The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-26

list of the things. Milier's man took
everything away from the house, buying
everything except lamp and two
chairs that she bought of Burt. In the
box with the curtains We're some pictures
of Mr.. and Mrs. Burt and Mrs. Burt's
mother, Mrs. Powers. The man from
Miler's asked about them and Burt told
her to take the pictures out of the frames.
The frames he sold to Miller and when
she asked him about the pictures he said:
"Oh, throw them away in the trash pile
She said the bed clothing was sold along
with the other things and one mattress,
the one off the children's bed. He gave
Burts bed. 1t had a great piece of the
ticking torn off. She did not see Mar
tin Alexander come back that day, though
he might have done so while she was
gone in the afternoon. After the sale
was made and the things had been
carried off, she was going around
cleaning up. the house and came
into the dining room and found
Burt sitting by the side of the table with
his head hanging down as though he
were crying, and she asked him what was
the matter. He said: .'Oh, nothing;
just feel worried. | will tell you about
it after awhile" The first time she went
upstairs into Mrs. Burt's bedroom was
late, between 10 and II o'clock. She
| found the bed taken down, but she had
not heard ii being taken down, nor did
| not know it was down until then. The
| noor was uttered UP WIN letterS ana II
lot vi TRASH she uio not sweep lhe room
ou. 'ilit' uaE. III the room aerSss the
sound tbrao hornc ro;lod IN tbnt
fine tho furniture man was there corrv.
ing off things. Burt was at the house
all day, with the exception of a few
minutes at time. She left the house
after 4 o'clock and went over near the
street. looking for another place to work
She got back home after 5 o'clock and
found Burt there sitting in the front
door. She told him she had found an
other place and was going to move them
He said: my wife will be back Mon
day or Tuesday. If am not here when
you get back this afternoon lock up the
house and give the keys to Whey Dun
can for Mrs. Mlliken" He went off
somewhere between the loads of her fur
niture. The last time she was at the
house he called her and paid her and
asked her to carry one of his three grips
for him to Whey Duncan's. She helped
him with the grips. That was about Il
o'clock, and in the alley back of the
house he babe her good bye, and she had
never seen him since then until in the
court room. The last time she saw. the
three boxes was in the upstairs bed
room.
Tho defensa woivod cross-oxominotion
for tba time heng and Minnie Simms
left tho Stand 7'
nv, e. A., .
me heNt Wlthess ior ,ne slu'e< ""s
Martin AieNahuer' the ur"yli'ah.
He said he used to live in BastroT
county, but had lived in Austin for the
past ten years, and had known Eugene
Burt all that time. He did some hauling
for. Burt on the Saturday before inc
bodies were found. mat morning MIN
ME Simms gave him note to take tt
the Burt shoe store. He went there
gave the note to one of the clerks, anc
one of the Mr.. Burts told him to take
the three boxes. lie took them TO Eu
gene Burt's house. Burt helped hin
carry the boxes upstairs, and he placed
them in n room with nothing in It, Thel
Burt told him to come back about :
o'clock as he wanted him to haul then
to the depot Burt was with INN all tn
time he was upstairs. He did not g
into but one room upstairs. lie thel
! went down town but went back to Burt
at o'clock. He found the boxes in tn
!, , same room where he had left them, Du
, now they were hlled WIN some.nihs ail'
halled up tlSht. ,Jus. herc ,ne .nle
, boxes were Drought INTO me court room o;n,
, by coloreu Por1eTs hilu q"',e SENSITIVE ~ y;
was createu. Inu i"uies . tidi"e" InI,
, necks ana II very Percep.ipie sluo4e
went ail thronsn lhe co9rt r Dull ,'o
10 tlls liine uurlhs ,ne HaE p 4;',o h nm
2 fra p, now W on he knmt Them closed from
t . 70 X" o.cloch When comrt ndiourned
e ,rho hoxoS v,oro niacad an the floor i
e front "f tbo ;urv and tho witness boy
t and tho ovnn;nn lion cant;mod Aloynn
+ dnr ;dnntiGod tha throo hoyes ~ tho ono
u %a+ ha had t . 70 RuTt,s house IT
. sn naI Rnr lay than told him 70 lake III
e ho ,u b :" tho Tnntrni dannt and have tber
f sb;nnod ~ 70 Tho address no gave him. Fl
] t andlpt H. " bonos os d;rontod ond nc Rnr
g toiI b;', rnt Iii, Of Iadino and oove
toiI MN, Wh"n ' he 81 not hanI Rmrt aska
e "a ~ puri, VIZ" ,ho m so;d and bo tol
KIN; m, w., Ml' aoont IA NOT want to take th
i LII, ,nr tIn,t uIu no WI, What was i
noAcs M W. tb;s IN sod Rrrt Sad noib;n,
'n Grnss. aU MIN Mr. Coo Walto
' cross.onestioned Alexander very closel
=, TO find ont why he declared the boxe
| tho same os tbe ones he had hauled 70
e Rnrt, but could not shake the faith /
Q his first decision. He stuck TO it tina
they were the same boxes.
q Redirect: Said he saw the boxes agai
ohout two weeks after the bodies wer
/, fo,nd Sheriff White had shown theI
: | 10 him in the court house. He had re,
. oonizod them as soon ms he saw then
he did NOT know which of the Bun
: brothers had told him 10 get the boxe