The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-28
The Walkun l,nsa

EhPoRIA, Kas., Oct. 27.-In tho
Walkup case this morning DR.. Charles
W. Scott, of Kansas City, testified re-
garding Mr.. Walkup's call upon him
IN December last. The witness identi-
fied man present in tho court room as
the one who had called With Walkup.
During that visit Walk . describad
his ili.health, and said he had been
using arsonical and mersurlal prspa.
rations, tonics and vital stimulsnts.
including Fowler's solution,
Nathaniel ID. Morton, of Vidalia.
Louisiana, ON elderly and
sickly-lookinS man, editor of
the Sentinel, Of that place, who
was identified by DR.. Scott as having
called with Mr.. Ward, corrobora,eG
the DOCTORS testimony regarding the
interview. The witness also rotated
alleged debsucheries carried on nv
Waikup and himself In Kansas City
and elsewhere at various times. In
1851, reciting thom In a manner and
with o gusto, expressive OF total d,a-
regard OF al character for morality
that exhibited the witness
~ phenomenal spscimen
OF deprSvity in regard To
licenti0usness. Ho claimed 90 bpyo
made Walkup's acquaintance at Kan
sas City in the winter of 1883. and In
have been around with him I'm A house
OF ill-fame In that city last December
and April; TO have procured q waiter
girl called Miss Fulton as n consort for
Walkup ut Dodge City last April. and
another for himself; that walkup mat
them at Newton; that the party Mi
went ON jamboreo To Kansas Cl,y:
that he saw Walliup take arsenio on
the cars aft0r leaving Emporla: ma aaid
no was taking it for yeneriI
disease; that he saw him on the boat
going down from ST. Louis To Nav Or
leans, In December; saw him in Nav
Orleans IN April: was with him I'm Dr
Scotps Office In Kansas Clty: saw him
take arseuic the last Sunday In No
vembor, In a house OF ill-rSputo in
Kansas CITY, and in the phrlor OF thu
lindell hotel; saw him lake arsenic
three times in all; the first he hoard OF
the Walkup case was by reading tho
testimony OF MIR. Baldwin beiors tho
coroner's jury, and he at orc,
wrote 70 Mrs. Wslkup that ha wns
with Mr., Wslliup on tho boat.
rms Wiling witness wns poyereIv
cross.eNaminod by Mr.. l'leghan, who
asked him series OF questions In re-
gard 10 his alleged railroad tfip with
Mr.. Walknp, his visit with him TO DR..
SCOTS office, his presenoe on tina
steamboat and othor matters, and Tho
Witness was almost entirely a. n loss
20 give any account of himself, except
ne stated with great precision In ro-
gard 70 thn character OF his assoclatlon
with Mr. Walsup. Ho fallod 10 giyo
any account OF Mia Whereabouts End
business for two years past.
Lew Wood, OF Kansns CITY, formerly
deputy sheriff. testified TO soeiug Mr.
Welkup and tho witness toretncr In
Kansas City last April. '~' ''''
ii. Psrkman, of Emporlu, tpsliiioi 10
seeing Welkup nj the latter,s honse on
saturday, August 10, whore tho latter
,olu MN ho had boon sick with vomlt- |
ing I'M and purEingon his way down from
that he thought no would
,uc' Whom ho 20. homo
hi1 wife exhausted herself IN rubblnv
MN and trying TO restore him,
gideon g. Miller,of IIutohlnsop, ,tosti-
lieu that MIR. Walkup had said 10 Wit
ness on tno oars last June, that he was
mol well, thsths had boon sick the pre. |
vlous winter and took arsenic tl,on, |
and That u nearly got away with MIN,
inc state oolos,od to tho admlssion
pu .ho testimony as 70 what Mr.,
Makup hau taid ~ 70 occurrences
pricr 70 this oouversa.ion, An srsn.
mont followed and pending ths iudvc,s
locisiop, court adjourned until alter.
When court ro.asson on,b,od. Juava
iraveH announced his rulinv' IN a, iss
.ury should disregard what the viii.
ness had said that Walkup told him
relative TO taking arsonic tha wlnter
previous, but they should sccani sba
OF the testimorsv. ''f W"
Among other witnosses thia astar.
loon, q colored barber. nsmad Fiat
soou, living IN Atchison, teatifled
nat he once took Mr.. Walkup. while
n Topeka, TO- tho room of 4 coiorsi
Prostitute at HE request, ana once To a
louise Ia Atchtson. '-- ~'s' "
Dr. w. y. Hamilton, Of Topeks. testi.
led that WAlkup had Ann ilSd "a Mir,
or .fea.ment Tor ., philis sOn cross.ex.
!minAtion witness admitted ihst he
nede businees Of issulnI hoailn csr-
!noates TO prostitutes. No otSer iSs-
lmony wAs Of = nature 0lmliar ID eho
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