The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-06

not given the ststeerers" any money to
play to win and catch suckers Never
had heard OF any one being sent ahead
TO FIX the police. or any one being sent
sguaring the kicks. etc Witness said
they did not cut of that sort Of graft
IN 1885 because the Baileys wouldn't
have it Did not know Sam Harris and
any short change" work
After the separation Mr. Sells said he
had sent to the house for certain articles
and identified the list handed him by
Mr. Huling These are F'lorence's''
said Mr.. Sells These four sheets OF re-
quests went into evidence.
A letter written from Topeka January
49, 1888, and signed w l. Miller, was
shown Mr.. Sells. who Identified it and it
went into evidence
The defense here said they were
through with Mr.. Sells and wanted TO
recall Mr.. Harry Lyons. A1r.Booth said
that could be done through the sheriff.
Mr.. HuIing also said he wanted to ex-
anime Mr.. Fish and Mr. Mahouey first
Mr.. Sells was recalled to the stand
after recess and was examined by Mr..
Booth as to the letter Of August /, 1880,
written from Buffalo. by Mr.. Sells TO
AIRS. Sells. This vas the plenty to live
on letter and alluded to the wine cpl
sOde, where Mr.. Sells refused to drink.
This letter was beautifully written and
caused Mrs Sells face to soften as Mr..
Booth read it. Mr. Booth then got Mr..
and 1900. In 1880 eleven elephants were
worth from 81, coo to Sc. 600 each. Ten
years later they had IA at $1,000 each.
A giraffe in 1880 was worth S3. 500 Hip
pos dropped from 5000 in 1880 to SOD
ten years later 4 tW0-hOrned rhinocercS
was worth S., 900 in 1880 and 50 600 in 1920.
Animals had decreased greatly IN value.
The animals were better in 80 than
horses also took q slump in the ten
years mentioned
IN regard to the paragraph In the
august letter saying Mr. Sells would
not quarrel any more, witness said the
most frequent differences arose because
Mrs. Sells was not friendly to Mr.. Sells
father or mother Mrs. Sells, he said.
spoke unkindIy OF his mother.
These differences were soon adjusted,
Mr. Sells said, and never lasted for a
single hour The January 31st letter,
written in 1881 from Buffalo, was brought
up and Mr.. Sells said IN this that he
would rather hear Florence cry than to
hear other children laugh
he also said that the combined value
of the two shows in 1880 was more than
the combined F'orepaugh- SELLS show at
the time Mr.. Sells says he severed his
connection with it.
Mr.. Sells was shown a letter said to
have been written by him to George
koontZ. a former coachman, and dated
Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, March 80,
1900" He looked at it carefully and then
said: Yes, I wrote it. all but this inter-
lineations reading and pays you three
hundred or three thousand dollars L
can't make out. That is a forgery
never wrote that"
Continuing his testimony. Mr. Sells
said that the furniture and household
property at the Buttles avenue house
cost approximately $4,000. and he owned
and paid for them Three thousand of
the above sum was Borrowed from Mrs
Luker.
The Koontz letter was in evidence
and one of the attorneys said to a re-
porter that koontz before the trial first
made a deposition for the pIafntiff's side
and then is said to have changed.