The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
First Intimati0n of the Line Of
Defense
AN OLD. FASHIONED ALIBI
For the Man Accused of CoId.Blooded
Crime
The Brother Of Member OF the Grand Jury
Which Indicted Hearne Flakes
q Deposition
Associated Press Special Wire.

KANSAS CITY Nov. 3. "A deposition
was taken here yesterday which discloses
for the first time the line of defense to be
followed by DR.. Joseph G. Hearne and
his wife, Fannie G. Hearne, who are in
Jail at Bowling Green, Pike county,
awaiting trial next month for the muir
der in Hannibal, OF Amos J. StillweIl,
who was tho husband of Mvs. Hearne at
the time of the murder.
On the night of Decsmber %, 1888, Mr..
Stillwell and his wife and DR.. Heafne
were at New Years reception at the
home OF Lyman P. Munger, ex-state rep
resentative. They left the Munger resi-
dence to return to their home at about IL
o'clock and it would have taken them ff-
teen or twenty minutes to reach there.
1t is said that DR.. Hearne did not leave
the reception until about midnight.
About 12:45 o'clock, according to the
evidence of different witnesses. Mrs. Still
we'll rang the bell Of DR.. Aliens house.
directly opposite her home on Fifth
street, and told him coollv that her hus-
band had been murdered. DR.. Allen
woke up Mr.. Ligg. a florist, who was his
next door neighbor, ana they went across
to the Stillwell mansion and found Mr..
Stllwell lying fully dressed, face down,
on the bed with his head split open to
the shoulders by a blow from an axe.
which was found later in the yard cover
ed with blood.
The deposition taken yesterday was
g,veh by James q. Dulaney and was
taken by George NJ. Harrison of Hanni-
g. No.
James G. Dulaney is the youngest son
of William II. Dulaney, rich man of
Hannibal, and one of the proprietors OF
the Empire Lumber company. His
brother. George W. Dulaney, was men,
Der OF the grand jury which indicted DIR.
and Mrs. Heame.
Mr.. Dulaney testified that on the night
of Dece m Der 30, 1883, he was at the Snit-
GERS barber shop on Broadway. between
Third ana Fourth streets, in Hannibal.
He looked at the clock when he left the
barber shop and 1t was exactclly mid
night. He started west on broadway to
go to the home OF his father at No. lis
Walnut street. He walked one block. to
the corner OF Fourth street, and went in
to Bisssr's saloon and drank two glasses
of beer and ate two sandwiches. lie was
there about twenty or twenty five min
utes and then started home again. Just
before he got to the Office of DR.. Hearne.
which he would pass j.; going home, he
saw the doctor at his door.
HE was standing on the doorstep, out
side the door, rafting the knob. trying to
ascertain if it was closed, l guess" said
Mr.. Dulaney. HE came down to the
sidewalk and I, who had known him for
years, said: How do you do, doctor
He did not seem to know me for sec
ono. 1 told him who l was ana we
walked together to the next corner. the
corner of Sixth street. We stood there
few minutes talking and then he babe me
good night and turned north on Sixth
street toward his home and l went TO
mine.'
Dulaney says it must have been apou:
- 80 o'clock when he met DR.. Hearne.
AIR. Dulaney said that he was able TO re-
call the date of the meeting because he
heard the next morning OF the murder of
Mr.. StillweIl, and that fixed the date in
his mind.
The attorneys for DR.. Hearne say that
it will be easily proven that he was in
the habit of going to his Office before 60
ing home whenever he vas ont late at
night and that there was nothing unus-
ual In his coming out of his office on the
morning of the murder. They say that
the meeting of DR.. Hearne and Mr.. Du-
laney at 1890 o'clock is proof that he
could not have murdered Mr.. Stlllwell or
assisted in his murder, tecause he left
the reception after midnight, and it
would have taken him at least twenty
minutes to walk to his Office from the
Munger home.