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

| into the shoe business. He was part
ner, but later, when he married he with
| drew and took the cigar stand by him
self, while my brother Monte, my
made an assignment of the cigar store
and after that | think he tried to do
some collecting business. After he was
brought back here from New Orleans
and let out on bond we employed him
in our store as an employee and paid him
$50 month. We also allowed him all
the shoes for his family and himself if
he asked for them, and paid all his out
standing indebtedness, even including
the debts incurred in the assignment of
his cigar store. Not being an expert
salesman. we put him upstairs to open
the goods that came in. Frequently we
would hear no noise up there, and l
would go up and look at him, and inva-
riably found him meditating very deep
ly. Several times l would see his folks
with new shoes on, and yet when would
ask him if he had gotten any shoes he
| would deny it. One time some girls
from the lower part of town came up
| one evening and got some shoes and took
them home, saying they would try them
on and select pair and return the
Others and the money the next morning.
That night Eugene went down and got
the money" (Testimony objected to by
Oll STOuUuS VI HcdTSdN.
Sustained) Continuing the witness said:
'The next morning we sent one of our
clerks down after the shoes and he came
back with the information that Eugene
had got the money the night before.
We called Eugene, who was in the store
at the time, to us, and he denied that
he had secured the money. We sent
Eugene and the clerk down to see the
girls and they identified him as the one
hnp hnI naiI In init hnf Ia
denied having received the money. say
ing that he had been down where the
| girls lived and seen them, but had not
gotten any money from them, and he
stuck to this story. When we were in
the cigar business he would always take
81 before he went home to breakfast
He had no other means of securing
money outside of the store. He spent n
good deal of money buying library and
presents for his wife, and we asked him
where he got his money, and he said that
he was writing for a magazine and get
ting the money that way
Another instance of his stealing and
| forgery was when he made entries on
our ledger. Last summer for short
| time | and my brother Monte were
away, and it was during that time that
| Eugene got hold of the books, and taking
some of our best accounts entered by
cash on them. Now. we have day
| book in our store on which we enter all
sales, and then at the end of the month
| my brother Monte takes this book and
| transfers the items to the ledger When
| he came back this time from the hunting
| trip and went to post up the books he
| found this by cash entry at quite Il num-
Der of places OH the ledger. Now, if
| Eugene had had any sense and put the
| by cash entries on the day book as
every one else did, no notice would have
| been paid it ut that time. But as soon
writing in the book he recognized it as
Eugenes, and, calling him to him, asked
| him what he meant by such doings.
| Eugene denied having made the entries,
| but the handwriting was his, and we
knew he did it. know his handwriting
| and | recognized it as his. Up to the
| time he got married | was with him all
the time l know that he told me he
had given Rosette & Beatty a lien on his
buggy, and it also developed later that
| j. A. Jackson had a lien. Beatty came
| into the store one day and said that If
he was not paid the mortgage he held
on the buggy he would prosecute Eu-
| gene. I asked Eugene if this was the
only mortgage he had on the buggy. He
said it was, with the exception of the
lien to Jackson. | paid the $27 due
Beatty. but later learned that there were
several mortgages on the buggy. | never
noticed anything the matter with him
until after my fathers death, when he
entirely and had nothing at all to do
with us. He didn't treat us us friends.
| couldn't say that he treated us as an
enemy, though | did hear of his talking
about us to other people He never con-
suited us about his affairs, save when
he was brought in to us by other peo-
pie. He was very cheerful in earlier
years, and was very friendly with us
and his friends. After my fathers death
and after he began to go down hill he
began to wear stony glance and looked
down all the time Finally l did not
know of a single case where he did right.
Every time we heard of him he was do
ing something wrong. | don't know of
any instance in his life that indicated
any pity. When my mother died he
said he was sorry, but | did not notice
him cry. During the last few years L
never noticed him when he seemed to
enjoy anything particularly. When he
was in the store with us several times
| remember of his selling shoes to u man.
The man would go out with the shoes
and l would ask Eugene if he had paid
for them. He would say no; that the
man would be back soon and pay for
them then. Again, sometimes when l
would be writing | would look up to find
him looking over my shoulder and hav-
ing approached me without making any
noise. Again, when would walk to the
front part of the store | would turn
sometimes to find him right at my back,
he having approached me noiselessly.
Whenever | found him near me this way
I would ask him what he wanted, and he
would answer nothing and walk
quietly away"
Cross-examined ~ have come to the |
conclusion that he was little off for |
several years past. The ROsette Il |
Beatty matter called my attention to his |
mind among the very first things. Out
side of the stealing of the shoes out of |
the store and the indictments now pend |
ing against him know of nothing par
ticular. These indictments were for |
crimes committed before he came into |
my employment At the time of the |
crime and the finding of the three bodies |
/ believe / did see Sheriff White and say |
to him that he has gone and done it,
After some consultation consulting |
Geo. Calhoun, after apologizing |
for dealing in personal matters, said:
GAS far as you know, Mr.. Burt, of the |
history of your family, is there any in
sanity"
Gas far as / know. from what ] have
heard from my relatives, there is in
sanity in the family"
as there any immediate relative of
yours afflicted with insanity"
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