The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-16

but the published sermons of clergymen,
and to bury the dead and baptize infants
in the absence Of a clergyman"
The Very Rev. Mr.. Sykes finished his
testimony and then sat down beside John
Collins. in the midst of the Collins fam
lily group.
The ofllowing testimony BY Miss May
Lange, a neighbor of the Collins family,
was given late yesterday:
II saw John kneeling beside his fathers
bed two or three minutes after he died.
| John was crying. He took hold of his
! fathers hand and his other hand was on
his fathers forehead and he was brush
| ing his hair back
! If John is innocent the wonder is that
ne does not rise up in his place and pro-
test and cry out against all the evidences
! the prosecution is building around him.
How can he be innocent and not BE
crazed by the situation he is in?" said a
lawyer today.
"Why is it that he hasn't shed tear
during this whole trial; that his face has
not once fushed?' asked another man.
But John is as Unconditional and as ar
tificial as statute of cold stone. Some
times he laughed with pure and, unadul-
terated enjoyment at the witty remark Of
lawyer or witness. Often ne chats COM
placently and pleasantly with his mother
and sister. But most of the time he sits
straight. unbending, sober faced and cold
looking.
All Of yesterday afternoon he sat IN
moved and listened to these details Of
blood hopping and body cooling and Of
adjourned for the day and the crowd of
women went scurrying out, John, on his
way to an ante room for his hat and over
coat, met in the hallway young wo-
man acquaintance who was struggling to
pull on her rubbers. All smiles and apol-
ogies John was down on his knees before
her in a moment and gracefully slipped
the rubbers upon her feet.
The trial is great struggle and fight
between opposing lawyers and detectives.
Great prestige will be gained by the sue
cessful ones, because the news from this
trial is printed in newspapers over all the
country. 4. A GODDARD the newly elected
attorney general of this state. and one
OF the lawyers for Collins, is reported 20
have said:
What IS the attorney generalship com
pared with the winning of this case. I
would much rather help acquit John Col
Inns than be attorney general II would
De worth more 10 me 10 secure mis- &C
quittal than TO be attorney general Two
terms
There Is great difference OF looks and
manner between the two sets Of opposing
lawyers. For the state there are Aaron
Jetmore and Harry Stafford. They are big.
stout men. Jetmore has a smoothly
shaven face and the shape and size OF his
head mis- hair. his general build and the
contour Of his face are very much Ike
those Of William Jennings Bryan. Stafford
Is stouter he has Grover Cleveland neck.
They are two Of the c,everest lawyers in
Kansas witty sharp and always confident
thata they have hold Of the right end OF
the case. whether they win or not
For Collins there is Charles HAYDEN OF
Hoiton. said 20 be the cleverest criminal
lawyer in Kansas: \. A GODDARD and CIar-
ence 5. SpeIlman Of Kansas City. who vas
a schoolmate OF John Collins and is 4
young lawyer. This l. his first big case
and he Is eager and untiring Hayden Is
a tireiess worker. He works AT noontime
and Ear into the hours after midnight
GODDARD and HAYDEN take turn about n
questioning witnesses. They are remark
able for patience and courtesy 10 Wit
nesses- Their tsmpers have uot been ruf-
fed in this tria- and there has beer much
70 Try them sorely.
Je-more lost his temper once yesterday.
Robert Hitchcock was on the stand and
he testified thats Jetmore had told him
70 so 10 the defense and see II they would
offer him money 10 swear falsely. Jetnore
turned white when he heard ;aat he
cursed Hitchcock and started 70 rise from
ais chair. 81; Ss1ord restrained hln. Jet