The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-26
Will TRY TO |MPEACH
This Is the Defense Outlined
By Jester.
Observation-Disclosures
Witnesses Give Him a Bad
Reputation.

| The trial of Alexander Jester for mur-
der was resumed yesterday with w. W.
Settle of Monroe county, Mo-, on the
stand. Mr.. Settle testified for the state
several days ago. The defense supboe-
| naed him for the purpose Of contradict
| ing some of the states witnesses who
swore that it was during the morning
that they saw Jester and Gates pass
| through Middle Grove The witness said
that in 1871 when he was janitor of the
Middle Grove church, he cleaned up the
ing to the church when he met Gates
and Jester.
W. NJ. Ownsby of Salisbury, Randolph
county No. jailor at Paris, in 1871, when
Jester was first arrested and placed in
his Jail, charged with the murder of
Gates, was the next witness. The de-
tense used Ownsby TO contradict the tes-
timony of F. NJ Struck of st. Louis,
who sWOre last Saturday that he saw
Jester in the Paris Jail and the prisoner
told him that Gates had cut his own
throat
w. W. Riley, an old citizen Of Mon
roe county, testified that he saw Jester
and Gates pass through on the Middle
Grove and Lain road one morning in 1871
and that he rode horseback about thirty
or forty miles behind them. The witness
said that he did not observe any blood in
Hulen Lane or on tberoad returningsouth
or on any road. He did not see the
other witnesses, Mr.. Clark. Mr.. Satterly,
and W. S. Shrewsbury, who swore they
road along this lane about the time Jess-
ter passed with Gates
James McAforris who lived on the Reece
Creek, swore that he saw the carcas of a
cow going down this creek in the spring
of 1871 or 1872. With this witness the
defense Is trying to account for the body,
Mr.. Riley, for the state, swore that he
saw floating down this creek in 1871.
With W. L. Jarvis, of Columbia the de-
Tense is trying to account for the blood
found near Bee Creek. He said: MY
father owned a prairie farm near Cen
tralia in 1911 We were hauling rails
from the woods west Of Bee branch to
the prairie farm. My horse broke through
the ice and cut his leg and after crossing
the bridge I stopped to examine his
wound. 1t made quite a pool of blood
in the snow where the horse stopped
The Gates searching party recalled the
incident and asked about the blood at
the time of the excitement over Gilbert
Gates disappearance"
Harvey Jester, the Oldest son Of the
famous prisoner testified as to the finan-
cial condition Of his father previous to
his departure for Indiana. He sold a
farm in Woods county for $500, receiving
500 in cash and notes and a mule team
and wagon. He knew mis- father had $3.50
before starring on the trip and he said /
he would have to buy another team to
bring his sisters family from Indiana to
Kansas.
The defense began its case Tuesday af- |
ternoon with an effort TO impeach the |
testimony of William S. Shrewsbury, Of |
Arkansas, one of the states witnesses, |
who testified that he saw body in -Jes- |
ter's wagon as he passed near Middle |
Grove in 1871, and that Jester told him |
the boy was drunk
The first witness was D. H MCINTYRE,
Of Mexico. Mo, formerly attorney gen
eral of Missouri. Shrewsbury stated in |
his testimony that after he saw the body |
Of a man in Jesters wagon me talked |
about it to General Mcintyre. The gen |
eral stated on the stand this afternoon |
that he had no recollection Of ever see
ing Shrewsbury and no recollection of |
hearing his story of seeing the body Of a
man in testers wagon.
DR.. B. A. GOoding, of Jasper City. NO.,
testified that he was personally acquaint-
ed with Shrewsbury and that his repu-
-ation in Jasper, where he formerly re-
sided was not good. The witness said
that he was known as a blower and a
gasser." AT one time he was burned in
offigy on the streets of that town.
NJ G. Warren, business manager of the
Lamar CMo) Leader, and also deputy cir
,uit clerk testified that he knew Shrews-
1ury and was acquainted with his repu-
-ation, which he said was bad. He said
had tod him that one time
lie passed himself off for a doctor in St.
Louis and had charged man 81 90 20
,ure him Of a certain disease, and after
he man had put up half of the amount
Re only gave him about ten cents worth
# medicine.
Asa NJ. Crandall, George Rex. Dan ".
Teeter. F. II. King and John Near also
estifed that Shrewsburys reputation IN
Jasper was not good.
Captain julius Dunn. 20 years, residing
lear Afoberly. Mo, gave the closing tes-
imony for the state. He swore that he
sw blood in the Hulen lane in the win
er OF ISL The witness testified that he
vas riding along and suddenly. at the
mouth Of HuIen lane, he saw pool Of
Hood. which had the appearance Of be-
ng recently spilled. A few days later the
fitness heard THAI two men answering
he description OF Jester and Gates had
assed through the vicinity. Captain |
)unn's testimony was not weakened on
REORGANIZATION.
THE LIST OF WOUNDED
Who have been healed by BANNER
ALIVE, IS very large. II heals ali !
Wounds or sores and leaves no scar
axe no substitute. c. Gehring. 40 East
Douglas. Geo. Van Werden 2n Nnr-h ,