The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-18

did you tell her your fatner sent TOT
| your
Eyes. sir, that was lie, too"
sYou say you were not engaged formal
| " to Miss BaDcock, but there was an
understanding between you. Were you
sincere in the regard you professed to
have for Miss Baibcock?
ST was"
How did it happen that you told her
you were at Topeka to see your father
and that Gae sent for you when that was
not true?"
ASHAMED TO TELL HER.
Gas have explained before. was wor-
ried about the loss of my watch. Miss
BaIbcock saw it and pressed me 70 tell
what was worrying about. was asham-
ed to tell her about the gambling arrange
ments I had with the niggers and so j
! told her what was not true. would not
admit TO her that came here to see mig
gers in Smoky Row
'eYou told her frequently that you fear
ed your father would be assassinated?"
Eyes, sir"
knowing that II she loved you as she
professed to, that would worry her nearly
as much as it would you If it was true?'
81 told her that
did you fear he would be assassinat-
ed?"
81 did have approximations"
'fWhy did you fear it?''
because OF his habits Of locking the
house at night and of carrying a loaded
cane and what had heard him say about
being held up
John then explained about the loaded
I hot had cofI oh0
A great many of the witnesses for the
defense had told that Mr.. Collins never
went out without a loaded cane. It turn
ed out TO be no loaded cane at all, but
simply an ordinary cane made OF leather
discs with a small steel rod running
through the center of its entire length
and decorated with pieces of ivory set
into the leather John said he knew mis-
father was atheletic and quick, that he
kept two loaded revolvers under the pill
lows of his bed, and a shotgun and am
munition in the closet of his room and
had heard him cay that If he ever found
a man in his room he would shoot and
shoot to kill.
HIS VIEWS ON GAMBLING.
The prosecutor started out on a new
line OF questioning. You had never gone
into gambling before on a large scale
and for the purpose Of making big mon
ey till you went into it with these ne
groes?"
"No, sir"
''You knsw It was wrong?"
81 see now that Il was"
Ibid you think then that gambling was
all night"
"In a mild form, yes. I had some con-
sctentiooIs scruples about gong into it,
'You had commission as a lay read
er in the Episcopal church, issued to you
February. 1885,. only two months before
you went into this gambling deal?'
Eyes, sir
Prosecutor Jetmore offered in evidence
the commission issued to John by the
bishop but the judge ruled ii out.
Joe Smothers knew you we'll You
have said here that he often came to the
Beta house to box and sing and you mad
engaged him often?"
ayes, I had known him long time
'TIe knew you used to read services in
the church Sundays, you say. Now, did
you tell him when he proposed that you
go into the gambling that You could not
do it on account of your standing as a
lay reader in the church?'
NO"
''You were pretty anxious to meet jess
Harper?"
NO. was not"
''You had been gambling enough before
that 70 know that it wasn't sure thing
and that you might lose yoru money and
be il worse position than before?"
81 thought perhaps he had more expert
ence"
"You knew that it was wrong to gam
bic, that it was penitentiary offense,
and yet you went to Turner hall that
night at o'clock to meet Jess Harper
and arrange for him to meet you in the
shadow and for him to give a signal as
you came. Didn't you know those ne
groes had the worst reputation of any
in Lawrence"
at knew they were none too good"
Weren't you ashamed TO be seen with
tslem?"
''Well, yes. I was. I have already ac-
knowledged that
TOO PROUD TO ASK HIS FATHER.
Mr.. Jetmore asked John a great many
questions about the affectionate and con-
fidential relations between him and his
father. and Then asked:
when you became so deeply involved
in debt in Lawrence and you were wor-
rydng so much about it. why didn't you
go TO your father and ask him for mon
ey?"
My pride stood in the way
''Your pride did not prevent you from
going TO strangers and asking for mon
ey?"
II had to swallow my pride when I did
that"
Did you swallow your pride when you
went 20 Mr.. Cages house and asked for
a loan of $50 and ne said he would let
YOU nave it If he might speak TO your
father first. and you told him 10 let the
matter drop? Why did you tell him THAR
Because the pride that kept me from
going to my father for money would make
me not want them 70 20 10 him for me-
Mr.. Jetmore Strengthened himself up for
the first strong point he had made IN the
cross-eNamination.
''Wasn't your reason for conceahng your
debts from your father the fear that he
would be angry and take you out OF
scsnool and you would lose your social po-
sition and be branded as dead beat?''
NO. sir"
Didn't you so write 10 Mr.. Knowles,
me banker. a short time before your faith
er's MURDER"
Il don't remember"
Are you selling the truth about that?'
az am; I don't remember"
You heard Mr.. Knowles testify here
and YOU heard That deter from you read
20 this jury?'
Yes sir.
HIS ATTEMPTS TO BORROW.
Mr.. Jetmore took the letter from slis