The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26
GOOD POINTS SCORED
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WITNESS WHO DENIED EVERYTHING
TRAPPED BY KETCHAM.
A
Attorney General Finally Reaching
some Facts in the LyDcbing
Trial at Cross Plains.
STORIES THAT DO NOT aGREE
FRIENDS or THE MOB ORGANIZING
FOR DEMONSTRATION.
OsgoOd Editor Who Knew KeIIy's
story Better thnn KelIy-TriaI
VIII Continue Sunday.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CROSS PLAINS, Ind, Feb. 25.-The
Hughes hearing dragged slowly to-day.
Several witnesses failed to appear, some
through fear and others on account of mud
dy roads. The trial will not adjourn over
Sunday, but will continue without interrupt
ton If not finished Saturday night.
Hughess attorneys insisted to-day that the
state rest it's case, but Mr.. Ketcham
showed it was no fault of his if witnesses
did not appear, and refused to rest his case.
Two or three good points We're made by the
state witnesses to-day. contradicting elabo-
rate stories told by others yesterday
Nothing important was brought out by
the examination of Frank Baylor, of Os-
good son Of "Bloss'' Taylor, saloon man.
1t is the theory of the attorney general that
the elder Baylor had blood on his trousers
the morning after the murder. Youns Bay
lor denied seeing blood. He and his father
both spent the evening at the saloon, he
claimed, and went to bed at II o'clock.
Neither of them went to Versailles to aid
the lynchers, he said, and then declared he
mad not gone to Napoleon to invite various
persons to come down to join the mob.
VIM T. Johnson, of Osgood, contradicted
both Attorney Charles Wilson and Calvin
Skeen, who said they went to Osgood the
day before the lynching and waited for the
accommodation rain. due at TAI p. M, and
that they got lack about p. m. Johnson
Keyes. a livery stable keeper said Skeen
and Wilson put up their team at his place,
and he testified they left before shutdown,
or about O'Clock. He was positive they
left before the accommodation train ar
rived johnson said he drove two strangers
,.atnr W or
sailles, where he had dinner. He had no
recollection of seeing Hez Hughes nor
County Treasurer Grant Johnson, nor
County Clerk Smith at Versailles. He was
positive Alexander Smith and sBloss" Bay
lor did not get the mare BLACK Bess' to
drive TO cSreensburg. where the state holds
the rope was bought. He then denied going
10 Versailles that night to help hang the
Levi gang.
William Kenyon, brother-in-law of Sheriff
Busching. also cast some doubt on the tes-
timony of Attorney Charles II. Wilson, who
told of hearing the hammering of steel bars
i'm the Jail. Kenyon was in charge of the
Jail that night and answered the bell when
the mob came. He and William Black
were locked in the bathroom while the
mobs work was done. He heard screams
and shots. but did not reeoilect hearing any
hammering on the bars. While the mob's
work was being done John and Robert Bas-
sett and Linsy Windsor, three other guards,
remained upstairs In bed The guards Of
fered no resistance nor made any cutlery
for outside help. That night the force of
guards mad been increased from two to five.
The Jail keys We're lying on the kitchen
inantel, he said where any one could get
them. This, he said, was not unusual. He
said the bodies of Schueter, Levi and Jen-
kins were dragged past the bathroom door.
Gordon and Andrews were upstairs and did
not pass him. The guards were ordered
to stay in Jail an hour and make no dis
turbance, and they obeyed. Kenyon also
said it was less than q quarter of mile
to Attorney Wilson's house He replied
three or four times he did not recollect
hearing hammering while the mob was in
jail. If he could not hear hammering, how
could Attorney Wilson hear it, a quarter
of mile away? is the question the state
would like answered.