The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 28, 1897, Page 2

a Ht Bf ia i TTT 'ASTORY THAT WAS NEVER! TOLD. TWO MURDERS IN THE WILD DAYS OF | THE WEST BOTTOMS. | Old ‘Sully’ Might Have Cleared Up the | Mystery Surrounding the Killing of Chris- | ; tian Schubert—-The Murder of Tom Mc-| « Donald—A Son of the Murdered Man Died | Yestarday With His Father's Murder | Unavenged. ae &,.C. Times | Willard Sullivan, otherwise known } $ Has on band a large amount as “Sally,” died a pauper in the) or short time. charity ward at St. Margaret's hos- pitel in Kansas City, Kaneas, last Thursday night. “Sully” died with @ secret, one whica to bave been; } given out would have proven of} } interest to many people in Kansas; } City, Kan. It would have cleared ‘ap a murder mystery which has been standing unexplained in the town across the Kaw for the past twelve years. One which will continue to that desires come and see us. Aenea & FRANK ALLEN, Secretary. A RUBBER. ST. JACOBS OIL SORENESS AND STIFFNES ee es | against j ; THE WALTON TRUST “COMPANY Of Butler, Missouri, Bates County farms at low rates of interest, and on long We inyite every Real Estate owner in Bates County a uew loan er to renew an old one, to P Rates lower and terms more reasonable than { ever before given in Bates county. yn PR RRRLRRRPRR ARAL LDR PLD RAP PPP IL | MRS TODD CONVICTED. Daughter. Hettie Bethel. two or three # vigorousrubs. | GiyEN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. Mrs. Virginia eharged with the nurder of ber daughter, Hettie Bethel, *which has the circuit court of Ralls county, in of money to be loaned on at nine o’c'ock last night. punishment at the state p2zitentiary. 8| The jury arrived at a verdict in 2/30 minutes, but did not report until vened court. When the jury regort ed Mrs. Todd was present, and she gave way to her feelings and cried bitterly. She expected to ke ae quitted, but the verdict meets the é WM. E. WALTON, § President. $ Pes stand unexplained, as the only wit- ness tothe tragedy is dead. That witness was Willard Sullivan, and it was on his death bed that he made the wish toa sister at the hospital that he could unfold his tale. An officer was dispatched for because the dying man wanted one. Hear tived too late, however, a3 “Sully” was uoable to say a word when De tective Walsh of the Kangas City, Kan., force kneeled at his bedside and requested the dying statement. There was a look of disappointment in “Sully’s” eyes and his mouth moved as in great agony, but no und came. He wanted to tell the atory but couldn't. From developments in the last few days, there seems to be not the least doubt but what Sullivan wanted to tell what he knew of the murder of ‘Obristian Schubert aod Tom Me Donald. Schubert was murdered on the night of September 27, 1885. His death caused the murder of ‘Tom McDonald the night of Nov. 27 following. Who murdered the first man has always been a mystery The cause of the murder of the sec nd man has been equally as mye ‘terious. Certain it was, however, ‘that the killing of the firat caused the killing of the eecond. It was Willard Sullivan and the murderer only who knew the real facts in the ease. It was the facts, so it is atrongly believed, that be wished to tell on his death bed. AN OLD TRAGEDY RECALLED Christian Schubert and his wife were two of the finest musicians that had ever been heard in the West They traveled from town to town playing in concert halls in tho differ- ent large cities. This man and his wife arrived in Kansas City in Sep tember of 1885, and made several different stands. On the night of the 27th Christian Schubert left his wife and journeyed to the bottoms At this time West Kansas City was noted for numerous tough dives, its galoons and its gambling houses Many a man was shot and in many instances fatally wounded over a game of cards. The patrol wagons of both cities were called many times fo remove the wounded and dying from the scene of a drunken saloon fight. Schubert was anxious to see the sights and he went into the bot toms unaccompanied by anyone After yisiting several saloons he went into the Keystone, near the old Sixth street bridge. He drank con- siderable in this place, and when he left he was unable to tell which way he was going. He journeyed toward the Sixth street bridge. Nothing more was heard of the man unti! the next morning when a farmer cross- ing the bridge discovered the lifeless body of the musieian. His clothes had been ransacked, his watch was @one and some valuable rings were missing. Woo had committed the ect? Tom McDonald was a police officer on the Kanses City, Kan, force. So was Henry Donnelly. These two were among the best men on the force, and their acquaintance in this when he heard a shot coming from the direction of the bridge. He bastened to the scene and at the! east approach of the bridge met! Donnelly “Did you hear that ehot just now?” said McDonald, addressing the other officer. He ignored the question,but eug gested they go on the bridge and investigate. McDonald scented trou ble right away and he afterward told it that he was afraid to accom- pany Donnelly on the bridge. He | refused and McDonald walked back to the police station. Donnelly went | to some other locality, just where, | no one ever knew. The next moro ing the announcement was made that a farmer had discovered the lifeless body of the musician on the bridge. The barkeeper in the Key stone told just when the murdered man had left his place; McDonald | told when he had heard the shot and how he had met Donnelly com ing off the bridge when he was making the investigation. Together with this, there was no one else on the scene. The evidence all tended to show that the policeman knew something of the tragedy which he did oot wish to tell. In fact the cir cumstances made many believe that he was the murderer. Schubert had $400 on his person when ho left bis hotel in Kansas City, Mo. Be also} had a valuable gold watch and valu- 1 able jewelry on him, all of which was | missing the next morning. Up to the night of September 27 | Henry Dontelly and Tom McDonald had been sworn friends Aftec that evening they were sworn eremies. McDonald feared Donnelly and Don- nelly knew it Both went prepared. There was not much of an investi gation of the tragedy and during the next month both policemen went on day duty. There was much talk | in regard to the affair, ard there were all sorts of rumors circulated. | The majority of thess were to the} effect that Donnelly bad probably | been doing a good desl cf the rob. } biog on the old bridge, the opinion being firm in the minds of most cf the people that he bad murdered the musician. In November McDovald | and Donnelly went oa nights again | on their same old beat. They quar- reled frequently, so it was stated at | the time, and on the night of Nov. | 27, just two months after the other | tragedy, Tom McDonald was killed. | His murderer was Henry Donnelly, and the act occurred directly in} front of Willard Sullivan's saloon at the State line. Donnelly killed his fellow officer by pouring three bul lets into his heart. The unfortunate man died almost instantly, and was | unable to say a word. Willard Sul- | livan was the only eye witness to| this killing. He heard the argu- ments had by both men before the | shooting and saw the victim fall. | What was more, “Sully,” co it is, claimed, kcew the inside of the} Schubert killing, and it is tha facts in both these cases that he died | with. Donnelly pleaded self defense | in court, but he had no evidence to} tough locality made them quite prove this, and he finally pleaded | fitted for work in the bottoms .|guilty to manslaughter. He was | K. Serviss, who was city marshal at givea two years in the Kanzas State the time. They never traveled to- penitentiary and served for eighteen gether, but made their points and/montts. On leaving the prison he kept track of one another during the! went west and nothing hasever been tight. | About 11 o'clock of the night | heard of him since. | of the 27th Tom McDonald was| The theory as to why Donneliy | standing neat Wood street on Sixth] killed his fellow police officer was } committal on the subject gave rise {hold up. It is thought they were | bis (Donuelly’s) life | partuer of the groom. After a wed- approbation of the citizens gener- ally This case nas been tried four times, each of the former trials re- sultiog in a hung jury. The mur- der was committed in Hannibal on Jane 15, 1895. The victim, Hettie Bethel, was Mrs. Todd’s own daugh- ter and was about 17 years old. She was the victim of her mother’s in- sane jealousy that McDonald knew more about the bridge tragedy than he ever told and more than Donnelly wished him to tel. McDonald being nen- to the rumor that he had been given half of what Doncelly gained by the arguing on this matter when the shooting took place. Williem Hig gine, a hack driver, who has since died, claimed at the time of the mur- der that be saw tho tragedy and heard Donnelly eay after he had fired shit ‘Dead men tell no tales ” He g.ve this stitement to the news pape s, but when he got on the wit- ness stand he denied having said it. Sullivan lef; the city immediately after the suvoting and steid away until after the trial of Donnelly had been concluded An Extra Twinge. When the weather gets cold and damp, per- sons subject to rheamatic attacks expect an extra twinge of their old complaint. There is one way to prevent this, viz.: bv taking in advance a short course of Lallemand’s Spe- cific for Rheumatism. It enters the blood and Cestroys the rheumatic acid in every part of the system. Gives quick relief from pain, quiets inflammation and performs a perma- nent cure. Get your blood cleansed of this acid poisonin advance of the rough weather season, and you will safely pass through un- affected. Tallemand’s Specific is an anti- acid, safe, thorou, per vial ‘Sold by h and reliable. Price $1 Clement & Co, HAVANA A DEATH TRAP. Su'liyan and Donnelly were close Guilty of the Murder ot Her Hannibal, Mo, Oct. 21 —The case; B. Todd,; been in progress since Monday in| New Londor, was given to the jury! The jary |} reported at 8:30 this morning, fied-! ing the defendant guilty of murder! in the second degree and fixing her! twenty-five years in} this morning, when Judge Roy con-| RII “Ds ne see ae SPS ies So Ss AAAA A . ee eee $21,006 T W. Lecce. For all repairs, or parts of Buggies, Surri road wagons, farm wag. shafts, neckyokes, whe top, Isell the best ‘Bugov Paint on Earth. phsetons &e,poles, | Probably Wanting tor Mrs. Wiiliam dashes, cushions, Amesbury of Osceola. | Osceola Democrat. Wm. Amesbury, who lives in the oe eastern part of town, is a man in} moderate cireumstacces and works | DO NOT RUIN THE WHEELS, by the day to provide bis family , W!l! furnish you a buggy with the necesaries of life, and is} HIGH OR LOW GRADE now employed at the uae works. for very few dollars Iam thankful to all. who He formerly lived in Clinton and at ae nei ree havea tint aaa one time was keeper of the poor angine convinced that this ts the right plage farm of Henry county. There is a bit of romance connect- | ed with the good fortune that is said to be awaiting Mrs Amsbury out in Colorado In her youthful days she had a lover and the time was fixed for their marriage. As will some- | time happen they bad a lovers’ quar | rel and the day before the wedding was to occur the bride to be, ina spirit of pique, married another ad- mirer, her present husband, Wm. Amesbury. The rejected lover, how- ever, never lost his admiration for the woman he had expected to mar ry, and the other day, when death came to him, it was found that be had willed to her a snug little for-} tune, said to be about $21,000. An agent of Mre. Amesbury is now in Denver and sbe will know at once the extent of her good fortune and W. O. JACKSON, LAWYER, | BUTLER, - - MO. Will practice in all the courts, Smith & Francisco, LAWYERS, Office over Bates Countv Bank. Butler, Missouri, Thos. W. Silvers, J. A. Silvers, Silvers & Silvers, ——ATTORNEYS !AT LAW— BUTLER, - - - - - - MO. Will practice in all the courts. A. W. THURMAN, ‘ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, fr.euds, and it is thought that Don nelly made a full confession cf bis his qime to ‘Sully’ and induced him to leave the city ia order to eave Starvation, Yellow Fever and Small-Pox Claim Many Victims. Washington, DC, October 20.— Dr W. T. Brunner, the savitary in- spector of the United States Marine Hospital Corps, stationed at Havana, in his report to the Surgeon General this week, gives some startling in- formation as to bealth conditions in Havana: “Deaths from starvatien are occur- ring now daily, and I would put the deaths from that cause at fifteen for tbe past week. If the number of Ton MeDova'd had two sons, John and Peter. John was the old- est acd he swoie that he would avenge his father's murder if Sulliyan would but give the facts in the case. Jobn McDonald died yesterday at the bome of his mother in the West bottoms. His last wish was that the mystery surrounding his father’s deuth be cleared in order that the how soon she will begin to enjoy it. | win practice in all the courts. Ofice orer Bates County Bank, Butler, Mo. (tf)> RAVES & CLARK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office over the Missouri State Bank North side square. Is Your Tongue Coated, your throat dry, your eycs dull and inflamed and do you tee! mean generally when you get up in the morn- ing. Your liver and Kidney are not doing their work. Why don’t you take Parks Sure cure. If it does not make you feel better it costs you nothing-— Sold oy H. I Tucker | DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, front room over McKibbens ore All callanswered at office day or night. BOSTON deaths could be got at correctly this number would be doubled, but sta- tistics here are hard to obtain. There were eighteen deaths from yellow fever reported in the City of Havana, sixteen among the Spanish soldiers and two among tbe civiliane, I would state that these figures do not show the true state of affairs, but in my report for the month of September I embodied the correct yellow fever figures, which have been obtained after much expenditure of time and labor. | “Smallpox is azain on the increase. puncte were four deaths from this disrease during the week, ncne of them among the soldiers, but evi- dentiy among the country people who have been compelled to eater The deaths from other fevers have not increased much, but the deaths from intestinal diseases are increasing daily. It will be noticad that there were eighty eight deaths from ent:r itis and dysentery. “It is impossitle for any one to have a correct idea cf the lack of sanitation in. this city without an actual inspection of premises and strests For ten consecutive days it has rained hard, and the streets bave been deluged with water for several hours duriog each day, yet pavemests and sidewalks remain filthy: The water of the bay has grown filtbier every day from the cbaracter of his parent be freed from suspicion. Found Gaity. Nasbville, Il!., Oct 20 —The at- teation of the Circuit Court to-day was given over to the hearing of the case of Sam Watts, charged with criminally aseaulting Annie Kratz of Dubois. Tbe trial attracted much attention, us the crime was one of the most heinous ever committed in the county. Watts isa coel miner and a murderer, and hes served two terms in the penitentiary, while his victim isa girl about 15 yeara old. When the crime was committed Watts narrowly escaped being lynch ed by an infuriated mob of farmers. The jury took th» case at 4 o'clock, and after remaining out five hours returned a verdict finding Watts guilty and sentencing him to 25 years in the penitentiary. Secretary Lesueui’s Daughter Weds Jefferson City, Mo, Oct. 20.— Miss Florence Lesueur, daughter of Secretary of State A. A. Lesueur, was married to-night at the resi- dence of her parents in this city to William C. Gower, an attorney of Marshall, Mo. The ceremony was performed by Rev. G L. Neide, rec- tor of Grace Episeopal church. The weddiog was private, no cards being issued and only relatives, intimate friends and Siate officers were pres- z ent. The attendants were Muse | 0H! swept from the streets into the Octavia Lerueur, sister of the bride, | S¢Wers and discharged by them in‘o and T. H. Harvey, cf Marshall, law }the bay, yet there appears to be t much filth remainiog ” the city by the government Bryan to Speak in Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 21.--The Deceraiie State Committee will ding supper Mr. and Mrz. Gower} departed for their home at Marshall. | Orear Revokes a License. Jeffersoa City, Mo., Oct. 20.—Ea | bring Wm. J. Bryan int> Ohio fer T. Orear, State superintendent of| the last four days of the Inst full| insurance, to-day revoked the license | Week of the campaign. He fcliows of the “World Mutual Benefit As.|Senatcr Hanna for three speeches a sociation,’ which has been doing a| day Moctpelier. Defiance, Van Wert. | life insuratce business in this State. | | mee) 3 ze Mount Vernon, Newark, Shawnee, This is the result of an investication| > aapiagg nee, made by the superintendent which | L°S*®- McArthur, Jeckson, Green-| showed that the asscciatioa is in anj field, Waverly and perhaps Cincin.! unsound condition. nati. MEAT MARKET, Cc. W. PROCTOR, Pror'r. Successor to J, F. Uemstreet. pecialattention given to temale dis eases. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. Office norto side square Butler,Mo. Diseasesof women and chil en aspecialtv. DR, J. T. HULL DENTIST. Newly Fitted up Rooms, Over Jeter’s Jewelry Store. This shop from now on will be run in first-class style. Will keep none but the best meats on hand for sale. Give me a call and I guarantee satis- faction. Cuas. W. Proctor, i Southeast corner of the square, first door east of the Grange store. SETTLEMENT DOCKET, Entrance, vame that leade to *Hagedorn’s Studio, north side square , Butler, Mo, Probate Settlement Docket November Term, 1897. Ist Dar, Nov. 81. } Estates. i Rosella Hagan, RT Hagan Adm’r j Clarence L Reece, Mary J Reece G & C. { r | Martin A Badgley, Wm A Badgley Adm’r. | Felix A Cox, S P Hatfest Adm’r. 2xp Day. | Cornelius Cothrien, F M McNeil Curator. | Wm A Hall, Lizzie and Wm E Hall Exee’rs. | The Old Reliable Henry Beard, Eliza Beard Adm’rx Charles Warford, CN Teeter G&C James H Steele, WM Campvell Exec’r. | PH OTOGCGRAPH ER Srp Day. | Sarah Parker, Santford Hardy Adm’r. Sabin P Kimball, Thomas McComb Exec’r. Walter Hayes, J C Clar: rator. Spencer McCutcheon et al, J P Edwards Cura George W Lee, Jr, George W Lee G & U. 4tu Day. Albert E Oweas et al, John Owens G & C. | Philip Hammond, W W Cheverton Adm’r. George Chase et al, J P EdwardsG & U. Daniel Barber, C A Bird Guard’n. | Lula B Hoffman, W R Hoffman G & C, Sta Day.> walter Jett, G B Parker Caratcr. Lule Gillmore. H W Gillmore Guardian. Sarah E Dancan, L M Singleton Carstor. Charles Denney, W PConnell G & C. Bessie Blizzard et al, Jessie Blizzard Curator. i 6ru Dar. | H O Haynes, A A Haynes Adm’r. PC Fuikersou, P H Hoicomb Adm’r. Mabel C Mize et al, Wm E Walton Curator. North Side Square, Has the best equipped gallery in Southwest Missouri. All Styles of Photogrphing executed in the highest style of the art, and at reasonable prices, Chas W ihice, Emle'Rice G8 C. Crayon Work A Specialty. Chas Stewart et al, Geraldine Stewart G&C it Dar. | All work in my line is guaranteed tc give satisfaction. Call and see samples of work. C. HACEDORN. Geo W Warnock. W O Atkeson Adm’r. David Allen, Beverly Kirk Adm’r. | Travis Payne, et al, Jas E Kash Curator. ; Camie Cooper et al; C H Cuoper G &C. | sta Day. | Pierce Cole, John Lyle G & C. Newton Wright ct al, J A Mareteller G & C, Olive Jones, H P Jones GEC. i G W Shafer, Geo W ShaferG &C. } STu Dar. Harrison Walker et al, Dan’! K Waiker Car. Ashford Kiener, B A Kisner adm’r. i Morris Cecil. D V Brown Curator. M V Hatt, Nancy A Hunt Executor. G Hess, HC Hess Executor. lorH Day. Flora Calliban, Hagh P Caliihan Adm’r. Rachel Rowe, D V Brown Carator. Samuel Passwater. J C Denton Exorutor. HC Borron, Wm H Vandusen Adm’r_ BF Shiveriy, D V Brown G & C. Rosaena Jenne, Wm Jenne Adm’r, J MJenne, Wm Jenne Adm’r. STATE OF MISSOURI ¢ 4 County of Bates. § 58- Thereby certify the above ani foregoing to | atrue and correctcopy of the Settlement Docket for the term of the Probate Court com- mencing on the sth day of November, 1347. ‘ ‘Witness my hand and seal this the | lath dsy of October, 1497 H << GROGUY fq papajud are s2yjeon [emar] ig ©} pasodxa suosi2aj 43-3 Judge of Probate. | “<