The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-03-28
TESTIMONY AGAINST WYATT.
Trial of the Man Charged VIII
Staying Captain CnHIL.

! Trial of the Man Charged With
Staying Captain CnEIt.
ELLICOTT CITY, Nd, March 2S.-A
great mass Of damaging testimony. in ad-
dition 70 that Of the opening day of the
trial. was produced in the Howard County
Court yesterday against Robert T. Wyatt,
charged with the murder OF Capt oliver
NJ. Caulk on board his sloop Dream. of st.
MichGeTs.
The State concluded its direct testimony
and the defence outlined plea OF tempo
rary insanity from drinking liquor. The
testimony offered by the State showing
threats made by Wyatt against Captain
Caulk was not shaken by sharp cxamina-
tion conducted by counsel for the defence.
The case went over for another day the
defence having number of other wit
! nesses TO produce
Capt Edward l.. Jones. OF St. NIichael's,
! took the remains OF Captain Caulk from
Rock Creek to Baltimore. He found the
badly charred body Of the captain on the
/ Sunday morning after the murder. He
/ recognized The partly burned vessel as the
! Dream. owned by Captain Caulk. Il could
! not recognize" he said. any clothing
! either Of Captain Caulk or his colored deck
hano. whom also knew well.
( Capt. Edward II. Burroughs cOrrobOrat-
/ ed the statement at the finding Of the re-
mains and testified to taking them TO Bal
/ timore. He last saw Captain Caulk on
Saturday morning before the supposed
murder and talked with him on Pratt
/ Street.
/ Undertaken Charles NJ. Tickner. who haH
! charge Of the body. said il was too much
| charred to be recognized. He did not
know whether the body was a white or
I black man.
Melville S. Dunlap was the acting coro-
| ner al the Anne Arundel county investiga-
tioE OF the case and identified a number
! Of ar ticles taken from the burned vessel
belonging to Captain Cauik. including his
/ watch chain, spectacles. and Ratchet, and
also portions OF the body. He said tho
1 dead body OF "a col0red man was suisse
/ quently found floating in the creek, the
skull being fractured and the face dishg-
ured by FISH.
( Other witnesses examined by the State
t were Policeman Marion ID. Caulk. Of Bal
timOre. the dead mans nephew: James
. Green. George W. PARROT. Edward Harper.
3 Charles Locke. and George Barnes. all Of
/ 81. M:chael's. who heard Wyatt make va
! rious threats against the life Of Captain
! Cauil1. whom he (WyatD charged with cir
4 culatiuE reports about Wyatt keeping a
rum mill" and gambling den" because
Of which reports. Wyatt said his parents
had driven him from home
Nicholas ". Bryan and George W. SAT
. field, both Of Annapolis. were present,
they said when Wyatt was arraigr al in
Annapolis court and heard him make a
confession.
The first two witnesses put up b. the
defence proved. on cross examination. 20
have been fellow-prisoners Of Wyatt in
Annapolis Jail the first one for shooting
T.s wife and the second for assaultiug his
vile They swore TO some pecuiiaritiys of
deposition shown by Wyatt while IN jail
with them. a number of other witnesses
sWora that Wyatt while a member of the
First Maryland Regiment was intoxicated
a great deal hut that he acted very much
like other men in such condition. These
witnesses included Emmett Jackson. VIII
liam J. Purner. John Thompson. Joseph
White jr. Robert NcQuinn. Thomas Col
Inns and Jesse Lednum. owen G. Norris
an officer in the regiment. was also called
10 show WAITS drinking habits.