Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-12-26

asked on cross-examination to tel
some facts that had no effect of con
vincing him of the guilt of tn
Hearnes. He related nearly every
thing brought out at the trial, an
then started in on the divorce and re
marriage, but a stopped on tn
same ruling that stopped Mr. Heathe'
last Wednesday. Ever since then tn
State has been trying to get in tina
certified copy of the divorce petition
on the ground that if Mr.. StillweI wa
allowed to tell some of the facts tina,
made him change his belief in the
Hearnes' innocence, which he enter
tanned for a long time subsequent tt
the murder, he should be allowed to
relate them all. Yesterday the fina
effort was made, and it was a great
effort, but it failed. The defense OBJ
jected and Judge Roy upheld the OBJ
lection.
MRS. HEARNE TEsTIFIEs.
BOWLING GREEN, Mo-, December 10.
The nine lawyers who are defend
ing DIR. j. C. Hearne in his trial on a
charge of numbering Amos j. Still
well devoted nearly all the latter part
of yesterday to introducing evidence
to discredit DR.. Fred Vernette, of
Hannibal, who swore that he met DR..
| Hearne at Ills O'Clock on the night of
the murder going toward his home
from the direction of the Stillwell
mansion.
r STlL.LwELL WELL CHARGED.
John NJ. Patton. who had been DR..
! Hearne's bookkeeper before and after
the murder, next took the stand with
| DR.. Hearne's books, and showed that
he had been the family physician of
| Amos J. StilIwelI, Dick Stiliwell and
| John E. Stillwell. The books showed
that he had visited Mrs. Fannie c.
Stillwell professionally several times
in a month during the year before the
murder, and that he made charges of
81 a visit and was paid by Amos J.
Stillwell. The books showed, too,
that he charged S4 for each visit to
Mrs. StiLlwell Immediately after the
murder, and charged and was paid
$50 a day for attending her on her
trip to the sanitarium at Battle Creek,
Mich.
MINOR POINTS BROUGHT OUT.
Word spread throughout the town
this forenoon that Mrs. Hearne would
go on the stand this afternoon as a
witness for e husband, and when
court met after the noon recess the
court room was filled with people,
half of whom were women, in spite of
the fact that it was raining steadily
until the streets were rivers of mud
and the plank sidewalks afoat.
The first witness called was Phil
Knighton, who said the matches found
scattered by dozens through the STILL
well house on the night of the murder
were burned more than half way to
the ends. The fact of the burned
matches will be used by the defense
in its closing argument to the jury.
1t will be argued that DR.. Hearne
could not have spent more than
twenty minutes at the St1lfweii house
that night,even if he vas there and he
would not have had time to burn all
the matches found and commit the
murder too.
Will League, who was the second
man into the Stillwell house after the
murder, said that Mrs. Stillwell was
very nervous and excited. She clung
to his coat when he went to the tele-
phone to notify people of the murder.
She wrung her hands, crouched and
pointed to the corner of the room and
"There he is," and she
impressed him as being in great men
tai distress. This was Immediately
the murder.
R HEARNE TAKES THE STAND.
At 2:30 O'Clock Nat Dryden created
a stir of excitement in the court room
by saying: "I will call Mrs. Fanny G.
Mrs. Hearne, who was sitting be-
side her husband near the witness
stood up so suddenly that it was
a spring. She stepped quickly
to the witness stand, held up her right
hand and was sworn.
"Do you remember the night Amos
J. Stillwell was m~urdered?'' asked
Dryden.
81 do" said Mrs. Hearne, in a voice
loud enough to be heard all over the
court room. "I was at a card party at
Mr.. Munger's. We got home between
IL and II, nearer u. We entered the
front door. My husband went to the
back of the house to get a drink. 1
went up stairs to bed. 1 undressed in
Mollie's room. Mr.. Stillwell came up
and undressed in his room. When /
was ready for bed I went into his room.
There were two beds there. The two
children we're in n asleep"
"Where did you lie DOWN."
81 was cold and laid down beside
my husband. / laid on his arm. We
were talking together a few minutes.
Then the baby cried and / got up and
laid down between the two children"
''Tell then what happened?"
"I put the paDy TO sieep n rem
asleep myself. I was Awakened by Mr..
Stillwell saying: SIS that you, Fanny?'
| raised partly up in bed and saw him
up in bed, too. He said: Who's
That time 1 saw a figure at
loot of my bed between my bed and
MS. 1t looked like a very large figure
with a SLOUGH hat. It's arm was raised
strike-I supposed to strike me. l
Tell down on the bed. / don't know
exactly how. / heard a whizzing
sound or ii whirr. / can't describe it
exactly. don't know what happened
STATE WITNESSES CONTRADICTORY.
"What next did you dor"
II came to myself, feeling that
something must be done. I went to
him and put my hand on him and went
the servants door. The little wench
girl opened it and began to scream. III
her to get the children. helped