The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-15

Iartin and Laura Stevens told the wit
ess they had found the package and
-anted him To take care Of il; Laura
tevens said Il fell out Of come clothes:
be witness SAID that Mosley seemed IN
asy while he wac guarding the
and ran around FROM one thing
. another: he said he hated 10 have a
oroner's inquest.
UNDER SHERIFF KRAMER
vas examined and said ne had arrested
dosley.
The record of the convection of Airs.
Martin was fead to the jury and the de-
endant seemed considerably moved.
The letters of Mrs. Martin were offer
ID in evidence but were objected TO by |
he defense and the objection was sns-
aimed. The prosecution here rested |
heir case
FRIDAY, Feb. 8
The testimony for the defense in the
ease of the State of Kansas VS.. Mosley.
began by the reading of the evidence of
Henry Judd, in the Martin case, by Mr.
Peyton, and County Attorney Feighan
read the eross-examination of this Wit
ness by Slerry.
Mrs WILKES
was next called and testified rs follows:
l knew Mrs. Keiger IN her life Tina
she eanIOto my house the last of May
or the first of April and remained over
two weeks; talked with her but little;
she had chills every other day and
cramp in her stomach; she vomi.ed Of
ten and all the time she appeared 90 be
Il low spirits; she said she was IN
trouble; had lost child AID she said
my trouble was nothing TO hers; she
said her husband had run off with an
other woman ant had taken her little
boy with him | told her 1 could not
keep her any longer and she went 10
live with Mrs. Martin; she was sick
when she went there, and could hardly
walk
MRS BUTCHER
gave the following testimony: | became
acquainted with Mrs KeIger in April;
she rented room Of me and said she
expected money and would pay me
when it eame; she was very down heart
ed and left because l could not keep her
any longer; she said she did not see
what she had done to have 30 much
trouble, and that she was gong 10 put
herself out of the way; she cried
when she went away, and | told her
she had better not Kill herself; while
she Was at my house she
took a spell of Jerking at the dinner
table one day, and her hands twitched
and her eyes rolled
MIR BUTCHER
testified that he had had considerable
conversation with the deceased, and
that she told him she had had trouble
enough TO kill any woman, but did not
say anything about committing suicide.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Butchers
testimony eouFt adjourned till this
morning.
To-DAY's PROCEEDINGS
Judge Peyton, of the defense, was Ill
this morning but it was decided II go
on with the case and
LAURA STEVENS
was summoned by the defense and testi-
fed as follows: | lived at Mrs. Mar
tins at the time of Mrs Keiger's death
and was there some days previous; Mrs.
X. told me that she had had enough
trouble TO kill any woman, and wanted
to know of me whether | thought il
would be much OF chine to commit
suicide; she said she was going
to try and starve herself to death
this was the Thursday before her
death. Susan cursed her mother the night
before she went to Lcavenworth, and
called her hard names; Mrs. Keiger told
her she should not tslk so as she might
never see her again. The witness was
then cross-examincd 10y Mr.. Feighan
regarding love letters written by her TO
MosIey, which were produced in court.
She denied having written them and ac-
cused Mr.. SedgwIck of forging them.
DIR. SLOWER
gave the following testimony: l saw
Susan Keiger at the depot OH Friday
after her mothers death and told her of
the circum stances; she said that her
mother had said if she (Susan) left her
she would kill herself; think she said
her mother had threatened to poison
herself.
W. L. MORRIS
testified that he saw Laura Stevens
handling some clothing at Martins the
day after Mrs. Keiger's death, and that
she picked up a package that dropped
out of them and told Mrs. Martin about
it.
MIR INGERMAN
was next called and testified: l knew
Mrs. KeIger; she was very spirited
about her husband leaving her and said
she would as soon be dead as alive, but
l never heard her say she would take
her life.
The defense here rested, and the pros
ecution introduced Laura White by way
of rebuttal, who testified that she had
carried letters 10 and from Mosley in
jail.
Thos. Beers, J. G. Traylor and J. B.
Hinkle all testified that all letters thus
carried were correctly copied
A number of other witnesses were cX-
amined but nothing at interest to ihe
public was CliciiId.
SATURDAY, Feb. 10.