Has Suspicion as to Slayer?

The Post-Telegraph Princeton Mo. Wed Oct 11 1911 page 4

The Telegraph editor has not been permitted to read the evidence introduced before the coroner's jury which investigated the death of Mrs. Amanda Shirley, near Mt. Moriah on Sunday afternoon, September 18th-consequently we have no suspicion as to the identity of the slayer. That the editor of the Bethany Democrat has some suspicion of the murder is evidenced by the following rather remarkable editorial appearing in the Democrat last Thursday.

What is circumstantial evidence? We confess, here in Harrison county that it does not consist in filling the description of a little girl in being "big and fat", in being found in close proximity, according to personal confession, on the eve of the murder; starting home with a team and wife and getting out and coming back by winding and circuitous route close by the assaulted home, in going to assist in digging a dead woman's grave and getting "sick" at the task and starting away (some alleged, as the talk drifted on the possibility of getting bloodhounds, of starting to meet a train and aimlessly wandering and blundering around and missing it; of a reputed difficulty between a murdered woman and the suspected criminal's wife; of a vague, indefinite story about an agreement to return and cut corn in the vicinity of the crime; about being ten miles away from home and alone about the time of the murder; of any of the attendant and suspicious indications of a rather mysterious trip.

Will some one please write down on a piece of paper and mail to this office a description of "circumstantial evidence", accompanied by a map and chart, with the thing marked, so we can see what it is like. We want to save it and keep it for future use, in case some other home may be invaded and some other brave woman compelled to pay the sacrafice of her life as the high tribute of protecting honor and home.