The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 2, 1888, Page 7

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ME WBEERY, Vice-Pres, }.C.CLARK - - Cashier. FINF SULTS. Send 10cts. for 100-Page Pamphiet | : learn the exact cost fields are scarce, but those who write to | COLD Sanson & Co.,Portland, Maine, free, fall information adoxt they ean do, and live at bom ihem from $5 to $25 per day. fared over $x) in aday. Either sex, young or old. Capital started Rot required. You ‘Those who start at once ‘we absolutely sure of snug little fortunes, Ati is De" | A BLACK MASK ROMANC | SECRET HISTORY OF BALD-KNOB- | BERISM IN CHRISTIAN | COUNTY, MO, i ee | Actual Strengti of the Order—ilow | Bill Walker's Sweetheart’s Drotit | er Betrayed Him to the Law The Intendea Lynching mask order in Christian County talked freely of the methods cx ed by the prosecution in the fication of the Edens-Green ers and the secret work capture of Bill Walker. Th to talk to newspaper Bald Knobbers,” said the attorney as the Globe Democrat's correspond 1 tue ve been too busy up io tis men about the ent made kuown his interview clination, “and before the co of chief Walker the ]} actors in the J and Fdens-Green it would not have been policy for the ement Now since the Knobbers have been tr prosecution to make any stat to the public about the case. 5 | ied and convicted. T will give facts that up to this time been known inside the org ANiZi ition and by the prosecution ¢ ARE a few of all of criminal adventures I the state’s secret allies. Among the stories ever read there was not so mucl the Bald Knobber at least, fiction” I ory the or- ganization, from its inception in Ta- ney county, in 1885 down to the con- viction of the Knobber chief, Dave Walker, last week. terial for genuine romance as in of the In this ‘Truth is stranger than bare facts movement. case, know the whole | of THE FIRST KNOBBERS IN CHRISTIAN COUN- TY. “You ut to know when where the first Bald Knob orgar We tion was formed in Christian county? Well, the first company was organiz ed in April, 1885, Bull Creek. Among the members of that compa- on ny who have since become promi- nent in the history of the organiza- tion were David Walker, Wm. Walk er, Wim. Stanley, Wiley Matthews aud Sherman Walker. That com- pany contained at first only eleven members. From that time till the following June was the most active period of organization in Christian county. Judge R. L. Hale joined the order in June, 1886. know the man who first ‘felt’ of the Judge on} the subject of joining the Knobbers. Hale was then in his field plowing, but that is not now a matter of much interest. AsI said, most of the Bald Knob organizations in Christian county were formed in the spring and summer of 1886. Only two companies were recruited i 1887. There were eleven companies | organized in Christian county, ag- gregating a membership of about | 400. Dave 2Walker’s estimate, in} which the chief placed the Bald Knobber following in Christian county at S00, was fully double the | actual strength of the organization. 5 The first Chadwick whiskey raid | was the largest gathering of Bald) Knebbers in Christian county, but the chief's figures are again false as } i | H to the number participating in that night's operations. There were not 337 masked Knobbers in Chs that night when the raided. The second Chadwick much smaller number of Kuobbers The high tide of Bald Knobbi Christian county was 3 1 of the whiskey re \ had not then rdwic saloons were raid the | saloons was made by on 2 in} bout the ti develope savage tendencies, and t out of the whiskey gave of justification to the one or two men were Ww! the firs | dwick rz | | ple satihe iy had not approaching crisis. I had fought the from its birth, and when peo- the alized the Ed Green murder occu Idetermined | noi to takea fee in § of the men engaged in that | i { | efense of one ¢ me. | ber had been fable hiding } short tim The movement |i organization | | honesty of the plan. cret it Cae § H maue ac snfession, but this was kept lose secret by As so¢ that Bill W the assault o1 b- s it Was positively known er had been shot in nd the ded uM ture yung chief s to k the vitally necessary to complete of evidence Young Wall rded as one of the 1 Se leadu While down on the in the arrests, I learned of the relation between Bill Walker and I ter. turned to an advantage in the cap ture of the fugitive vic Knobbers. Ozark in: Joe Newton to ys to seehis broth then confined in the Walker and came few da er, who was court house with Dave the other Knobbers arrested for the | murder. I told Joe Newton that if he eyer expected his brother to re ceive any mercy from the state Bill Walker, Joe Newton was also a | Bald Knobber and had the full con- | fidence of Dave Walker. at once agreed, Newton under a promise from the prosecution that his broth- | er would be benefited by the ing of young Walker, eaptur- to undertake the seeret work he afterward per- formed so well. Newton then went to Dave Walker by permission of | the sheriff, and told him that the authorities were on Bill Walker's tracks and that he would soon be captured unless removed from his present hiding place. posed to the Knobber chief that he would go and find Billand then take him to a more secure place. non county was suggested as a suit- ig place for the young Knobber until his wound healed suf- iciently to enable him to leave the) country. TOTALLY DECEIVED. Dave Ws " was completely de- ceived by Newton's advances, and readily entered into the proposed pian te get Bill out of the reach of the authorities. He told Newton s Lou Newton, Bill Newton's sis- | saw the intimacy between the | | Walker and Newton family might be e chief of the | he! must assist in finding and capturing | Newton pro- | Shan- | iker aecomnpa- toca where Bill s found in with Frank Bean THE ST PLAINS Johu Walker, like his two broth . Gat and Joe, was eaten ly de ved by Newton to take Bill to Shanno ved x plan county unanimous indorsement. The young women started back home and Newton put Walker and Bean’ Ar- into a cove kansas ostenusi » Mo. Nese Fla. with would tuke Walker to id there r by communicate wit » party 1 eau- tiously. as the to West Pk | them he two fugitives thought Newton told was expecting to receive to farther did not s, where from home the expenses of the Walker and Bean their heads outside some money trip. show the of wagon | | sheet during the day, Newton doing all the talking and purchasing the provisions for the party and team. About a mile from West | Plains Newton stopped, and, secret- defray | | | | ing Walker and Bean in the woods, | went into town on a pretext to buy some provisions and reconnoiter |the field. He went immediately to | the telegraph office Johnson the following telegram, j which had been agreed upon if the | plan proved successful. | «Q. O. K. Bob.” Newton then returned to the camp with a supply of provisions, and told Walker and Bean that the coast jwas clear, and that they would leave the team in town and take the | first train after dark for the nearest | station on the Gulf road to Shannon county. Having secreted the two fugitives in the hills of that section, ; Newton was to return to West Plains and take the team home. /men entered West Plains and were |going to the depot when sheriff Johnson and deputy Miller met | them in response to Newton's tele | gram and made the arrests. New- , ton threw up his hands like Walker ‘and Bean at the command of the | officers, and neither of the two men |suspected any treachery until the |} | three brought to Ozark. Here Newton was discharg- |ed and the young Knobber saw for ‘the first time that his trusted guide ly led | him into the clutches of the law. pr isoners were and companion had cunnin that when last heard from Bill was! |in Ozark county, at the house of one | of his uncles young Walke Frank Bean, one of s cousins, who hada the Edens-Green escaped from e before foe. custody in Ozark under a sentence to the ¢ tentiary. was supposed to be with Bill the time. The Knob- ber chief then wrote a letter to Bill, telling him that Newton would take him to Shannon where County, a place could pias found. nat they could trust i vheitly and asked them Bill ishe 1 wi th these credentials for ty. a to assist him ge away. ot search the with D: Ave W alker was ei and at to Ozark and comn Ww Sheriff Johnson. We anged that Newton should take Bill Walkers sweetheart. ip. so that the young Knob- yave ont full confidence in the Bill Walk alker’s ber would PARP WELL PLAYED. No trained detective ever played | his part more successfully than did | Joe Newton in the capture of Bill Walker. He executed the agreed upon to the very letter, and, while in company with Bill Walker got the whole secret of the I Green massacre, which made Edens- m an Bald in indispensable witness the Knobber trials. Bill Newton of the most guilty men in the raid, but the state had to make was one some of witnessess of h the evide: now in th of the state Bill Ne 1 be ken without a doubt. but the susera i (Will be true to the compact with Joe and sent Sheriff | About dark that night the three | | | cuttin | | him an additional whippi: bad theatened. £0 © | that those three men were } 'a raid on Ozark that I asked fine m } how long it would be eae they made the attack? This, suppose, hat I was i led the scouts to believe plan | | Me Newton wi 3ill Wall Bul Newt vyengean to the Fd “Well, ious tox they beg in the southeasten part of ty, because of my of the or terms on soon leari their dea edly wa <vall well be more aboyt the Knobbers, bat I kept eyes open IT knew th lens-Green rned as outsi Iwas p ar lay LAV n their der. 1 den Knobbers in the most all ocean ied to re ily en by i of ene 1 le guarded and sai at it wi sever rht raiders vless Oo} vanced un sio in a Li ey outspoken Ye Oj} i my remarks }contlict between the outlaws and the spo sition to the principles and methods the B: vd be social security of Christian county and its surrounding sections, and that one or the other must go. I \ have whed since the arrest of Wall d his band that- my oppo sition to the order was frequently discussed in the councils of the Knobbers. On the night of the ard of September, 1886, at a meet- held j from the to hai 5 freely son y Ine Was immons. about old vote the resolution carried. A FRUSTRAT: ED RAID. The question a mile and a half smelter, a resolution proposed by Par- was discussed and when put to a} On the following night, Septem- 4, 1886, Dave Walke \a2 Bald Knobbers force numbering it the head of 142 men, started to visit me for the | purpose, I suppose, of executing the sentence passed the previous even- came to the old pond ou the Sparta road, one mile east of Ozark, and there called a ing. The company halt. Three men were sent into town to reconnoiter the situation and report the most practicable plan of attack, I suppose. the Chadwick timber I met the three Knobber scouts near my resi- dence. and knew that they meant mischief, but supposed McCormack, agent, who yas then hiding in Ozark from the eres s, must be the man wanted. tormack had been whipped a few nights before that time for report- nhonh-r esidents. ion at that time, on \ing some of the Knobbers who were g timber lands owned by Cireuit court be ing the flogged timber agent fled to Ozark for pro bers were hunting the n the Knol I was ybers ¢ and I supposed the Knob ates and 2 etal is as ck t¢ reported. » their reconnoitering f. All of this information a the movement to attack me I have ed from mer tion since the his band. aber I never the of org intended earn- to months before arrest of Walker and | whipped alive by the Bald Knobbers the the so that -lareproach to our people punishment of crime can scarce y led in the courts of tion of the Union, and I think the | newspapers ought Prempro mo rable fact public as they have the Bald Knobber troubles in Southwest Mis so damaging abroad What Am I to Do? which have been sourl, and hea or Constiy syimpt ‘There order its efficacy. cost Mrs. Cleveland's Ponies. The pre from Hest original determination as to esident has so far relented buy for his wife a pretty for the and a pair of small brown horses 1 phieton, with a seat behind yroom, or her exclusive use, and thereby h atale. A aman in Richmond wrote a pathetic letter to the president not long since, which by some inadvert- ence on the part of the wise vate secretary,” fell into his own hands. In it the man went on to say that he had mar young and beauti- ful girl three mouths before, and he had bought for her with many f¢ nd anticipations, a pair of horses, for which he had searched the south over, and she drove them for a few short weeks, and then, on returning from a drive one afternoon, died sud denly in his arms from heart disease. He could not bear to see these re minders of a happy past any more, and Mrs. Cleveland the only woman into whose hands he was willing to have them fall. He con cluded by saying he was too poor to was give them to her, but he wanted her to have these treasures of his pretty dead wife. The president, without having seen the horses at all, tele- graphed to have them sent on. and in a letter following inclosed a check for th They came, saw quer or as they are jeentle little animals, a d peace reigns swhere phia N from ho Blood ints, Sweeney, 9 eS, are jubil: | the news that | appeals to-day th rendered illitie s | opt din this city Oct which the saloors | would all have been closed the first The dec corpus ion election hi ober, under ion was on of & & lefault of pay- case to jail over ing beer ilman, contrary to the provisions of the law. nsconvtntnintiinguastsesaeestbranbtnicecnt chante ie riailtnainie