The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-29

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told her ! would stay y l could get
! job. but she told me 10 so back 70 the
| soldiers home as she could MAKE bet
| ter living without me. She told me a,
4 the time that she wanted a divorce and !
| I told her / had 10 objection. that she /
| could get enc If she wanted TO- went /
! back 20 the home on the last day o. 4
/ June. l received a communication /
! from Lawyer Bentley about the d. |
| vOrce and / waived service and sent the !
| papers back 10 Mr.. Bentley. l made I
4 no defense 10 the divorce.
| u next came 70 Wichita on Oct /
| think I got a letter from some o. her
I folks asking me what was going 10 do
about the support Of my son.
| While here went TO see Mr.. Adams.
I the an gireer Of the Carey hotel. and ask
/ ed him. what prospects there were Tor 4
job firing. He told me they We're 5000
about Nov. I, when the winter heating
would begin. 50 as % max sun y,
the lob / said I would commence ana
the bargain was that l would get my
board and lodging and set no pay IN
Ill Nov L
I went az once 70 the Soldiers home
70 turn n my effects and sot there a
II o'clock on the night of the Sth. Re
-urned 10 Wichita the afternoon u the
10th OF October. and went % work al
the Manhattan on the morning of the
18th OF October. I went 10 the Carey
the first week IN November. hadn
been At the soldiers home only one
night n October"
de then told about his duties at the
| Carey. the hours Of work, the location
OF the engine room and other details
not Of general public interest. He S>lld
| he met MS eX-wife al the Boston store
| once. al or near Smyth's another time
but did not remember the converse
| tons
The boy came % me on Sunday
| morning. ne said. and told me that a.
mother asked me u come down 10 *,
, | house-that she wanted 70 see me i
told him that she was nothing % me
| now. and that I could not 20 - her
| house. I finally told him that II -
would meet me a. the Maple STIR =,
! bridge IN the afternoon that l Won ld
| hear what she would have 20 say m u
In the Afternoon she drove 70 the bid =
in a buggy. | got in with her and y "a
drove over on the West Side andsoui y
She told me that old man Leonard car u
, home drunk. todd her that the o. ~
would have 10 leave. that he had =
/ mortgage on everything he had, a %
> that the store did not belong 70 H. n
- She asked my advise about what Z
Z | do and said that something would "a =,
. 10 be done right away. She SAID ~ q
p ! while Leonard was kicking thlh =
- around. while drunk. he pulled open
! ! drawer and scattered papers all o' r.
\ the floor and that she picked up -
5 paper. thinking II was OF some va C.
> She pulled il out from somewhere ao -
, her clothes. showed it 90 me; asked IL
: ! what II was and whether II had , IN,
? | value I couldn't see very Wei
\ knew that IL was something about &C.
' dent insurance and told her 20 tai
. 10 some one who knew more ABOUT 80
? business than / did. l told her n A.
a didn't think that IL was OF much Y i-l'
: | When she said that something mus %
y done at once / told her TO 20 and al
n with her sister. Mrs. Barnes; that sh
;, | could give her better advice than Any
i one l knew Of I left the bugg a
- Wafer street, walked up 20 the ave rtu'
4 east to the Manhattan and when '"d
!. going from there 10 the Carey l me m
i how who asked me where his mot h
= was and I told him that l thought 81
. had gone 10 mis- aunt's-
II then went TO the Carey, Mr. ACf IN
p and l went 10 supper. l took ms , 70,
- in the engine room until l went = q
"a Manhattan. / came back at o q ocl
- fixed my fires at the Carey, Went U
y ! stairs and talked about wages w IN
coIored man. then went 10 the elev att
and after awhile l went and gos m
: kew and went up in the elevator u m
e room in the fourth story. and WEI II
l bed l got up at O'Clock, did n
u work and was sitting down Wiler NJ
n Adams came TO relieve me. We ispoi
- | about the weather and asked MN VI
u IL cold outside. as / thought mere vas
< change on account Of the rheum ats
- in my knee ! then went 20 me Ma
- haitian and did my work IN ere. Zero
going 10 bed at the Carey that NIX
/ washed my feet and put on cleS n VI
y dercIothing Bedford Wood call 81 n
u in the engine room Of the ,dan malta
IN | arrest Il
y and took me 10 the county jail
~ Explaining the blood on his coat ar
z; vest Mr.. Williamson assigned thr'
=. causes for it.
20 When he used the red paint at q
engine room he stood the L'p-
against the post where ne ltun n
| coat and vest, and thought the stan
= came that way.
l. Again he said that he cut bis FMS
one day. before being arrest g. n
vice and that II bled prOfuse o..
30, wiped his finger on his trousers i"E an
cO0lly walked into the jury tr'N ar
submitted his thumb 10 an ~ sl'-,-r
by each one OF them
For a third reason he said nat q
: room where the kindling ~, I'd va
stored In the Manhattan ho,el gas
chicken and poultry slaughte nous
p and that as h carried In kin ling ,
10 might get blood on his cloth. ne. \
A. Professor WiIllston said that . ~ blpo
y on the coat was not the blood OF Fowl
this third reason VIII not be 81 muc
=. avail. Mr.. Williamson said, h"" eve
az that he never noticed the stains on n
- clothing until after he was trTes'e
and in jail
The final wind up OF Williamson
n testimony was that he did not XII L.
is nard. that he had no knowledge OF an
- design 70 Kill him. that he did not kii0
y, who killed him. that ne was not Hea
- the Leonard house that night ana I'M
=, 10 Is entirely innocent % the ctLaE 6
90 brought against him for murder
- CROSS EXA8fINATION BY COUNT
- ATTORNEY.
"a O-Where did you buy that coat. VI
- williamson
~ AT Leavenworth.
= Q-Wheny
~ Al don't know the month. CUES
= ON September:
Ayes. ST.
G. Q.-What year?
"A A--'e5.
gs Q.-Segtember. 1852
= A.-Yes. sir
IS Q.-whea did you buy the panta
%. | I0ons2
81 A.-same time.
" O.-What time ln September?
r. Al couldn't Eay-
Q-Fr1n whOm id you uly mem
Al cont rec1iIect the name of -
- firm. The name - o. ny coat, I ihinK-
% the name o. the frrn-
Do you know the street O. Valc
"a The firm - 49catedf
- Al don. re-ou=r- ire name o: