The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-03
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Olin Castles Evidence In the
Morrison Case.
Largely Confined to the Rae ket
Store Raz0rs.
TWO WERE MISSING.
Intimates That Defendant
Spirited One Away.
Prisoners Former Pastor Testi-
fies Against Her.

FL Dorado. Dec. 3.-The testimony of
Mrs Abbie Castle in the closing hours
of the Morrison trial Saturday proved
interesting.
DO you know when Olin Castle and
Clara Wiley We're married?" asked Mr..
Brumback.
June 49," said Mrs. Castle.
you may state if you were at that
house on the morning of June o."
What timer"
About $780,
Mrs Castles face is sallow and she
spoke very slowly. She told about see
ing Mrs Clara Castle after the fight
IN the Castle home. She was leaning
on her arm she said, with her face
ana her body down to her waist all COW
cred with blood. I didn't know her.
MRS Castle said that somebody hand
ca ner sheets of paper. 1t was upon
this paper Clara Wiley Castle had been
writing Two sheets of paper were pro-
duced by Mr.. Brumback and Mrs
Castle Identified them in the presence of
the court. There was another sheet of
paper, she said, handed to her. 1t had
blood on it and was stuck together so
that Mrs. Castle steamed it and in so
doing obliterated writing. She could not
state whether or not this was Clara
Wiley Castles handwriting. Mrs. Castle
said that in cleaning up the house of
her son some time after the tragedy she
This was produced in court by Mr..
Brumback and identified by the witness.
lt IS the theory of the prosecution that
this was part of a knife or razor car
rled to Clara Castles house by Jessie
Morrison 1t is the claim of the states
attorneys that Miss Morrison took two
razors with her to the house, so that
she might leave one and take the other
and thus establish plea of self-defense.
At $50 o'clock DR.. F. S. Fullinwider
was called to the stand. He was one of
the physicians called in to attend Clara
Wiley Castle. He was asked by Captain
Waters for the prosecution to describe
the wounds, which he did in these
words:
''She had a wound on the back Of her
neck three inches long, through the skin
and tissue to the bone; another on the
right side of her neck beginning at the
angle of the jaw, passing back across the
neck and cutting part of the muscle; an
other two and half inches lower, pass
ig forward across throat two and a half
inches long; long open wound in the
neck where all cuts met: another on the
left side, the wound beginning back of
the ear down to the angle of the lower
dividing it in two, five and half inches
long; and another united with this
wound on the other side making it con-
tinuous; it divided some branches of
arteries and laid bare the two carotid
arteries, laid bare esophagus and it was
cut about one-third of an inch deep: an
other down one and a half inches from
the center of the neck; another struck
the windpipe, took a wedge shaped piece
off from 1t and left it hanging there
then another one-half inch below jaw on
left side; another running tranSverSely
two and a half inches long; another two
and a half inches below left ear ran
across two inches and ended in 'front.'
another one and a half inches above col |
lar bone slightly upward one and half
inches long; another one and a fourth |
11R a ut hnr.
across the Windpipe cutting it half |
across; two wounds On right, five on left |
side of the neck; two on left arm, one |
four inches above elbow extending near
ly around the arm; another across the |
forearm; another wound on the right |
hand three-fourths of an inch long; an |
other on hand inside; another one-half |
inch long on the fingers; another one |
half inch long on the knuckle of the |
thumb; another t1ree-fourths of an |
inch on the fourth finger; and another |
on little finger of the same hand
Almost everybody in the court room |
was standing while the doctor described /
the wounds illustrating them by point
ing to the same places on his own body. |
The people We're craning their necxs for
ward to see it all. DR.. Fullinwider said |
that he was present soon after Mrs. |
Castle died.
Can you state the cause of Clara
Waters.
"She died from these wounds"
what was the effect of the wounds
as to speech?''
..They all stopped speech"