The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-07


e.-Did you wait for 10 Johnson?
Ale waited for about 10 or Is min
utes and then we went to the 400 club
C.-Dld John Collins go with you?
A.-YeS, sir. s4x
Q.-What did you do?
BuncOed All Around.
A.--When we got there I told him
Pearly Atkinson might be able to get
the bomb shell if he had a dollar, and
John gave him dollar. Atkinson went
out and stood around for awhile and
When ne came back he said he couldn't
get the bOmbshell.
Q.-What did John do when Atkinson
came back without the bombshen?
Ale took me out on the back porch
ana told me he was getting desperate
ne sald somebody would have to be
Killed, that or somebody else would
nave to be killed, or something like
that. Then he said that had his mon
ey ana MS watch, and that 1 hadn't
treated him right. He said I would
have to do the job and pulled a gun.
Q.-Was that the same gun he pulled
on you at the house?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-What did you do?
Al got MIN to go home and told
him 1 would follow I said, now I can't
go up on Kansas avenue but 1 will be
there. If I'm not there, said, you can
know that have been arrested.
Q--Did you follow him?
A--No sir, went home.
after that?
Al left here on Thursday following
Dewey day.
Q.-Who went with you?
A.-Edith Bevins.
Q.-Where did you go?
A.-EmpOria, Kan.
Jordan then testified that he had 1iv-
ed in EInpOria a week when he went +o
Newton, and that he had been in New
ton and Hutchinson from that time. He
sald ne had been arrested both in New
ton and Hutchinson.
Q.--After receiving this letter Nav
did you have any conversation with
Collins?
Ale spoke to me and wanted to
know WI Why did not answer it,
A.-NO. told him it was DESTROYED.
Odd you receive any letters other
than on May and May 6?
A.-NO.
Odd he ask you about these?
A.-Wanted to know if I had destroy
ed them and I said yes
Mr.. Stafford here offered the letter
which appears above in evidence, but
Judge Hazen withheld his decision
Odd John Collins ever mention
keys to you?
Ayes: he showed me a key which
he said was the key to the Collins house
and told him I didn't need it as 1 had
a box full at home
Odd he mention doors?
A--Said he would fix the folding
doors so they would not lock-
Cross by Mr.. HAYDEN.
Am April you lived down on Mad
ison street?
Ayes.
Q.-What number?
A-325.
Q.-How long had you lived there?
"A month.
Q.-HoW much longer?
Al don't know.
Q.-Can't you tell?
A-No.
Q:-Who was living with you?
A.-Edith Bevins.
Q.-Is she your wife?
A.-No. She hasn't been divorced
from her husband yet.
Q.-You were living as man and wife2
Al decline to answer that question.
The court ruled with Jordan, and
Hayden continued.
Q.-You were sustaining intimate re-
lations.?
Al don't understand what you
mean.
Q.-You lived in the same room?
A.-NOt necessarily.
Dwell, as a matter of convenience?
A-No-
Mr. Stafford: ST object to their mode of
examination. The jury understands
the relation existing between these peo-
pie and there are many ladies here, and
I think it is wrong to go into such sub
jects.''
Judge Hazen: st think that is right -
Q.-Where were you born?
A.-Nashville, Tennessee, 1 guess.
Q.-where did you go from there?
A.-To Topeka
Q.-This has been your home?
Ayes, when I was here it was;
when I wasn't here it wasn't. I always
consider my home where my mother is.
The witness told how he had spent a
part of his life in Colorado and in other
places, including the penitentiary.
Q.-When you were in Denver in 1889,
how many times were you-arrested?
A.-Not once.
Q.-What were you doing there?
A.-The best I could.
Q.-What do you mean by that?
A.-Anything could get to do.
Q.-Were you arrested there in 1895?
Q.-How many times have you been
arrested?
Al don't know.
Odd you live in Joplin?
Q.-Were you arrested there?
A-Once.
Q,-How many times were you ar
rested in the year preceding the preIin-
mary?
Al don't remember.
Stafford objected to the queries as to
Jordan's> arrest, and the demand of the
defense for a definite answer. This
was overruled, when Stafford said:
I'VE don't claim that Jordan was
teaching a Sunday school"
Court then adjourned for luncheon.
Afternoon Session.
The crowd at the Collins trial this af-
ternoon was greater than could be ac-
commodated in the building. It was
practically impossible to get through
the crowd, com posed principally of wo
men in the corridors. 1t was a jam
such as has never been seen at trial
of any kind in Topeka. Women appeal
ed in vain to get in and then, failing to
do so, crowded the doorways, and at
tempted to force their way into the
court room. Sheriff Cook and a force
of deputies attempted to keep the wo-
men back, but it was impossible. Hun