St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-28
EXPOSING HIS SECRETS.
Witnesses for the Defense Testify to Many
More Irregularities by the
Late Walkup.
Several Persons Swear That His Use OF
Arsenic Dated Back For
Over a Year.
Fish Tells Some Plain Facts In HIS
Testimony Against Ferdinand
Ward.
Detectives Following Up the Case OF
Conspiracy to Commit
Murder.
w.,kup,s Life Exposed.

F,rPoR1A. Kan, Oct. 27.-In the Walkup
case this morning DR.. G. W. Scott of Kan
sas City testified regarding Mr.. Walkup's
call upOn him in December last Witness
identified a man present in the court room
as the one who called with Walkup. Dur
ing that visit Walkup described his i'll
health, and said he had the ensuing arSen-
icaI and mercurial preparations, tonics and
vital stimulantS. including FOwler'S solution.
Nathaniel D. Morton of Vidalia, Ia, an
elderly and sickly man, editor of the Sen
tinel of that place. who was identified by
DIR. Scott as having called with Mr..
Walkup, corrObOrated the doctors testi-
mOny regarding the interview. Witness
also related the alleged debaucheries carried
on by Walkup and himself at Kansas
City and elsewhere at various times
in 1884, reciting them with much gusto.
He claimed to have made WaIkups ac-
Quaintance in Kansas City in the winter of
1888; to have been cOnsOrting with him in
houses of ill-repute in that city last De-
cember and April; that he and Walkup,
with two girls, had gone from Dodge City,
Ia, on a jamboree to Kansas City; that he
saw Walkup take arsenic on the cars after
leaving EmpOria; Walkup said he was tax
ing it for venereal disease; that he saw
him
SICK ON THE BOAT
going down from St. Louis to New Orleans
in December: saw him in New Orleans in
April: was with him in Dr.. ScOtt'S Office in
Kansas City; saw him take arsenic on the
last Sunday in November in a house of i'll
repute in Kansas City and in the parlOr of
LindeIl hotel; saw him take arsenic three
times in all; the first he heard of the
Walkup case was by reading the testimony
of Mr.. Baldwin before the cOrOner'S jury,
and he at once wrote to Mrs. Walkup that
he was with Mr.. Walkup on the boat. This
willing witness was severely cr0SS-eXamined
by Mr.. Feighan, and he was almost entirely
at q loss TO give an account Of himself, except
what he stated with great positiveneSS in re-
gard to the nature of his association with
Mr. Walkup. He failed to give any account
of himself for two years past. Lew Wood
of Kansas City. formerly deputy sheriff of
Lyon county, testified to seeing Mr.. Walkup
and the witness, Morton, together in Kansas
City last April. II. Parkman Of Emporia
testified to seeing Walkup at the slatter's
house on Saturday, Aug. 15, when the latter
told him he had been so sick with vomiting
and purging on his way from Topeka he
thought he must die. When he got home
his wife exhausted herself rubbing him and
trying to restore him. g. Miller Of Hutch
inSOn testified that AIr. Walkup had said to
witness on the cars lastJune that he was not
well, that he had been sick the previous Win
ter and took arsenic then, and it nearly got
away with him.
When the court reassembIed, Judge
Graves announced his ruling that the jury
should disregard what witness had said
WaI1up told him relative to taking arsenic,
the winter previous, but they should ac-
cept the remainder OF the testimony.
Among other witnesses this afternoon was
a coIored barber named Fleetwood, living
in Atchison, who testified that he once tool
Mr.. Walkup, while in Topeka, to the room
of a colored prostitute, at his request, and
once to a house in Atchison. DR.. W. c.
Hamilton of Topeka testified that WalkuI
had applied to him for treatment for SYPHILIS
On ss-examination he admitted he made
a business of issuing health certificates tt
prostitutes. The other testimony was of {
nature similar to the foregoing.