The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-04-11

Johanna SchOllman during her life
time. She left my house one Sunday
evening, October 23d she left in a
buggy saw the horse and buggy, but
saw no man. She said she was going
to her uncle's. She took off her cloak
ut my house while she lunched. She
left there about o'clock p. m; l
never saw her again.
VIM Ho,ce SWorm-Defendant cameN
to Mr.. Fields stable the night of then
killing and secured horse and buggy
and took it away about Z o'clock. He
came alone and left alone. He re-
turned about nine o'clock.
RENTS DICK BUGGY
4. j. Field, s,cora-I was running
a livery stable on West second street
the latter part of October 1892. l
let horse and buggy to the defend
ant one Sunday night-the night Jo-
hannah Scholman was said to have
been killed. l rented no buggy to
any enc that evening but defendent.
The defendant was at my stable next
morning and took bundle from the
buggy which he used the night before.
CAN'T FIND THE KNIFE.
DR.. Emil .MueM, coroner, sworn-I
have practiced medicine twelve years.
Described the wounds in the girls
neck and said if she had had attend
ance, the flow of blood could have
been stopped and her life saved. The
wounds were sufficient to take her
life in the absence of attention. did
have the knife that was found in the
vicinity OF the murder but it has been
mislaid and l cannot find it. The
body was little warm when l exam
ined it. The body had been dead
probably, four or FIVE hours. The
inner jugular vein had been pune
tured. l found the woman pregnant J
"a tietus about three months old. Iii
was female tt,tus.
POSSIBLY OUTRAGED.
Dr.. 4. +. Dressel, acorn-I am a
physician, been praeticing ten years.
/ knew Johannah SchOllman. The
witness described the wounds IN her
neck after she was dead. Saw a
bruise on her jaw. Blood was oozing
from the raqiina. The cause of the
latter was evident to me that she had
been outraged.
State rested the case.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The defense commenced the intro
duction of witnesses.
George Stetler, NJ. W. North,
Taylor Williams, Emert Hardin and
Thomas S. Webster were introduced
as witnesses and sworn. None If these
testified to anything of moment show
ing the innocence of the accused.
Frank Rose, s,corn=The general
reputation of Dick Robinson was
good.
The court fined Mr.. Rose 81 and
Charles Guenther 81 for not being on
hand when subpoened as witnesses.
Mr.. Guenther testified to the gen.
eral character OF Dick Robinson.
J. J. Kinney was called and had to
explain to the court why he was not
on hand when called as witness.
Mr.. Kinney, j. H. PilkingtOn, J.
&c. Thompson and Aug. T. Fleisch-
mann all testified to the good charac-
ter Of Dick Robinson.
DIR. Fleischmann and j. c. ThOmp
son explained to the court why they
were not on hand to testify as they
were summoned.
Sam Rose and Mayor Stevens were
each fined 81 for not answering sum-
mons As witnesses.
The court in its mercy subsequently
RENTED the fine against Capt.
Stevens. and a smile mounted. the
mayors visage.
Defense closed.
The court then instructed the Jury
to remain together over Sunday and
in charge of the sheriff. He suggest
ed that they peruse the Bible but not
90 to church as sometimes the preach
ers were not the most discreet people
in the world and would preach that
that should not he heard by the jury.
The court then adjourned until
Monday.