The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-18

a perpendicular line on Hillmon's face
from the front of the ear upwards, and
you find the temples bare of hair on that
line. Draw similar line on Walters
and the dead body, two incles further to
the front of the ear and close to the eye,
and you still find hair on the temples
Now again look at Hillmon's hair; it is
almost straight Look at Walters and
the cadaver's, and you will find it extra
ordinary curly; SO curly as is seldom
seen. But, gentlemen, these attorneys
tell you that these perjured doctors, Dr.
Stuart and DR.. Miller, put their fingers
in the hair of that body and curled 1t so
as to make it resemb BILE the head of Wal
tiers, whom they had never seen or even
heard Of
"Another fact, gentlemen: We find
the foot of the cadaver is ten and half
inches long; we find Walters foot ten
and half inches long. That measure
ment takes a No. so or shoe. Hillmon
member Mr.. Hutchings reading the
deposition of Walters shoemaker at Fort
Madison, and telling you that he testified
that Walters wore No. Z. That, gentle
men, was untrue. He stated that the
was the shoemaker's size, and that it was
equivalent to SO or shoe. But for
the purpose of proving to you that it
could it not be " alters. as the cadaver's
foot was 1919 inches long, requiring q
No. So or shoe. Mr.. Hutchings tried to
make out that Walters wore No. Z, cum
ningly leaving out the remainder of the
testimony.
$50, gentlemen, we have Hillmon five
feet nine high. while the cadaver is five
feet eleven and five ghths inches, Wal
ters being five feet eleven and one-half
We have Hillmon with defective teeth,
the cadaver with perfect teeth. Walters
also perfect teeth. We have Hillmon
with foot requirina g No, Z shoe; the
cadaver requiring 81 or 8; Walters also
So or Q. We have HilImon with dark
brown, wavy hair; we have the
cadaver with dark brown, nearly
| black, very curly hair; Walters
dark brown, nearly black. very curly
hair. We have Hillmon with no hair
on his left temple, where the parting is;
we have the cadaver with hair on the
the same temple. We have Hillmon with
nose running straight into tho fore
| head and thin at that juncture; we have
the cadaver with nose arching into the
eyebrows, thick at the juncture of the
nose and the forehead; and we have
! Walters with the same nose as the
cadaver. We have Hillmon with his
eyebrows nearly meeting and not con-
tinuing to within inch of the
! outer edge OF the eye; We nave the
cadaver with the distance between the
eyebrows twice the distance there is be-
tween Hillmon's and continuing right
down to the outer edge of the eye. and
we have Walters with the same eyebrows
as the cadaver. We have eight witnesses,
including plaintiff, who testify that il
was Hillmon. We have forty-six wit.
nesses who testify that it was not Hill
mon, twenty six of whom testify that il
was Walters.
"Gentlemen, was that John w. Hill
mon, or was it Frederick Adolph Walt
ers? l feel convinced that you will say
it was Walters. The evidence upon that
point is conclusive and can not be gain
said"
Mr.. George ]. Barker, followed by Mr..
l. B. Wheat will continue in the final
argument tomorrow morning at III
| o'clock.