The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-20

say but others think that they nave
learned a great deal from the boy.
County Attorney Davis, too, has
great deal more facts in his possession
than he deems wise TO give out at this
time He will spring them at the prop
er time and they will be chnchers-
SCENES AT THE INQUEST.
At 9 O'Clock in the morning the cor
ridors of the basement were crowded
with people and Coroner McColiister
had to move his Office across the hall
into the big room to accommodate the
crowd. Everybody craned their necks
when fresh arrivals came in thinking
the next ba tch would be prisoners but
when the court opened it was announc-
ed that the prisoners would not attend
the trial This was disappointing to
the crowd but ii could not be helped
as the prisoners have the prerogative
of not attending an inquest
The Introduction Of evidence COM
menced at 10 O'Clock with County At
torney Davis representing the state
and A. E. Helm representing Marion
Williamson. Afterwards s. r. Ami
don appeared as representative for Mrs.
Irene Leonard and her son.
THE TESTIMONY.
" IL tNcDN-o- IVY iid1ilC - VI. H.
States. 1 reside at 401 South Main
street in this city. / am pipe cutter
for the gas company. know Frank NJ.
Williamson when 1 see him. I was at
my place south of the city last Sun
day. / rode down in a buggy. I saw
NJ Williamson when I was going down.
He was with a lady, the same woman
that saw at the city jail. I was near
Mrs. DorSey'S place when l saw them.
was about two miles south of the
Wichita and Western railroad on Sem
eca street. That was after O'Clock,
between 2 and last Sunday, the 18th
day of November I can not now tell
what kind of a horse they were driving
but the buggy was what is known as a
piano box. They were standing When
I saw them and had driven just lit
tie to one side of the road The horses
head was turned to the south. 1 saw
the woman that was in the buggy this
morning in the county Jail. 1 did not
talk with her very much. She asked
me a few questions some of which I
answered She at first denied TO me
that she was on the West Side last
Sunday, but afterward she admitted
that she might have met Williamson
near the bridge on the West Side, but
tiff Hayes asked her in my presence IF
she and Williamson were not docking
at the insurance paper at the time I
had seen them She finally admitted
that she saw Williamson and that she
had the insurance paper with her and
that they examined 1t.
1T was the policy taken out by Mr..
Leonard" she said. "There was no in
ducement held out to Mrs. Leonard TO
get her to make this admission. My
wife and little boy IL years old were
with me on Sunday when I went across
the river. I think my wife could rec
ogniZe the parties we saw in the buggy.
Mrs. Leonard did not state in my pres
ence what time she and Williamson re-
turned. / first got acquainted with
Williamson when he was engineer at
the city building. That was two or
three years ago. I have known him
ever since. / am positive that it was
him and this same woman that / saw
on the West Side last Sunday"
Cross examination by A. c. Helm
saw Williamson and this woman on
the West Side about 2 O'Clock. 1t was
between 2 and s. I left home shortly
before or after o'clock. 1t is two
miles from my place to where I saw
me to drive the distance, probably 20
minutes. ! did not speak to the parties.
/ drove probably in four feet of them.
They were in a buggy ] had never
seen this woman before. ! cannot tell
whether Williamson han on an over
coat nor whether she had on a wrap of
any kind ] drove UP behind them and
when I passed I turned partly around
and looked at the people in the buggy.
know 1T was the same woman now
in the Jail. / know from her general
appearance and her long face and
prominent nose. I got acquainted with
Williamson three years ago when he
was firing at the city building / used
to go there to get the record of the gas
meter 1 cannot say for a certainty
that I had seen Williamson for year
before Sunday. I am gas fitted for
the electric Light company and l also
trim lamps.
DR.. ]. z. Hoffman, am county and
city physician. ! was at Dunbar's I'M
dertaking establishment yesterday
morning and saw the body of H. II.
Leonard there. The body was consid-
erably discolored all over: there were
scalp and face wounds, one on the neck
and one or two on the forearm. There
corner of the right eve and extending
back to and over the right ear. The
greatest confusion was over the ear
In my opinion these wounds caused his
death
Captain J. c. Foster live at En-
poria avenue house. 1 was acquainted
with II. II. Leonard during his life
time. I have seen Irene Leonard, but
was not acquainted with her. I saw
Leonard Sunday riding in a buggy
There was a woman in the buggy but I
did not notice her. Ii was probably
. o'clock or after that when I saw her
in the buggy in front of Leonard's place
OF business. 1t was a bay horse quite
a good sized horse and pheaton. I saw
Leonard a number of times that after
noon after I saw the buggy. He told
me that he had been out riding and
had loaned the rig to the woman to
take a ride. Leonard after that sitting
on a table in front of his place with
some parties talking. The horse and
buggy belonged TO Taylor. The last
time I saw Leonard on Sunday might
have been as late as O'Clock in the af-
ternoon.
South Market street. Have lived there
since last February. I know where
the house OF Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard is
It IS on the corner OF Lewis and Law
renee on the northwest corner. I was
at their place on Monday morning at
9 O'Clock. Sheriff Royse asked me TO
go there. We saw where the heavy
body had been dragged drought ffle