The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 23, 1887, Page 2

BALD KNOBBER BUTCHERY Edens-Clark Killing. After the Others. Details of the Slaughter Related by the Survivors—A Wife's Terrible Experience. —-emce Ozarx, Mo, March 15.—Never before was there more excitement and indignation among the good cit- izens of this place and county than there is now over the atrocious mur- der by alleged Bald Knobbers of Charles Green and Wm. Edens, near Sparta, 7 miles southeast of here, last Friday night. All the neighbors and acquaintances of the two murdered men tell the same story—that they were both sober, industrious and worthy men, and that they were murdered simply be- cause of their outspoken opposition to the: Bald Knobbers and their methods. James Edens, father of William, and Charles Green’s wife, his daughter, have made affidavit chatging twenty-two men, all living in the vicinity of Sparta and Chad- wick, with the double homicide, and ‘ thirteen of the men have been ar- rested and are now under a strong guard. Five of the men—Sam Preston, Sr., and Sam Prest6n, Jr., { Wilham Roberts, Bud Ray and James Preston—are kept in the court } room here. They are all men ii with families, and live near Sparta. } Eight others, among whom are John vs and Wiley Matthews, Dave Walker, C. O. Simmons and Joe Inman, were arrested by Sheriff Johnson by a large posse at their homes near Chadwick to-day and will probably be brought here to-night, except In - man, who claiming to be sick, ar- rived with his guard on this evening’s train, The nine others it is expected will be brought in within the next 24 hours. Among the latter is Wm Walker, who, it is-reported, was shot and wounded at the time of the murder. Prosecuting Attorney G. A. Watson says the preliminary ex- amination will hardly be begun be- fore the last of the week or next Monday. Sam Preston, Sr., when arrested was at the depot here ready to take the train for Jefferson City, where he is wanted in the United States district court to answer to an indictment charging him with attempting to intimidate a wit- ness trom appearing against the Bald Knobbers before Commissioner Jones at Springfield. All the men arrested protest innocence and claim that they are able to prove alibis. THE DOUBLE MURDER is the principal topic of conversation a@mog the citizens here, and st is the universal opinion that it is high time tor Bala Knobism to be wiped out, foot and branch, and the majesty of the law vindicated. Such waf the unanimous resolve of a largely at- ; tended public meeting at the court k house Sunday night, since when the 4 Sheriff has been promptly aided by Ny yolunteer citizens in the work ot ar- resting the accused parties. On hearmg a rumor to-day that the posee was having trouble with Bald Knobbers at Chadwick this after- noon, another possee ot leading citi- zens immediately armed themselves and started for that place, but their services were not needed. Some express the opinion that the Govern- or shoyld take steps to help in sup pressing the lawless organization, as it sa disgrace to the whole State, while others are confident that the local'authorities, backed by the best people of the county, are able to accomplish the desired end, and fa- vor the'immediate calling of a special term of the circait court to try all the parties accused or implicated in the murder. 4 Edens, his wife and ther daughter, Mrs. Charles Green, have been removed trom the scene of the homicide to this place and are stop- ping at the Finley house, where your a la ete a ie iB PO ee ee eee PP Twenty-Two Men Charged With the | They told him t } said it the Bald Knob- bers ever ed on him they would | have to carry away their dead. Wil- naving said it but it was |P | Cause he | liam denied | known that we were all opposed to the organization and in tavor of up-| | holding law and order. Last Friday | night William wite and Green and his wife were all at my | house. Mrs. Green was in bed sick | and has been so the past three weeks. We all retired tor the night, occupy- ing the same room. About 11 o'-/} clock we were awakened by loud and his cursing outside and heard some one} call out: ‘Get out of there, — you, or we will kill you.” William re- plied: ‘I'll get out as quick as 1 can,’ expecting that he would again be taken out and whipped, as he had recently received anonymous notices country, or take the} consequences. Just then they SMASHED IN THE WINDOWS, to leave the and as my wife stepped to the door to raise the latch it was violently | burst open and she was knocked backwards. The other door was a!so torced open and masked men crowded into the room. By this time we were all up and my wite handed me my self-acting revolver. Three of the men caught me by the arms snd attempted to take the weapon away from me. I threw one of them back and they commen- ced shooting at As he fell backward I aimea to shoot and think that 1 did, as one ot the chambers was empty next morning. One bul- let struck me and passed through the back of my neck, and, as I turn- ed to see my assailants, I was struck an axe and fell us. on the head with senseless to the floor and did not regain consciousness until next morning.”’ Eden’s wounds, though severe, are not fatal, and he is rapidly im proving. His daughter, Mars. Green, was No Use for Randall. The time has probably come tor the democratic party to get rid of Samuel J. Kandall it it would have He calls him- a triumphant tuture. vital but on no selt a democrat, question that can be named does be act with his party, and his pretended alliance only operates to its discredit and destruction. The last week has raised one ar- dent apologist and defender tor Mr. Randall—a .nan whe insists that be has done his duty, has ‘worked steadily tor the people’s interests,”” | and should be kept in office as long as he wants tostay. ‘This champion is Thomas V. Cooper, chairman of the Pennsylvania republican State committee. He says it would be madness and ingratitude for the re publicans to so redistrict the city as to leave Randall out, tor ne ‘thas been an ally on the question of pro- tection to the republican patty.”’ | This tangled sentence probably means that Mr. Randall has been an ally of the republican party on the question of protection, but the statement quoted is also singularly and sadly true. He has been an ally, indeed, for protection to the republican party. No man has done more than he to protect it. He has been for years an ally tor that very purpose, and it is fitting that the re- publican party should now rally to the protection of Randall. “This is the view,’’ frankly de- clares Mr. Cooper, chairman of the republican State Committee, “taken ot his course by the leaders of mdus- try in Pennsylvania, who, ty the way, contribute nearly all the means for the conduct of our great cam- paigns.’, To retain this stool-pigeon in office the republicans are going to continue to gerrymander the State his This is the man who parades as’ a democrat and de- mands to he elevated to power by party where he can serve year in interest. the quite illand has received a shock trem which there is scarcely a pos- sibility of recovery. As soon as the alleged bald knobbers entered the house, in her excitement she got out ot bed, and by the aid ot the lanp, | which was burning, could see what | was going on, she “I saw my husband shot through the head and he fell dead by stood, and my brother William shot } says: where I near in the tace. the muzzle of his gun at One ot the men placed my breast but as he fired lL jerked the gun to one side with my lett hand, the bul let striking my httle finger, and with | my right hand L tore the black mask { from the man’s face and recognized | him as Bud Ray. Phe then hastily lett the house, men and as they) were going one of them fired at my | brother who was partly lying on the | bed. Four buckshot entered | back. I think that the shot | that killed him. Think there were twenty or more shots fired in all and | about that number of men in the | house. After the shooting there | was blood on nearly everything mal the room, My little 3-year-old girl } was on the floor by the side ot her } dead tather, and my babe was in! bed. Both had blood spattered over them, but neither were hurt.’’ The house where the murder was committed is made of logs and! stands on the homestead ot Green, near the railroad, nearly three miles | east ot Sparta. The Greens came from Wisconsin and have lived in that locality the past three years as haye also the Edens family. The latter family livea in Webster coun- ty, Kentucky, and ail bear excellent reputations among the people in and around Sparta. his | was Those who are trysng to break up the baneful habit ot intemperance will exper- ience great benefit frow the use of Prick- ly Ash Bitters. Liquor derangeing the system. 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T., and was ex- pected home about Sunday, while about twenty-five otiers declare that the murdered man is Andrew Allti- zer, who was raised in Metz, and who was working at Medicine Lodge Kansas. The relatives of both par ties say the dead man is neither. It is thought a clue to the murderer has been discovered in papers and a note on the dead man’s person. If you require a spring medicine, it you ples, boils, catarrh, chronic sores, scrof- ula, or loss ot appetite, or any desease nomical of all blood purifiers. Objection 1s being made that in *“sserved with distinction in the Con- There were few It the A Bonanza Mine “Lay off your overcoat, or you corretpondent visited them to day and heard their statement of the ,, dloody double murder. Edens said - mG “Myson William about three months Uppa ago was taken out of bed by a party BN a men and severely whip. done better than that,’’ is the excla- mation ot the Democratic Charles- ton News and Courier after pointing to the statement that Cleveland has given the Democrats §0,000 offices m two years. won’t feel it when you go out,’”” said the landlord of a Western in toa guest who was sitting by the fire. ‘That's what I’m atraid of,’’ return- ed the man. “The last time I was here I laid off my overcoat. 1 didn’t teg! it when I went out, and I haven't Mrs. troubled with a very Bronchial affection. Added to tb birth of a child and subsequent Ss) she was in avery bad condition. I or- dered Scott’s Emulsion, which she com- | menced taking, giving at the same time some to the baby, which was verv poor | (weight three and one-nalr pounds.) | Since taking the Emulsion, cough is gone | | looks tresh, tullin the tace, flesh firm, | good color; babysame, fat and in fine condition. 141m. KING WILLIAM. | F This blooded stallion will make the present season at my stable | three miles west of Ballard, Bates county, Mo. He isa dark bav, 16 one inch high, 4 vears old this spring, sire, that noted stallion, Wild Irishman, owned bv D. A. Colver, of Butier; dam, a thoroughbred French mare. Terms: $10 to insure amare with toal, 7.50 tor the season and $€ single leap. When a mare is kuown to be with foal. the monev is due, or if mare leaves the county or changes ownership insurance is tortzited and monev must be paid whether mare is with foal or not. 16-1m JOHN EVA Ns. Trustee’s Sale. Whereas, R. J Starke, by his deed of trust dated October 6th, 1883, and recorded in the recorder’s office within and for Bates coanty, Missouri, in book No. 40, page 579, conveyed to the undersigned trustee the following descri- bed real estate, lying and being situate in the county of Bates and State of Missouri, to-wit: The east half of lots three (3), and four (4), in blook two (2), in Montgomeries third (3) ad- dition to the town now city of Butler, subject to a school fund mortgage for eight hundred dollars. Which conveyance was made in trust to secure the payment of a certain note fully described in said deed of trust; and whereas, default has been made in the payment of said note now long past due and unpaid. Now, therefore, at the request of the legal holder of said note, and pursuant to the con- ditions of said deed of trust, I will proceed to sell the above described premises at public vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, at the east front door of the court house in the city of Butler, county of Bates and State of Missouri, on Friday, April Sth, 1887, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day, for the purposes of satisfying said debt, interest and costs. 16 ¥. M. ALLEN, Trustee Trustee’s Sale. Whereas, G. C. Clardy and Margaret V. Clardy, his wife, by their deed of trust dated October 1ith, 1885, and recorded in the re- corder’s office, within and for Bates county, Missouri, in book 33, page 152, conveyed to the undersigned trustee the following described real es ate, laying and being situate in the county of Bates and state of Missouri, to-wit: All that tract of land described as follows: Beginning five hundred and forty-seven and three fourth feet south and six hundred sixty and one half feet west of the center of section twenty-two (22), township forty (40), range thirty-one (31), thence west two hundred and twenty feet i thence south five hundred and twenty-eight feet (52s), more or less; thence east two hun- dred and twenty feet (220), thence north five hundred and twenty-eight feet » More or less to the place of beginning; which convey- ance was made in trust to secure the payment of one certain note fully described in said deed of trust, and, whereas, default has been made in the payment of said note or any part thereof, said note is now long past due and unpaid’ now, therefore, at the request of the lesat hol- der of said note and pursuant to the conditions of said deed of trust, 1 will proceed to sell the above described premises at pulic vendue, to highest bidder, for cash, at the east front door of the court house, in the city of Butler, coun- ty of Bates and state of Missouri, on Saturday April gth, 1887, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon and 50’ ‘k in the afternoon of that day, for the purposes of satisfying said debt, interest and costs. JOHN T. SMITH, Trustee. 16 Trustee’s Sale. Whereas, John Burns, by adeed of trust dated the 13th day of July, 1886, and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of Bates county Missouri, in Book No. 36, on page 5%,conveye to the undersigned trustee the following de- scribed real estate, situate in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit: Lots numbered ten (10) and eleven (11), block numbered one hundred and seventy (170), in the 2nd addition to the Rich Hill Town Company in the town of Rich Mill, to secure py pa of a certain promissory note therein described and all interest thereon; and whereas, it is provided in said deed of trust that upon default in payment efsaid note orthe interest, or any part thereof, when the same or any part thereof shall become due and payable, then the whole debt shall become due and the deed of trust shall and may be foreclosed and the property sold to pay said note or interest so due thereon; and whereas, default has been made in the payment of interest on said note, which interest is still due and unpaid; and whereas, the legal holder of the said note, on which said interest so past due, has requested me to sell the property under and by virtue of the power given me by said deed of trust. Now notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned trustee, by virtue of and under authority of the Le ted of sale in said deed of trust set forth, on Friday, April 8, A, D. 1887, at the court house door in the town of Butler, in the county of Bates and state of Missouri. and between the hours of 9 o’clock in the fore- noon and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day, proceed to sell the real estate therein described at public auction tothe highest bidder for cash, for the pu’ e of satisfying the debt secured by the of trust af id, and the costsand expenses (including compensation to the trustee for his services) specified in said deed of trast of executing this trust - z LAZEBROOK, .G. 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