The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-22


Evidence Showing that He was Buggy
Riding with His Wife Is Corroborated-
Many Other New Facts Brought Out
Sensational Testimony to be Given To-
morrow.
Public opinion IS experiencing an
other change with reference 20 the pars
played by Marion Williamson IN the
murder of Henry H. Leonard
The aibi which he expects TO prove
ait the Carey is a stubborn one TO over
come and the state win have TO do some
work TO break it down
From present appearances the only
way they can do it rs to prove that the
murder was committed about 9 O'Clock
or shortly thereafter.
The people around the Carey hotel
~ night are positive that Williamson
went tn bed about II O'Clock or little
e1ter that. They also seem to be posi-
five thlalt he could not have gone out
Of the house after that without they see
ing fIfrn. The clerk was out getting a
iunch that night between 10 and IL
O'Clock and Williamson, dressed in his
TO mis- room The porter gave it TO him
and he saw Williamson sitting behind
rihe office waiting for the elevator to
take him TO his room IN the fourth story.
lit Is said THAT the elevator boy will
swear THAT he took Williamson up stairs
and saw him no more after that. It will
he sworn 10 also that Williamson was
found asleep in his room at o'clock I'M
tEhe morning when the pointer called
him and tllaIt he looked as he had al
ways booked and did not act ait all
Strange.
Williamson was absent from the no.
tel about 1920 that night. Nobody saw
Ehirn. II was THE thine he ought to be at
rlae Manhattan hotel. Nobody saw him
rhere but 1t will be in evidence that he
could be in the engine room and not be
seen there by anybody.
A young man named Miller was going
home about 10 O'Clock that night He
saw a man come out Of the alley into
English sitre5t, putting and short Of
breath. Mr.. Miller did not tarry long
He qujckemed mis- steps and the other
unlan walked pretty fast too. They pass
ed elle house where the murder was
committed Mr.. Miller continued across
the street Ito his home. The strange,
somewhat excited man turned the cor
IlsC and want west on. Lewis street, by
rlIe SCENE Of fine murder, to the stable
cit the back CT the lot where the body
Of the murdered man IS known to have
laid for some time. Mr.. Miller watched
El.un. After lhes7tating a little while at
kf1e stable he disappeared in the alley
and Went up north towards the place
where he was first seen to come out.
The theory now is that whatsoever the
rr7lan was NE had the body in the alley
and hearing AI51Ier's footsteps on the
walk he left Vt there and came out; and
then seeing Gir. Miller he followed 1liTu
Ito find out where he was going, think
ing, perhaps, THAT an alarm of some
Kind had genie out concerning the muir
dar and that Miller, who was walking
rapidly was somebody who was going
ITO itfd scene of the crime.
If Inc murder WAS committed before
30 o'clock 1T is probable that William
sion VIM be connected with it; If, as
Mrs. Williamson says. her husband
killed the man at 9:i3 and remained
with the body until y o'clock when he
V,2irr55d it into the alley, then William
SONS alibi may amount to som ething.
PUT then There is the evidence of states
h1at Williamson and his former wife
were out in the country Sunday after
noon rsal1ing the policy on LeonaTd's
life If this evidence is strong. and ii
seems to be, Williamson's aTlbi will
Emounlt TO nothing. 1t will be a cir
cIrrTIstarc Of guilt THAT will be almost
impossible 10 overcome.
The police seem TO have let UP on the
ma ter all together and are looking wise
ut looks as though they had every
thing linked together THAT is possible to
get. Besides THAT they have a confes-
zion from Norville Williamson, but they
Will mot state what 1T is 1t is said that
Mrs. Williamson wrote a note from the
county jail ITO her SON in the city Jail
requesting him to tell nothing. He in
ferpTdted IT to mean TO tell everything
:,nId he told the story. He will not, per
faps, be put on the stand Saturday
morning for the stare as It IS probable
that his evidence and confession viii be
reserved for the regular trial n the dis
trict court.
Late last night after the above was
written a reporter fer the Eagle went
oIIt IT. g2ipher UP few facts and found
where an important mistake bad been
r1ile-a mistake Of forty minutes that
may play an important part in the
't.aia Of evidence. The pricinpal
strength of Marion WiIiamscn's posi-
t'o1 is Hhait the night porter ait the
C'srey hotel saw him go to bed. 1t was
thought to be about 1880. The porter
judged the time by the arrival of the
s-3rta F'e train from the south which
IS 1890 p. n. 1t 50 happened and the
records OF the railway company viii
prove il. that the Santa Fe train was
forty minutes late that night. II was
reported forty minutes late and usually
s, = ister than reponte1. for when a
t7ra n falls behind 1T generally loses
time. AdnSdting TRAD II was only forty
InipUrss late tl1ai- would make IT 40.
The arrivals We're accommodated at the
hotel. al Of them had retired - .i1eir
rooms. and the clerk had gone out 10
get lunch when Williamson applied for
r'ae key TO his room and was given IL
by Che porter. Considering all this II
- not unreasons HE - think that VIII
hanson really did not go 10 bed until
clbogIt miin5s'-t-
The fact Is and IL viii ne proven that
tthe murder was committed at O'clock
1he hQSlN dressed g M n ken 20 the stable
where il remained for an hour or more
Gloie. The cap of tha manhole had re-
sisted and Ii could not be lifted by any
instrument the murderer could find. II
has since been tested and this fact
demonstrated.
J., was stated last night chat Marion
Williamson WAS suspected IL not ar
rested IN this city once before at the
time Mrs. Andy Miller was murdered
On hydlaullc avenue some six or seven