The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-18

shame to DE suspected and arrested for
numbering your father, or for it to be
known that you COVE negro some mon
ey TO gamble for your"
'I have already told you why / did not
tell Them
(which was the greater shame, for you
to be suspected Of brfbing negroes to muir
der your father, or for the truth to be
known"
This was ruled out.
''Why did you not tel Sheriff Cook the
truth about your watch and your trans
actions with the negroes?"
81 have told you was ashamed Of IT."
THE SHERIFF. PLEADED WITH HIM.
Sheriff Cook had been warm friend
of your family for many years. He told
you ne had no desire to see you arrested
if you were innocent. He told you ne
heard you had given your watch to ne
gro to kill your father. He told you that
if you had paiwned your watch or lost it
to negroes in any questionable way, If
you would tell him the truth he would
get the watch and return il TO yau no
one would ever know thing about it?"
Eyes, sir"
she begged you TO ten him where the
watch WASP
Yes, SIR
''And you wrote out a statement and
gave it 10 him, saying that pickpockets
had taken your watch?''
Mr. Jetmore held up this statement
which John had made TO the sheriff be-
fore his arrest and resumed his question
ing:
You knew if that watch was found in
the possession of negroes it would look
bad for you. and yet you went home and
deliberately wrote this statement for the
sheriff."
eyes, sir"
"Your father had been murdered. you
had been accused of the crime. you want
ed to give the sheriff all the information
you could TO enable him to capture the
murderer and yet you gave MIN this state
ment, which you swear now was a DELHI
crate lie. Why did you do that?''
Il had come to the conclusion that De-
tective Harbaugh was consummate ras-
cal and ! expected ne and Sheriff Cook
would do as they have done and use all
I said against me-
But there was nothing in this watch
lTdISd1llOu IlldL HOulu NOiliicNl NOU WIN
The murder of your father"
NO, sir"
"When did you first tell any one the
truth about the watch?''
81 told Mr. GODDARD, my lawyer, the
night 1 was arrested"
WHEN HE MET JORDAN IN JAIL.
'Tsn't it true that when You were
brought face 10 face with Johnson Jor-
dan in the Jail the night you were ar
rested you said you had never seen him
before in your life?''
81 don't remember
ION the morning your father was muir
dered, didn't you hear your mother and
sister tell the police they did not know Of
an enemy your father had on earth?'
"Yes, sir"
"Why didn't you tell them then that
your father had told you that negro
was shadowing him.
II supposed they knew it."
MIR. Jetmore produced a transcript of
Johns testimony at the coroner's inquest
and read it Through TO John by para
graphs Before the coroner's jury, John
said under oath that ne told Miss Bah
cock the stories about negroes in joke
because she liked TO hear fairy tales. He
was asked then to tell all the debts ne
owed and he concealed most of them. He
refused at that time to tell about the
''tell nothing telegram and about other
things.
1.-The Wednesday morning before your
fathers murder you told Miss Babcock
you were going to Topeka because your
father had sent for you TO protect him
from negroes who were following him
to assassinate him was that true?"
''It was untrue. ] had got in the habit
shortly before my fathers death of tell
ing faasehoods pretty often about my
strange behavior"
SORRY ABOUT THE LIES.
"Yet why could you have a reason to
tell her a lie simply about a trip to To-
peka?"
I'm sorry to say that told a great
many lies then"
mouse the same lies about your visits TO
TOpeka?"
II told lies as a habit then
''But you went to Kansas City the
Wednesday that you told Miss Babcock
you were going to Topeka. and you tele-
psloned to her from there. And you saw
her when you returned to Lawrence that
night and you told her you went TO see
a Mr.. Smith about going out with an
Uncle Toms Cabin shown"
Eyes, sir
why should you wish TO conceal that
from Miss BaIbcock? Why didn't you tell
her the truth?"
Because I had the habit Of lying to
her"
You were sincere. you say. in the love
you professed for her? Why didn't you
tell her you were thinking of spending
the summer on the road?"
Same answer.
You said yesterday that your father
had promised you trip anywhere you
wished to go that summer"
Yes, sir"
You had planned for that trip"
Yes, sir
Then. why did you plan to go out with
a show?"
Il wished to earn some money"
Did Johnson Jordan tell the truth in
his testimony here on the witness stand?"
Very little Of whac lie testified to was
true"
Hasn't the most OF his story been cor
r0borated by you in your testimony"
II think not"
HE DOES NOT REMEMBER.
Isn't it true that you met him every
time ne saws YOU did?"
Il don't remember"
DO you remember any time Jordan says
he met you that YOU did not meet him?"
4 don't remember
You nave read she statement Jordan
made when he was arrested and his evi-
dence al the preliminary. and you have
heard his testimony here at this trial and
all Of them agree in every de,ail. don't