The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-24
NOT RIGHT WEAPON.
Detective in SwetIick Insurance
Case Bought Wrong Re-
VOlVer.

The federal court moved again This
afternoon This time it is sitting in
the senate chamber at the state 1ouse-
ana the trial Of the SwetIicIx ins-nrance
case is being continued there
The noise in the court room Of tbe
ASueIal building became deaff,niney as
me work OF tearing down the walls pro-
crossed this morning. The iuTv was
placed on the south side of the room
ana the entire court novel as far away
from the noise as poss' Bile. but the
9 a1,,lliet & became SO lou I'D that it was
make themselves hero.
Inc heaVy partition which has been
Dulat across the north end of the room
contains three W1D dows, but there was
not whole pane of glass left in them
by the time COZ 1T adjourned at noon
me Aaillng st0 mes ana mortar Jared
lem i an OUT nd the crash of breaking
sass was ma gled with the roar of the
oe.LsI Work and the result was that at
tuIHeys ar4FI witnesses had to almost
Sel 70 N a ke themselves heard
Judge E4OOk decided that he would
nave 70 move his court again, and the
Is oA the senate chamber was secured
ne reouttal testimony In the SWEET
1lch case today was rather disastrous to
the claims of the insurance companv
TnAt the revolver which has been in evil
1ehce at the trial is the one which the
~ tches claim to have found tied to
t1Aul Swethck's saddle after he was
3 not. Ihls IS the revolver which De-
tective Montgomery traced back to
Valparaiso, Ind, and purchased from
man as the same revolver which ex-
SnerlH Naylor had lost there. Mr..
montgomery had learned from Mr. Nay
d0r that he lost the revolver in Indiana
and thought that he left it in a room at
Valparaiso. Mr.. Montgomery went to
Valparaiso and purchased revolver
which he was told by the man from
whom he purchased it, was the one
Naylor had left behind This man was
brought out to Topeka to testify to this
fact.
Today the attorneys for the plaintiff
placed on the stand three ex-sheriffs of
jackson county and an undersheriff, all
OF whom were present at the prelim-
mary examination of the Staches near
" eight years ago,at which the revolver
which was found tied to SWetliclx's sad
die was produced. These witnesses were
eN-Sher1rfs NaylOr White and Francis
and Undersheriff ReasOner. All of them
TESTIFIED that they had examined the
revolver produced at the preliminary
examination, and that the one which
the insurance company has produced
at this trial is not the same one thai
was sworn to then a. being the revolver
which had shot Swetlick. They testified
that the revolver produced at the pre-
urinary examination had a cross on the
back, while the one which is produced
in this trial is marked with a 'ar'' or
the butt of the handle.
In addition to this Mr. Navlor and
Mr. Francis testified that after the pre-
liminary examination they were loolxinl
at the revolver in the office of Sheriff
Mayor. and they put a private mari
Of their own on the barrel of which
they never told anyone. TINS mark wa
made on one end of the barrel near tn
cylinder, but it does not appear on tn
revolver exhibited in. this trial
Judge Hook has ruled that the plain
tiff may introduce the testimony t.
show that the company's agents kney
of Swetlick's intention to take Iarg
amount of insurance, before the agen
sent in the application of SWetlick, an
the general agent of the company, MI
Alternately, admitted that Swetlick one
told him that he intended to eventuall
carry 100000 Of insurance on his life.
Roy Morris came up from Horton yes
TO. ri-s4 III