The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-09-15
Miss Murphy Bound over.

Miss Murphy Bound over.
Valentine, Neb., Sept. li,-Miss Eu-
nice Murphy, charged with melting
the murder OF Charles Sellers,
ranchman of Cody, June II, was given
her preliminary hearing Saturday and
bound over to district court and de-
MED bail. The accused young woman
was very composed in court and smil-
ed throughout the trial.
Judge Quigley in refusing bail as
serted that he believed the woman
as guilty as the men.
The state is represented not only
by County Attorney John NJ. Tucker,
but by NJ. f. Harrington OF ONeill,
whom the county commissioners en-
gagged to aid in the prosecution OF the
four men charged with the murder
and Of the girl charged with COM
plicity. The defense Is In the hands
of Tyrrell and Morrissey Of Lincoln
and w. b. Kelley of Independence,
Mo. Mr.. Kelley and Mr.. Morrissey
were in charge Of the girls case to-
day.
Miss Murphy, on advice from her
attorney, has had little to say since
she returned from Missouri and gave
herself up to the authorities. The en-
tire country Is intensely interested in
| both the trial of the girl and of the
four men, George b. Weed, Alma
Weed, Harry Heath and Kenneth
Murphy, all of whom have admitted
| that they hung Sellers to a telephone
pole.
The defense in the Murphy hearing
contends that the girl had nothing to
do with the killing. that she only com
planned to her brother and the other
| men that Sellers had been unduly an
| noying to her. The state has two wit
| nesses of Importance, neighbors of the
Murphy girl to whose house, accord
ing to the charges, she went and tried
| to persuade the man to go over to
the bank and secure for her the pap
ers which Sellers had deposited there.
They are ready to testify, it is said.
that she wanted these papers for her.
self This latter fact the defendant
! will deny. - i
The state has another witness OF
| Importance. This is the young girl
| who testified at the civil hearing,
where depositions were taken, and
told some things concerning Miss
| Murphy's connection with the case
that do not look we'll for her. The
case in question was a civil suit for
100000 brought against the four men
| Dispositions were to be taken and
the Heath family, relatives and all,
We're subpoenaed to testify. All OF
them refused to answer on the ground
that they might incriminate them
selves, except this 17-year-old girl,
who persisted in making a clean
breast of what she knew
Eunice Murphy is only % years of
age. She possesses some property in
Cody and the neighborhood. Sellers,
the murdered man, is reported to have
been worth $4,000, and the families
of Heath and Murphy have the money
to defend the case with vigor.
The Heaths and the Murphys are
related by marriage in a rather mixed
up manner Harry Heath is reported
to have told everything that occurred
and he is likely to be used as a wit
the men comes up. Heath and the
two Weed boys are between 25 and 80
years old, but Murphy is but IS.
In the murder trial that is to come
off in October unless the defense can
secure a continuance, the defense is
confronted with the fact that all four
of the men admit that they strung
Sellers to the telephone pole. Two
! lines of defense are open, the one,
that Sellers threatened to kill the
four men and that they acted in self
defense, the other, that of emotional
insanity Sellers was unarmed and
in bed when Alma Weed is said to
have rushed in and dropped gun on
him. No overt act on his part at the
time of the tragedy has been shown
by the defense
The state will try to prove that all
three men with Eunice Murphy's
brother on the night of the hanging
We're enamored of the girl The de-
Tense will attempt to show that Sell
lers was so badly in the same state
that he was dangerous to all the
others, and that he had told Hutch
Jack that he would get them" The
four men are said TO have argued, af-
ter the killing, that Sellers had threat
ened them, they believed they had a
right to hang him without any other
grounds.