The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-24
WOMEN BOUND OVER
Mary Marks and Mother Are
Held for Murder.
HEARING IN CITY COURT
Officers Tell How She Con-
feSsed the Murder.

Mrs. Katie Marks and her daughter,
Mary Marks. accused Of the murder OF
the infant child Of the latter. had their
preliminary hearing before Judge Har-
vey yesterday. and were hound over to
the district court without bail.
There was large crowd Of people pres
ent at the hearing. more than half of
which were women. The hearing was set
for D. m, but It was nearly when tne
! prisoners were brough- into court by
! Deputy Marshal Tom Voss. County At
/ torney- James Comfy and his deputy, Hen
~ HUFFMAN, were bolA present, and
Adams & Adams were there 10 defend the
accused women.
When the two women entered they took
their places beside their attorneys, and a
few minutes later Nicholas Marks. hus-
band Of Katie Marks and father OF Nary
Marks. came IN and took his seat beside
them. Mrs. Marks is a rather large wo-
man withauburn nair and blue eyes. She
brought her four-months-old babe into
court with her. Ii is a little blue-eyed
boy baby and Mrs. Marks calls him
Mickey. Mickey seemed to enjoy the pro-
ceedings, and he would laugh and crow
at everybody who looked at him. He
would look at the lawyers with open
mouth when they got up 10 plead law
points and would laugh and swing his lit
lie arms and hands when they empha-
sized their arguments with emphatic ges-
lures Mrs. Katie Marks wore a small
sailor hat with a blue band, white waist
and black skirt and a clean white hand
kerchief was pinned carefully around her
neck Mary Marks wore a nat profusely
trimmed with pale blue ribbon and feath-
ers. light waist with dark stripe, and
black skirt. and q yellow ribbon was
gracefully knotted under her chin.
Mary Marks sat 50 that her back was
toward the big crowd. and not once dur
ing the hearing did she look around 10
see who was in the court room. She
cried and rested her head on her hand,
but occstionally looked at the witnesses /
Mrs. Katie Marks showed great interest
in the evidence, and when it most inter
ested her she would rise TO her feet and
stand close behind George Adams, one Of
her attorneys. as If she relied on him to
help her out OF the difficulty. At such
times she would hold her babe upright
close TO her breast and swing him from
side TO side. Then little Nick would
laugh and crow as If he enjoyed the
swinging.
Just before the evidence was given Mrs
Katie Marks told a reporter FOR the Eagle !
that she was horn in the state OF Mime
sofa and that her father was one Of the (
early settlers n this county She said
she was the mother of eleven children, /
ten of whim are living Mary is the old /.
eT
youngest icing months old. She said +
she was the mother OF five boys and six /
girls. Mrs. Marks told the reporter for +
the Eagle that she was anxious TO get .
cut of Jail on account Of her family of
little children she seemed TO be afraid 1
that II she was kent in the JAN during .
the hot weather CT two meals a day little
Mickey" would get sick and die in the
jan
County Attorney Comfy questioned the +
witnesses for the state anu with , Jew
exceptions the Evidence was the same as I
that given at he examination before the I
coroners jury. UnderaAer I w. GIL
was the first witness called. He was F.
shown the baby clothes which he recog- /
nized as those he had taken from the +
body Of the dead child on the llth day OF
May. Mrs. Belle Stanton was next called (
She, too. recognized the clothing as those .
worn by the oabe OF Alary marks when
It left the RESCUE Home on the nth day
Of last May. She said she had bought
them n a store before Mary Marks baby
was born. She said the en- was born
on the 9th day Of last April and was
about two weeks old when It was taken
from the Rescue Home. She testified
that Mrs. Marks came TO the Home on
The 18th day Of May about noon. She
znew Mrs. Marks. because sne was az
The Home when Msry's Daby was born
She said she took -lrs. Marks ard her
laughter 10 the -atholic hospital TO see
Z they could get a home for the child.
After they returned from the hospital
Mary and her mother came up town and
said they were going TO ind home for
he child. She SAL she saw them on
West Douglas avenue about o'clock that
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