Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-02
NO HOPE FOR HIM
NEW TRIAL For COLLINS ALMOST
SURE TO DE REFUSED.
ANOTHER PERJURY ARREST
COLLINS PRINCIPAL WITNESS AC-
CUSED Of FALSE SWEARING,
Judge Hnzen Orders Il. o.. Bradbury,
Alias james \. <rlIO. Who Tried
10 Help Collins Out. Locked
Up for l.erjury-Argu-
ment Not Ended.

tp for l'~erjury-ArEu-
ment Not Ended.
TOPEKA. March 1.-,Special.) The posi-
bility that john Henry Collins will be given
a new trial by Judge Hazen appears to-
night TO be very remote. The witnesses
presented by Iii. defense have only drawn
the chains mere closely about the convicted
young man. The testimony of each one of
them has becl successfully attacked, while
Collins attorneys nave not scored a single
point.
The last prop was knocked from under
the claims II the defense this morning
when 4. III. Bradbury. alias James 4. Nello.
whose testimony Collins attorneys hoped
would secure Il rehearing for their client.
was ordered Ivy Judge HaZen to be arrested
for perjury. 1t was the last and most
serious blow suffered by the defense.
Collins attorneys will now rely upon legal
arguments Il secure the new trial. which
they yet hops for. y. \. GODDARD argued to-
day, attacking the evidence offered by the
state. He declared that much of it was in
competent and immaterial. He objected
particularly % the testimony OF Ed Miller.
the Lawrence drug clerk. who swore that
Collins tried to buy poison of him. Mr..
GODDARD considered this immaterial because
j. :. Collins was killed by Il gunshot and
not b. poisoning.
Attorney ". +. Hayden also begain his
argument and will continue it to-day. He
is attacking Judge Hazen'S instructions to
the jury. bel ewing that they We're not fair
toward the. prisoner.
NPllp WAS on the witness stand all of this
morning except for about an hour. when a
recess was tIken. The falsity of his testi-
mony WAS 30 apparent that the attorneys
for the defense voluntarily withdrew his
affidavit. His testimony was more remark
able than the boN-Car story told at the
trial and a more ElarinE perjury than the
testimony of Mrs. May Burnett. who is also
nov under arrest.
Mr.. Hayden will resume his argument
this mornini; and County Attorney A. P.
Jetmore and II. c. Stafford. for the state.
will follow. probably closing by noon. 1t
is barely possible that Judge Hazen will
render an Immediate decision, but as he
nearly always gives his opinions in writ
ing this is not expected.
John tmpleby, Of this city. formerly a
Santa Fe fireman. to-day volunteered the
that he is we'll acquainted with
Nello. whose real name, lie says. is r.
II. bradbury. He says he was once a Santa
Re brakeman, running out of E:mporia.
that he was arrested at Peabody for forg-
cry and escaped Il penitentiary sentence
through the generosity of his BROTHERS.
After the witness had been on the stand
about an hour. the court took a recess to
allow Sheriff Cook to m him to
the nei.hborhood of the Santa Fe round
house to locate the house where he claims
10 have heard Johnson Jordan and an
other negro plotting the murder of j. s.
Collins. Nei!o found the house and it an
swered the description given in the atfi-
davit. He said. however. that he had not
been calling. there. but that he was out
walking with a young lady late one night
and they stopped there to sit on the porch.
He could not remember the young Iady's
surname. bat said her first name was
Bertha.
Nello said that he had ''been following
the bicycle business" that he was a pro-
f%essional racer.
He had raced here and there and every.
where buf especially abe taking
part in contests at Chicago. San Francisco
and Omaha He could not recall the names
of the tracks or the officials. He had h.ep
a member Of the l.. y. w. he said. but
had no membership card. To some of the
questions he refused to give answer I'M
III VIZ " w - ny Judge HdZpG
\ portion of the examination follows:
Did you ever work for the Santa Feo..
No. sir"
Did you ever tell any one that Won
did,"
Yes. SIR
What did you do it for?"
ITO Keep my identity unknown"
Are YOU a telegraph OPERATOR
Il know something about tc~legraphy.'
"Iiaye you been working us telegram
operator a, the Santa Fe offices for the
past three weeks?
Not nrcasaarily.'
well. have you?'
Ne"
the OHIO house. that you We're working at
the Santa fe offices a. telegraph oper-
ator?"
Il may have said something about it,"
Didn't "ou tell him that the company
had transferred You TO Ottawa and YOU
expected Ia leave to-day
Il said that | expected to go down
there,
'Dldu', YOU toll him that you had a
claim Of ~" against the Santa f.. and
the company wanted to compromise II for
sJyp??'
Have ,ou a claim of $3.50 against the
Santa Fe Company
THAT NY business.
You reuse TO say whether you have
or not"
Yes sir"
Il ins!>r on an answer TO the question.
your nonnr, sand Nj. Jetmor"
Your honor. THIS matter i OF Il per
sonal nat-gc.' said the young man. and
l don't believe ! care to answer it"
Il am inclined 10 civ" considerable lat
i;Ja.c 10 a.cst!uns IN this instance sad
Jutgc fia.,n. Answer The question
Ihe question WIS repeated and the young