The herald., 1895-12-15
P|L|NG UP THE EVIDENCE
To Convict Hearne of Numbering
StiIlWell
EVIDENCE OF RELATIONS
Existing Between the Defendants Prior
TO the Crime
hsarne's Plain Admissions Of Undue Intimacy
and Threats to XIII People Whe
Knew too rIuch
Associated Press Special wire

Associated Press Special Wire
BOWLING GREEN, Mo-, Dec. 14.-There
was a feeling of suppressed excitement in
the Hearne trial this morning when it be-
came known that Susie Hayward was to go
on the stand. 1t was she who changed the
belief of Dick Stillwell in the innocence of
the Hearnes, and more than anyone else Is
she expected by the state to show the rela-
tons existing between the two defendants
prior to the murder of Amos j. Stillwell.
Mrs. Hayward said she had known Mrs.
StillwelI very we'll and often visited her.
One day in June, before the murder. when
the witness was visi ing in Hannibal, she
went to DR.. Hearne's Office about 10 a. IN.
She entered the front office, No one was
there. She went to a room in the rear and
tried the door, 1t was locked. She went
across the street to the park and sat down.
Two hours later she saw DIR. Hearne come
to the door and look up and down the
street, Then Mrs. Stillwell came out and
passed up the street. The witness accused
her of having been at DIR. Hearne's. Mrs.
Stillwell admitted it. Mrs. Stillwell told
her guest that she was unhappy on account
of her relations with DR.. Hearne and would
gladly break off.
She said she could see only trouble
ahead, but DR.. Hearne had such an i'm
fuence over her she did not seem to be
able to break away from him.
''She asked me-" continued the witness,
''if | would go to DR.. He .rne and ask him
to have no more to do with her, saying that
if he would give her up she would give
him up.
The next day at noon DIR. Hearne came
to the Stilwell house.
"'I understand he said to me, that you
know how matters stand between u.s. l
tod him / did. DR.. Hearne then said,
well, the fact is, want Mrs. Stillwell to
get divorce and marry me- He said that
if she got divorce she would have ali
mony. / told him that Amos Stillwell was
not the kind of a man ever to give his wife
alimony.
"'Do you really believe that?' he asked.
'Yes,' l said. 'Well,' was his answer, Il
could have Amos Stillwell sluRged for
$500 DR.. Hearne also spoke to me about
my knowledge of the fact that Mr.. Still
we'll had come home from st. Louis the
night when he was in the house. Suppose
Amos Stillwell had seen you, what would
you have done?' | asked. Il would have
shot him. he said. 'rhen you would have
been hanged for a murder told him.
His reply was that no one would ever sus'
pect him; that the public would think o
burglar did it,
The witness was then passed over to the
defense for cross-eXamination.
When Mrs. Hay ward had reached this
point in her testimony she sat up in the
witness chair and said: "That's all the
conversation l ever had with DR.. Hearne
from that day to this; that is all know"
and she shut her mou II firmly and leaned
back in her chair with an air of relief.
But her troubles were not over, for the
cross-examination, which was begun at
$50 o'clock was not ended for hree hours.
1t did not shake her original evidence. On
her direct examination by the state she
said that she had told nobody of her con-
versation with DR.. Hearne until six days
after the murder because she loved Mrs.
Stillwell and did not want her to get into
trouble. When she did tell it, it was to a
friend, through whom Dick Stillwell heard
it, and he came to her and begged her to
be witness.
Mrs. Hayward caused sensa'ion by
saying that a month before the murder she
received letter from Mrs. Stillwell, say
ing that she was very unhappy and had
consulted lawyer, Rufus Anderson, about
getting divorce. While two days after
the murder Mrs Hayward received an
other letter from Mrs. Stillwell, written on
the day before the night of the murder,
stating ia 1t her mind had undergone
changt d, she then loved Mr.. Stllwell
dearly and had concluded she could live
happily with him.
After the noon adjournment Attorney
George M. Harrison attacked Harry Mich
OILS on the sidewalk in front of the hotel
that faces the court house square. Nichols.
while on the witness stand yesterday after
noon, was asked by Nat Dryden if he was
not once arrested in Hannibal for burglary,
and answered: "You are a lawyer; L am a
witness. There is a lawyer associated with
you in the defense OF DR.. Hearne who once
ran away with an immoral woman and was
arrested and brought back in charge of a
detective to attend the wedding of his
daughter"
This was the cause of Harrison's assault
He struck at him. but Nichols ran away.
After the noon recess, o. A. Cole of stew
ems Point, Wisconsin,, was put on the
stand. He was in charge of the telephone
exchange at Hannibal when the Stillwell
murder was commit ed. DR.. Hearne's Of
flee telephone number was 3S and the
number of the telephone in the home of
Amos Stillwell was SS. On the Sunday
before DR.. Hearne rang up the exchange
and asked to be connected with SS.
A long wrangle followed between the
lawyers as to the admissbility as evidence
of conversation heard by an operator over
telephone. Judge oy ruled that the
evidence was admissible, and Cole said
Hearne and Mrs. Stillwell and knew their
voices. 1t was 4 80 in the afternoon when
DR.. Hearne asked for No. SS. Cole con-
nee ed him with the number and Mrs.
Stillwell responded. Cole listened to the
converse ion.
ID tul5 yOus Euliilc dbhcQ Ne 16dru0s
"Yes," was the answer.
''Where is Amos J.?h
''Across the river, paying Off the men,
'What time will he be home?"
''About ~
hadn't better come over?"
"Some one might see you."
"I'li come in the back way" said the
doctor, and Mrs. Stillwell said it was all
right for him to come over
After the murder Cole talked freely about
what he had heard, and one day while he
was in Althouse's drug store, Hearne came
In and said: "I'm going to kill some
of the damned telephone spies if they stick
their noses in my business
An Indiana Race War
RocKPoRT, Ind. Dec ID. "A race war that
has been going on here for the past month as
sumed rather serious proportions this evening.
A bloody battle took place between John
Howk, liveryman; James Fagan the deputy
ma shall, and Others against John Tinsley and
others, colored. Howk and Pagan are seri.
0usly wounded. Tinsley, the leader has been
arrested and placed in jnil, and thera a. no