The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-12
STATE HAS RESTED
LEONARD CASE WILL GO TO THE
JURY TODAY.

JURY TODAY.
Defense VIII Conclude fits Testimony Early
This Forenoon and the Remainder of
the Day VIII be Devoted to Argument
Stanley Expected to Make Powerful
Speech-Yesterdsy was Uneventful, Kut
Marie Hilbert Put a Little Spice into the
ProceedIngs-Theory of the Defense
and the State.
The trial of the Leonard murder case
attracted a large audience yesterday
When Williamson was tried Tor the
same offense there was a greater num-
Der of men than women among the
spectators but at this trial the women
predominant. They are a different
class of women, in the aggregate, than
those who attended the other trial.
There are there the lame, the blind, the
halt, the old, the young, the white, the
black and the mulatto.
The trial is conducted on broad prin-
ciples. When there is said anything
touching the spectators become sad and
when anything funny is said they be-
come gay. There seems to be total
Indifference as to the fate of Mrs. Leon
ard the defendant. Nobody seems TO
have any particular desire TO see her
acquitted or found guilty except, of
course, the immediate friends of the
defendant and the murdered man.
1t was promptly 9 o'clock yesterday
morning when the court was called to
order. For fifteen minutes before that
Lawyer jim Conley was pacing the
carpet like q Roman senator in modern
dress thinking a great deal but saying
nothing. Sam Amidon with very
high collar and the hair falling neglige
over his forehead like that of foot
ball player was chatting with "the
boys" JOHN Davis, the county attor-
ney, sat in a chair with his feet barely
touching tho floor and pulling his coal
black moustache with great elaboration
and considerable vigor. w. E. Stanley
his assistant in the case had his arms
extended Ike the wind catchers of a
Dutch windmill, one hand high upon
the shoulder of Farmer Doolittle and
the other one laid down on the shoulder
Of sawed-off little fellow that wasn't
more than four fest high.
Mrs. Leonard, the defendant, sat
back near the railing beside Ed Cone,
the Sheriff's son. Near her sat z. NJ.
Barnes, her brother-in-law, who is TAX
ing more interest in her defense than
any other man. Mr.. Barnes is a tall
man with steel grey eyes and has on
his head mass of curly hair that looks
exactly like a wig, and makes him look
funny.
OPENING OF PROCEEDINGS.
stand was Mrs. Alice Carol who is
the present occupant of the building at
ABS South Lawrence avenue. She was
a witness for the state but the maiu
curiosity concerning her was the fact
that she was living in house in which
cold blocded murder had been COM
united WIKI the bloody evidences of the
crime still sticking to the wall paper
near her bed. She is a woman Of quiet
disposition and while she was on the
stand all the other women in the court
room were shivering at the thoughts of
sleeping in that house. Mrs. Carol
did not seem to mind it a. bit and was
evidently much more afraid OF a live
lawyer thar a dead furniture dealer.
AS the murder had been committed in
November and she did not move into
the house until March her evidences was
objected TO and Judge Dale sustained
the objection.
SUTTON TDSTLFIBS.
Detective Harry Sutton was the next
witness called. He told how he went
20 the house the morning after the
murder am examined the premises. He
described where something had been
dragged from the mouse to the barn and
told how he traced blood on the fallen
leaves Of trees. He examined the kitchen
stoye. Hn said that the ashes in the
stove were not coal ashes altogether.
The theory of the state all along has
been that Mrs. Leonard took up part of
the carpet that had been stained with
blood, from Leonard's wounds. and
burned it in the stove, and hence the in
terest manifested in the ashes.
Detective Sutton then described the
bed in the room where the murder is
alleged TO have been committed. He
said that the bed clothes were neat and
clean and that the folds of the sheet,
caused by ironing, were still fresh. The
Idea Of this evidence was, no doubt
that the state desired to create the
impression that Mrs. Leonard burned
the stained clothing of the alleged bed
Of murder and supplied 1t with clean
linen. He then recited the fact that
he and Chief of Police Burrows went TO
the house The next day and found there
an insurance policy on the life of Leon
Rrd, made out in favor of Mrs Leon
ard who is the defendant in this case.
There were objections raised to the
introduction of the life insurance policy
but the court overruled il.
Detective Sutton also recognized
piece Of paper taken from the wall in
the room in which Leonard is supposed
10 have been murdered. This piece OF
paper contains what seems TO be a blood
STAN and was cut from the wall near
the bed and from near the place where
the state claims that the plaster was
broken by lick from the Ratchet Mr..
Sutton saw this stain of blood on the
wall Immediately after the murder.
BUTTON TAKES THE STAND.
O. G. Button was the next witness
He testified that al the time of the muir
der he was clerking for Mr.. Leonard,
AT the secondhand store on East Doug
las avenue. He said that the morning
the body OF Leonard was found Norvile
iiiamsOn, the son Of the defendant,
came to the store and asked where Mr..
Leonard was. at the same time stating
that he had not been home that night
The prosecution asked him whether the
hoy had not said that his mother sent
HIM 10 the store but the defense object
ed. He then started TO tell what he
told the boy, but that evidence was
ruled out.
Mr.. Button then testified that when
NJ took down the stove IN Leonard's
house he found blood both on the out