The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-07

A.-Only that the next day when the
sheriff came to the house we found an
unfinished note to Miss Babcock.
Q.-This was after the murder?
A.-Yes
Odd you see him send any notes
away on Wednesday evening?
A--No, sir.
REORGANIZATION by Gfr. GODDARD:
Q.-You lived in the chapter house?
A--Yes, three years.
Q.-WhO FOOmed with you?
A.-Haggart.
Q.-Who procured the wine which
you used?
A.-Haggart and together. Haggart
Odd you not invite John to come
to that feast?
A.-No, sir.
that you and Haggart invited John?
A.-Yes.
Q.-Then your statement at the pre-
liminary is not correct.
A.-No, it is not.
Mr. GODDARD had read Wilder's testi-
mony at the preliminary.
Q.-Were your studies for the day
ended when you had the wine?
A.-Rather think so. Don't drink and
study at the same time, do you?
''I don't know what you do at Law
renee" replied Mr.. GODDARD.
Not Intoxicated.
Q.-Were you intoxicated?
''Well, I hardly think so. I only
drank two glasses Of the concoctiOn and
I was in training for an athletic event
and won the half mile race the next
Monday. I guess I wasn't drunk" said
the witness with a Sneer.
Q.-Why didn't you tell about the
lemonade at the preliminary?
Al didn't get chance. 1 was so
excited.
Q.-Were you not asked at the prelim-
mary if you had anything else that
night and did you not say "a lunch?'
Ayes.
Q.-What kind of a revolver was 1t
John showed you?
"A nickel plated revolver.
Q.-What was it in?
"A vulcanite scabbard.
Q.-What did they show you at the
preliminary.
"A soft rubber scabbard.
Q.-Was it like the one John showed
you?
A-Yes
Odd you identify it?
A.-Not positively.
The witness here contradicted the tes-
timony of the preliminary and Mr..
GODDARD made his examination very Wig
orous
(Which statement is correct?
A.-The statement I now make, but
both are approximately correct.
Q.-At whose suggestions was the
pistol fired that night?
A.-John's.
Q.-Who fired it first?
A-John.
Odd you testify at the preliminary
that you did not know who suggested
that the pistol be fired?
A.-YeS.
4 Q.-Today you say John suggested 1T?
A-Yes.
Q.-What did John say about the
pistol?
A.-Seemed to be proud of it.
Q.-Safd it was his fathers?
Ayes.
Q.-when did you see John talking to
Joe Smothers?
AT a party at the Beta house.
Q.-Where was he?
A.-The quartet which Smothers
brought was stationed in one corner of
the room, and while they were not sing
ing John went over and gave them ci-
gars. He later, when 1 was going to
pay them, asked that he be permitted
to do so himself.
Odd you go over and talk to the
boys in the quartet?
Ayes
.Q---You boys treated the quartet
nicely did you not?
Al guess they did, although many
of the boys never spoke to them.
Q.-Was there anything suspicious
about Johns going over and speaking
to the negroes in the quartet?
Q.-What did John have charge of at
the party to be given May 13.?
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Q.-Under those circumstances is it
not probable that he would have want
ed to see Ed Miller about the service?
A.-Yes.
Q.-Where was John when he was not
in school?
Am Topeka we supposed.
Q.-Was he irregular when in Law
renee?
A.-Yes. he was only in school a part
of the time.
Q.-You said half of the time?
A.-Yes, but qualified it by saying a
part of the time.
Q.-Do you know why he was in To-
peka?
Ale was, we supposed. arranging
to go, as he said, into business with his
father at the close of the school year
Q.-How much was he absent from
school?
Al can't say.
Q.-Was he regular at his classes
while in Lawrence?
A.-No, he skipped his lessons fre-
quentIy.
Q.-How do you know?
A.-F'rom his own statements.
Q.-Was Collins indebted to the fra
ternity at the time of his fathers death?
A.-Yes, $7.65
Odd he owe you anything?
A.-NO. He owed some of the boys
small matters of 81.
Cecil Haggart was the next witness.
He lives at Parsons. He was Wilder's
room mate, and while attending school,
his parents were and are now at Sa-
lima. He is now resident engineer, he
says, of the NJ. K. & t, at Parsons.
When Haggart told about the "salted
almonds, bread and butter ard claret
lemonade supper he hesitated and
then laughed. and the crowd Joined
him. Judge Hazen scratched his head
and laughed too. Haggart's testimony
covered practically the same ground
as did Wilder with reference to the
lunch. He helped Collins, and Wilder
hustled the dishes for the lunch from
the Beta house kitchen. Haggart saw
and fired the revolver which John was
carrying but did not see it after that
time.
The cross-examination by Mr. God
ard showed that the claret supper had
intoxicated no one, and that the party
was not hilariOuS The witness stated