Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, June 21, 1894, Image 1
B'xlu Hiluiical nuclei THE 8 ATTSMOU WEEKLY OTJENAL" JL ii ill " BE JUST AND FEAR NOT." VOL. 13. SO. 26. PL A. TTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 21. 1894. $1.00 XF VSiSfftSc. THE NEGRO CONFESSES Sam Payne Says That He Murdered Maud Rubel. ATTEMPT ROBBERY AT WABASH lturglara Hlow the Safe in tlic H'lm,h 1'ufttotticr, but are Frightened Away Due of the Burelar In Cap ture! Other Items. Sam I'ayne Confesaen. The mystery of the Ifc.ud Ilubel murder at Omaha Las at last been cleared by theconfessicnof Sam Payne, colored, last week, to newspaper re porters and tlie officers in charge of the police station. Payne admits kill ing the girl and clears "Dr." Brown, who has been under arrest twelve days for the crime. Sam Payne frankly and freely admits that he killed Maud Ilubel Sunday morning in the McIIugh building by knocking her on the head with a board after having been crimin ally intimate with her. In relating the murder he referred to it as "that business." He frequently broke into hysterical laughs. He said: "I had been down to see 'Sugar Lump' Clark (his mistress) Sunday morning and on my way to mother's house I met Maud Ilubel very cloe to the lailroad tracks. My former acquaintance with her was such that I had no hesitancy in asking her to go into the vacant building, S10 south Tenth street, with me, because I had been on intimate terms with her for nearly two years. She readily as sented and we entered the building to gether and repaired to one of the va cant rooms. After remaining a short time I was about to leave when Maud asked me for $2. I refused, and she threatened to call the police. I was afraid of being arrested and told her that I had no money. She demanded money, and started to walk to the stairway. I seized a piece of board and struck her with it back of the left ear on the neck. She fell with no other outcry than 'Oh.' I hurried out of the building and 1'id not return again un til 6 o'clock at night, when I robbed the bodv." Attempted I'oKtottiee Kohbery at Walmuli . An attempt was made Tuesday night to rob the postoilice at Wabash, and it has developed that Wm. May, who is now lying here in the county jail, charged with the burglary of the M. P. depot at F.lmwood, was mixed up in the affair. Several men have been loafing around there lately aDd suspicion was directed toward them. Several business men of the town kept watch and at about 12:30 six men e V tered the postoflice, returning to the open street in about an hour when lire was opened on them by the watch ers. At the same time the explosion of the postoflice safe was heard. The thieves made for the woods, Dring as they ran. One of the robbers is thought to have been hit. Early Wednesday morning a man was seen to emerge from the elevator, where he had been in hiding, and was arrested. He proved to be the man who broke open the depot at Elmwood on Mon day night, as several of the things taken were found in his possession. May was to have bad his prelim inary examination before Justice Archer Wednesday of last week, but waived the same and was accordingly held to the district court. A Second Couf eitclon . Sam Payne, the negro who confessed Wednesday to the cold-blooded, de liberate murder of Maud Ilubel at Omaha, was taken to Lincoln Thurs day for safe keeping. Thursday threats of a mob reached the Douglas county sheriff and at 6:30 he took Payne in a hack and boarded the B. & M. train for Lincoln, arriving at his destination at 8:30. He was met at the depot by Sheriff Miller and Payne was soon behind the penitentiary walls. and he seemed very glad of it. Sheriff Drexel was accompanied by three deputies, but the prisoner at no time waeJiandcuffed or chained. He seemed to think that the sheriff was a pretty good man to stay with. The threats in Omaha against the negro were heard on every hand, and it is asserted that Payne would have undoubtedly been lynched Thui3day night had he teen left in Omaha, and it is believed the mob would have lynched two others confined at the same lail. one a mur derer. The most startling part of the affair was a second confession made by the burly negro while on his way to Lin coin to Sheriff Drexel. He 9tated that he had been hired to kill the girl by Dr. Brown and was to get 120 for the work; that he was to have met Brown at the scene of the crime at 11 o'clock at night, but that. he gr-w afraid and did not dare go back after he had gone and robbed the body. Pvne told 'he heriff that he was not"certaSn of b"is f!rinfensorf.' but .iritemTod to tell the r - - -. i , torV Of Br6wn'-O0nItion Wl-j give any motive for Brown's action in the case. Immediately after arriving in Lin coln Sheriff Drexel telegraphed Chief Seavey at Omaha to hold Brown. After the confession of the negro Wednesday, "Dr." Brown, who was first accused of the murder, was liberated, but it was the intention of the officers to hold him as a witness anyway. At last accounts Brown had not been rearrested. Payne was very much frightened when the start was made at Omaha, but after leaving the city his courage returned in a measure. When put in the penitentiary he appeared to be elad to get behind the bars in the cell house. The Sinall-l'ox Scourge. John A. Croak, clerk of Platteville township of Mills county, Iowa, has made an official report of the small pox epidemic to the board of health of that township. This report shows that eighteen cases have developed, and the case reported Friday in the family of C. B. Ault at Bethlehem was not included in the report. Thus far four cases have resulted fatally. Wm. Sherman, Mrs. Oliver King, Frank Templeton and Mrs. S. F. Hunter. The report says: "On Monday, April 30th, 1S94, my attention as mayor of the incorporated town of Pacific Junction, was called to the rumored existence of small-pox in the family of L. A.Sherman. Inspec tion of the cases by Dr. L. B. Bacon as health officer of the town revealed two cases of varioloid, and his diagnosis of these two cases was subsequently con firmed by Drs. DeWitt of Glenwood and Hall of Plattsmouth. The Sher man family was at once legally quar antined, as was also the families of Mrs Alph and Mrs. Hunter, satisfac tory evidence of exposure being given in each case. "On Tuesday, May 8th, a case was reported in the family of Joseph Bac cus, of Bethlehem. This case being under the jurisdiction of the township board of health, I immediately notified the members thereof, and their action is, of course, a matter of record al ready. Constable Isaac Ballard visited Bethlehem, quarantined the family of Joseph Baccus, where the disease was found, and the families who were known to have been exposed to infec tion from the case existing. Mrs. Baccus is known to have been infected from visiting the Sherman family be fore the nature of their disease had been difiovered. "On Monday. May 14th, by my order as township clerk, l r. Bacon visited the family of W. G. Templeton at Pacific City and reported a case of small-pox. Frank Templeton being the patient. Quarantine was at once es tablished over this family and prem ises." Try Gering & CVs for cigars they keep all kinds. Ihe Maximum Hate Cane. Argument in the celebrated maxi mum rate case before Judge Dundy of the United States circuitcourt, sitting with J ustice Brewer at Omaha was re sumed Friday morning, Mr. J. L. Webster taking the floor make an oral argument for the state board of trans portation. Mr. Woolworth, represent ing the railroads and especially the Union Pacific, has filed a written brief setting out the contention of his plants. The prayer of hi3 petition in the case is that the court may decree the law unconstitutional and it is asked that all companies be restrained from observing its provisions- A vigorous plea is made against the right of the Nebraska legislature to establish "reasonable rates" at all, and the question of reasonable rates having received full discussion, as a result of his investigation Mr. Wool- worth holds that under present de pressed conditions Nebraska railroads are not beginning to earn enough to support themselves. Grave Robbing In Southern Nehrxxka Several years ago Tina Newbury, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Newbury, now living in Colorado, died at Hubbell, down in southern Nebiaska, after a short ill ness, lasting less than a fortnight, and was interred in the Maple grove ceme tery, five miles southeast of that town The occasion was a sad one. as she had made for herself a large acquaintance. On Decoration day, a little more than two weeks ago, while the 1,000 people were gathering at the pretty grove at Ida to witness the exercises of the day, Samuel Newbury, a brother to the dead girl, in company with a friend from Hubbell, visited the grave, and to their astonishment the appearances showed traces of fresh ground and signs of a disturbance, as though some one had been tampering with it. The thought struck the young men at once that the grave had been robbed, and immediately procuring a spade, with which to probe the matter to the bot tom, they began a search after. the body. After digging for some time they reached the casket. Opening it, they found it to be empty, the body. hazing been removed. i,T he robbery is I niC ,-. v., i.nn n'A i n ' ri i j 1 z.w MJv, .Kvurina- afci.WnW for disef tiff' anrks. More 'ipd prices. BOS OF LITTLE CONCERN. S Says Matt Gering as to the Mo tin t Dismiss Hill's Appeal. TO BE ARGUED WEX WEEK. Mr Gering Will 1 There. Hut Antici pate That the Appeal Muxt Stand Laborers In lt-tiiand on the II. & M. Kxteuxion. A rather important move was mad in the case of Murderer Harry Hill Friday at Lincoln, when Attorney General Hastings appeared before the supreme court and moved to dismiss Hill's appeal on the ground that Hill's attorney had not complied with the order of the court in filing his brief within the time allowed him by the court for that purpose. It was during April that the court gave Mr. Gering, Hill's attorney, thirty days in which to file a brief, but as this order had not been complied with the attorney gen eral moved that Hill's appeal be dis missed. A copy of the motion was forwarded to County Attorney Travis, and by the instructions of the latter Sheriff Eikenbarv served the same upon Mr. Gering Friday evening. Lawyer Matt Gering, counsel for Murderer Hairy Hill, was seen-by a Jouns'Ai, reporter Monday and in re gard to the motion which Attorney General Hastings lias filed before the supreme court to dismiss Hill's appeal on the ground that the tiling of the prisoner's brief h;id not been filed in the required time, Mr. Gering stated he had no fears that the motion would result disastrously to the appeal. lie admitted that when he first took the case up he asked for thirty days to piepare his brief, but the time given proved insufficient and he then asked and was given by the attorney general a further extension of time which was really indefinite as to its length. The arguments on the attorney general's motion will be had before the supreme court on Tuesday of next week, and Mr. Gering will be on hand to present his ssde of the question. Mr. Gering says that the state cannot force the matter to a hearing before the September term of court, and in view of that fact it is not likely that the supreme court will take any snap judgment and dismiss the appeal be fore the regular time of hearing, i'ri vate information from the attorney general is to the effect that should the court refuse to dismiss the appeal, the question of a new trial will be settled. anyway, early in October, and as there is believed to be very little doubt but what the court will affirm the sentence of hanging found in the district court here, it seems certain that Hill will swing during the month mentioned. Laborer In Demand. Mr. James llivett, superintendentof buildings for the B. & M.,is just in from the work on the Montana exten sion. He states that the work is pro gressing rapidly. Track-laying has been going on for two weeks, and his carpenters are busy putting upstations and section houses. There is still some need of men, and a few are going to the front. Mr. llivett thinks this a very hot region compared with the Big Horn mountains. Only Sunday he was making snowballs. Lincoln Call A Kate Miixh at Denver. A dispatch in the World-Herald from Denver reads: "Charges are to be preferred before the Western Pas senger association in Chicago against the Burling'on office in this city for violating agreement rules. Evidence has been secured, accompanied by tickets and affidavits, to show that General Agent Vallery has been sell ing to city teachers summer excursion tickets to eastern points before the open date of July 5. Other teachers desirous of taking other routes re vealed to rival agents the work of Vallery and they forthwith prepared the testimony. The matter will not be taken up by the local passenger as sociation, as it would probably en danger the positions of the teachers in Denver next term. A "representative with the documents is now enroute to Chicago." Two of Otoe county's old settlers went to their last home Saturday. John T. Martin, who had lived in Wyoming precinct since 1856, died very suddenly from heart failure. He had uot been feeling well during the day. and a physician was summoned He soon rallied and escorted the doc tor over his grounds, pointing out numerous improvements. A few hours after the doctor's departure Mr. Mar tin suddenly expired. Mrs. Polly Huckins of Nebraska City was the second to expire. Mrs. Huckins went to that city in 1SG9, where she re sided up to l.er death. She was a of the , Methodist ichiircfjmdiHd.reyii'i1syftdtaired and been 'icv'f, . . . .: -. if In HTI.A 'I i :.'' v J-T- ' ' - " can so UU. r- PaKtewr Vri r or paring..-. itx COLLEGE HILL NOTES. Plenty of rain and everybody is happy. Cherry picking and cherry pie is the order of the day. John Ossenkop is building a fine picket fence around his house. Mrs. Julia Frampton of Lincoln is spending a few days with her parents, helping them pick cherries. August Ossenkop has had his house, barn and every building painted. Thos. Williams is also painting his house. Our university boy, Henry Lehuhoff, jr., is spending his vacation at Dome, handling the cultivator, instead or reading Ciesar. William Wegener is again digging for water. He went to China once be fore to get it, but failed. We hope he will meet with better success this time Louisville has a fine trade. The reason is the people support home, not Omaha. Whv don't the people of Plattsmouth do the same.A Try for once. Farmers held a great deal of corn for fear of a failure, but the prospects lor a big corn crop is good, and the old corn will be sold. This means better times. Our young neighbor friend, Fred Stohlman, is seriously thinking of soon visiting Judge llamsey to ask his ad vice about getting married to a Miss Kopke, residing near Murdock. College Hill school closed last Friday with a picnic, and our teacher, John Current, will take a trip to Europe California. Denver, Beaver Valley and land in Alaska before coming home. TalK of hard times ! . It looks like it here ! Everybody is improving their homes. Henry Lehnbotf is building a hog pen and wagon shed, and will have his house, barn and every building on the place painted. Some western people, who left Chase county on account of the drouth there, bitterly complained of the way they were treated at w averiy. iney were told that they were nothing but vaga bonds, and were refused water for themselves and horses. And these people at Waverly pretend to be God's people eood Christians! Shame on them! Hell is full of such people. Death of a Former Cans County Citizen. One of Nebraska's earliest settlers, Mr. William Dodrill, died at the home of his son, J. W. Dodrill, ot l'rairie Home, Lancaster county, June 12, 1S94, aged seventy-one years. Ihe deceased was born in Nicholas county. West Virginia, April 4, 1S23, where he resided until 1SG3, when he removed to .NebrasKa and settled in cass county, near Weeping Water. He joined the M. E. church while a young man and was a devout christian and an earnest worker in the church. lie leaves a wife, four sons and three daughters, together with a host of friends, to mourn his loss. Found The finest soda water in the city at Gering & Co's. We can suit all in hammocks. More than fifteen different styles and prices. Leiinhokf Bros. lias Little Hope. An Omaha paper quotes Lawyer Matt Gering as saying as follows re garding the appealed case of Mur derer Harry Hill: "I suppose that Hill will hang, probably some time in September. Of course, we did the best we could to save.him, but it is such an open case that I can really see no logical reason for expecting any thing but a decision adversely to Hill. Perhaps it would make no difference how the court decided, for I believe there are people enough who would not hesitate to lynch the man if any delays were interposed." It never fails Gering's Blackberry Cordial for summer complaint. Mis Mauzy Win Another Medal. Miss Maud Mauzy of this city, the winner of the silver medal in the lo cal Demorest contest June 5th, scored another victory at Murray Thursday by winning the gold medal in the con test open to :ass county. The affair was held under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. and the attendance was large and the program interesting. Miss Mauzy is earning quite a name as a declaimer and her friends feel proud cf her record. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Vandeventer are called upon to mourn the loss of their baby, aged thirteen months', who died Wednesday of summer complaint. The funeral will take place from the residence on Platte bottom at two o'clock Thursday afternoon. The news that the Plattsmouth school board reduced the salaries of teachers for next year has at last reached the sleepy town of Ashland. It is now a certainty that the re duction is known all over the state, as Ashland is about the last town in Ne braska to learn what is going on in the world. Dr. Scliildknecht was called over to Pacific Junction on Tuesday night to attend a child in the family of L. A. Sherman. The doctor found the child in a very critical condition, suffering frorc an abcess near the heart, and de cide J that the only chance to save the little one's life was through a surgical operation. ' The operation was per formed, and at the last account the cftndi'r'tf the child was somewhat ed. into having an on y cost you your life. :re U arurteed to EISH, Has determined r-rr ADni CCC The prices quoted are Bona-Fide and Fifty Cents on Every Dollar: . - K .J-- ) g o CO o Q S (3 : : u t O r - Jf? , , . AoT k i ; - i i ? c5 "1 g S - 5 ? $ g a J - fit S y I HO NOT BUY ONfc UULLrtno Clothing, Furnishings, Hats, Caps, Boots r: Shoes Until you have seen this great Sacrifice S?-j. ELSON THE CASH CLOTHIER, PLATTSMOUTH. Charged With Cruelty. A sensational story, in which the! charge of cruel treatment of an inmate of Lincoln hospital for the insane nas been going the rounds in a quiet way for some time, was published by the Lincoln Call vesterday. The charge is that Eugene Montgomery of Omaha, who wa3 a patient at the hospital last January, was starved and beaten Dy the attendants, and this being touna out by his brother-in-law, J. A. Buck staff of this city, he was removed in a wretched Dlieht. sore and bruisea from beatings and nearly exhausted by the cold and neglect to give him proper food. Superintendent J. r. nay, wuo is n charge of Lincoln Hospital for the Insane, when asked about the case, said: "I do not believe there is any truth in the statement made as to cruel treatment. Montgomery was only in the hospital two weeks, and durine that time he received treat ment as other patients, and perhaps a ittle better than the usual, it any difference was made. He was only visited once by his relatives. I have the utmost confidence in the employes and do not believe that there are any of them who would neglect or mal treat a patient as is charged. I do not understand the animus of this story of mistreatment of a patient, it there is anything of the kind why is an investigation board not demanded? believe the story is made out ot whole cloth. 'The sisters at St. Elizabeth hopital, where Montgomery was taken when removed from this place, said to me that there were no evidences or his having been mistreated. At least that was the report of their talk. The subordinates, in whom I have the utmost confidence, tell me there was nothing of the kind." Dr. Hay was appointed superinten dent in 1893 and succeeded Dr. Bow man in that position. He has been connected with the asylum for twelve or fourteen years in the capacity of as sistant and physician. Judee Archer is attending the dem ocratic silver. conference in Omaha to- ay, as one of the Cass county dele gates, consequent there was .no 1 t justice cour Red Lette u U UL to Sacrifice his Stock HP VA F. Keaa tWWtlwT,T,"TT" o Spring, 1 House-Cleaning and 1 JLNtJW l UI GO Nature supplies the first, the the second, Pearlman PEARLMAN has the Stock, his Prices are S" g 5 5 Sure to Suit. If you want anything in the way of HtW 5 FURNITURE, for either Parlor, Bed Room, Dining Room 5 or Kitchen, PEARLMAN has it at the Lowest Price. I PEARLMAN, The House Furnisher. t OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE, PLATTSMOUTH. Notice. Having purchased the meat market on South Sixth street of Gus Hinrichs, I wish to say to the public that I shall thoroughly renovate and relit the place and conduct a strictly first-class market. I have secured the services of Mr. Bilstein, which alone is assur ance enough that customers will re ceive the best of treatment. I shall be pleased to see old customers and have others give me a trial. IS ' W. G. Keefer. Men are made manly, the old made young and vigorous by Magnetic Xer vine. Sold by Fricke&Oo. To the Public. The Plattsmouth Ice company will now contract for delivery of ice by month or season. Leave orders at A. II. Weckbach's grocery store or 515 Main street. All orders or communi cations will be promptly attended to. For Bent Three good dwelling houses, conveniently located and at reasonable terms. InticQjf . . - J. II.TiiRASTirp, Agent. lilcaU odor in perfij me "Lilac r It, ot Mercnanmse, i i iniS litst iciunjf. will Save You vwm. .,y lliLUi HAND IN HAND. 5 Busy Housewife must attend but lor trie last, Is the Careful Buyer's Refuge. J 1 j mm Ten Tons of Medicine Won't do you a3 much good as a week's stay at Hot Springs, S. D.,the great est health and pleasure resort m the west. The Burlington's local agent will gladly give you full information, and also if you ask for it-a beauti fully illustrated folder. J. Fkakcis, G. P. T. A., Omaha, Neb. For summer complaint use Gering Blackberry Cordial. , ; ; Judce Chapman came up fromjNe- braska City last evening, having wound up the district court term in that town yesterday. He will hol.I court here today and tomorrow, and next week will go to Holt county to try the Barrett Scott embezzlemen' case. . - One of the fastest railroad run 4 record was rand ,'Jthe C, li on Tuesday, lai.1,' tootTJee cpj of bulk tobacco t-siribbr;; eighty-four hours of its coi at Louisville, Kyaievlistancf nine hundred JTos. ieV Louiavllle at'T' p. m- ' TJr oTirl nrV3 rtI.. to Vi ....u.AMtMfiimimomHo session of police day at his depart lit of Justice. . . ' e. it ,4: Us I - -CL s - - - ' r-A Trv