The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-05

ried and virgin, and she said she was.
She told me~that some young colored
men had called on her several times"
Odd she ever make any other
charges against DR.. Embree?
A.-Nothing except he was the father
of her unborn child.
Q.-Was any money paid to her?
Ayes.
Q.-Who paid it?
Al did.
Q-Where-- did you get it?
A.-From DR.. Embree.
Q-Why was the money paid?
Al felt that he was practically at
her mercy; that she had several callers
and that they were ready to swear to
anything and that DR.. Embree could
not afford to go into a contest with
them and have his character attacked
by such cattle. He was inclined to fight,
but I told him he could not afford to do
it, because he was about to go away
and could not afford to have a case
pending against him here in the court
[ got the advice of several people in To-
peka and they thought the money
should be paid.
Odd DR.. Enbree object to paying
the money?
A-Yes, he did, but told him that
several of my friends had advised the
payment of the money.
Q.-Don't you think it would have
been better, in the language of a chief
justice of this nation, to have said mil
lions for defense, but not one cent for
tribute?
Dr. Embree objected to the question
He said it was not fair.
Question by DR.. Embree:
Odd I not say that I wanted to
place the matter before the official
board of the church?
Ayes, sir; you did, but I advised
you not to do it.
Question by Rev. T. E. Chandler:
O.-What did Dr. Embree say that
the presiding elder said?
Ale said he advised that the mat
ter be fixed up.
DR.. Embree. at the request of Presid-
ing Elder Madison, made a statement
that he had not told Mr.. Madison the
nature of the trouble when he asked for
his advice.
DR.. Powell was the next witness call
ed. He testified that the body of the
child dug UP by the police was at least
five months old. He then went into de-
tails from a medical standpoint upon
which he based his opinion. The details
were unsuitable for publication.
DR.. Powell was asked if he had any
other evidence on the question of the
reputation of Lena Crith. He said he
had letter from DR.. Ewing.
DR.. Fisher objected to the reading of
the letter but Presiding Elder Madison
ruled that it should be read. In the
letter DR.. Ewing stated that he had
attended Lena Crith in confinement
May IL, 1895, and that man with
troup of showmen was supposed to be
DR.. Hogeboom was next called. He
said that the age of the body of the
child in the possession of the police was
at least about seven months.
Q-CouId you say whether it was a
white or black child2
A-Not without a microscopic exam
ination. but I should say at a glance
that it was an African.
DR.. L. Y. Grubbs was next called. He
placed the ge of the child at about five
months. He said it might be a little
older and he thought it rather more
than five months than less.
Coroner ]. NJ. Westerfeld who was
next called also placed the age of the
body of the infant at five months.
DR.. T. w. Peers was called to the
stand and said that the body was six
months old or between five and six
months old. He said the length of the
body was nine inches.
DR.. Peers said he was called to see
Lena Crith on the 9Th day of August
and suspected that she was in a deli
cate condition at that time.
DR.. p. NJ. Sturgis was called to the
stand and reiterated what he had said
in his AFFIDAVIT He said that Lena
Crith called to see him October and
complained of not feeling well. He said
he suspected that the girl was then in
a delicate condition.
Dr. H W Roby was called and said
that he placed the age of the body at
from five to five and half months old.
Dr. Roby said that on August 81 Lena
Crith came to him and told him she was
in a delicate condition and asked for
something to relieve her of that condi-
I asked her who was responsible .
said DR.. Roby, land she said ought to
know, for 1 had seen him riding down
through South Topeka with her in the
street car"