, 1890-10-09

innocent and they had the guilty man
dead to rights" This announcement
struck Parkison all Of a heap. He paled
and seemed completely dazed,
Parkison mosned in his sleep Friday
night and tossed about in his bunk.
MAUDE NORTON.
In her examination Maude Norton,
whose charms are presumably responsible
foT much of the trouble, was questioned
closely and at considerable length by MI.
Stoll. On several pointsLher deposition
is in direct conflict with statements made
by Madison and Kate, the madam. The
Norton girl, who Is a neat little body with
a childish voice, denied positively all
knowledge of the parlor revolver episode
related by Madison, but agrees as to the
departure of Baker and Parkison.
Maude says that Friday or Saturday
afternoon Kate gave to one Wentworth,
a soldier, a gun said to have been Bakers.
Kate said to Maude at this time: "If
anything comes upabout this gun you are
to say hat Wentworth took it from Ba-
ker last Sunday night" Wentworth is
a would-be detective who came on the
scena with two revolvers and a knife and
who was subsequently locked up for rails
ing a rumpus at 1888" Maude says she
never saw Baker have a revolver.
According 10 Maude the collisions be-
tween Baker and Miller and Wise were
mild affairs, no fighting or drawing of
guns or knives and were afterward set
tied. She knew nothing of Baker re-
ceiving a stab and had never before seen
Miller's knife, a murderous blade recently
found in his chest at company quarters in
the post.
Baker, the girl said. had ten or fifteen
dollars in purse. There was a $40 bill and
a piece that might have been a penny or
a IS gold piece, and some silver besides.
SOLDIERS QUARREL.
j.. W. Fallon heard two soldiers
quarrelling in a saloon on 18th street the
night of the murder. Psrkison was in
the place, but the witness could not with
certainty connect him with the brawhnR.
Geo. E. Cobb also heard the difference
and is inclined to the belief that Parkison
was a party in the ~wrangling.
ANTICIPATED ARREST.
Peter NJ. Katis was a member of a
detail working at Camp Carlin the morn
ing of the murder. Parkison was in
charge of the squad. The killing was
talked of and in this connection Parkison
remarked that but for the fact he knew he
was about to be arrested he would desert.
When Katis and another boy in blue
likewise at the Annie Rooney stage of
intoxication reached the post, it was 8
o'clock. Katis thinks they were two
hours on the road and says they left
Parkison sitting at a gaming table when
they started from town.
AsoN OF TEMPERANCE.
A big, red faced duffer who strided in
beside Capt Smith, proved to be John
Wentworth who is supposed to have had
Bakers revolver at some time. Some
how Wentworth's opening statement was
to the effect that he was a high minded
gentleman who refrsined from gazing on
the wine when it was red. from rushing
the growler, chasing the duck OF d~allying
with the flowing bowl, This confession
was taken with..salt, as the'man had been
arrested in a gorgeous state of intoxica-
ton the night after the murder.
Wentworth said he had planted a cou-
pie of revolvers on West Ninteenth. He
and Constable Smith were sent to resurrect
the plumber and returned empty handed.
After these two passes and in the light of
Maud's reference to Wentworth as a
sleuth, the jury didn't care to hear the
man further and let him 60.
BUYING LIQUOR.
Ed Contraman, night bartender at the
Chicago saloon, identified Parkinson as the
man to whom he sold half a pint of
whisky the Thursday night.
Dr. Warmers natural