The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-15

her cheeks afame and her eyes swapping.
Didn't you plead guilty in the police
court TO keeping a resort?"
81 did not
what was you arrested for?"
Il was taken to the police court because
Chief Steele had it in for me-" Mrs.
Burnett was getting very mush excited,
shaking like leaf in a breeze.
WHO was arrested with ypu?"
"A girl who was living with me-"
Didn't You plead guilty to keeping q
resort?'
! II did not. tell you.
Didn't you run a resort at Eigth and
Adams streets?"
mo. kept house there. kept room
ers and boarders."
who was your roomers?''
Mr.. and Mrs. White and Mr.. Smith"
What did White do?''
'iHe didn't work"
What did Mrs. White dor
''She lived with her husband. He kept
her"
Did you ever room at the ohio house?"
Never did"
Ever room the Brown house?"
Never did,
! Did Officer Feagcr ever arrest your
He run me in so the chief could see
! me-"
Mrs. Burnett screamed out at the prose-
cutor:
Mr.. Jetmore, I'll make you prove this
You better look out"
'Oh. I'll prove It," said the prosecutor
with laugh. and the crowd In the court
room. including several of the jurors,
laughed.
Now, Mrs. Burnett, what time wa. It
that you got into Topeka that morning?''
-Four O'clock"
Then what did you do?"
Went straight home, changed nv dress
and my colored girl, Ella Buchanan. told
me there was vacant house over there
and we went out TO see it,"
rs that the first you heard of the
house?''
yes, it was"
"And you left Ella Buchanan che night
before at IL o'clock?''
YES"
And Ella discovered that vacant house
between the time you left her at IL o'clock
at night and o'clock next morning."
This was a puzzler. Mrs. Burnett did
not try TO answer it. She simply stared
at Jetmore.
when you left Topeka the night before,
you went to Scranton"
Yes, did"
''hWat time did you get there"
about l O'clock
What did you do?'
went out to see my father"
did you go to bed:''
az did not"
well, here you'd been up all night trav-
cling, you get home at o'clock. Why
were you iE such a rush 70 see that house
that you couldn't wait till after breakfast,
but had to go before daylight to see it?''
II wanted to see it."
did you rent it?''
mo, it didn't suit me-"
when did You first hear Of the Col
Inns MURDER"
THAT same day"
How did you hear it?'
Some one told me and read all about
II in the papers"
you heard fJohn Collins arrest for
numbering his father?'
II did"
and tell about seeing a man coming out
over that shed roof?''
None"
"Why?"
81 didn't know it was the Collins house
then
When did you find It out?"
about six weeks afterw.rd. I was 60
ing past the house and some one was with
me and said that was the house Collins |
was murdered in and then 1 remembered |
that was the house l saw the man IN the |
shed roof
How did you know six weeks after |
ward that it was the morning OF the muir |
der that you saw the MANI"
"I know st."
How do you know it?'
well. 1 just know 1t. and I'll stick IS |
It." Mrs. Burnett pointed her finger at |
Jetmore and said sharply. with her fore |
head wrinkled over her eyes:
Look a here, Mr.. Jetmore, you couldn't |
puzzle me, no matter how hard you tried, |
so YOU needn't try it,
The crowd laughed again, and so did /
the jury.
"Who was that some one who was with |
you and told you that was the Collins |
house?"
'I don't remember"
when that some one told you that was !
the Collins house, what did you say"
Don't know as l said anything"
''Why didn't you say then that II was
the house you saw a man coming out of"
Don't know"
why didn't you tell the officers then?'
didn't want to-"
''You knew John Collins was IN jail
charged with the murder OF his father"
II did"
"Why didn't you tell this then ana take
suspicion from him?"
Didn't want to-"
who did you tell az hrst?"
Don't remel~0er."
do you know John wilkerson?"
Mrs. Burnett did not answer his ques-
ton. 1t was asked her again:
DO YOU know John Wilkerson?"
She looked sbashed for the first tine
and fumbled with her fingers AZ button
on her coat and answered half sud.blr.
YES"
There was a stir OF deeper in.eres; than
ever IN the court room Evervous there
knew that John Wilkerson. former CHEF
OF police OF Topeka. had been engaged
By the defense 70 gather evidence FOR f.
and the prosecution had aiasei rather
broadly before during the trial TIA; thev
suspected Wilkerson OF using queer prac-
tees in getting evidence
When did YOU first bsconns acquainted
viii. WIlkersoa7" asked .ae prosecutor.
-Four Or FIVE days ago
Where