The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-10
One Negro Calmly Smoked Dur
ing Sunday Murder.
Looked Up and Saw Headless
Man Kicking Legs.
ROLLED over THE DEAD MAN
Then Sat on the Front Porch
"a Waitin' for de Law!s
Warrant Out Charging Albert
Haley With the Crime.

Based upon the investigation of Off
GERS and the story told under oath by
Thomas Dunn today, a complaint will
be sworn to by Harvey Parsons. chief
of police, charging Albert Haley.
negro, with the murder of Andrew
Powell, negro, Sunday afternoon at
1893 Kansas avenue. Powelfs throat
was cut from ear to ear, all connec-
lions between the head and body ex-
cept the spinal column being severed
Dunn does not ADMIT being an eye
witness altho one of the remarkable
features of his statement is that he
admits sitting on the ground facing
the two men and rolling a cigaret
while the murder was committed.
From Dunns story the only immediate
cause for trouble between Haley and
Powell was an argument over the dis
lance between a horseshoe and a peg
driven into the ground.
Half a dozen fellows had been
around the Haley place during the
day." said Dunn. Finally, after noon,
and myself Haley and Powell were
pitching horseshoes. Powell bet a dol
Tar against pint of whisky that he
could outpitch Haley
II was sitting by a shed about ten
feet away from one peg keeping
score by marking in the dust on the
ground The score was thirteen and
eight when Haley and Powell got into
an argument at the nearest peg. Eacn
man claimed his shoe was nearest the
neg They got a stick and were meas
uring.
He Rolled a Cigaret.
s'I rolled a cigaret and put match
to it. When looked up the men were
not at the peg where they had been
moment before-not ten feet away
from me. 1 saw Powell over rs feet
away lying on the ground kicking his
legs. I didn't see Haley anywhere.
1T ran to Powell and turned him
over on his back and asked him what
was the matter. He didn't answer, then
I saw the cash in his throat ran on
to the house and called for Haley. He
did not answer. I called several times
then went around and sat down on the
front steps. In just few moments
the law came. 1 don't know who put
| in the CALI
..How do you explain the blood that
was found on your right hand?" asked
Robert Carver assistant county attor-
ney.
over before knew what was the mat
ter with him.
'That story about not seeing what
happened ten feet in front of you
doesn't go. You'll have to put up
better story or you are going to pc.
come involved III IllS HldllSI oCCPly'
suggested the attorney
just as He Saw 1t.
eff I get mixed up in it," said Pow
ell, 81 will get mixed up because l tell
the truth I have told the exact truth.
I have told everything just as I saw
it,
Powell stated that when he turned
PowelPs body over it was about five
feet west of we'll in the Haley yard.
When the officers found it it was fif-
teen feet east of the we'll. However,
at the spot indicated by Powell, there
was a quantity of blood and two horse
shoes covered with blood, indicating
that the body did rest there for time.
How the body moved or was moved
twenty-five feet after the man was
dead is a mystery to the officers
Dunn did not know the body had been
found twenty-five feet away from the
point where he turned it over and he
expressed surprise also.
Sergeant Walker of the police de-
partment stated today that drops of
blood were followed in the alley back
of the Haley home for some distance
Immediately following the murder.
Powell was not in the alley. He ran
in the opposite direction.
At Ha1ey's home, when the officers
searched it, knife with a wire
edge" was found under a pillow on
the bed. There was no blood upon the
bJada