The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-30


| Q.-What was in the grips?
An one opened there were shells.
| Q.-What kind?
A.-Black coated.
| Q.-The red shells you found2
Am a box in the cupboard.
Q.-How many shells were in the
Al don't know.
Q.-Give US your best judgment?
Ats no use; I didn't count the
o.@who showed you the gun in the
hall?
A.-No one.
Q--Did DR.. Tefft show you the gun?
Al do not remember.
Did you testify at the inquest that
| DR.. Tefft showed you the gun and that
you took it away" said Mr.. Hayden
reading from the evidence.
| Al do not remember, but there
must be some mistake; I never took the
| gun away from the house; I might
| have moved it from the hall.
Odd you find any tracks around
| the outside of the windows?
A.-No.
Odd you see any mud on the roof
| opposite the unlocked window?
A.-NO.
Mr.. Donovan explained that the roof
over the kitchen was so steep that he
| was compelled to get down on his hands
| and knees and slide along to see if any
one had been on the roof.
Mr.. Donovan was excused and the
| court at 1907 adjourned until 1870.
Afternoon Session.
The largest crowd which has attend
| ed the Collins trial thus far was present
| at the opening of the court this after
noon. The aisles and dOOrways were
| damned, the majority of the crowd be-
| ing women.
The majority of the women were
| young-girls from Is to 25 years of age.
Policeman Jenkins was recalled by
| the defense and asked if he testified at
| the preliminary that Albert Heartburg
had left muddy tracks on the roof of
| the Collins kitchen.
Al don't know whether I did or
not.
He was then excused and Albert
Heartburg, patrol driver. was called by
| the state. He told how the jailer had
awakened him on the morning of the
murder; that he went up the avenue
| from the station where he had been
asleep and sent Jenkins and PaVey to
the Collins house. Heartburg then went
| for Donovan, then returned to the sta
| ton, hitched up his horse to a buggy
then went to meet Donovan and they
went to the house together.
Q.-Who did you see?
A.-JOhn Collins.
Q.-What did he say?
A.-Inquired whose horse and buggy
was in front of the house.
Q.-What was his manner?
A.-Calm.
Q.-Was he crying?
Odd you see any evidence that he
had been?
| relevant and incompetent"
/ Judge DISQUALIFICATION sustained.
Mr.. Jetmore-What did Collins want
of the horse and buggy?
A.-Said he wanted to take some tel
egrams to the office.
Odd he leave?
Al. do not know.
Q.-Where did you go2
Aground back of the house.
Odd you see John Collins again?
A.-NO.
Q.-What did you do?
A.-DonOvan and Fieger helped me
up on the roof of the kitchen.
Q.-What kind of a roof is it?
Q.-What did you get up for?
A.-To see if there were any tracks
there.
Q.-Did you find any?
Odd you find some mud there?
Ayes; it was old dry mud.
Q.-How close were you to the win
Alright feet.
Q.-Could you reach it?
A.-NO.
Q.-Was the window open?
A.-NO.
Odd you see Donovan and Cook
there afterwards?
A--NO, L was gone.
Q.-What did you do when you left?
A.-Went for Chief Steele.
Q.-HOw did you get down?
A.-Ffeger steadied me, then placed
my fingers over the edge of the roof
and dropped down.
Cross examination by Mr.. Hayden.
Odd you look on the north side Of
the house for tracks?
A.-Under the dining room window.
Q.-Did you find any tracks?
A.-No.
Mr., Heartburg then described the
buildings at the rear of the Collins
house.
Odd you leave any mud on the
roof?
| "A small amount of dirt
Q.-FrOm your shoes?
Ayes
Q.-Did you leave any other marks?
Al can't say.
Odd you look?
A-NO
Odd John Collins go to the teIe-
| aph office?
! Al don't know.
Odd he drive away?
Al don't know. Presume he did.
/ The buggy went away.
/ (Which way?
| Al couldn't say positively.
! Odd you say at the preliminary
| that you saw him driving away?
/ Al don't remember.
| Heart burg was here excused and J.
| Q. Picl1ens, the man who was first to
! respond to Mrs. Collins cry for help on
/ the morning of the murder was called
| for but was not present in the court
/ room.
Policeman Fieger Testifies.
| Policeman George NJ. Ffeger was then
placed on the stand. Mr.. Jetmore con-
/ Quoted the examination.
| Q.-Where were you on the morning
| of May 10?
! Al responded to Heartburg's whis-
/ tie. Met jenkins and we went to the
! Collins residence about $40.
/ Q.-WhO did you see at the residence?
| A.-John Collins came to the front
door and called us.
! Q.-What did he say?
| A.-COme here; here's the place.
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