The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-14

Peter Hawkins, another negro who did
valiant service for the prosecution IN for
mer trials, swearing by the wholesale, did
not make his appearance this time. sup
pose the reason appeared IN the Times
which, about that time, recorded the fact
that at negro dance at his house several
persons were shot and Peter was in durance
vile. Dave Fisher did not put in au ap.
pesrsnce from the fact that we impeached
his character and fully showed that he
sworn to lies. The penalty in Missouri for
swearing falsely In a criminal prosecution
is death. II ne had appeared in Spring.
field Mrs. Heberlin would have escaped.
don't believe in capital punishment, and
don't want Dave Fisher hung, but most
sincerely hope he will be sent to prison
where he will, for q few years at least, have
time to reflect on his crimes Certainly, for
the protection OF all womankind, such
brutes ought to be punished.
For a week before the trial Dave Fisher
who had been summoned to appear against
me, hung around the court house in order
to get chance to see me, and had to be
pointed out to him before he could identi-
fy me. On the trial Fisher swore that he
had been the clerk OF the Lsclede House,
in Independence, from January to Sep
TENDER, 1884, and that Graham had
brought me and Cora there and staid there
with Us, Cora registering as his wife. Mr.,
Rexinger and I went to Independence
early in October and saw Mrs. Elizabeth
holland, the housekeeper OF the hotel, who
strenuously denied that mad ever been
there with Graham or with anybody else,
or that she had ever seen me before. why
are you so positiveP / asked, aud she an
svered that looked so much like q dead
friend of hers that she could never have
forgotten mel had been there. She made
q deposition to this, and we also obtained
the deposition of Benz amin ID. Roberts,
who also testified that had never been
there. Mrs. holland identified picture of
Sarah Graham, Graham's first wife, as Que
of the women who had stopped there with
him.
an addition we obtained the dispositions
Of fifteen prominent men of Independence,
among them being the chief of police,
several officers and justice of the peace,
all of whom testified that they would not
believe Fisher under oath. Mr.. Roberts
also testified that Fisher had never been
his clerk, but had been a waiter aud had
been discharged because of his vicious
habits.
"The whole truth of my case is that
Prosecutor Patterson prosecuted, rather
than prosecuted, me. When he couldn't
get witnesses enough against mo, and after
We had impeached Fishers testimony, he
sent all the way TO Portland, Ore, for q
keeper of bagnio. who had never seen
me. to testify against me. Another OF his
witnesses was Samuel McCracken, porter
in the Union Depot Hotel, in this city, by
whom he tried to prove that / was not q
respectable woman. McCracken would
not swear sgains me, and said boldly that
he had never told Patterson any such
thing.
This man Patterson had piles OF hotel
registers in court tn eudesv or to prove that
Cora or l had been with G rsham at hotels
throughout the country, but he did not
dare to refer to them, as had plenty of
proofs that l was far away in every in
stance.
"He tried to prove that l was at the
Union Depot II otel with Graham on May
l, 1885. l proved by the proprietor, aud
have the depositions that Graham stopped
at the Morgan House on that night alone.
The reason that the proprietor was so
certain about this was that Graham started
out o. the following morning without pay
ing his hotel bill.
81 frustrated their plans in every in.
stance, as the nolle issued last week she's VS."