The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-18
NOT PINING.
John Collins is Not Losing
Flesh Or Spirits.
Sometimes Jokes With JailerS
and Turkeys.
MISS BABCOCK GONE.
One of the Most Important
Witnesses Disappears.
May Have Gone to the Seaside a j,
Contemplated.

/ him on various subjects, but rarely
| mentions anything connected with his
own case.
His cell is comfortable as far as fur
nishings are concerned, but the young
! man complains much of the heat He
! wears his good clothes and keeps
| dressed up all day, wearing standing
| collar, fancy necktie and the best of
| everything. He has read several city
| library books through since being taken
| to his lonely cell, reads many newspa-
| pers, and smokes almost all day long.
| He seems to relish the food sent him
three times day from home. Grant
| Meade takes the food to the Jail in a
basket which looks as if it would hold
| half busheL
Jailer Lawson said today: "John is
| just about the same as he has been for
several days. His appetite is good and
he don't seem to be worrying
The hearing will be begun at o'clock
Monday morning The Topeka wit
neSSeS will be called first, and it will
probably take all forenoon to dispose
of them. The Lawrence witnesses will
arrive in Topeka Monday morning
about 1890 o'clock.
AS yet no subpoena has been issued
for Ed Miller, a cOlored fellow who is
employed in Dick Bros drug store at
Lawrence. 1t is possible that he will
De callGu the Irlal should collins be
bound over. Miller claims that John
Collins attempted at one time to pur-
chase a deadly poison of him and offer
ed him $50 for it. He was afraid, he
claims, and refused. He also claims to
have met Collins at Jesse Harper's
house on May 3. Sheriff Moore's daugh-
ter will testify that she saw Collins go
to Harper's house, which is near the
jail.
The attorneys for the state do not
intimate that their case has been ser
iously weakened by the departure of
Miss BabcOck. They say that the fact
of her sudden disappearance will work
against John Collins interest. No one
seems to know why she left, except
that she did not care to face the en-
barraSSment of court trial when some
of her secrets would be probed. She
had made arrangements to go to the
seaShOre long before this matter came
up.
However, her testimony is strong for
the state, and she will be missed. Much
of her testimony cOrroborates the testi-
mOny of the negroes in that it settles
and designates the time of certain
transactions which makes it easy to
trace out the clues
Deputy County Attorney ]. H. Guy
says that the states side in the Collins
case has been strengthened by the dis
appearance of Frances Babcock. He
said today: Il don't know why she
went away, but if it was for the pur-
pose of avoiding the giving of her testi-
John Collins interests considerably.
People will say: She knows something
about this which she doesn't want to
tell think there is no doubt that the
state has enough evidence to easily bind
John Collins over for trial in the dis
trict court"
1--WE don't care where Frances Bah
cock is said Sheriff Cook today The
case will go right on just the same"
1t will have to go on without Frances
BabcOck, for she and her sister, Mrs
1.Ek
this week, and it is generally supposed
that they went east to spend the sum-
mer at the seaShore, a trip which they
had planned. John Collins had also
planned to be with them this summer.
When Constable Ross went to Law
renee yesterday armed with subpoenas
for the BabcOck family and others, he
was surprised to learn that Frances
and her sister had left Lawrence sud
denly, not bidding their friends adieu,
and leaving no news of their deStina-
ton. Mrs. NJ. G.. Babcock was found
at Lawrence and the subpoena was
served on her.
The following is a list of the Topeka
witnesses subpoenaed for the hearing:
Mrs. J. S. Collins, Miss Grace Collins,
Chief of Police Henry NJ. Steele. Sher-
if Porter S. Cook, Detective Dell Har-
baugh. Police Sergeant Tim Donovan,
Knowles. DR.. r. K. Tefft. Coroner ]. NJ.
westerfeld, Edwin LANCE. Detective J.
J. Kinney and w. I. Jamison.
Inc following Lawrence people were
subpoenaed: Mrs. Babcock, Mrs. An
ME Street, matron at the Beta chapter
house; Sheriff Moore and his daughter,
Lizzie Moore.
Subpoenas which were issued but
were not served were the following:
Frances BabcOck, Mrs. Elmer Pierson.
Ross Broadhead, and Howard Leonard
of Girard An effort will be made to-
day to have the subpoena served on
Leonard at his home. Ross Broadhead
was out of the city yesterday, and Con-
stable Ross left a copy of the subpoena
at his house.
OF the list of witnesses the state will
attempt to prove substantially the fol-
lowing:
BY Mrs. Collins and Grace Collins,
the circumstances of the murder, time,
conditions and details.
By Chief Steele, Sheriff Cook, Ser
geant Donovan, Patrolman Jenkins, the
Condition of the premises just after the
and facts relative to it.
BY. DR.. Tefft, Coroner Westerfie1d |
Edwin LANCE, A. w. Knowles, the con-
dition of the body, relative to the shot |
wounds, etc.
Br Detective Harbaugh, Sheriff |
made and evidence Sc |
cured which led to the arrest of John |
H. Collins.
BY w. L Jamison, evidence in the |
form of letter said to have been writ |
ten by John Collins to Johnson Jordan, |
mailed at Lawrence and delivered to |
the 400 club in Smoky Row.
BY Mrs. Street, Mrs. Babcock, How
ard Leonard, stories about a colored !
man pursuing his father, said to have I
been told by John Collins.
BY Ross Broadhead, an explanation |
Inns when the latter borrowed SIS from
him.