The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-29

Motive for Murder.

In Cooper County the boy positively re-
fused TO part with one Of his horses. de-
them for a-cy:-;iIing. va; IS the motive
here, 10. murder? SOriid gain. Deliberate
murder for little money Is the most damn
able crime man can commit / have son
Just the age Of Gilbert Gates. The down
IS just coming upon his cheek and his face
bears the stamp of has mother. / would fol-
low the balance of my life the man who
would rob of that son without giving
me tho privilege. of kneeling beside his
grave.
Murder IS already in TESTERS heart He
chokes the boy In the night. An assault is
made and 10 Duianey the murderer prac-
postpones the murder until Hulens lane is
reached When the travellers enter that
lane the boy Is alive. but when they leave
tEat road the lad is dead. After the deed
Is done Jester inquiries Of the first man he
meets where he could find a road turning
south. There are the telliaie spots OF blood.
The body is covered. and the form is seen
by several witnesses. What will he do with
psychology tells us that there Is a SINH
lar!ty in the acts Of men who are con-
fronted by CO. pus deficit. or the body rep
resenting their crime. Professor Webster
killed Hartman in the laboratory of Howard.
What will he do with the body? Burn It in
his furnace. Luetgert killed his wife. What
chemicals in the vat. Maxwell killed Preiler.
What OF the body? Put In a trunk and
shipped il away lester kills the boy. How
Disposition of the Body.
at Is still in the wagon when he passes
the home of Rujicdgc. II ne left Jester az
the defendant claims he left him down in
those woods. Jester received directions
how To reach Paris. but he turns and goes
exactly the other way. down deeper into the
woods, and then returns, and there - no
responsible for The disappearance Of tho
boys body as well as his murder. That
day he tells Cartwright re brought the jwo
teams all the way from indian Territory
and was going In Illinois The :eams are
no trouble except when hooking up az I n
hooking morning and night. Ths first fa.e
statement.
From that spot to Indiana is one con-
tinuai string of false and contradictory
statements about that team lester has all
the property of the dead boy. And yet tbs
hypocrita breaches the gospel Of Christ.
breaches from the Bible. which slys Thou
shalt do 10 murder On TESTERS statement
alone could ask for conviction But oli
man johnson saw blood on the hounds Of
testers wagon. and so did another witness.
derer. testers agitation ard his refusal 10
show himself 10 the Kansas Sheriff are Sig
nli!cant But he attempts TO destroy a
trunk. But by some miraculous power n
piece Of the lid is preserved and fOun.i in
his possession The yes. confronts HIM at
the eXtraditiOn trial in Kansas IL Il TOO
short Mr.. Gates says: Il bought Il for my
SON. Powder is found in me pocket .'es-
and asks for recess. Gilbe-. carried his
little powder horn in that pockc: .les.er
has in his possession all the little trinkets
Gilbert would not have parted with.
Gilbert Gates's Watch,
Il hold in my hand a watch around which
center the emotions OF three generaticns
The old grandfather carried this watch on
the field Of battle it lay on the BODY of the
dead brother OF Gilbert and John Gates
To state that this hoy bartered away this
family heirloom viliiies his memory with
cut a cause. No one would believe that
Gates could part with the dog. Jester mus;
get rid of the dog. He leaves him I'm
Springfield. Ill. where, after five years of
faithful service. the animal dies and Is
buried Such are the strange fatalities of
life. The brave boy dies by violence and
his body Is hidden in the woods bu, his
dog dies natural death and IS honorei
with a decent burial. But why does an
innocent man break Jail in the night? Why
does an innocent man leave the wife of HIS
bosom and SIX children and flee to the
West? When Harvey Jester sat in the Wit
ness chair and / looked into his face 50
sad, | read the whole story. The criminal
father said to this boy: Take the best care
YOU can of your mother and. thrusting the
whole burden OF his guilt upon his family
he deserts them Into another State we
SD him In a short while. married to Julia