The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-18
BUFFALO ROBE FOUND
That Belonged to Young Gil
bert Gates
STAINED WITH BLOOD
Told By Jester to Merchant in
Illinois.
WITH BLOOD

The thoroughness and exhaustive detail
Of the prosecution of old man Jester,
who is charged with the murder of Gil
bert Gates, is something out of the ordin-
airy and indicates that w. Gates OF
Chicago will avenge The murder of his
brother to the closer: limit OF the Jaw
IL Jester had anything to do with it.
A dispatch from Paris, Mo-, says that
Prosecuting Attorney Rodes has return
ed from Chicago, where he has been in
consultation with the Gates family. Mr..
Rodes refuses to discuss his plans or to
disclose the new testimony which he Is
said to have obtained In the last week.
1t has been reported that John w.
Gates sent Mr.. Rodes a check for $500
with which to secure witnesses and evil
dence against Jester, and that four diff
ferent attorneys are now gathering up
the threads of TESTERS life. Mr.. Rodes
strongly denies this. He also denies that
Charles P. Johnson of st. Louis has been
employed to assist in the prosecution,
but 1t is learned from apparently reliable
source that Mr.. Johnson's services have
been secured by John w. Gates.
Old man Gates, father of Gilbert, has
in his possession a very peculiar cap,
which. it is said. Gilbert Gates had when
he left home, and which was found in
the bottom of TESTERS trunk after he was
arrested. He also has the buffalo robe
which belonged to his son and which
Jester is said to have sold to merchant
in Decatur, Ill.
Mr. Gates accidentally discovered that
Jester had sold 1t in Decatur. so he went
there and finally succeeded in locating
the person to whom Jester sold the robe.
He asked to see ii, but was told that 1t
had been sent to tannery. Then Gates
and the merchant went to the tannery
and asked for the robe. They were told
that It was soaking.
The tanner asked the merchant If he
had noticed anything peculiar about 1t,
and he replied that he had not. The tan
ner then told him that it was badly
stained with blood. When 1t was taken
out of the water in which it had been
soaking, the water showed indications OF
human blood. Gates recognized the robe
Immediately as the one his son owned,
and took a large bottle of the water to
Chicago to have it analysed. The color
ing was caused, the chemists said, by
human blood.
It is stated that the merchant to whom
Jester is said to have sold the robe and
the tanner will be present at the trial to
testify against Jester.
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been working diligently at Richmond, In
diana, and in that vicinity to find evil
dence upon which to secure TESTERS con-
viction. They have visited Dalton. Ha-
gerstown and Newcastle in their search
for evidence.
At Newcastle they tried to locate GER
tain letters that will be valuable as evil
dence. It is said that Jester enlisted in
the civil war from Henry county, Ihdi-
ana, and about two years ago made an
application for a pension! He wrote to
persons at Newcastle, stating the fact of
his having applied for pension and add
ed it is claimed, that he lived under the
assumed name of Hill and wanted them
to identify him as Alexander Jester. The
attorneys are said to have secured copies
of all the letters that have been pre-
served.
Two attorneys have also been at Wich-
ita representing Gates and getting the
names of people who claim to know
something about eJster.
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