The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-16
WARRANT SWORN OUT
Katie and Marie Marks Ar
rested on COroners Request
HEARING ON SATURDAY
No Signs of RemOrse in Faces
of the Accused.

| Coroner McCoHister swore out war
rant yesterday for the arrest OF Katie
Marks and Mary Marks. charging them
with the murder of the latter's infant
child by strangulation by means of q
handkerchief around its neck and by
means of burying it in the sand and
water.
When the two women were brought
over from the county Jail by Jailor Dodd.
to the city court, to set the time for the
preliminary trial people about the court
house made rush for the city court
room. and there was soon quite a crowd
present People had & great curiosity to
see the mother and the grandmother
who were charged with killing the help
less, innocent babe, in whose veins circu-
lated their own blood.
County Attorney Comfy was there to
represent the great state of Kansas and
George Adams came TO defend the &C
cused. The grandmother showed no
signs of worry. One Of the spectators
remarked that there was no more sign
of remorse in that face than could be
The things that were passing in her mind
could no more be read in her face than
if she had worn mask of steel. It was
different with the mother, Mary Marks.
There was the signs of deep distress in
her face and her eyes indicated that she
had cried until her fountain OF tears had
dried up. She realized that she was
charged with henious crime and that it
might go hard with her.
The county attorney said he could try
the case almost any day and Judge
Harvey set the time for the preliminary
hearing at 1 o'clock IN the afternoon Of
next Saturday. The prisoner talked for
few minutes with their attorney and
some friends, after which Jailor Dodd
took them back TO the county jail. In all
this time there was not scintnIation of
indication in the face Of Katie Marks that
she realized what was being done.
There is not any intimation that any
new evidence will be brought out at the
preliminary hearing. Coroner McCouister
made a good case before the coroners
jury. People are satisfied from the tes-
timony that these two women took the
babe away from the Rescue Home, killed
1t and buried it in the sand and water of
the Arkansas river, thinking that its
shifting sands would forever hide their
crime. People do not expect to hear any
new evidence for the reason that they
think the full story has been told, and
that the point which the jury will be
called upon to decide Is whether Katie
Marks is sane or insane. There is no
question but this will be the line Of de-
tense.
It was reported yesterday that an ef-
fort viii be made TO have the two women
released on bail after the preliminary
hearing in case Judge Harvey finds from
the evidence that a crime has been COM
mitted and that there is a probability
that Katie and Mary Marks did it, and
holds them to trial in the district court.
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