoner went to the
court house while Detective Way went
to the jail and gave Junkin a sweat
ing. The latter did not secure any
Information from the suspect, how
ever, and returning to the court house
he gave Marshal Clark the cue to take
his prisoner to the Jail 1t was Al
ranged that he should be searched
within sight of Junkin and then
thrown into the same cell.
CtInnocad Dricorer Tenopfe IIipkin
When Sheriff Griffin and Marshal
prisoner the latter took off his over
coat and laid it on a chair. The
officers then searched him and pro-
fessed to be angered at finding big
dirk in his inside coat pocket, abusing
him for declaring that he didn't have
anything but gun. When they start
ed into the cell Smith picked up his
overcoat and threw it down beside
him as the doors were locked and ne
and Junkin We're thrown together.
Junkin attempted to engage his cell
mate in conversation. but Smith was
morose and refused to talk, He want
ed to throw Junkin off his guard and
make him do all the talking and
make all the advances.
After they had been together some
time Smith went. to his overcoat and
took bottle of saloil, harmless
preparation resembling cocaine, out Of
one of the pockets He began "snif-
fing" it as the cooke fiends" take &C.
caine. Junkin was interested at once.
He wanted to know how Smith got
that smuggled in after he had been
searched. Smith sneered at the rube
officers who searched him and said,
they never thought of touching his
overcoat. Junkin then became insist
ent. for some of the cocaine. Smith
refused to share it, saying he did not
know how long he was going to be
kept, there. He finally agreed, how
ever, that if he could find anymore in
his overcoat he would share it with
Junkin. After searching around he
found the other bottle which was full
of cocaine and this he gave to Junkin.
He also had whisky in his overcoat,
which he later allowed Junkin 10
have.
Excited by the cocaine Junkin be
gan talking Of the crime in rambling
way, always protesting his innocence
~ w 0S NV uALit t iuo olLSl SllitlI
had been in Jail with him three days,
that Junkin in any way incriminated
himself.
Junkin's First Confession.
1t was after Junkin had been given
his first prolonged sweating Friday
that Smiths influence began to work
on the suspect. Friday morning De
tective Way. Chief Gallagher, Detac-
tive John w. Gray, Alderman Henry
Williams, who is former city mar
shall, and Police Judge Kirby went to
Abba on Burlington No. to give Jun
kin a thorough sweating. They did
not get anything out of Junkin, how
ever, though they put him through a
rigid examination.
When he returned to the CELL how
ever, ,Junkin told the colored detec-
tive, who was still Junkin's cell mate
and posing as his fellow prisoner, that |
that man Way, certainly had me go
ng,' but th,t they didn't get any
thing out Of him "He asked me,
said Junkin, .if l used coke but he
didn't get me. hid it in the closet |!
before went down."
Smith then said, "Why don't you
peach on that fellow I wouldn't run
my neck in halter for a crime some
other fellow pulled Off I'd save my
own bacon
Smith then induced Junkin to adj
nit he knew something of the crime
and he then first told the Weaver |
story.
Junkin jumped up. '.I'Il do it." he
said. ''I'll bring those fellows back
and tell them the whole story
Sheriff Griffin was notified and i'm
nediately telephoned to Ottumwa for
he officers, who had returned home
IN Burlington No. at 2 o'clock to
'eturn On No. - at AIT o'clock Ac-
'ordingly Detective Way, Chief Galla-l
CHER and Detective Gray went back.
This time Junkin made his first admis-
sion, throwing the blame, however,
IN Frank Weaver, another color ed
nan. He said Weaver, who boarded
1t his mothers restaurant on Mill
street, came into the Junkin house
While he, Junkin was asleep in the
kitchen. This was at 7:45 o'clock on
February 5, the night of the murder.
Weaver, he said, woke him up and
old him he wanted him to "peddle"