The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-03
F.R.MPPS Ticket Agent. Topeka, Kan.
at the house of Mrs. Castle on that

Judge Redden objected at once. Then
Mr. Brumback said: I'VE expect to show
! if the court please. by this witness that
/ there was a razor in another room, and
we have other witnesses to show it,
Judge Redden again objected. Then
! Captain Waters stood UP and said the
prosecution proposed to show that there
was only one razor in the home of Olin
Castle when Miss Morrison went there
We will do our level best to show that
/ 1t was in a dresser drawer In another
room; we must identify it, tell where it
came from and whom it belonged to.
! The other razor already introduced was
we propose to show, brought into that
/ house by the Defendant" Judge Red
den claimed that the razor was not in
/ evidence and that only testimony con-
nected with the razor found near the
body Of Clara Castle was admissible.
Il will override the objection" said
Judge Shinn, and the examination con-
tfnued.
THE razor that I saw was in a dresser
in bedroom adjoining the room where
the tragedy occurred" said Mr. Whar-
who was present then9'' asked Mr..
Brumback.
Mrs. T. o. Castle was present"
Anyone else %
Il couldn't identify anyone else They
were standing near. but I couldn't iden-
tify anyone"
Mr.. Brumback handed a razor and
case to Mr. Wharton and asked him
those found in the Castle house.
Yes. they are the same, said the min
lister.
The Rev. Mr.. Wharton said that it was
in the same condition as when he first
saw it. After he found the razor he pus
it back in the hat box Of the dresser.
nailed the door shut and sealed il with
sealing wax. He was not cross examin-
ed.
DR.. G. F. Ambrose was the next wit
Testimony fad hal rvfF
en- by the Rev. Mr.. Wharton DR.. Am
brose saw the razor and case in the
dresser where Mr.. Wharton found it, and
said the razor looked like the one pro-
duced in court. On cross-exeminatiOn he
said that he had examined the razor in
the presence of Mrs. T. o. Castle and
Mr.. Wharton and that there was no
blood on it.
with the sympathy of few young
men of Kansas City" These words were
written on a card in a large box of
beautiful flowers which Jessie Morrison,
on trial for murder in the first degree,
received late Saturday afternoon. There
were no names on the card. The box
arrived by express and contained tea
roses, chry santhemumS and carnations.
Miss Morrison took them from the box
and divided them, putting some in vases
and pinning a cluster Of roses on the
front of her waist.
She held them up a little proudly as
she stood after the afternoon session. in
the dim light Of her cell. Here they
are" she said, and she glanced at the
vase in each hand and the roses in her
breast. Il have no idea who they are
from I suppose they are strangers
never saw the handwriting before"
It is not known yet whether Miss
Morrison will be placed on the witness
stand in her own behalf. She has been
forbidden to talk to newspaper men and
her attorneys refuse to give any infor-
nation on the subject.
The trial of the Morrison case will
cost Butler county at least $4,000 and
perhaps more. The authorities say that
it cost about $4,000 to get the jury. Wit
nesses will draw another $1,000. Then
there will be costs of the court officers
and special counsel.
Ministers of the gospel in FL Dorado
seem to have a peculiar notion of the
duties of their calling. Evidently they
do not believe that they should minister
to the spiritual needs ola person charged
with murder. At least none of them has
ever visited Jessie Morrison since she
was locked up for the murder OF Clara
Wiley Castle.
Up until the time of the tragedy Jessie |
Morrison had an excellent name and |
was regarded as a girl OF deep religious
convictions She is a member OF the
same Methodist church that Mrs. Castle /
belonged to, but since her Incarceration |
awaiting trial she has been sadly neg
lected by those who would naturally be |
expected to console her. The pastor of |
her. She spends much of her time, how |
ever, reading a little Bible and discus |
sing religion with Christian Scientists, |
who spend much time with her
The Rev. Mr.. Wharton. her pastor, l
testified against her, but has never been /
to see her
Judge A. L. Redden, Of Topeka. lead |
ing counsel for the defense, says the /
newspapers are giving his client the /
worst of it. THE papers are picturing /
up Miss Morrison as red-handed muir
derer," said he. land are advertising /
Olin Castle as an angel. They have /
wings sprOuting on him and he is SEEM
ingly about ready to enter the pearly /
gates. Before this trial is over we are
liable to clip his wings and show that /
he is an altogether different being from /
what the papers have painted him"
This is the first intimation the de-
Tense has made as to how they propose
to handle DIN Castle when they reach
that point in the case They will en-
deavor to show that Castle is a gay
young lad with a penchant for breaking
was to work up ill-feeling and jealousy
among them and that he enjoyed this
business so thoroughly that he even
worked his own wife into frenzy over
deavor to show that Mrs. Castle, his
wife, was greatly enraged at Miss Nor
rison and called her into the house that
morning to take out revenge.
The trial will last a good portion. II
not all, of this coming week. Fewer
than twenty of the eighty -four Wit
nesses for the state have been examined
Some of the witnesses viii probably not
be used. The attorneys for the state
say they may close after examining
about twenty more. The defense has
thirty-one witnesses subpoenaed- All
of them viii be used. At the present
all be in before Wednesday night or
at the earliest. Judge Shinn
is pushing the case as fast as he can.
He is working the lawyers day and
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