The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-29

ENPoRIA, Kas., Oct. Elm the
Walkup cass this morning DR.. Charles
w. Scott, of Kansas City, testified re-
garding Mr.. Walkup's call upon him
ia December last. The witness idenli-
fled man present in the court room as
the one who had called with Walkup.
During thst visit Waikup described
his ilI-health, and said he had been
using arsenical and mercurial prepA-
ralions, touicS and vital stimulants,
including Fowler's solution.
Nathaniel d. Morton, of VIdslia,
Louisiana, an elderly and
sickly-loosing man, editor Of
the Sentirel, Of that plnce, who
was identified by Dr.. Scott 81 having
called with Mr. Ward, corrobCratGd
tho DOCTORS testimony regarding the
interviews. The witness also related
alleged debauchsrios carried Oh by
Waikup Gnd himself ia Kansas CltY
and elsewhere ct various times, in
1884, recting them in manner and
with gustu, expressive Cf q total dis
regard OF all character fIr morality
that exhibited the witness
as p phenomenal specimen
of deprsylty in regard to
licentinusnssa. He claimed TO have
made Walkup's acquaintance at Kap-
sas City in the winter OF 1888, end to
have been Nruund with him iu Z hnuse
OF ili-fane In ihat citv i9s5 December
and April; 10 have procured waiter
grl called Misa Fulton Rs consOrt Tor
Welkup st Dodge City last April, end
another iCr himself; thar Walhup met
thsm st Newt0a; that the parry oil
went ON jaEbOree to Kanses City;
that he saw W9ikup take arsenic on
the cars after lesviUg Em poria; he said
no was taking IL fGl Seuerit
disease; that he saw him on the boat
going down from s.. LDni9 10 N0T Or
leans, in Dacembar; saw him IN Nav
Orleans in April: was with him Ia DR..
Sc0ty5 uflico IN Kansas City; s4w him
Ea arsenic the last Sunday ia No
vamber, ia house of iil-repute in
Kms3a City, and in tho parior OF the
Lsdell h0tol; saw him Gake argenic
three times Ia ali; tbs first he card OF
the Waltup case wos by reading tho
tAati,gpBy Of Mr.. BaldWiu before tho
coronei'5 jury, and he qt orc
wrote % Mrs. Ws'liup TINT no WAS
with Mr.. Walkup on the boat.
This willing witbass was severely
cross-examiaed by Mr.. FieGhGn, who
asked him series Of questions ia 70.
gard to his alleged rGilroad tiip with
Mr. Walkup, his visit with him 10 DR..
Scott's Office, his presence on the
steamboat and other mstters, and the
witness was almost entirely at q loss
to give any account of himself, except
no stated with great precision in re-
gard to the character OF his association
with Mr.. Walkup. He failed to give
any account of mis- whereabouts and
business for two years past.
Taur Wnpd nT Eansca Citu Cprp,arju
deputy sheriff, testified to seeing Mr..
Walkup end the witness together in
Kansas City last Anril.
I'll. Parkman, OF Emporia, testified TO
seeing Walkup at the latter's hOus9 on
Saturday, August 10, where the latter
told him ne had been sick with vnmit-
ing and purging on his way down from
Topeka; that he thought he would
die. When he gos home
his wife exhausted herself in rubbing
him and trying to restore him.
Gideon G. Miiler,of Hutchinson, ,testi-
| fed that Mr.. WalKup had said to wit
ness on che cars last June, that he was
not we'll, that he had bsen sick the pre-
yious winter and took arsenic then,
and that i5 nearly got away with him,
The State objected to the admission
OF tho testimony es to what Mr..
Walkup hsd said as to occurrence g
prior to this conversation. An argu-
mont followed, and pending thu judges
decision, court adjourned until alter
noon.
When court re-assembled, Judge
Graves announced bis ruling, that the
| jury should disregard what the wit
neBs had said that Walkup told him
relative to taking arsenic the winter
previous, but they should accept the
remainder of tho testimony.
Among other witnesses this after
noon, q coloyed barber, named Fleet
Wood, living IN Atchison, testified
that he oncs took Mr.. Walkup, while
in Topeka, TO the room OF colored
prostitute AZ his request, and once to a
housej So Atchison.
DIR. w, c. Hamilton, nt Topeka, tesh'
fisd thst Walkup haei applied 10 him
for Treatments for s. pills On cross-ox-
sgiinAiian wiIness admirled that he
Dsden t,asihefs of issisieg haalsn oei-
tifiCsfeS rs prostitutes. Tna othcS tEA-
tisss,saN @aaof ngtafo eimilAr so tha
,lc1eAosas. y
Arrested fer arson.
CHroAsc, 0ct. 2T.--sP. tar FfAnken-
bscb, recently president OF the Ksppts