The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-14
INGRAM Is TRIED
PRELIMINARY HEARING BEFORE
JUSTICE JONES,

PRELIMINARY HbAhlNG BIZ URf
JUSTICE JONES.
An Immense Throne In the Appellate Court
Room-some Startling Evidence Brought
Out, Showing Hor, Stop and Depravity-
Dark and Devious Ways of the People
Who Don't Care How the Old World
Ways, and Some Indications of Sly
Crookedness on the Part of Persons IL
Good Feather.
The preliminary hearing OF Art In.
gram and his wife May, before Justice
Jones. attracted a throng of people yes.
terday. In view of the great interest
taken by the community, the prelimin-
airy was held in the appellate court room
and, spacious as it was, it was packed
with men and women who craned theiI
Escks and pricked up their ears 10 catch
every syllable of evidence. At one time
the crowd pushed through the south
gate Of the railing and almost smothered
the stcnographers and newspaper re-
porters netting this, Justice Jones or
dered the bar cleared. which was
promptly executed by Constable Tom
Voss. No preliminary since the muir
der of old man Leonard has attracted
SO much attention. County Attorney
Arlidon threw his mental force on the
side of the state and .. H. Bentley con-
Quoted tire defense
Dr. J. w Shuts was the first witness
called. He said he had been the family
physician Of deceased L. J. White; that
he was called to the scene of the trou-
bic or the night of March LIST DR.. For
dyce was there and removed the gas
pipe from its Judgment in Whites skull.
Witness inserted his finger in the wound
and judged that the gas pipe had pene-
trated about four inches. The poker
had entered little TO the left of the CEN
Ter OF the head, in the rear. The hole
might have been deeper. The effect of
such wound would be the paralysis of
The right side of the body. Also found
other wounGs-a cash over the right eye,
the bone below the eye broken and a
haif-moon cash in the flesh so deep that
witness inserted his little finger therein.
This wound alone was enough TO knock
him senseless Whites nose was also
broken and he had two slight wounds on
the scalp. Witness described the shock
and lingering death Of the victim nearly
forty-eight hours after he was assailed.
He never regained consciousness nor did
he speak He was taken 10 his home on
North water street where he died.
Cross exc mination by Mr.. Bentley-"I
could not detect any effects of liquor.
The dying man wasn't in condition 10
show any effects of liquor" Witness
said the face wounds We're not necessar-
:, Ed fro,
them Deceased never recovered from
the shock.
Re-direct-White's lip was cut open
and one tooth was knocked out in line
with the cut Witness stepped the dis
lance from the blood pool to Ingram s
house and il was fifty-five feet. He
found no blood whatever except where
White had +fallen. Witness found a
panel of the door under a table in the
house eight or nine feet from the door.
The panel was split in two and had been
Joined together, apparently, where ii lay.
There were shoe marks on the panel, the
nails of the shoe making scratches as If
done with nail.
DR.. H. B. Tiehn, county physician, saw
White the day after he was injured.
Said that wound went upward from the
entrance. Described the injuries as
had the preceding witness.
Cross examination-Witness was
physician of the regular school He went
10 see White at the request of the county
attorney Witness inserted his finger in
the wound full length.
Charles Simmons, liveryman, testified
that he knew White; saw the place
where White was found; knew where
Art Insra l resided: was a. the county
jail on March %; went 10 the jail to see
Price. who had been shot in the hold
up. Witness talked with Ingram. The
prisoner said he came home from work
and sat down to read paper. Some one
knocked on the door: his wife answered
the knock and came back and told him
there was q drunk man there; Ingram
then went to The door and told the man
he'd better move on, told his wife she'd
better go after police officer. she
started by way Of Mrs. Morris IN the
same lot Ingram followed and called
his wife back. The man also came back
and kicked in the panel of the door. IN
gram told Simmons that he reasoned
with the man and got him to go to the
gate, when the man Ga stranger TO IN
.sram took up a rock or brick and hit
him or the breast. Ingram ran in the
house, got the piece of gas pipe used for
a poker and threw it at the figure in the
dark; he merely threw it TO trip him.
Ingram then stepped back in the house.
but heard something raking along the
picket fence. He then went TO Stones
livery barn and telephoned to police
headquarters When the body was dis
covered and he saw ii was an old man
he was sorry.
Cross Examned-Ingram told witness
that the man came back two or three
times. aud came to the window two diff
fsrent times. Ingram told witness the
man kicked in che panel of the door. and
swore ne would Whip him Qngram)
Eugene Kistler. girlish-looking
Young man. testified that he was with a
girl named Nina on the evening of March
LIST. and they were going 10 Ninas little
house just north of Migrants. After pass
ing Lehman & Higginson's wholesale
house on Wichita street they found
man lying between the rails of a switch
track. saw an iron rod or poker sticking
in the mans head l saw Ingram and
he said take care OF him till l get some
body" He said ] did 1t. Afterwards
when the patrol wagon arrived | saw H.
gram get out Of it Witness described
how Migrants house faced west on
Wichita and Mrs Morris house in the
same lot, faced east on Water street,
witness mad resided here eight or nine
wears. and hao been on night watch at
MS fathers restaurant for three or four
years. He knew Nina well. Didn't