Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-25
JURY ID DECIDE CHESTER CASE ]. |S SECURED
Trial May Unravel Mystery Of Staying Of Popular
 Kansas City Girl

KANSAS CITY. May 24-Selection of the jury to try Denzel Chester. ac- cused of the murder of Miss Florence Barton, was completed late today.
 The mysterious murder of Miss Florence Barton. pretty young society woman, and the charges against Dan Chester have given Kansas City its most sensational crime in years.
 - The story embodies ali the situa- tions presented in a successful crime novel or movie thriller
 The motive is somewhat obscured The murder scene was laid on a lone ly country road late at night, and in the subsequent developments. private detectives, dictographs, underworld threats, a chase across the country, arrest, posse recaptIire, alleged at tempts at suicide by the prisoner and unfathomed silence of the alleged murderer, troop along n. bewildering fashion leading up to the trial. The 1 final chapter is yet to be written by 8 jury.
 Miss Florence Barton was shot to death shortly before Midnight last Oct. ? on a road two and one-half miles southwest of sHillcrest Country club. Howard R. Winter, Miss Bar tons fiance, with whom she was motoring, was wounded in the arm Winter was driving and stopped at the roadside to lght cigar, he said Three men in another automobile drove alongside and according to Win ] ter, one descended asking questions | Winter said he moved and the man ! opened fire. Then the bandit car sped away. according to Winters story Miss Barton was wounded and died shortly afterward. Motorists had reported a number of robberies and other criminal acts near the Scene of the murder.
 Chester left town several days after the killing He was trailed and ar rested in Great Falls. Mont. A charge was placed against him and detectives set to return him to Kan sss City. A photograph of Chester in the police identification bureau was tentatively identified by Winter.
 As the train carrying Chester back was pulling ont of Broken Bow. Neb., shouts were heard from the state room in which the prisoner was I guarded. City Detective Beasley cried to two other detectives in the party. who were playing cards. that his prisoner had dashed through the Pwindow. CThis point later was ds- puted by counsel for Chester at the preliminary hearing when one of his attorneys indicated he would seek to
 prove that his client had been thrown
 from the train ill an attempt to kill him. It was contended that it would b physically impossible Tor q man to
 jump headlong through the heavy
 glass - at least while detective was
 guarding him.)
 Posses secured the Nebraska prai.
 rie but no trace of the fugitive could
 be found. It was rumored an attempt
 would he made by gunmen from Chi
 cago to release Chester enroute to Kansas City and the theory was ad
 vanced that Chester's confederates
 had met him with an automobile and aided him to escape.
 The head of the detective agency
 employed in the case hurried to Ne
 braska in an airplaue to assist in the
 search. However. three days late' Chester was found calmly trudgine
 down a road near Oconto. Nehr., 22
 miles from Broken Bow by the count, sheriff and q vcterinarien. Chester was hungry and suffering from expos ure.
 He was taken back Co Broken Bow where it was alleged he attempted suicide by flashing his head agaiusi the bars of his cell. He appeared tC be seriously injured and was brought into Kansas City on stretcher. It was then that Chester began a baffling silence Physicians CAanIin