The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14
AN ADVENTURES.
Second Cousin Named Josh Figures In the
Hattie thomas Case.

Yesterday the case of the state VS.. John
Burnett was called mp Cor preliminary hear
ing before Justice Tucker and the defend
ant was bound over o the district court in
the sum of $50 which be has not yet given
! owing to the fact that be is a stranger in
town. The charge against him was as
sault with intent to kill.
Abner Evans the Joplin hack driver was
the first witness called and he told the
history of the trouble in the Clement
block and showed the wound or his side
where Burnett's bullet plowed a ragged
furrow several inches long. The
next witness was Hattie Thompson To
the casual observer she appeared to be so
modest that butterine wouldn't melt in
her mouth, but judges of human nature
could see in her supremely innocent actions
that she was an adventures She has had
the sympathy of nearly every body here,
but every body is usually blind to the
workings of the heart and mind of an al
ventures, and particularly so if she is
beautided with powders and couple of
we'll REQUESTED dashes OF paint on the
cheeks and lips. Hattie is not pretty, but
she looks pretty. If she had lived in the
art of facial decoration and mantua-mak-
ing she would be considered homely
enough. The mock modesty with which
she told her story brought tears to the
eyes of those sympathetic old chaps who
! heard her, all of whom declared that the
man who would impose on her girlish
| innocence ought TO be lynched
| In fact her modesty was such that she
h. ;,,i
! the presence of so many men, and when
she had given in her testimony she went
out in the hall and walked up and down
therein, like one in deep trouble, which
increased the sympathy of the crowd for
her. In an exceedingly sweet voice she
| hailed a reporter for the EAGLE, and, !
divestiDg herself for the time being of her |
modesry, she told him her story, and no
doubt went away with feeling that he |
believed every word of it. She was right, |
of course; for who could doubt II story /
falling from the lips of such a fair woman,
whose associations were - Joplin mack
driver and Kansas bartender The sub
stance of her story WAS that she Is a
widow, which seemed to be very i'm
pOrtant and interesting fact that she
was born in California; that her uncle died
there some time ago aud left her heir
to $50, 600 which she is TO get early next
March; that she came over to marry John
Burnett in order that she might have a
home and somebody to take care of her.
Most people would consider it rather queer
that she would be in such rush about
getting such a home as Kansas bar
tender could afford her a few short months
previous to coming into possession of 49,.
900, but then a Wichita reporter is usually
too gallant to doubt even the inconsistent
statement Of a member of the fair sex.
Nor did the further statement voluntarily
made by herself, that she did not love I
John Burnett, raise any doubts. On the
contrary she said that John loved her des-
and made the statement with the
usual sub rosa in functions that it was her
honest opinion that when John pulled the
revolver he intended to kill her first and ]
then kill himself, all of which would, in I
deed, be very tragic and interesting to the /
treless searcher after the fieeting red hot {
item. 6
"Oh, l hate to think John must go to '
jail, said she with a sigh. eff he does l /
will live near him and carry him all the
nice sweet things to eat that can buy"
and still she said she did not love him. '
She then reverted to her Joplin connec-
tions, and seemed to feel very much {
grieved to think that the EAGLE should t
call her ga waitress" "Why," she said, G
II never waited on the table in my life but v
two days, when helped lady friend that i
keeps the Windsor hotel at Joplin" She b
then explained how she considered it
shame that John would not marry her,
and stated in very irregular language,
from grammatical standpoint, that her t
and accomplishments fitted her Y
20 become the wife of any man in the land. s
She then spoke about her second J
cousin" at Joplin, young man bearing
he classic front name of Josh, who it ap- h
pears, sent the hack driver over on account Fl
If his special fitness in the line of pugil il
SIN to accomplish her separation from i
Barnett She would not give Josh's d
asst name for the reason, as she u
tated that he was married man. IA fact .
\ hich seems to indicate that the ethics h
If Joplin society do not admit of married o
men showing any friendship whatever to
citation so long drawn out as second e
ousin." She also stated that Barnett aud Il
Josh had fight over her last summer, tl
which cost one of the parties the modest el
UNI of $50. She wound up with the dec m
aration that after reaching Joplin she cI
will go to California for the double pur- v
Iose of collecting he fortune aud remain
ng out of John Burnett's way till his in
euse love for her cools off. She left last
light with the hack driver for Joplin and r
he will probably never come back to a,
PROSECUTE Barnett for the very business 80
Ike reason, no doubt, that she does not II
are to live near the Jail for two or three q
ears aud furnish him those nice things or
0 eat which she spoke about. re
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