The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-03


came IN and said he wanted to rent house,
and my father went to the house with him
and showed him around, and he came i'll
again and / made out receipt for
months rent in advance. The stranger said
that he expected some brothers and a sister
from Baltimore to come and keep house
with him. He said he would move in
In week or so, when his sister
would come from Baltimore. He gave his
name as Frank Williams. Subsequently he
brought furniture in the evening about Z 80
O'Clock. Williams came again April 90 to
pay the second months rent. l never saw
Williams again until saw him in Winni-
peg" The witness was here shown a piece
of carpet and identified il as one he had
seen on the parlor floor Of the cottage.
WILLIAMS WAS BURKE.
Q-Can you point out Frank William in
the court room?
Ayes, sir.
Q-Point him out. pleasea
A-The second one there. Pointing to
Burke.] The witness then proceeded with
his testimony, saying that after receiving
letter from Williams relinquishing the
cottage, he entered it through window on
May 10. The carpet was gone of the floor
and it looked as IL they had poured some
paint on the floor as if they were trying to
cover it. 1t had net been brushed over in
certain places.
LOOKED LIKE BLOOD.
He found stains on the base-board that
looked like blood. There was another large
stain toward near the wall and at the CEN
ter of the floor. He also found one arm of
a rocker broken and loose and the dresser
and wash stand in the center of the room
The floor was painted only in the center of
the room and on the north side. Towards
the south wall there was no paint at all
in certain places. He saw several stains
on the wall. There were stains all along
on the paper and along the south base
board In various places, that seemed to be
blood. There were places on the floor that
were not covered with paint, where there
were stains still showing.
FOOTPRINTS OBJ STOCKINGS
He saw footprints, as if the had stock
ing feet-as if they had painted in stocking
feet in the hallway and in the house. The
reference to stocking feet was ordered
stricken out by the court.) The witness
then indicated on diagram the location of
the stains. Kunze was pointed out to him
by the counsel for the state, but
the witness could not identify him as any
one he had ever seen before During all of
the time for which rent was paid the cot
tage was unoccupied. The witness was
subjected to long cross-examination,
which did not seem to develop any new
facts.
MRS. oARLsoN's STORY.
He was followed by Johanna Carlson, his
mother. Mrs. Carlson testified that on the
Sunday following May 4, when she first
went out, she noticed spots on the steps, and
that both the steps and walk of the cottage
showed that there had been much tramping
up and down, and also that the footsteps
them had been walking in sand.
She thought that Frank Williams
and his sister had at last moved in,
and that the spots on the steps were only
something that had been broken in moving.
She then described the interior of the cot
tage, the paint, the stains on the wall i, fur
niture, etc. Then at the request of the
states attorney that she point out the man
known to her under the name of Frank
Williams, If in the court, she pointed to
Burke and said: "That's him, next to the
fellow on the pillow" The cross-examina
tion was then begun.
Charles j. Carlson was recalled, and
testified that the stains in the cottage were
not there before Burke rented it,
THE HAULING OF THE FURNITURE.
Halkan Martinsou, an expressman, who
carted the furniture from No. III Clark
street to the Carlson cottage, testified hat
the job was done in the latter part of
March; that the man who hired him and
another man brought the furniture down
from No. III Clark street, and
sisted of the furniture already
described, and a large trunk, which was
then empty. The bloody trunk was brought
into the court room, and tine witness said 10
resembled the one which he hauled. 1t WAS
strapped with broad, heavy strap. The
witness then hauled the furniture to the
Carlson cottage, and, after waiting about
an hour, the man who hired him and another
man came in buggy, and the furniture
was taken into the cottage.
BURKE HIRED HIM.
The witness then pointed out Martin
Burke as the man who hired him to move
the furniture He said he had seen Burke
in Winnipeg on June 81 last. and had there
identified him in the Jail yard. After
long cross-examination, in which the facts
were brought out that the witness had
received SIS or $40 at one time and S25 at
another time from the chief of police, and
that he is now in the employ of the. city
taking care Of horses, the court adjourned
until Monday.
A LAWYER wITHDRAWS.
IL was anuOuuCeu UnIS dLleruOOu GnaU
Senator Kennedy, the Wisconsin lawyer,
who has been of the counsel for Burke, had
withdrawn from the case. 1t was said that
he is dissatisfied with the position assigned
him in the case.
Edward Spellman OF Peoria, district off,
Ger of the Clan-na-Gael, sent a telegram to
Sheriff Matson to-day saying that he would
arrive here prepared to testify in the case
Monday morning.
VIRGINIAS CAMPAIGN.