Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 July 1894 — Page 5
VOL. 52—NO. 20
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.$ 8.00—Manufacturers' cost .. 10.00 .. 12.00 .. 15.00 .. 1.50 .. 3.00
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ONE YEAR!
HE CONFESSED.
Ed Holloway Makes An Admission Which May Cost Him His Life On the Gibbet.
HE TURNED THE SWITCH AT FONTANET
He Acknowledges the Crime at Terre If ante
But says He Was Forcetl to Do It By Strikers.
LSee Foregoing Article on Page Three.l The following special from Terre Haute will be shocking news to the friends of Ed Holloway in this city:
Edward Holloway, aged thirty, of Crawfordsville, Ind., the prisoner un-
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instant killing of Engineer Moelirman, of Indianapolis, and Fireman Fleck, of Mattoon, confessed Tuesday.
He made a clean breast of the whole affair. He says that there were seven or eight others in it besides himself. They were all miners. As he was a stranger at Fontanet he does not know them.
Tliey broke the switch lock with a hammer and threw the switch an inch or two. They were figuring on a freight train coming along first, and they hid in the grass to watch the result.
When they saw the through passenger train tearing down to the gulley at the rate of forty miles an hour one of the men said: "Well, it doesn't make a d— bit of difference if a couple of the scabs are killed."
After the wreck Holloway said he fled and walked all the way to Rockville, where he was arrested on suspicion, because while he "was listening to Isaac Davis reading an account of the wreck in the morning paper, he said that wasn't the way it occurred, and he told it in detail.
Holloway is a State militiaman, being a member of the Crawfordsville company of the Indiana legion. He hired as a non-union man to the Big Four and deserted immediately to the strikers.
The Big Four has offered -81,000 reward. The confession was made to Lamb & Beasley, attorneys for the company, and Sheriff Stout.
Holloway says the freight train he and his companions intended to wreck was the one containing Sheriff James W. Stout of this county and Deputy Sheriffs Crosson and Frisz.
They had been to Fontanet all day trying to restore order among the riotous miners and they had incurred the enmity of the miners to a great degree. Holloway, especially, had it in for Crosson, who had drawn his pistol and threatened to shoot liim if he did not desist pulling coupling pins.
The sheriff's train was up at Coal Bluff, about two miles distant, and was coming first, ahead of the passenger train, but orders came to the telegraph
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operator at Coal Bluff to hold the sheriff's train there till the through passenger train had passed.
This was how Vigo county's sheriff and deputies saved their lives and how the unfortunate engineer and fireman lost theirs.
The switch was thrown at a point where the train, leaving the track, it could not help but jump into a deep ully."
Wm. M. Reeves and Tom Stilwell, the attorneys for Holloway, returned Tuesday from Terre Haute, where they had been to consult their cliant. They upon arriving there had great difficulty to gain an audience with him so strict was the surveillance cast about the unfortunate young man. It was not until evening that they were admitted to the Vigo county jail by an order from John E. Lamb. They walked up to Holloway's cell and found him in a pitiable condition. He rubbed his forehead confusedly and cried when he recognized them saying: "Oh! it is terrible! I have signed a written confession to the whole thing.
I turned the switch, but was forced to do it. The strikers made me do it," lie had little further to say except that ie was to be taken to Fontanel that day to try to identify his accomplices. Messrs. Reeves aud Stilwell impressively instructed him to implicate no innoyent parties even if lie had to bear tlie blame alone. He seemed utterly crushed by his horrible position, and well he might be. His crime is a black and awful one and one of the
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most dastardly known to man. He may have been coerced as he claimed to Messrs. Reeves and Stihveli but that does not excuse him. No true man could be forced to sacrefice the lives of innocent people in the discharge of their duty. Fifty people might have been killed in that awful wreck instead of the two laboring men whose lives were sacrificed merely because they were doing their daily work to provide dailj' bread for dependent families.
It is also claimed that Holloway yet in the face of l^s written confession, says he did not doit, and there are men who say that the switch was never thrown but that the engine jumped the track.
The Latest From Holloway*
Special to the Journal. Terre Haute, 3:30 p. m.—Ed Holloway has made a full confession. He says he threw the switch, causing the wreck at Fontanet.
JSoouiing Goben'ft Opponent. Indianapolis Sentinel: Joseph Fanning has announced his candidacy for State Auditor on the Democratic ticket. He enjoys the distinction of being the only candidate from Marion county, the largest county in the State. Such a thing is unique and has probably never before occurred in the history of Indiana politics. He is making his campaign in a quiet, gentlemanly way saying nothing but good words for other candidates and merely speaking for himself. Marion county is conceded to him in the convention, for here, where he is best known, it is recognized that by education and practical experience he is eminently qualified to acceptably fill the office.
Vory Will HeTliern.
Word has been received here to the effect that E. V. Brookshire will be in attendance at the Covington nominating convention. Vory believes in personally superintending his booms, especially where there are snakes in the grass.
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HOLLOWAY'S AFFAIRS.
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Terre Haute E.rprcxs-. The confession of Edward Holloway is as follows: "I was employed by the l&ig Four company on the 11th of .luly and went to work on the following day. 1 rode into Fontanet on a freight train, arriving there at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening, July 12. The train was in charge of Conductor Weber, and I was rear brakemau. I was in Fontanet when the wreck occurred, which was between 1:20 and 2 o'clock in the morning, and left shortly afterward
When the train arrived at Carbon a crowd collected at the station and tried to intimidate the train crew. A crowd surrounded me and ordered me to leave the train. I refused to desert but went on the Coal Bluff and from there to Fontanet. The train was running slowly and a number of men, including miners and strikers, boarded the train and commenced setting the brakes. They succeeded in stopping the train and then commenced throwing missiles, one of which struck me in the face. The crowd swarmed on the track aud threatened to kill me I didn't get off. I got down as best 1 could and found myself surrounded by an angry mob. They said: 'We are going to stop the trains if we have to wreck the whole thing and you have got to help do it.' The crowd, myself included, waited around until nearly midnight when six or eight of them
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SAVS III-: WAS TltllEATENKl) WIT1I MAN'fiI.VCi. One of the party said to me, 'you will have to help throw the switch and get the freight train off. If you refuse we will hand you.' The men had a hammer which one handed to me with the remark: 'Here, you will have to pound on the lock and get it off.' I hit it a few licks but my hands being sore from handling the brakes, they took the hammer away from me and one of the men knocked the lock off and threw it away. They then asked me to raise the handle of the switch, and, being in their power, I complied. I raised the switch bar up a little and then^ome of the rest of them took hold of it and adjusted it to their own satisfaction. One of them said: 'That will be about right. We'll let it go at that. We don't want the red light to show or the trainmen will see it and stop.' I moved the switch just a little and then the others handled it and moved it a little more. That occurred more than an hour before the train along. After the switch was thrown we scattered off and hid in some weeds near the track. We remained there until the crash came. One of the men said: 'I don't care how many of the scabs are killed. After the crash all of us scattered. started west with two other men. We went about a mile and I then got separated from them. I walked north west on the C. & I. C. tracks to Rosedale. Before I left the crowd they threatened to hang me if I ever revealed anything about throwing the switch."
INTENDED TO WKECIv THE TRAIN In addition to the above confession Holloway said it was not the intention to wreck the passenger track, but the switch was thrown to ditch the cap tured coal train which had been taken from the custody of the miners by Sheriff Stout and his deputies. He said that when he heard the whistle lie knew it was a passenger train ap proaching, but was. afraid that if he came from ambush and replaced the
switch the miners who had forced him to take part in the crime would hang im. as they hail previously threatened to do.
After making the confession Holloway said he did not break the lock with a hammer but a couplingpin, taken from one of the cars, was used. He told the detectives where he threw the broken lock aud couplingpin after the work was completed. The detective and the sheriff -remembered that both the lock and -couplingpin were found near the switch in the direction indicated by Holloway.
Yesterday morning Holloway in charge of Sheriff Stout and Detective Grady, was taken to Indianapolis in the hope that he would identify Ed McCallip as one of the men who had assisted in breaking the lock and turning the switch. Detective Grady says that when the train slowed up at the scene of the wreck he pointed to the hole in the ground where the fireman and engineer had beeu found scaldcd and mangled, aud said, "Ed there is where those poor fellows laid when found after you had killed them."
Holloway, the detective says, 011 seeing the place turned deathly pale while large drops of sweat stood out on his forehead. Presently his muscles began to twitch, then he became weak and his head fell on the back of the car seat, in which position the suspect remained without uttering a word until the train was several miles east of Fontanet. On the return trip from Indianapolis yesterday afternoon, Holloway again weakened when the scene of the wreck was reached aud came near fainting. He was so weak it is said, that Sheriff Stout was compelled to support him and prevent his falling. Detective Grady says that while passing the scene of the wreck Holloway, pointing with his finger, said: "There is where I threw the lock after breaking it," and pointing to another spot said, "There between those ties is where I threw the coupling pin with which hammered 1 the lock." The spots pointed out were the exact ones where the lock and pin respectively were found.
Arriving at Indianapolis Hollowly was taken into a room in which were seated a dozen men, among whom was McCallip, who was arrested at Fontanel for interfering with the train and who is supposed, to have been implicated in throwing the switch. After looking at all the men, Holloway did not, or at least said he did not, see any person whom he recognized as one of the persons with him on the night of the wreck. He was then taken back to jail and returned to this city yesterday afternoon.
After he ha.i gone Mrs. Moerhman, widow of the engineer killed in the wreck, went to the jail weeping and asked to see the face of the man who so brutally deprived her of a husband.
IIur.I.OWAV MAKES A SECOND CONFESSION". While enroute from Indianapolis to this city Holloway made another statement to Sheriff Stout and Detective Grady. He said that he had lied in stating that he had accomplices in perpetrating the terrible crime that he had done the work alone and was alone responsible for the deed. On reaching this city he was taken to Coroner Mattox's office, where he made the second confession as follows: "I make this statement' voluntarily, no coercion or strategy being employed in getting me to make it. My statement made to the coroner of Vigo county yesterday is correct excepting that part of it which relates to opening the switch, and I make this after statement to stop further trouble and to keep innocent men from suspicion. I was the one who opened the lock and threw the switch and no one was with me when I did it. I opened the lock by striking it with a coupling pin, after which 1 threw the lock to one side."
Last night Holloway sent for Coroner Mattox and made the following denial of his guilt: "The detective made me believe that he had all the evidence necessary to convict me and that public feeling was against me and I was in a dangerous position. He said he was a friend to me and though it was safest for me to malte a confession and he would try to get me out of the trouble as easy as possible. I was in Rosedale at between 'J and 10 o'clock Thursday night and bought a sandwich at a restaurant near the depot. I would know the man whom I saw behind the counter and believe he would recognize me."
Holloway says he talked with the restaurant keeper about the fresh bruise on his face and told him the cause of it. He says that when he went into the restaurant he called for bologna and crackers. The man behind the counter told him he had no bologna. Holloway then bought a sandwich that he ate and then climbed into a coal car, where he slept until •1:30 Friday morning.