The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-23

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looked at John and said: Hello, John"
He said: Il don't know you, never saw
you before
Q.-Have you been up there since
then?
Ayes, I went up with my mother.
Q.-Who advised you to make that
written statement?
A.-Advised myself.
REORGANIZATION by MIR. JetmOre.
Q.-You spoke about John having
Ayes, I told him had seen him
around with a pretty girl He said:
would you know her if you saw herr"
I said: Yes" Then he opened his
watch and showed me her picture and
I said: That's the Babcock girl.
There's no use of you going with that
girl, for I hear she is engaged to Tom
Wagstaff.' He told me he was ace
high with her.
Attorney Hayden raised vigorous
objection to this statement, but the OBJ
lection was oVerruled.
Jesse Harper was then dismissed
from the stand. The defense failed to
shake his testimony.
Sheriff Cook Testifies.
Sheriff Porter S. Cook was called, and
was examined by Attorney Stafford:
Q.-John Collins was arrested on the
same day Johnson Jordan was?
Ayes.
Q.-How many conversations had you
ter the inquest and before his arrest?
A.-Two, I think.
Q.-State about Mr.. Collins intro
duction of Harbaugh.
Ale introduced him as friend of
the Babcocks and an ex-sheriff Of
Douglas county.
Q.-Pn ask you if at this time you
had any conversation about the shoot
ing?
AIR. Collins said he came then to
make some statements in regard to
some stories going around about some
NEGROES ShadnNfner his father
Q.-What about the shell?
Ale said there was a shell found in
fathers office. He said this story had
been told to Miss Babcock, and also
that he had employed detectives from
Kansas City to protect his father: I
John: Now these stories have been
told to Frances" John said that he had
told her them but that there was no
truth in them, but that he told them to
her because she liked to hear them.
Q.-What was asked, about JOINTS
diamond pin?
Ale said he didn't know anything
about it.
Q.-What did he say about going to
Kansas City the day after Dewey day?
Ale said he went there to see
man who was starting out with a show
and was trying to get a position as adj
vance agent. He said he bought white
vest, two cocktails, a glass Of beer and
a bottle of champagne.
Odd he say anything about his
watch?
Ale said his watch was gone, but
he didn't know where it was. He said
that perhaps he lost it on Dewey day.
He said negro might have gotten it,
but it would be the word of a negro
against his if it was recovered.
Q.-What about the revolver?
Ale said he took his fathers re-
volver to Lawrence to celebrate Dew
ey's victory. He said he had shot it
Off
ON ask you if he said what he had
done with it?
Al think he said he had given it
Q.-What did he say about being in
Topeka on the Sunday before the muir
der?
Ale said he came to Topeka to
ask a man about some money matters.
He said he didn't see him, and that he
ate his dinner at restaurant and had
a talk with his father uptown.
Q.-Was there anything said about
pawning his watch?
Al asked him if he had pawned his
watch and pin, and 1 told him if it was
pawned I would do all I could to re-
deem it for him a friend.
Q.-Was he charged with having CIV
en- away his watch and pin for the pur-
pose of having the murder committed?
A.-Mr. Harbaugh charged him
with having given the watch and pin
for the purpose of the murder of his
father. Harbaugh said that he had
given colored men the watch and pin to
kill his father.
Odd John say anything?
A.-No. 1 asked him to tell me where
can't today. The next morning he met
me at the Santa Fe depot and handed
me the statement.
Q.-what did he say about the dia-
Ale said he lost it before his
watch. He said he might have sent it
away with some soiled clothes. He
also said he gave man named Weller
nRnEfi6S and if might be in
of them.
Q-What did he say in regard to the
relations between him (John) and Miss
Babcock?
Ale said that there was a story
to the effect that he was married to
Miss Babcock, and that it wasn't true.
He said, though that if everything was
the same next fall he was to talk to
Mrs. Babcock in regard to marrying
her.
Q-What did he say in regard to his
father disgracing him?
Ale said that he told Miss Bah
cock not to come to Topeka Dewey day
as he feared his father. might disgrace
him (John) and. bring her into undue
notice
Q.-What did he say to you in regard
to what his mother had said about find
ing the gun case?
Ale said his mother expected to
find the gun case after the excitement
had died out.
Odd he tell you when he first
missed his watch?
Ale said he thought he lost in
front of Stansfields drug store when
the soldiers throat was cut. but that
he missed it the next morning as he left
on the train.
Q-What did he say about Miss Bah
cock in connection with losing his
watch?
Ale said she missed it and asked
him and that he told her he had lost it.
Q.-When did you get possession Of
the watch?
A-When johnson Jordan was ar
rested at Newton.