The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-06


tense in the Scott jackson Case are Par
TALLY Put to Rights-Wnliam TrnstJ
and john Seward Closely Watched.
Newport, KY, May Sin thirty-hve
minuets after the noon recess today the
defense rested, just two weeks having
been spent in examining witnesses
Twelve personal witnesses and eight
| dispositions were heard today. The
forenoon was monotonous; that Of the
afternoon was melodramatic- AT times
judge and jury had to assert their self
control to avoid laughter. The prose
cution will now be engaged in rebuttal
1t will not be surprising If one or two
cases Of perjury should develop
The opening part Of today's trial was
devoted TO unimportant attacks on the
testimony of Druggist Foerlmeyer and
John Foster, who had told of seeing
jackson, Walhng and Pearl Bryan to-
gether in Belleville on Thursday or
Friday before the murder.
After hearing the testimony OF the
Newport bridge Waterman to the effect
that only three vehicles crossed the
bridge between s and 3 o'clock on the
night of Jan. l, Colonel Crawford asked
the court TO adjourn until the after
noon, as he had but one more witness 20
examine.
The prosecution in the afternoon did
not bring oJhn Seward, the detective,
into court to make his expected confess
sion of inventing the story of William
r. Trusty and coaching him to swear to
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however, by recalling Trusty and elicit
ing from him a denial that William
Trusty, ST., and Seward were brothers
in-law. The crisis may come tomor-
row.
CALDWELL GUARDSMEN.
After Trusty, the defense presented
Ed Moseley, James Smith, and john
Lee, all members of the Caldwell guard,
of which George II. aJckson is captain.
All had made dispositions that George
H. jackson, the colored cab driver, was
from IL o'clock Friday night, Jan. 81,
until a. m, Feb. /, engaged in court
martial and could not have driven the
cab to the scene Of the murder. On the
stand today, they all swore that the drill
of the guards was on Friday night and
the court martial on Wednesday night.
Their sduirming on the stand was very
amusing They were all bound in $3.50
each TO remain as witnesses and tonight
they lodge in Newport Jail. All three
denied signing these dispositions. This
puts the defense 10 the trouble of break
ing down credibility of three witnesses
which 1T was the first to introduce.
William Beasley, Of the Caldwell
guards, also contradicted deposition
which he admitted that he signed for
the defense. He said the deposition
was untrue, and that it was not read to
him Eugene Hart and William Rob-
inson, members Of the Caldwell guards,
who had made no dispositions, testified
that the drill ended at midnight, FRI
day, Jan. 81, in time to allow its captain
to make the murderous cab drive with
Walling, jackson and Pearl Bryan, that
he had described with such detail.
SEWARD AND TRUSTY.
John Seward, alias Soard, and Will
lam r. Trusty, alias Trustee, are the
explosive material likely to be touched
off tomorrow. Both are under bond,
and under detective shadowing. Will
lam McCarty of Kingsville, Casey coun-
~, Kentucky, gave testimony extreme
ly damaging to Stewards and Trusty's
character. The examination of the
colored men of the Caldwell guards was
a comedy. If the court had not en-
forced quiet the room would have been
in an uproar of laughter. especially
when the three members that sleep in
Newport Jail tonight were examined.
One important bit of the latest testi-
mony was that of William Collins, bar
tender at Theobald's saloon, on Fifth
street Collins says Jackson came to
his saloon t Z a. m, Feb. 1, the morning
of the murder and paid back 81 that he
had borrowed on the preceding Wednes
day night. This conflicts with alex
sons own story and that of others.