The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-11
ISN'T A BIT SORRY
testers Sister Would Tell on
Her Brother Again.
HIS SECOND WIFE SAYS
She Was Married to Jester in
Texas June IS, 1871.

Mrs. Street the sister Of Jester, Is out
in another statement in which she says:
'Some one reported that had said was
sorry l had exposed my brother They
are sadly mistaken, for l am not sorry
and never will be, and have never said
a word to anyone that would cause for
such a report In this statement Mrs.
Street also gives an inkling Of the cause
which set her against her brother and led
her to expose him. She writes:
at Is true We bought our home together
and we lived in peace until brother took
IN his daughter and a man with whom
she had been lying around ae her mothers
until they were fired out. They were not
married until at least three weeks after
coming to our house. And now. because
I objected to allowing such low charac-
tiers to live with US, brother became en-
ragged and trouble followed. No tongue
or pen can begin to tell the trouble, mis-
cry and agony they have caused me from
that time to the thine of his arrest. They
heaped upon me one trouble after another,
making my life miserable"
Mrs. Street also says that she thinks
that Jester will be convicted beyond
doubt.
A dispatch from Muncie, Indiana, says:
"Philander Jester of Muncie, brother of
Alexander Jester, under arrest for the
murder Of Gilbert Gates in Missouri, says
his sister, who accused Jester of murder,
is of unsound mind. The sister said Alex
ander kill ed the man she was soon TO
I'LL h.. to m hnfr VIyo
home from Indiana. Philander Jester
says his sister was married at that time.
He intends to go to his brothers aid.
A Norman Democrat representative in
terviewed the divorced wives of Jester
Saturday. His second wife did not hest
tate to talk about her divorced husband.
she said:
1--WE were married at Denton, Texas.
about twenty-five years ago. I cannot
remember the year, but think it was about
twenty-eight years ago. We lived to-
Eether until little over three years ago,
when he was granted a divorce in this
county. I am not very well acquainted
with his former life. as he talked but
very little of 1t. 1 remember of him tell
ing me he had lived in Kansas, and that
he had been to WarrensbUrg, Mo. I was
raised near Warrensburg. first met Hill,
or Jester, when he came to my cousins
in Texas looking for work. He was on
horseback. He was not employed by my
cousin, but found work with another of
my relatives. Later he came and worked
for my cousin. It was here our courtship
began. We were married in a short time
after becoming acquainted. I remember
that he was of a queer disposition, said
but little, and read newspapers a great
deal. When not reading he would appear
as in deep study. After we were mar
ried he preached some, and continued Il
from time to time until we separated.
He was very disagreeable when mad. He
could not control himself. He has written
my son one letter since his arrest. He
wanted him to go to Texas and get wit
nesses to prove an alibi was sum-
moned as a witness to go to Tecumseh
and testify In his behalf, but was sick
and could not get away. l remember hear
ing him tell about hunting buffalo, but
do not remember whether or not he said
he hunted them in Missouri
81 cannot remember the year. but do
the 18th day of June. My son, with whom
I now live, was seven years old at the
time of our marriage. He IS now IN his
year. 1 am not educated,
know nothing Of figures, and will let you
figure it out"
According to her statement, they were
married June IS, ISL. If this is correct |
and the murder was committed in jan
uary, 1871, Alexander Jester is not guilty |
OF the crime charged against him, for, |
according to the statements of Missouri |
1t was some time after the dis |
appearance of Gates before the supposed |
was captured, and he was in Jail |
six months before escaping, which would 1
make the date of breaking Jail as late as
January or February, 1872, which, as |
stated, could not have been done by Alex
ander Jester If Mrs. Hill has the dates
At Oklahoma City Judge Burwef Sat
urday morning, upon application OF Coun-
~ Attorney Pittman and Sheriff Trous-
dale, issued a temporary writ of prohibi-
ton against Probate Judge Jennings, for
bidding him to proceed with the contempt
against Pittnsan and Trous-
dale in connection with the abduction Of
Jester. He also issued a mandate COM
pelling Judge Jennings to pass upon the
motion. Judge Jennings
had cited iPttman and Trousdale for con-
tempt in carrying Jester out OF the juris-
diction Of the court pending a hearing
upon the writ of habeas corpus. Pittmao
and Trousdale allege that Jennings had
no jurisdiction and that they had filed |
a motion TO dismiss. alleging want of
jurisdiction. which motion was wholly ig-
nored by the probate-judg II IS to COM +
pei him TO pass upon this motion that
the mandate Is issued. >,