The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13

with a window opening on the alley. A
half pane of glass was broken out Of
the window. For five minutes nothing
was said. Then 1 heard a low voice
Then some one came up from some
where and then 1 heard two or three
| voices.
Q.-How long did they talk there?
| later
Q.-Could you distinguish what they
said?
A.-No, sir. The one who was nearest
the house seemed greatly excited.
Q.-How long were they there?
A.-Ten minutes.
Q.-When did you hear them again?
An ten or fifteen minutes.
Q.-Had the buggy or cart been
| driven away?
Q.-Where was the conversation this
time?
Am the vicinity of the point where
| the buggy stopped.
Q.-Was the buggy driven away?
A.-Yes, towards Harrison street.
Q.-What time was it?
| A.-After 2 o'clock in the morning.
| Q.-Were you awake at the time the
buggy was driven up there?
Ayes.
Q.-Was it unusual for people to ap-
pear in the alley at that time of night?
A.-Never before had heard of such
Q.-When was this?
A--The morning Mr.. Collins was
| killed.
o.-Was your son out that morning?
| which We wanted for breakfast.
Ole was not gone long?
A.-NO, but when he came back he
told me of Mr.. Collins death.
Q.-COuld you tell whether the men
you heard in the alley were white or
| coIored?
Al could not.
| Cross examination by Mr.. Jetmore.
Odd you get up to see who or
what it was in the alley?
A.-Not then. 1 did after the buggy
had been driven away.
| Q.-Was there a drunk man In the
| alley that night?
Al think not.
! Q.-Were there soldiers around that
night?
A.-Not that know Of.
Q.-There might have been?
Al think not there.
$50 far as you know there might
have been a drunken soldier in there
and they were trying to get him into
| a buggy to take him to the fair grounds?
Al think nothing of that kind oc-
CURED.
| Burgess, was next called He is en-
plOyed by the city electric light COM
| pany. He had heard Mr.. Collins talk
to his father about being held up
| Sixth street. Col Burgess and his son
| were walking on Sixth street one night,
| after a council meeting or from the St
| Ananias club. or had met Mr.. Collins
| at his office, the witness did not remem-
! Der. Then Mr.. Collins told him about
| the attempt of the negro to hold him up
| on Sixth street, but he (Collins) had
| captured the negro, and after warning
| him to never again appear in his path,
| turned the marauder loose. Collins had
| started to march the negro to the police
! station, but passing under a light had
| recognized his assailant and then re-
| leased him with the warning mentioned.
Afternoon Session.
PearIy Atkinson. colored young
| man, who lives in Topeka, was the first
| witness called by Mr.. Hayden for the
| defense in the Collins case after noon
| today. He was at the 400 club when
| John Collins appeared there.
Odd you talk to them?
/ Ayes.
! Q-What conversation did johnson
| Jordan and you have in the presence of
| John Collins?
! Atkinson Jordan wanted me to go
| to the police station and see Jim Kes-
| son and get a watch which he had left
| there as bond.
| Q.-What else was said to you?
| A.-Jordan told me he would give me
IS in it.
Q.-Was there anything said about a
| bomb?
| A.-No sir. not word.
This is the man Johnson Jordan
| sWOre he told to go to the police station
| and get a bomb shell.
Cross-exam inatiOn by Mr.. Jetmore.
Didn't you tell me in the hall out
| here last Friday that you had no recOl-
| lection about what they wanted you to
| go to the station after?
| Al did not. I told you I didn't
know what the defense wanted me to
| testify to.
Odd you go to the station?
| A--NO.
| Q.-Why?
| A-Jordan told me it was a stall.
/ Q.-What do you mean by stall?
| A.-That there was nothing in it.
| Q.-You went out and came back?
| Q-What did you tell them?
| A.-That Kesson said he would arrest
/ Jordan unless he got out of town.
| Q.-Thats what Jordan told you to
say?
Q.-Then what was done?
A.-John Collins gave me a dollar and
then they went away.
Odd you see Collins and Jordan
| again that night?
/ A-No.
Odd you see Jordan again?
Ayes.
GLOW long afterwards?
Al don't know.
Robert Hitchcock janitor for the
! Horner Coal company, A. Q. Davis &
| Co, and Jetmore & Jetmore. Last May
| Hitchcock was carrying and delivering
| newspapers in Topeka He was on
| Sixth street early every morning dur
ing the week preceding May 13. He
| saw a man come out of the alley in the
| rear of the Collins house at o'clock
| one morning, the 9th or 10th of May.
| At that time he was showing a new
| arranged to give up.
By Mr.. GODDARD.
Q.-WhO was with you?
Ant. Roe.
Q.-Ten the jury what you saw in the
alley?
Aust before we came to the alley