The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-18

| Ayes. 1t was kept in a long case.
| Odd you find that case?
| A.-No, it has not been found.
| Odd you have any talk with Mrs.
Collins as to how the shooting occur
| red?
Al think not.
| Odd she say whether she thought
it was done for robbery?
A.-She said it was not done for
Odd she say whether she saw the
one who did the shooting?
A--She said she did not see any one.
Odd you talk to John?
o.-What did he say?
| Ale said he had no theory.
Odd you ask him if any one had
| been shadOwing his father?
| Ayes. He said he did not know
| of any one.
Odd you make search for the
pistols?
! Ayes
DID you find them?
| A.-No.
Q.-RRid you search the house?
Odd you search Johns room?
A:-Yes- All except a little writing
| desk that was kept locked.
| Q.-When did you first learn that one
| of the pistols had been found?
A.-Saturday night or Sunday morn
| ing.
| in the box?
At was a full box less seven.
Sheriff Cook exhibited the night dress
and und no worn by Mrs Collins the
stained near the neck and showed sew
eral shot holes
DISCRIMINATION by Mr.. GODDARD
Q-HaVe you made a thorough
search for the gun case?
o:-If it is in the house you would
A-.-No, I could not say that.
Mrs. ]. F. Mills, receiving clerk of the
western Union was called. She was
shown the telegram sent by John Col
Inns to Frances Babcock. She identi-
fled it. She said that a young man had
come in after the telegram had been
added the words, ''Tell nothing" She
said she presumed the man was John
Collins
Q.-How did he act?
Ale seemed in a hurry to get the
message before it was sent.
John Collins was sent for and brought
in but Mrs. Mills failed to identify him
positively.
John Collins took the stand with as
much composure as any witness in the
case.
refuse to answer any question but adj
Vised him to consider the questions
well before he refused.
.Q.-What is your name?
A.-John Henry Collins.
Q.-HOw old are you?
Al was 81 last March.
AIT noon Thursday on the Union
Pacific.
Q.-Why did you come?
A.-Of my own will.
Odd your father send for you?
A.-NO.
Q.-Why did you come?
A-Because L was not feeling we'll
and came up to see DR.. Grubbs. There
was rate on and I thought it was
cheaper to come than see a doctor
there.
n
coming?
Q.-Who?
Al told the hackman and Frances
.Q-Why did you tell Miss Bah |
cock you We're coming?
Al refuse to answer that ques- |
Q.-What did you tell the hackman? |
Al told him I was sick.
Odd any one else know you were |
coming?
A.-NO
Did your folks know you were
coming?
Q.-Where did you go when you got
to Topeka?
Al went home.
Q.-Did you go to the bank before /
A.-No.
Q.-You owe the bank some money, |
don't you?
Ayes.
CIT was overdue?
Ayes.
Q.-You had been notified that it was !
overdue?
Ayes. I wrote Mr.. Brooks a letter !
and told him would have to ask for a |
few days of grace.
Q.-Do you owe some other bills?
Ayes owe a 1iveryman about |
$50. owe the bookman So or "a and 81 |
to a restaurant and So or 81 to several |
others.
O-Did Won owe any of tba co11aoa
boys anything?
Al owe Mr.. Sweet 50.
Odd you see your father after you
got home?
Al went to the Office to see him
but Miss Wyatt told me he was away
with the Knights TempIar. I saw him
afterward on the street and shook
Odd your folks go out that even
ing?
Ayes. They went out with a little
girl who was there.
Q.-Who was the little girl?
;. Any aunt's little girl, Helen Gill
lispie from Lawrence
Q.-Were you out that night?
Al might have walked to Sixth
street. 1 don't remember.
Q.-Where was your sister?
A.--She was in her room part of the
time and down stairs part of the time.
Q.-Where did you stay?
Al was at the piano part of the
time.
Odd you ever shoot his gun?
A.-No, 1 never saw the gun: the gun
he used when I went hunting with him
had hammers.
Q.-Do you know where he kept his
gun?
Ayes, he kept it in the closet.
Q--Do you know where he kept his
Ale kept them in a grip in the
closet
Odd you see any of those red
shells?