The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-06-04

Dearance of the body before anu HUI
it fell through the upper floor, and as
/ TO the efforts made in rescuing II from
the flames. McIvor detailed CONVEX
sation or two that occurred after the
fact between him and the defendant,
little Of which tore upon the innocence
or guilt of the accused.
! Not being permitted to give the evil
depce as offered, and as much of what
we have summarized will appear dis
joinied. We Will here give the sub
stance of Winners own tale. as given
to the coroncr's jury a few days after
the event. as throwing some interesting
light upon what is already offered:
81 reside IN Wichita; was very well
acquainted with Joseph W. McNutt in
his life time: have been acquainted
with him the whole time Of his resi-
dcnce in this place: WAS engaged in
the business OF sign painting at No. 13
Main street: we occupied the upstairs.
There were two rooms upstairs; the
back room was used for a shop and the
front room for sleeping. was in the
rooms on the night of the oath and on
the morning of the 18th Of December,
1873. saw McNutt on the afternoon
and night of the oath. We went to bed
at about II o'clock. both of us, in the
east room: had no clock, but it was
not far from that time of night. AS
near as can Judge il was about three
O'Clock in the morning when / last saw
him. | knew he was there after that,
as had talked to him. At or about
this time McNutt went to a window in
front and looked out. When he got
back into bed he remarked. "that
rooster is a fool" or words to that cf
feet, referring to rooster that had
crowed. He did not put on anything
except his shoes. was awake when
he got up, or he walked me in getting
up, as he had to climb over me in get
ting out of bed. He did not take off
his shoes when he got back to bed, and
he did not cover up. cOnversed with
him few moments afterwards. After
living few minutes McNutt heard the
women below stairs come in when he
remarked, "there, it is not so late as
you expected" After that | went to
sleep for very few minutes, seeming
", when awOke; did not know what
woke me, but in turning over to speak
to McNutt, something hit me i'll the
left side. l sprang out of bed and call
ed to Joe, who made no reply. lstarted
to run to the back door, but as lpasscd
through the petition some one struck
me over the head. The last blow SEEM
ed like from heavy instrument and
appeared to 60 all through me. The
first blow felt like man striking upon
the outside of the cover with his fist.
but as | raised knew | was wounded
in the side. Our heads were west
lust against the petition. AS jumped
out Of bed hollercd ''look out, Joe ~
After was struck the second blow l
did not know what followed, but |
suppose fell unconscious. The next
thing remember was seeing some one
OF the stairs running towards me. The
person was a colored man who was III
his shirt sleeves, who said nothing but
picked me up and carried me two or
three steps and laid me down again,
and went off and left me; heard the
colored man make no remarks. The
next thing remembered | was across
the street. ! did not hear a sound
when was struck. The front windows
were darkened with papers, and when
McNutt went to the window lie laid
one corner of the paper back and |
could see his head between me aud the
light. | saw the remains next morn
ing: did not recognize them farther
than piece of cloth that took to be
n part of Mack's vest. Ii had kind of
ridges or wells that run diagOnally
across the cloth by which | recognized
the vest. Am not positive of his hav-
ing this vest on. Heput on vest when
he first went to bed at II o'clock took
it from under his pillow; he had mo-
new in the vest: never saw the money
counted, but Mac said it was five hum
dred dollars. He got 1t from a man
bv the name of Mum; it was sent up
by a man by the lame of Ray, from off
the Missouri Pacific railroad. lie got
it at noon on the oath, took it up and
gave it to Mr.. Scott, of the Southern
Hotel. After o'clock | was with Nc
Mutt when he got the money back from
Scott. He stated to me that he expect
ed to get some clothing that night. We
had two hands at work for us. did
not see Sewer when he was here, but
knew he was coming. He telegraphed
on the morning of the oath that he
would start on that afternoons train.
| was not down to the depot when he
came had telegraphed him a money
order about three days before. Sewer
was house painter. paper hanger and
calsominer. | have not seen him or
had any conversation with him since
the oath. | spoke to McNutt about
going down TO the train TO meet Sewer.
McNutt thought it was no use, as we
had but one bed but concluded to go
down and meet him, and to tell him
where to find hotel: thought the
train arrived at 1920. but on getting
to the Richey House learned that it
would be some time before the train
would arrive. sat there and talked
with the clerk and an old gentleman
who appeared to have been lecturer
for from half an hour to an hour. Some
of them remarked that it was getting
along towards train time, when |
stepped out and went few steps to
pump, took drink and started back
| to my room. Ii was about IL O'Clock
when started to the depot from the
Dolly Warden saloon, and it was neaI
| train time when | started back.I
could not have been at the Richey
! House as much rs an hour. l do not
know why changed my mind about
going to the depot; just got out of the
notion of going, SO turned round and
went back When got back we both
went to bed. warmed my feet little
while by the stove; we had big hre
] McNutt lii q candle and went 10 the