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three or four chance tickets out he door. She opened the door end el He Would conduct e drawing. First ‘he strange women went in. The deceased lend would offer each holder of a ticket one was asleep when she went in; she doUhr for bis chance. Sometimes he looked over at him and then took from8|would feld op to $5 tor a chance the bureau a revolver that the deceased There were always “cappers” or men | had left there before going to bed, andhim once. Not a wordwho were eomiwas spokenhotexhidayroon As iving with the scheme, shot lit the crowd and they would sell ont and she went ont immediately after the I sire*at two or three dollars over the one shooting, aa did also the hack driver. I and dollar invested, immediately after She knew neither of the parties to ih* {vste which “Coal Oil” would touch a secret shooting. Ionic___• k i lii * • - •__.__lt;__ ii.i * - •spring%Hh fats knee and show that the____1 1 1 IJ 4-___1 .1 1____AOQUE BOLAND,roonIsP6noer’ “ ahe known SLIunwu #10 to f2u. This sicitsd the l al. m®dcrowd and money flowed into the car- W t^ed mit the deceased went ^riage freely, to such an extent in fact to her house between 12 and 1 o clock (fainthat the swindler would make as much I Thursday night. He ordered a drink M *2W ^4ay.J*me “Johnny V’ | gnd ,ften«rda went to M*ud Hunter’su, A boot daylight a strange wo-cappers drew 120 prises and then re fused to return him the money when the gang of confederate* got together later in the day to divide the bootyrooian and a hack driver went to her house and asked abont a party thatWhich caused “Johnny” to remark that went to her honfce earlier in the night, there were more ‘rwolfs” in Terre After some parley about a room theyW.divichonflclusiHaute thmn guy pigce of its he had | insisted on seeing the deceased. She visited.' I finally knocked on the door and thea gatthe ‘ fleeci“Johnny” had been here before, the | giri opened it The woman walked in last time about a year a^tx When I we room, picked up a revolver fromqufound dead he had $7.36 on his person, the bureau, turned towards the bed on a diamond scarf pin and other valuable which the deceased was lying, and jewelry. James liyers during the in- shot him. After the shooting the wood a statement that the de- man and the hack driver left as soon owed him $20, took out ad- as possible, ministntor’s papers and now has all fbancis cain,the effects in his possesion except a recalled, said: The woman told him small amount of monev,. the diaap- the deceased had two or three hondredin the I dolUr8j which ghe WM a(raid he WonldS11 pearance of which is exp^H. | following item of police news:, James Hickey was arrested late yesterday afternoon by Detective Dwyer, * after a long search, and jailed on a , charge of larceny. This consisted in i going through the pockets of the dead I Hall* from which it is said he took between $5 and $6. Furthermore it is 1 said he looked at the dead man, raised up his head, and then remarked: “Ispend, and that was the reason she wanted to find him.Jwonder if his shoes wouh^tonej” j^Biickey Served one term in th3Hickey is a tough citisen and hasforstealing from Pritchard’s saloon. He will liave a hearing this morning onthe charge above given.Additional details as to the crime will be found in the following summary of the evidence before the coroner’s jury:MBS. HALL’S 8TORY.Three physicians, Drs. Moorehead, Roberts and Swafford, were at the jail yesterday afternoon, in consultation over the woman’s case, it is supposed to determine whether she is sane or not. She is certainly nearly distracted through mental anguish and distress.% ^ • * IThe following story, in substance, she told to Chief Fasig, having refused, on the advice of her attorneys, to see or talk with reporters, or to be sworn at the coroner’s inquest Wednesday night she slept very little, as she was preparing the packages tooth paste for her husband. Thurs-nignt her hpsband did not come home after lie quit work selling. She looked out of the. window of her room a^ the gt. Charles house and could see up Third street that he had quit wore. She laid down and dozed away and woke upi between one and two o’clock: her husband had not returned and she started out to huntANDREW MORRISSaid he had known the deceased since1868. In 1868 he was known as JohnDiamond in the oil country. In thewinter of 1871 and 1872 he met him inNew York under the name of John Dry. Further, he said he was called to No 20 north Second street and in aback room found the deceased lying on his face, with his head and shoulders under the bed. He carried a valise found in the room to the corner of Second and Main streets and left it in charge of John Burns, bartender, subject to the order of thecoroner, and returning as soon as possible pulled the deceased from under the bed thinking him drunk. He turned him over on his back and found he had received a wound about three inches below theright nipple.. . He was then alive, but died iff a very short time. He in mut-8alNievenwhorang*Sullr.wentlast i sayintellinAugnsecrewhicl for SiThe iand fc four i rules, herea the gi per o shareBo* chief race lt;twent veste but h Theeery itered something but it was untelligi-1 addit hie. Morris said he was the party he(AUdayhad described as John Diamond and John Dye.(JAMES m’kenna,Policeman, said he was called about 4o'clock by a telephone message statingthat a man had been shot at Secondand Mai n streets. H e went there, wastold the man was dead, and then wentto the St. Charles hotel lookiffff tor the woman who did the shooting. At the corner of Third and Main fie met the hack and the driver said: “This woman wahts to give herself up. He got in the hack and asked the woman tor the pistol. She said she had given it to the driver. She wanted to go and see her husband, hut he told her she couldn’t see him.the n won,TEhim. She said she paid $10 to a man, 1' _.b. tart kaowwbo h. to, to toll h„ |~Staub’s livery stable where the lieutenant was met, who told them to takewhere her husband was. She found in 'tfiff place she did under the instances already narrated. Sheit was all done so quickly that sheher to jail and lock her up, whichdone. ln; the jail ahe said the revolverlooked at hisI father’s remains in the morning. Laterhe was found playing about the jail where his mother is confined.THE INQUEST.JOHN CAIN,Ex-policemen, testified that a littleafter 12 o’clock Thursday night Henry Baker and the deceased, after taking a drink at the National house, got into fiishack and told him to drive to Mrs. Michael’s on north Fourth streetAfter going there they! went to No. 20 north Second street, where he left thedeceased at twenty minutes of two o’clock. Baker went away in the hack.FRANCIS M. CAIN,hack driver for C. P. Stanb, said he was called about 2 o’clock in the morning and told to go to the east side of Sixth street He went over and found a woman there. She told him to take her to all the saloons that were open. He took her to a saloon on the cornerof Second and Main streets, which, was the only one found open. She . drank a glass of beer. She then told. him to drive east and see if any saloons were open. He went as far as Ninth street but found none open. He then went hack to the National saloon, where she told him to ask if any person had seen the “com-und” man. The bartender told him igbthim ana Henry Baker away. She then£thought that John Cain had takentold him to drive around to the “houses” to see where he had gone. He first drove down to Nell Decker’s; then to John Cain’s residence, No. 914 south First street, and asked him where he drove the man to; he told him he had taken him to No. 20 north Second street. The woman then said to drive to the St. Charles hotel. They went there and she told the night clerk if her boy woke up to take care of him until she relumed. Then she ordered him to drive to No. 20 north 8econd street They drove there, and rang the bell. A girl opened the doors, and the two went in. The woman awed the girl if she had any room to rent The girl said “No,” but ....._ .afc*iAd found it on'thSJmreau. She gave her name as Sarah Hall, and said she was the wife of the deceased.« » * • 4 ' » 4 « • • •HENRY BAKERtestified that he had been with deceased on the night in question. Deceased played faro and lost $110. Calling a hack, they drove around some timeand he left deceased at No. 20 north Second street. Deceased was under the influence of whisky and said his name was John Hall. 'He had about $8 when Baker left him.r . C. E. VANDKVER.testified that he knew the deceased;that he knew him as John Williams,John Hall and “Coal Oil Johnny.”He was here about six years ago and again about a year ago. The last time he was here he wanted to start a gambling room.DR. T. W. MOOREHEADtestified that the bullet went throughthe heart and lodged in the muscles of the hack.1POST (MORTEM.The body was placed in a coffin and taken to Undertaker Katzenhach’s tahlishment. There Dr. Moorehead, assisted by Drs. Spain and J. R. Crapo, held a post moitem discovering that the bullet had cut the heart. The bullet was a No. 32. In the evening the body was taken to the cemetery and placed in the vault.NO NEWS FROM HIS MOTHER.Coroner Drought sent the following telegram yesterday afternoon to the mother of the deceased.Terre Haute, July 20.Margaret Hail, St. Joseph, Mo.:Your son. John B. Hall, was killed here this morning. What shall be done with the body? ** A. J. Drought,Coroner.At a late hour last night no reply had been received to the above dispatch.-the landlady would soon be down, and she would say. When the landlady came down she was asked about thetwo men who came thereat two o’clock. The landlady said one of them was then in the house. The woman then said she wanted to see him. They went to the hack room, and knocked at the door. A girl opened it. The woman walked in, and looked at the deceased, who was asleep. She said nothing, turned around, took a revolver off the bureau and fired a shot She came out of the room, got into the carriage and told him to drive her to the St. Charles hotel. She went into the hotel hut soon returned with a hoy and told the clerk to lock up her room,A House With m Record.The house where this tragedy occurred has witnessed two similar previous transactions. One of the women inmates killed herself, by poison some years ago, and since then a man from Mareball, Ills., died while in bed withan inmate. Another curious fact is that Jennie James, who formerly kept the house, had a murder take place in her house in Kansas City, Mo., only a few weeks ago—a husband killing his wife, whom he had found in her house.ss she was going away. She got in the hack and said sn6 wanted to give her-“Coal Oil Johan?” la Clncinaati. Wednesday’s Enquirer.The festive bunko man was once more run in by the police yesterday on information furnished by people living in the vicinity of the “joint,” which was in the first-story front room of a building on Plum street, between Fourth and Fifth. A sucker had justTalk lt;W/the H man i that i John impoi the fa theC BarthqualitIt wi could becau thecc no fapensequestall thlt; beenIuiriiorqiKeanNw Foo, i has sney, ta duelatter1discufwithChinhim n friencshalltemptcowarmeetwillKearianxioand oINE!Of St:teredto-dajIslamthe pidesire the la letter “I hitalkintervie publii I havlt; do nc oblige the u* clineBosTewkiwaspAll ol repority.St.plosiomixinpersoiinjureChleGen. good tThedamajThe faribc year aTheself up. They started for the jail. Af-1 been steered to the house and hadn’t ter going a littllt;revolver to Cain, with the remark thatte ways she gave theshe wouldn’t use it anymore. Going to the jail the turnkey was the only one there and they started back to police headquarters. Two officers were met and the whole party went hack to the jail. lt;MAUD HUNTER,An inmate of Aggie Spencer’s house, said deceased went to the house between 12 1 o’clock. Alter buyingbeer they went to bed together, and____the deceased at once fell asleep. About I of course a stranger 5 o’clock in the morning she was I rented her front roo awakened by some one knocking at the’was the agent of atime to try his lock before the officers appeared and arrested the dealer and steerer and captured all the traja On Plum street, near the joint, lives Mrs. Freeman, who rents rooms, and who, from an experience had during Colonel Carson’s term ss chief of police, knows many of the bunko men bysight Her experience was the same as that of this lady, and her roomer waa no other person than Coal-Oil Johnny. One day Coal-Oil, who wasto her at the time, i, saying that he lining company.oppre dead cThe la con; the glJohiday, ij nst c« A rcty, mIn wh incbeiIt wdistill rules lt;dlsregto prliTheportashowfromseasoiThe comm dorf c latratl Juaterdent.
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Terre Haute Daily Wabash Express
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Jul 21, 1883
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