Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-09

tired in mourning. testified that she heard
two shots In the direction OF the FVltS
house about five minutes after o Ilock.,
Mrs. Emma Adkins, wife OF r. '; Ru-
kiEs, who lives half mile from the fOiey
home. heard three shots at 9:l0 thit night
She had heard Foley curse his sister an
ME. upon a number of occasions.
Mrs. Sarah Boggcss and g. W. Hayes,
who live near the Foley farm, also nsatu
shots about O'Clock The latter sal1 ne ne
talked with Foley the night OF november
L. after the tragedy. Foley told nun liial
wien he entered the room whetS thS
bodies of the women were lOuhu re htdi
his mother groan twice. Next morning AS
BILLY. if you had gone to your ma last
night when you heard those groans' we
might have had clue TO VINO uld lhls'
Now we may never know. -,
Tc this Foley replied: After tumbhng
and tossing last night until Dr. Morfison
gave me some morphine and atter sleeplhS:
l made up my mind that | never hearu IT,
Heard what? The groans?
Yes, the groans-" ~
William Wise. Eugene HILL John Brost
and Joseph Creek. who worked for Foley,
swore they had heard him repeatedly curse
his mother and sister. Fannie
Leonard ". Lgnon, who has HVed m
Clay county for sixty-nine years. testified
that Foley visited mis- home about O'Clock
on the evening of November Il. lie went
away about SO.
Emmett Iienon. son of the last named
witness testified that Foley mad told him
two or three months before the double Kill
ing that Earl Hoover was out OF thg ',;. pen
itcntiary and in the neishborhood ana like-
~ to do some devilmcnt.' On the nlEAt OF
the tragedy after the witness had viewed
the bodies of the murdered women Foley
exclaimed:
"Oh. why did I leave homer"
Then he said: Hoover. Hoover, Hoover!
Scour the country for Hoover!
Robert Ross said he was aroused about
10:i0 o'clock on the night of November Il,
by J. j. Morrow, FOley's brother-in-iaw.
He went to the Foley home. Foley was
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greatly grieved. but he was not shedding
any tears. Next morning he saw Foley at
the pond and Foley told him he believed
the man or men who murdered MS mother
and sister had thrown their pocketb1oks
into the pond. At the witness suggestion
the pond was drained and the pocketboOkS
were found in it.
Miss Lizzie Williams, who lives with her
parents one-half mile north of the Foley
home went there between 1889 and IL
o'clock the night Mrs. Foley and her daugh-
ter were slain. She asked Foley:
DO you know who did it?"
"Oh. it's that bad boy, that bad boy"
Miss Williams asked him concerning the
identity of the bad boy but got no response.
She then asked his sister, Amelia who
.Oh. he means Hoover
Foley then told her that he had met Hoov-
TO say nothing about it.
A Night Session.
Adjournment was then taken until even
irg.
At the session last night. Robert Williams,
brother of Miss Lizzie Williams, testified
that the. revolver he loaned to Foley on
Novembtr contained cartridges Of 4 re
cC.t make. He h 'd no cartri.i5@s like the
one from which the bullet was Erred that
killed Mrs. FOley. and like those that re
mained in his own and Foleys revolver
after the killing Of Ms. Foley and Miss
Fannie Foley.
Deputy Sheriff EdSar Cave testified that
the Williams revolver was taken from Foley
after the double crime and II contained
three old-style artcid=e7. l. was from this
revolver that the bullet that killed his
mctk er was fired. The revolver owned by
Foley contained TWO of the same kind of
cartridges. IT was found on a shelf in the
house after the killing.
The state will nave IL its testimony be-
fore the Jury by O'CLOCK this afternoon.