The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-15
FOR MURDER
ten YEARS Ago
Former keokuk Citizen Arrested in
Quincy and Taken to indiana
to Stand Second
Trial.
WAS ACQUITTED ONCE
Ben shadley Admits Having Killed
Man in New Albany In 1901
but Claims 1t Was Self
Defense.
WAS ACQUITTED ONCE

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was q resident of this city, employed
as q wood worker, has been arrested
4 at quincy and taken to New Albany,
lnd., on charge of murder. He adj
mlts that he killed a man ten years
ago, but was acquitted of the charge
at the time. Since that time. a
brother of the dead man has been
after Shadley all of the time, trying
| TO have him convicted of murder and
seems to have been partially success
ful In locating the man at Quincy
and having him arrested and taken
back to New Albany to stand trial
again.
Shadley was arrested In Quincy on
Sunday and an officer arrived from
New Albany last evening to take him
back to Indiana The Wing of this
morning covers the case thoroughly
with the following account Of the for
mer Keokuk mans plight:
G. A. Sittason, sheriff of Floyd coun-
ty, Indiana. arrived last night from
New Albany, Ind. and left for home
at 2.15 this morning, taking with him
Benjamin F. Shadley, against whom
an information has been fled at New
Albany, the charge being murder in
the first degree.
Shadley, who has been resident
of Quincy for five years, was arrested
Sunday at his home, 241S Cherry
street, by Detectives Bumster and
Scharnhorst. When the officers told
him that he was wanted at New AL
bany on murder charge Shadley turn
ed deathly pale. but made no attempt
to get away. He admitted that he
had killed man named Robert
Wright In New Albany in June, 1901,
| but said that it was done in self-de-
Tense, and told straightforward story
| as to the reasons which lead up to
| the killing.
| Discharged by Justice.
Last night the sheriff admitted that
Shadley had been given preliminary
examination before Justice of the
peace at New Albany shortly after
Wright had been killed and that Shad-
ley had been acquitted. The grand
jury owing to the persistence of g
brother Of the man Wright, was pre-
scented with evidence which was
deemed sufficient for an indictment to
be returned against Shadley at the
September term of the court in 1901
1t Is stated, and since that time the
brother of the man who lost his life,
aided by the officers, have been on
the lookout for the man who did the
killing, but who said it was done in
self-defense.
Shadley said that he had gone to
| Denver, Colo, after he had been
cleared OF the charge before the JUS
tice of the peace at New Albany, and
that he had made no attempt to elude
the officers, not knowing that he was
wanted until he was placed under ar
4 rest in this city Sunday.
He has been In Quincy, of and on,
4 since he left Denver, and is well
known in the city. part of the time
he has been in the employ of the
Lobe Fixture and Furniture Co.. and
d has been foreman of one of the de.
q partments. He has also worked for
other firms as a wood-worker. in
I Quincy and Keokuk, and has always
been looked upon as an industrious
and Woodworking man. Shortly after
he came to Quincy he was united in
marriage with Miss Lydia Wolf, and
they have son four years old.