The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-01

Q.-What condition was it in?
A.-Both barrels had been fired
Odd you leave the house before
Mr.. Collins died?
A.-Yes.
Q.-Where did you go?
A.-With jenkins to look for tracks.
Odd you see some one in the al
A.-Yes.
Q.-What did you do?
A.-Run with jenkins after him.
Odd you overtake him?
Ayes.
Q.-Who was it?
A.-John Doane.
Odd you know him?
Ayes
Q-How long have you known him?
All my life.
Q.-Where is he now?
Am the army at Leavenworth
Odd you have any further con-
versation with John after you had been
Outside?
A-Yes
lie asked me to go and call Mr..
Gage.
Q.-What else?
of his father and he wanted him to
take charge of the funeral arrange
ments.
A.-Went to Mr.. Cages and then re-
turned and told John what 1 had done
Q-When did you go to the drug
store with John?
A=Saturday evening.
Odd you talk with John Satur-
day?
Ayes.
Q.-What did he say?
A-That he thought some one had
entered the house the evening before
and had concealed themselves in tire
house and after drinking liquor had
gone to sleep which accounted for the
time the murder was committed
Q.-Where did he say they got the
liquor?
An the house.
Q.-What did you say to him?
A.-That I thought it queer any one
would do such a thing.
O.-Where did John say he was go
ing?
A.-To Gunther's drug store to buy
a box of cigars.
C-DS5 Re &c SO?
Ayes
DID he pay for them?
0.-Who were they for?
A.-The men who were to be at the
house that night.
Odd he pay for them?
Q.-What did he say going back to the
house?
A-Repeated his theory.
Q.-What else?
A.-That anyone had plenty Of time
to get out of the house before the Off
Q.EDid you go to the Collins house
that night?
Ayes.
Q.-What for?
A.-To see if my father was coming
home.
Q.-Who met you?
A.-John Collins came to the door.
Q.-What did he say2
A.-Asked me to come in and meet his
friend Leonard.
Q.-WhO was he?
A.-John's roommate, I think.
Odd you go in?
A.-No.
Q.-What was John doing?
A-Smoking.
Q.-What was his manner?
A.-COrdial.
Q.-What was his manner Saturday
evening?
A-CaIm and sober-Hl1e.
Odd you see John shed tears?
Ayes.
Q.-When?
A-When I returned from Mr.. Cages.
Discrimination of Reuben Knowles.
Cross examination by Mr.. GODDARD.
Q.-How did you enter the Collins bed
room?
A.-Through the hall
Q--Did you not see the gun then?
A-No.
Q.-What did you do?
A.-Spoke to Mrs. Collins.
Q.-Then what?
Al went out into the hall.
Odd you not see the gun until you
had again passed it?
Al was west of the gun and walked
east towards it.
Q.-WhO was there?
A--The policemen
Q.-Was John with you?
Ayes, he followed me to where the
gun was lying.
Q.-were the policemen in the bed
room?
Al do not know.
Q.-Was John excited when you went
to see the gun?
O.-Who saw the gun first?
Al don't know, but I thought I did.
Q--BOth saw it at about the same
time?
A.-Yes.
Q.-How long had you been in the
house?
A-Ten or fifteen minutes.
Q-Who came first to the house; po-
ncemen or doctor?
Al am not sure.
Q.-How was Mr.. Collins lying in the
bed?
A-FIat on his back with his limbs
extended; on the east side of the bed.
Mr.. GODDARD then read from the testi-
many at the inquest at which Mr..
Knowles testified that Collins was near
the center of the bed, rather on the
west side.
Q.-Did you so testify?
Ayes.
Q.-Why have you changed your opin-
ion?
A-Because Mrs. Collins was at the
head of the bed and I thought at the
time distance between her and Mr.. Col
Inns was great enough to place him on
the west side of the bed Had she not
been there, I think I could have seen
the bed better.
Q.-Then if there was an error then
what causes you to change your mind
Al was more excited then than I
am now.
Q-You meant to tell the truth then
Ayes
Q-And mean to now?
Ayes
The witness then placed the gun on
the floor to indicate the position in
which he found it. The muzzle was
towards the northwest the top of the