The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-26
His Affecting Testimony Brought Tears to
the Eyes of Jurors and
Attorneys.
Story Told by the Son Coroboraes That Told by the Father
in Kansas in 187l-TellS History of Jester
Fxmily-Closing of DefenSe's Case.

Oldest son. With much grief and many
tears. he told the story @: his fathers Ife.
( rs he knows it, lie was skilltully coached
{ 10y Attorney Cullen.
I This has been an Important day for the
/ defense. and exceedingly interesting to tha
I large audier.c" az spectators. Harvey Jester
( sohb,d repea t.dly while IN the stand. Three
, iuryrnen wiped tears from their eyes. AMI
/ some Q: the attorneys for the State turned
! their faces away from the witness. Many
! spectators shared IA. emotion Of the old
/ defendants son. while the prisoners whole
! frame shook violently.
! Jester is weakening physically. Sheriff
| Jones almost carried him upstairs 10 the
: courtroom this afternoon. Harvey testers
I story dts thu Jester statement made IN
! Kansas in ISL. and published in The Re-
public, recently. IS the tcsn fits the skeie-
! ton.
| Tomorrow closes the evidence for the de-
J f,us, Some relu,taI testimony viii be Of
I f,rcl by the State. AMI then the argumnt
begins.
This has hem most 'ven'ful DAY. W
w Settle of Middle Grove testified that he
saw the Jestcr-tiates cara van pass tarouSis
his town IN the afternoon.
Young Gates gave m" letter to mail.
and l mailed it," he said. Il rcdr with
,,.,cs ,r,,,, ,,,,r ~ rh. Christian church
q. 1is.,,,., a. ,,,,c-yourth ~ q milo
I'm crn.--ava-u:notfnu h., said. Il think
- ,,-,e IN "a, afternoon though NV atten-
tin,, WIS rcycr called 10 IA. time. that /
row r.r,s,nh.r Gates told me tie old man
WIS very rro.s and he. did rot like to travel
with him t;gres stopped to let ire out aud
lester dr,y. ly The hoy talked WITH M"
ufrtI ,b,. other wagon vas fifty yards ahead
Thu. old man v..!I,d NJ Gates ami asked
, hin, Win, M. 5Ii not come on
u II ayverh,, VS. in ISL taller AZ
r.-is N, II. described the iail The
,,.il. are All on the south side The outer
door which was solid iron. was always
closed mics, some O. us were there" Tn"
wirue~, had no 70 objection Of q man named
Shgvk coming about the jail in iN5l. IL j!d
lot =, member OF a man coming there tu sc
q prisoner and breaking dowH AMI leaving
the iaiI crying ON decentralization he
added.
..TEcr, were thr,,.. 81! us in charge Of the
iail Sometimes l was there and some
dimes absent The outsr ,:uor WIS often
open when some of is were there. The
inner door Was of open bars. During tie
d,, tho prisoners wore allowed rb, freedom
If the corridor One in the outer hall would
have, only the ircr-hsrrci door hc-wcea
himself and a prisoner i'm the promenade
hail The cell windows were. about tvo or
three feet from the ground There was no
fence around the taii. Tbsre was q window
In each all upstairs, and another over the
door In the summer time the prisoners
~, allowed 10 sr,nd :he dav I'm ,h. prom
.ua.la hail Yes ore on rha outside could
converse with prisuu.rs through! the win
,!o,,g and c,,Ild see their faces"
" w. Reilly. a farmer, Of Monroe couu-
~. testified aha; he Remembered the pre-
lipipar, tria! in 1871 and the other In iSqa
and was - yyifncss for the State AZ both
.-iols Tho state called him here this time
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