Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-12-22

dence given in the Art Palmer pre-.
liminary.
r. N. Carper said he had visited the
spot where the body was found and
that it would have taken rise Of three
feet of water to reach the body. He
helped bury the child the Saturday ii
was found and that they took it up the
following Monday morning before
breakfast.
Mrs. j. G. Burkey said defendant
worked Tor them nine years ago and
that he was kind to their children.
H. NJ Gray said he did not notice an
impression in the ice as though the
body had lain where found some time.
John Ginther said Cunningham was
at the dance at his house in Lincoln
township March s.
Tuesday the Rock Island conductor
J. F. Bundy, of Atlantic, testified his
train from Atlantic arrived at Audubon
March 9Th at S:45 a. m.
Oh Mease, of Lincoln township, testi-
fed as to Smelling corn for Chas. Hepp
sometime in March and that Cunning
ham was there then.
Mr.. Smith, of Cameron township, said
he shelled corn for Mr.. Hepp March 18th
and Cunningham was there.
Conductor Campbell, of the North
Western testified he ran the train out of
Audubon the morning of March 9Th.
The trains time was $50 but they did
not leave till 10 o'clock.
Mrs. Franklin, of Atlantic, said che
was in Audubon and saw Art Palmer at
Mrs. Higgins home on March 9TH from
about 9 to 11:30 a. m. On cross ex-
animation said she stayed at the home
of her aunt, Mrs. Higgins, most of the
winter. Mrs. Higgins had talked to her
about this case and she said this was
how she remembered the date, and that
Art Palmer had talked to her about case
and after he had spoken about that
particular day she remembered it.
Mrs. Moore, of Atlantic, sister OF Mrs
Higgins and mother of Mrs. Franklin,
said her sister and daughter came to
Atlantic March 5.
VIM. Luther was called and denied
that he had said in Roth's barber shop
that he had to testify in this case for
the way Sheriff Jones had treated him,
or that subpoena could not bring him
back.
James Cunningham, the defendant,
was called. He denied telling Mr..
Wiley that he tried to get rid of the child.
Said he said to Luther in jail that if he
had the heart to do thing like that he
would have buried the body. Said
he arrived here March and got team
at Dane barn. went to Rock Island depot
and got Miss Hepp and child and went
to the North Western depot and she got
out and he drove on east and turned
south to Harry Woodward's corner and
then west to A. L Weaver's residence
and then south near the Green Bay
Lumber yard and gave the child to a
woman he had met in Manning. Said
he gave her three los and two SIS. Took
team back to barn and then went to the
North Western depot and had to wait
or 10 minutes before the train left and
then went to Gray to Chas. Hepp's place
and then to John Hepp's. Stayed there
until Wednesday evening and came to
Audubon and got his grip at the Far.
mer's hotel and went home. Went to
church here Sunday forenoon and in the
afternoon went to Chas. Hepp's. Went
from there to Manning on Monday
Left Chas. Hepp's Tuesday about p. m
for home. Saw the woman, Mrs. Hally,
the first time in Manning February 3rd
that he got her some whisky and that he
drank couple of times with her and it
was there he secured her to get home
for his child that was to be born. He
wrote to her from Atlantic where to meet
him in Audubon but had burnt the
letters he received. Said he knew moth
ing of the killing OF the child and the
first he knew Of it was after they ar
rested him.
On cross examination said the rea-
son he did not come back the way he
went to the Northwestern depot was
that the team he was driving was so
wild and could not turn them around.
Said the woman he saw in Manning
lived in Council Bluffs and he had
never made any inquiry about her
character Did not remember saying
to the county attorney or sheriff any
thing about leaving the child here In
town until he could telegraph to one
of the sisters at Council Bluffs to come
for it. The woman had said she could
find home for the child in Council
Bluffs. She went north from Green
Bay lumber yard on Market street on
west side, he having driven near to side