The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-19
WITH A HOOK.
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papers.
Odd you tell wilkerson what you
have told us?
A.-YeS, we went to see Gayden, but
we did not find him.
Q-You told this to the grand jury?
Ayes.
Q.-why didn't you tell some one of
A-WeH, l didn't think it was any
of my business. He had promised to
let my side of the cemetery alone, and
I thought he would not bother me and
I would not bother him. had that
much confidence in him.
Q--When did you see Lowe after you
talked to Wilkerson?
Al don't remember
Q.-You don't know that you have
seen him till you saw him here?
Ayes, saw him several times this
summer.
Q-Do you believe this hook was
used to snatch bodies with?
Al did not at the time.
Q.-Do you now?
A.-No, sir. I would not use it for
such work
Q.-Where did you find it?
AIN the paupers' field.
Q.-You told all about this hook story
to the grand jury?
Ayes. I think so.
Q.-Didn't John WiIkerson say to you
that this was the way it was sometimes
A.-No, sir
Odd anyone else?
A-No.
Redirect examinations
Q.-Gayden was the man that Will
kerson was trying to implicate in this,
was it not?
A.-Yes, sir, think so.
Mr. Campbell-When you read of
loves arrest you thought this up
about Lowe?
A.-Yes, when I heard of it I thought
back and thought of the things that
Mr.. Campbell here took the witness
back over the ground as to when he had
heard of the arrest and endeavored to
bring out the fact that he had heard of
a reward offered by the governor for
the arrest and conviction of the rob-
bers.
Lewis Frost was the next witness
He had lived in Topeka nineteen years
and had known Lowe eight nine
years.
Q.-Where did he Iieve in December,
1895?
Ale lived on Chandler near Tenth.
lived on Lime near Tenth, about four
or five blocks from him.
Odd you see him on the evening
of December 8. 1895?
Al saw him leave his house in the
evening with his team.
Q.-What kind of a wagon?
A.-His scaVenger wagon.
Witness here described the wagon as
large, heavy wagon with a haring
bed
Q.-what time did he leave?
"A little later than o'clock.
Q.-Was it Sunday evening?
Ayes.
(Which way was he going?
"A little east
Q.-Was it toward Topeka?
Att was the way you start to go to
town. l don't know how far he went.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Campbell:
Q--This was his wagon, was it not?
Ayes, it was.
Q--Parkdale is east of the city
proper?
Ayes.
Q.-How far from Kansas avenue?
About a mile.
nue.?
Al can't swear.
Q.-When you saw him going wasn't
he going east, away from Topeka?
A.-Yes, sir; don't know where he
was going or where he turned.
Q.-How do you know it was Sunday
night?
A-Because I had been down to a
lady friends of mine, and I well re
member.
Q.-You have seen him start fire.
Quently?
Ayes.
Q.-What was there peculiar about it
this time?
A.-Well, I usually speak to Mr.. Lowe
when I meet him. was about fifty
yards from him.
Clarence Scott, the sexton of Roches-
ter cemetery, was called. He told of
digging Mrs. Van Fleets grave.
Odd you see any person in the
cemetery while you were digging the
graVe2
Ayes
Q--Tell the jury about it.
Al saw a man go through the yard.
He was an average sized man. He had
on brown overcoat and black hat
Here Mr.. Jetmore asked Lowe to
stand up and Scott said he was about
the same size of man.
Q.-Had you seen this man pass
through the yard before?
Ayes, about a week or ten days
before
Q.-Can you tell this jury whether
this man was Mr.. Lowe?
A.-No, sir. L cannot.
Mr.. Scott here told of the burial of
Mrs. Van Fleet in substantially the
same manner in which he gave it in
Johnson's case.
Q-What did you notice when you
went back there next morning?
A-Wen, the ring was gone from the
gate and the gates hung little whop-
perjawed.
Mr.. Scott then went over the story
which he gave in the Johnson case.
Cr0ss-examined by Mr.. Campbell:
Q-YOu did not notice anything about
that man which you seen walking along
the fence?
A-NO, sir.
9-How did you come to remember
Al don't know.
Oft was after this matter came up
and you got to thinking it over?
Ayes. sir; 1 thought of several
things.
Q-You would not tell this jury that
was Lowe?
A-No, sir.
Rube Stewart was called. He said he
lived in Topeka and knew Lowe
1886? - e--i -ei'
Al went out in "a, think.
Q-Was he scavenger after you2
Ale really never stopped; the city
couldn't stop him.
Q-Do you know what kind of a wag-
on he had?
Ayes.
Q-Describe it.