The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-18
SAW A DEAD MAN
Two Women Testify Hard
Against Jester.
CORPSE WAS IN HIS WAGON
On That Cold January Day in
HuIen'S Lane.
CORPSE WAS IN HIS WAGON

against Jester is that given by Mrs
Amanda Clark and Mrs. Francis Slattery
who testify that they saw dead body II
the wagon Jester was driving through
Hulen's lane January a. 1871, the day Sc
many saw the big splotch of blood in the
snow.
Jester has made a statement which is
not important. It reads as follows:
st am pleased with the progress of my
trial, and confident 1 will be acquitted.
There are, however, a great many wit
nesses here 10 testify against me. A
large number of them 1 have never seen
nor heard of.
Instead of twenty-nine years time d.
minishing the number Of witnesses, 1t
has increased the number tenfold and
frightened their memories. 1 am stand
ing this long trial all right, although it
is very tirsome sitting here all these long
days.
THE thing that bothers me most is
having to sit in my chair so long at
time during these hot days When court
adjourns and I go to get up from my
chair 1 feel very stiff. I have a fairly
good appetite and sleep well. I hope I
will soon be free, so 1 en- spend the re-
mainder of my days in peace. This is
the first statement I have ever made
about the trial.
The first witness is the Jester case
Monday was Alfred Fields. He said he
was living five miles west Of Middle
Grove in 1871 Ee said he saw an old
man and a young man pass. The young
man was driving a bay team Of horses.
Jester was driving a team Of gray ponies
In TESTERS wagon was a buffalo calf
Gates told Jester at that time that he
would neither trade or sell his team
when the witness asked for a trade with
TESTERS ponies. They camped that night
near the Dulaneys.
Mrs Hugh Stewart testified: 'T was
riding horseback with my husband, Cap
tain Hugh Stewart, in the Hulen lane
on the day Jester and the young man
passed going east. 1t was showing at
times and just east Of West Madison
road I saw a large pool Of blood in the
road. 1t was fully one foot in diameter
and appeared to be fresh. The quantity
was great and as we proceeded We occa-
sionally saw other spots. although not
quite as large as the first. At the end
of the lane we met Bill AIaxey and an
other man. Just ahead of us when We
arrived at the end of the lane, having
turned south on an uuCrequented road
we're the two mover wagons, Jester and
the Gates wagons
Mrs. Amanda Clark said that she saw
Alexander Jester pass through the HUI
len lane Of January "a ISL, with two
teams and two wagons. She remembered
that it was January q from the fact that
Thomas Ritledge was born on that dav
She saw in the front wagon the form of
q man lying on the floor of the wagon
wrapped in a comfort She saw the
shoes Of the man protruding from the |
covering. The feet were toward the front |
of the wagon, the head toward the rear.
She saw the body shake as the wagon |
moved along the road. She SAW this |
when Jester raised the covering Of the !
wagon to look back at the team follow |
ing. The team was not tied to the front |
wagon and Jester seemed to fear the |
rear wagon would strike a tree in the 1
road.
81 did not see anyone at the time ex-
cept Jester ana the teams / did not see
the buffalo calf There was no driver in
the rear wagon" The witness seemed |
to get mixed whether the body was in
the front or rear wagon, but finally con-
Guided thai it was in the rear wagon.
"In the month Of March when the trains
had sweHed Reece creek saw the body
of a young man floating down the
stream. It was a young man with long.
brown hair. The body went down the
creek. disappearing over the rifle" She
saw Hugh Stewart and wife in the HUI |.
len lane in january, 1871. and also saw
the blood in the snow in the lane at that
time, after she passed Jester and the
wagons. She met two negroes in the
road that day. but didn't know them.
She did not see Kelly or Dawson, but
saw William NaXey. She did not see
John Riley that day nor Sandy Maupin
nor Shrewsbury.
Mrs. Francis Satterley testified that
she was with her sister Mrs. Amanda
Clark. when she rode through Hulen's
lane on January a 1871. They were both
on horseback. They came to POOL Of
fresh blood in the snow with the smaller
spots and streaks of the hood along the
road. The blood was on the right side
of the road near the track of the wheel
The spot Of blood was near the west end
Of the lane. She saw two teams and
wagons in the road. dead body lying in
the front wagon. She saw Captain Stew
art and wife in the lane that day. also
TWO negroes. In the spring the ice broke
up in Reece creek and there was fright
smart water and zee. She saw the body
Of a young man floating down the stream
with striped suspenders and long brown
hair. 1t passed the ford went on over the
rifle and went out Of sight. The denth
Of the water in the creek was "consld-
cradle"
The body was floating face down.
On cross examination she said that The
story WAS so often told in the neiEhbor-
that everybody talked about it. The Wit
nesses were somewhat confused and got
mixed a little n some az her statements
She seemed TO forget. She saw two wag-
ons standing stiu az a point where West
Madison rosc enters Hu}en's lane. A
man was standing on the outside OF the
wagon apparently beating something in
the wagon with n stick
~. g Kelly OF Perry. Rails county.
who lived in Monroe county. near Md
ale Grove, in January. ISL. was looking
Tor stock He saw Jester and Gates /
travelling along IEulen's lane. near West
Madison read going south. There was
considerable SNOW on the ground. JeS-
ter WAS driving in tha front wagon ana
Gates the rear he saw the wagons s1oo.
Tire man in the front waeou got out and
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