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

expected he would tell. The part of 1T
especially weak. He had recited the story
of the struggle IN the room for the pos
session of the pistol drawn by Jackson and
father ana then related the circumstances
that led to the killing of jackson He de-
clared that Jackson called him a scoundrel
said. put his hand to his hip pocket and
suddenly raised his arm: with that DR..
Goddard said he drew his pistol from his
hip pocket and fired twice. He said the flrst
shot did not feaze jackson and he fired
again, the second shot bringing him to the
floor;
when he raised it?'' asked the prosecutor.
IF there was anything did not see it,"
was the reply.
You would have seen 1t had there been
anything there. would you not?
Goddard Makes Good Impression.
The witness became confused and said
he thought he might have seen anything
In the hand of the man he killed. Goddard
justified his action of firing two bullets in
/. TO the body of a man who, had no weapon
in his hands with which to defend himself
by saying. IT never fired two shots in such
rapid succession in my life before. I drew
the revolver and fired the first shot without
taking aim; II 1 took any aim it was when
fired the second shot"
While the testimony OF the jackson girls
did rot help the cause of the defense. the
testimony of the defendant, taken as a
whole, probably made favorable impress
sior upon the jury. He talked in n
straightforward manner, evinced no emo
tion.7 no hesitation and only once seemed
to be mixed by the sharp cross-examna-
tion of the prosecutor. DIR. Goddard un-
doubtediy is the most intelligent and men,
tally active defendant in a murder trial
that has been seen In the criminal court
room for years. He had his line of defense
q" carefully mapped out many weeks ago, he
weighed every point with the delicate skill
that he used in compounding a prescrip-
ton and he has been keenly alive to his
interests ever since the case went to. trial.
He is oblivious to the presence of the vast
crowd that stretches necks and withstands
a hundred and one discomforts TO catch n
glimpse of his features. He is impervious
to newspaper criticism. He possesses ex-
rarentiy has not courted the sympathy Of
the jury; he has not asked the considera-
tion OF the spectators: He is lighting the
believes he will win.
The crush of people yesterday was some
thing surprising, even to the jail officials
Al the afternoon proceedings the crowd
was so great, so closely wedged- into the
room- that a great many hundred men and
women were unable TO get within earshot
OF the voices of the attorneys. The DOWN
stairs Railways of the jail building were
1ammed, crowd stood In the street before
the building and hundreds after trying to
force their way in left in despair of accom-
Fishing their purpose. The Alice PIatt
case. which is the standard of crowd meas
rren,ent at the jail, never called so MANY
people into the courtroom at any one time
as were present yesterday.
Both Men Seemed Mad.
When court convened Attorney ]. N.wat-
son began to read the deposition of Frank
Stewart. of Jackson. o.. who was stopping
the time the tragedy occurred. Stewart
testified to hearing a quarrel in the parlor
where the shooting took place; he heard
angry voices for fully half an hour prior to
the tragedy.
Dr. Ellery NJ. Hetherinston was recalled
TO identify diagram of the second floor
of the Hotel Woodland. DIR. Hetherington
retold the story OF the occurrences in the
hallway after the shooting, giving prae-
tically the same version of II as on his pre-
vious examination.
Miss Allie Magrath. who had been en-
pioyed IN the jackson laundry for six
years, was the next witness. She had
gone & to the Hotel Woodland on the night
missing witness-to see Mrs. Jackson, who
was III. She reached the hotel at 7:SO
O'Clock. She did not know whether DIR.
Goddard was there when she arrived Jack
son came between S and $50 O'clock but
did not enter his wifes bedroom. Marie
came running into Mrs. Jacksons he'd
chamber with revolver at about O'Clock
Soon afterwards, the witness said she
heard loud voices in the paror: she rec
ognized the voices of DR.. Goddard and
jackson. They seemed to be angry and
We're quarreling.
On cross-examination Prosecutor Lowe
told the witness to explain why she had
stated TO the jury On direct examination
that she did not know DIR. Goddard was al
the hotel until Marie brought the revolver
into her mothers bedroom. and now you
state that you heard the voices of the fncn
in the parler before the revolver was
brought in =
Il. didn't hear the voices untilsaftcf the
revolver had been brought in eorrected