The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-08

dence about the prisoner that will be
sufficient to convict her at the trial
that has just begun
The tactics that are to be pursued by
the defense have been kept a secret un-
til the beginning of the trial W. J.
Costigan. of the firm of Gamble & Cos
tigan. is making the defense for Mrs.
Stanley.
The murdered man was at the Mccoy
home on the evening of the night he
was murdered. DR.. Onyette, who called
at the Mccoy home Friday evening TO
collect some money Mrs. Stanley owed
him was the last person who saw Mrs.
Stanley and Mr. Booth together. Mr..
Booth was at the Mccoy home at the
time DR.. Onyette left there at about
6:45 o'clock in the evening.
No evidence has been made public to
| show the whereabout of Booth from
that time on, nor has any evidence been
unearthed to show at what hour of the
night he was killed.
The movements of Mrs. Stanley are
well known from that time until after
| eleven o'clock, but no evidence has been
submitted as yet to show her move
ments after that hour.
Soon after DIR. Onyette left the Mccoy
| home Mrs Stanley left the house and
went to the house of Miss Alice F'yfe,
a relative and together they went to
/ the theatre where Two Merry Tranlps
was being played.
Evidence viii so to show that at the
1 lii445 size WAS III the ClGdlT6s Sl6 wore
/ the red skirt that was found in her
telescope when she was arrested at the
| Fifth. avenue hotel in Topeka and on
| which the telltale blood stains were
/ founG at the time she was arrested At
/ the time she was at the theatre it IS
/ claimed there We're no blood stains on
| the skirt. 1t Will also be proven that
at the time Mrs. Stanley purchased the
| theatre tickets she had only a small
! sum of money in her purse. All of
| which is calculated to show that Mrs.
| Stanley at least did not commit the
/ deed before the time she returned home
/ from the theatre at about II o'clock
! Ine Mccoy family We're away from
| their nome during the early part of the Fri
| gay evening in question. Mrs: Mccoy had
Deen attending as nurse a sick nelghDor
/ woman and had stopped at her home few
/ minutes Friday evening as she went from
another neighbor where she spent the
evening in visiting Mrs. Mccoy returned
nome shortly after o'clock in the even
ing.
The only time then that the murder
could nave been committed by Mrs Stan
| ley would have been after Il O'Clock. It
is argued therefore that if Mrs. Stanley
after Il O'Clock at night, Mrs. Mccoy and
| Miss Bessie must have had a knowledge
Robbery could hardly be offered as a
motive for Mrs. Stanley to kiln Booth. for
it IS well known that Booth had frequent
| ~ loaned Mrs. Stanley sums of money that
We're virtually gifts and had made her
Although Booth was an uncouth old man
1t VIII not develop from the evidence that
he made himself obnoxious thereby offer
] ing. motive for Mrs. Stanley to get rid
Of him.
Evidence will show that Booth was very
much IN love with Mrs Stanley, and had
frequently sought advice IN his desire to
! improve his personal appearance He was
ever trying to make a more favorable i'm
| preston ON the object of his affections.
He lived alone in a house in the woods for
great many years. and had known Mrs.
Stanley less than one year. Last summer
i he sold his place in the country and
bought the little house he lived IN about
a hundred yards in the rear of the Mccoy
/ home. Booth was without any near rela-
| tives.
The fact that Mrs Stanley left Ottawa
! early Saturday morning after the murder
| the night previous will not have a damag-
among her acqua1Eta noes that she had
planned to go to Kansas City on that day
/ for as long as two weeks previous to that
| date
1t may prove hard. however. for Mrs.
Stanley to explain her possession of the
watch. the blood stains on her dress and
her knowledge of Mr.. Booths movements
after DR.. Onyette left the Mccoy home on
! Friday evening, as well as her own move
ments during the entire night
The discovery of the dead man in the
! day morning, when Bessie Browning
picked up the ak in the back yard to pre-
pare kindling for fire. She noticed blood
stains on the ak, and as she took her
kindling to the house discovered blood or
the ground about the well and after fur
| ther investigation discovered the body in
| the well and gave the alarm