The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-08

Al should judge it was about feet
| by8.
Q-Has it got window in it?
Ayes.
Q-Window opens on the street?
Q-You say they gave you steaming?
Ayes.
Q-On what day?
Al don't remember.
Q-Name just one day?
A-As I remember it thew had it pref
ty hot on December g.
Q-This was in the dead of winter?
Al suppose so.
Q-Don't you know as matter of fact
that this room was built for a sweat box,
| but that the steam connections were
never made?
Al don't know anything about the
connections. All | know is that it was
hot.
Q-Is it not fact sir. that this room is
heated by single steam pipe passing
through it, and that it is one of the poor
est heated cells in the building?
A-All know is that it was hot
Odd you tell the officers that Albert
Matson had hired gang to murder Mrs
| Matson and get her valuable papers?
Al said he had hired Ross and
Poker Dick to do tho job.
Odd you lay the crime on the Mil
tons?
! Al don't remember.
! Q-Didn't you tell Gish and the police
that Mrs. Matson was murdered in Sam
Millions house?
Al believe did
Q-Were not Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Milton
arrested on the strength of what you
said?
Al don't know that they were.
remember they were arrested.
Q-Didn't you say that the house had
been robbed and the papers turned over
to you?
Al don't remember; believe so.
GLOW does it happen you can't re-
member more about this ''confessiOn?"
Alt is hard thing to remember
Q-YOu say you don't know anything
about the murder, or didn't when you
were in Jail?
Ayes, sir.
OIL will ask you to tell the jury how
it happens you could tell the officers all
the particulars of the crime when you
didn't know anything about the case?
(The question objected to by the de-
Tense, and the objection sustainedl
Other Late Witnesses.
Ex-Justice A. F. Chesney was called to
the stand after Novels finished, to testify
regarding point in Mrs. Sam Milton
testimony at the preliminary examina-
ton.
]. W. Carey testified briefly and told
of the geographical surroundings Of the
Novels house, especially with regard to
the ravine, the width and depth of " hich
caused a wide difference of opinions
among the witnesses on both sides.
Horny Evans. father of George 81.
Evans the contractor, who has lived in
Topeka twenty nine years, said he had
known Albert Matson sixteen years. He
testified regarding Matson's appearance
in order to substantiate the description
given by George Hightower, who claims
to have seen Matson in Topeka the day
after the murder was discovered.
Evidence in Rebutra1.
The principal witnesses today were T.
B. jennings and c. P. Bolmar Weather
Observer Jennings had his records with
him to prove that the night of December
18th was clear.
This testimony was advanced by the
state to disprove Charles McMillan's tes-
timony. He said he was passing Mrs.
Matson's house about o'clock and saw
Mrs Matson talking to two men. They
were in the dining room and he saw
them through the north window from
Monroe street. Mcmillan testified that
he was sure of the date, because it was
a drizzly, wet night.
Observer Jennings showed that the
day and night of December 18th were
perfectly clear, bnt that the night
of December 10th, two days earlier. was
driZZly and much such a night as had
been described.
J. w. Singleton, a stone cutter by
trade, living at Winfield, testified that
he had been approached by Frank
Novels father who said he wanted tc
make q witness of him" He wanted
Singleton to come to Topeka and swear
that he had seen Novels in Winfield on
December 18th.
Undersheriff E. F. Henderson of Well
ington swore that Novels was arrested
for the burglary of A. P. Wells house.
and that he was not arrested as a decoy
to entrap any one else, and said that
Novels had never served in the capacity
of detective in his office.
Henderson swOre that Novels escaped
prosecution by turning states evidence
and convicting two other men, one OF
whom went to the penitentiary and the
other escaped with a jail sentence.
Tom Wilkerson, the deputy sheriff
said he was in Winfield a week after
: Frank Novels was arrested, and talked
to his (Nevels) mother about the case
She swore then that Frank arrived il
} Winfield on Thursday, and not on Wed
nesday, as she claims in her deposition
and that she fixed the date by remem
boring that she did a big job of washing
on that day for woman whose name
Wilkerson did not remember.
John Burdge, the jailer at the county
Jail, swore that Novels had not been pu
in the sweat-box by Chief Wilkerson''
orders.
# Chief Wnkerson was on the stand il
rebuttal and said he talked to Rosie
Novels. Franks wife, soon after her hus
u bands arrest She said to him, at dom
!? make any difference what Frank says
1t he left Topeka on December 10, Wednes
day. (Nevels in order to prove an all
e had to leave tuesday,
G Z. Bolmar, Sheriff Burdge and E.