The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-04

KANSAS CITY, Nov. "a deposl
ton was taken here yesterday Whlcr
discloses for the first time the line o.
defense to be followed by DR.. Joseph
c. Hearne and his wife, FANNIE Z
Hearne, who are in Jail at Bowling
Green, Pike county. awaiting trial
next month for the murder In Aannl-
bal, Mo-, Of Millionaire Amos j. Still
we'll. who was the husband of Mrs
Hearne at the time of the murder
On the night Of December %, 1888
MIR. StilWeu and his wife and DR..
Hearre were at a New Years recep-
ton at the home of Lyman P. Munger
ex-state representative. They left the
Munger residence to return to their
home at about II O'Clock and it would
have taken them fifteen or twenty
minutes to reach there. It is said that
DR.. Hearne did not leave the reception
till about midnight.
At 12:45 o'clock, according to the
evidence of different witnesses, Mrs.
Stilwen rang the doorbell of DR.. AL
lens house, directly opposite her
home on Fifth street and told him
cody that her husband had been
murdered. DR.. Allen woke up Mr..
Ligg, a florist who was his next door
neighbOr, and they went across to the
Stilwell mansion and found Mr.. Still
we'll lying fully dressed, face down on
his bed, with his head split open to
the shoulders by a blow from an axe
which was found later in the yard
covered with blood.
The deposition taken yesterday was
given by James G. Dulaney and was
taken by George NJ. Harrison, of
Hannibal, attorney for Mr.. and Mrs,
Hearne.
Du1aney's Testimony.
James G. Dulaney is the youngest
son of William H. Dulaney, rich man
of Hannibal, and one of the proprie-
tors Of the Empire Lumber company.
His brother George W. Dulaney was
a member of the grand jury which in
dicted Or. and Mrs. Hearne.
Mr.. Dulaney testified that on the
the Snitzers' barber shop on Broad
way, between Third and Fourth
streets. in Hannibal. He looked at the
clock when he left the barber shop,
and it was exactly midnight He
started west on Bro. away to go to
the home Of his father at No 119 Wal
nut street. He walked one block to
the corner of Fourth street and went
into Bisser's saloon and drank two
cAoeo1So VI bSSI anu dlS TWO SAND
witches. He was there about twenty
or twenty-five minutes and rl-en start
ed home again. Just before he goe
to the office of d. Heafne, which he
would pass in going home, he saw the
doctor at his door.
He was standing on the doorstep,
outside the door. rattling the knob.
trying to ascertain if it was closed,
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 a second, I told him who 1 was
ard we walked together to the next
corner, the corner of Sixth street. We
stood there a few minutes talking and
then he bid me good night and turned
north on Sixth street toward his home,
and I went on to mine"
Dularey says It must have been
about 1880 o'clock when he met DR..
Hearne. Mr.. Dulaney said he was able
TO recall the date of the meeting be-
cause he read the next morning of the
murder of MIR. Stilwell, and that fixed
the date in his mind.
The attorneys or Or. Hearne say
that it will be easily proved that he
was in the habit of going to his office
before going home whenever he was
OFT late at night, and that there was
nothing unusual in his coming out of
his Office on the morning Of the muir
DER They say that the meeting of
DIR. Hearne and Mr.. Dulaney at 1890
O'Clock is proof that he could not have
murdered Mr.. Sblwen or assisted in
his murder, because he left the recep-
ton after midnight and it would have
taizeE him at least twenty minutes to
walk TO his Office from the Munger
home