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AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS.
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Practically Nothing New In
the Sheedy Case.
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McFarland Reaffirms His Confes-
sion- Waistrom's Sta'ements-
A Hearing Friday.
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The Murder Case
Mary little. othern than the facts
brought out at the autopsy. was devel-
oped in the now celebrated Sheedy
murder case yesterday. The town was
wild with all sorts of rumors and im-
plications, but these were of two thin a
fabric to even deserve consideration.
No new arrests were made, but one
Stepney, a barber at Fourteenth and O.
was qulzzed as to what he new of
Monday McFarlands' actions on the
Sunday night of the assault on John
Sheedy. since he had on that night ex-
changed coats with the negro who has
confessed to giving the blow. Very
little of a satisfactory nature was elicited
from the source.
Whatever may have been the relations
of this negro, McFarland. with Mrs.
Sheedy, the public is loth to believe
that it was so foul as he now clamins.
Many readily concede that he is having
his say before his trail is called. that to
whiten his own record in the matter he
thinks to blackn another's and so, on
the whole, McFarland's story is sim-
mered down by the average reader a
great deal.
As stated in THE CALL'S last edition
yesterday the autopsy made by the
eight physicians before the coroner's
jury revealed the fact that Sheedy's
brain was in a perfect condition and
that his death was not caused by a con-
cussion of the brain from the blow re-
ceived. In this examination two old
wounds were discovered. one a wound
as of a bullet hole in the back of the
skull and towards the top, and the other
in the forehead showing a cavatity as
if crushed.
The wound received at the hands of
an assassin was on the left temple, but
it was found that the blow had in no
wise penetrated to or effected the brain;
neither was there any coagulated blood
there, as had been supposed, nor any
evidence of it, and though it had been
universally believed that a hemmor-
rage of this kind had produced
Sheedy's death this examination dis-
pelled it.
In continuing the autopsy to the
stomach and vital organs, it was found
by the removal of the heart
that the deceased had been a
slight sufferer from fatthy degeneration,
and in all probabillty he would not have
lived long, The heart weighed twenty-
two ounces. In the gall bladder a gall
stone weighing more than half an
ounce. The stomach, one of the kid-
neys and the heart were placed in jars
and sealed and in this state they will be
sent to the chemist for an analysis.
It is more than probable that these
will have to be sent elsewhere for anal-
ysis , for Prof, Nickolson of the state
university refuses to do the work. But,
the coroner says, outside of a few who
are directly intersted in the case no
one will know by whom this analysis is
made, for obvious reasons.
Late yesterday afternoon Andrew
Henry Walstorm, who was arrested for
complicity in the murder, was taken
before the coroner's jurry to tell what
he knew about the case. Further than
to tell the jurors that his home was at
Birmingham. Ala, that he met Mrs.
Sheedy in Buffalo, N. Y. , and that
he came here in search of
work very little light could be
give them. In regard to the ring, he
said that he posssessed such an article, a
cluster, but denied that Mrs. Sheedy
ever gave it him. He averred it was
given to him by a married lady in Bir-
mingham, Ala., whose name he would
not divulge; said it had had her intials
but he had rubbed them off the ring
Saturday, as he felt that he would likely
be mixed up the scrape. He denied
ever being unduly intimate with Mrs.
Sheedy, though acknowledged meeting
her several times, receiving suggestive
notes, etc. He denied ever meeting
McFarland or any other negro in Lin-
coin. This, virtually, was his state-
ment to the jury.
The negro McFarland was also called
to the witness chair to give his testi-
mony to the coroner's jury and it was
quite lengthy, but in substance what
was published in the papers yesterday
as his confession. In some places it
was changed a little, yet still revolting
in detail and charges of intimacy.
Later on McFarland and Walstrom
were arraig(?) to the charge of the mur-
dering John Sheedu on the night of
January 11, 1801, and both pleaded not
guilty, whereupon both were committed
without bail to the county jail to await
further hearing Friday.
Mrs. Sheedy is still kept a prisoner at
the home of the marchal, under guard,
and rumors were afloat last night that
she had made a confession; such is not
the case, nor is it likely to be. She has
employed first- class legal talent and
feels confident she can disprove the
ugly charges made against her by
McFarland. From a very good source
THE CALL learns that Dennis Sheedy,
as well as prominent with unusual sa-
gacity and deep penetration. does not
belive she is guilty of all that is
clamied.
The question of whether or not she
can come into possession of her
share of John Sheedy's estate has
been generally discussed, but in-
warrantedly so. She has not been
proven guilty and her share, as yet, has
not been tainted with the blood of he
murdered husband. The Nebraska
City case cannot apply to this, at this
stage of the proceedings.
While the evidence so far elicited
turns an unsavory light upon Mrs.
Sheedy, it may count for naught. There
is a missing link, yet, it is not unmis-
takable evidence, and there yet remains
a more conclusive, more undeniable.
more convincing testimony that that.