Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-10-29

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hour or so before 1 was so excited when
! saw the revolver that l wanted to go
home" ,. tho
Il don't know"
How die did J.. George Wright happen to be
II don't know
Were Goddard and Jackson quarreiing
when you went into the hall,
/ They both seemed to be mad.
What did yon hear that made you thihk
| they We're mad?"
| Il heard-(hesitatingiy)-I just heard
| their voices"
"Prunnfe" Jnckson's Testimony.
Marie Jackson. who was her fathers IA
vorite child. and was nicknamed 'Prunnie'
by him. was called to the stand. She is 16
years old, but small for her age.
Were you present during the row be-
tween Dr. Goddard and your father on
April 2, last?'
Yes, sir
What time was it you saw your father
| that evening" ...-......
II think it was about $780,
In answer to questions she said he pro-
ceeded upstairs 10 the parlor. where DIR.
Goddard was sitting; her father did not
know Goddard was there. She said when
her father entered the parlor, DR.. Goddard
offered to shake hands and said: How do
you do. Mr.. Jackson" and her father SAID.
Hello" They talked for a few minutes
and Jackson ordered Goddard to leave the
room. AS he started to comply jackson
caught him by the arm, according to the
story of the daughter of the deceased. and
drew a revolver from his overcoat pocket
and leveled it at Goddard. The witness said
she caught his arm and took the revolver
from her father and ran 10 her mothers
room with it.
How did the men struggle?"
They just struggled around tn the room. room
Not while l was in there
Did you stay In your mothers room
after you took the revolver there
The witness said she remained in her
mothers room ten or fifteen minutes: that
she returned to the room where the doctor
and her father were and that they We're
sitting down and talking about DIR. God
dard's drug store: that she went away
and did not return for fifteen or twenty
minutes; that they were still talking about
the drug store when she returned to the
room again; that she then left and went
upstairs to play with some Children The
witness said that DIR. Goddard's glasses
We're bent in the scuffie with her father;
that they were knocked to the floor.
Prosecutor Lowe cross-eXamined Marie.
putting her through rigid examination
that she possessed a most convenient
| memory-one that failed her often in re-
gard to statements she had made just aft
other times when testimony favorable to
the defendant was needed.
In answer to questions propounded by the
prosecutor Marie said there were four girls
in the family-Maud. Myrtle, Mabel and
herself: that they lived at 514 Indiana ave-
nue. prior to moving to the Hotel Wood
land; that her father moved to the hotel
when the rest of the family went there to
live.
Ibid you know that DIR. Goddard was
| in the parlor when you went upstairs with
your father the night of the shooting?'
| asked the prosecutor.
what was the number OF your mothers s
| private bedroom?"
.'Tilirty-one."
"You have testified in this case before.
| haven't you?"
Yes. SIR
Have you read your testimony since?'
Yes, sir. read it yesterday
Who was there there when you read it'"
| Mr. Smith is the personal attorney Of
Mrs. Jackson, wife OF, the murdered man.
| who talked to you about what you
would testify to in this case?"
DIR. Goddard's lawyer
He talked to you and your sister, Maud,
did he not?"
! did not Attorney Watson. one of the
counsel here for the defendant. take these
two revolyers into the witness room yes yes
| sister, Maud. to enable you to Identify
them when you went upon the stand?'
1
And the testimony was read over to you
by Attorney Smith,"
You made statement to me Just after
the shooting, didn't you?"
Yes. sir"
WAS It true?"
/ As far as I can remember"
| '"Didn't you tell me at that time that
| Your father came to you in the hotel Office
| that night and asked YOU to show him to
your mothers room and that you ran ahead
Of h hfy,of 10 oil caI1 or1 to at oH
the room. that your papa was coming"
II did not know DR.. Goddard was there
until got to the room"
| Goddard that he had better get out of the
room because your papa was coming?'
why didn't you tell the jury that when
you were being examined by Mr.. Beebe?"
"I don't remember
What I'd did oi PT GODDARD Ida a,ss, say
difference if he IS coming '
Why did you tell DR.. Goddard to get
II don't know: just told him that"
You had no reason. them"
"How soon after you reached the parlor
| did your father. come imp
Right away" .-... -....
of there" -.
yet You testified that there were four
ways by which he could have gotten out of
| that room.
'The other doors were locked"
| Didn't you testify before the coroner
| that your papa asked You to go UP and
see If the folks were there?"
Your father was almost blind. wasn't
mo. sir:he suffered some from granulated
| eyelids"
.."Do you swear. to. this jury that your
father could see plainly?"
| 'Ges-that Is. not so very we'll"
|. Don't YOU know. matter Of fact
that your father could not see four feet?"
mo. sir"
Why, then. did he want you to go up
, stairs and show the way"
| Because we had changed rooms and he
/ did rot know where to find them
What was the first thing Dr. Goddard
did when your father told him to gel
out?"
| "He started for his hat"
| What hannened them"
''Papa grabbed DIR. Goddard by the arm
and started TO Dull q revolver"
Miss jackson Somewhat Mixed
Didn't you tell me at the time you made
statement to me. Just after the shooting
that your father told DR.. Goddard to leav,
and that DR.. Goddard started to go ant
then came back to get his hat, and that
then your father shut the door?"
Il don't remember that d,
WAS the door open?''
II don't remember. I guess 1t was"
How much guessing have you done fl
this examination
'I guessed about the door and about tn,
time papa arrived"
| "Djdn't Won say in your statement +o m,