The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-15
MOTIVE WAS FEAR.
Continued from 10th Page.

he had taken a razor away from her
; and locked it up.
why did you not buy the pistol?''
asked the solicitory general.
| Because was a friend of both of
them" replied Jones'.
did you go around to see her too?'
Il went to see her; was a friend of
! both of them"
You knew that they were at outs
that they fused at each other?"
''All came from her part"
''She is dead now, isn't she?"
Yes, sir"
THE fault was all on her part?"
From what could see and hear. it
was her fault"
Johnny and she lived as man and
wife,"
He was living with other women,
was he not?"
Il don't know about other women"
What kind of reputation did Burke
have?"
He was good. quiet. peaceable
man"
Didn't the fuss grow out the fact
that he would run around with
other women?"
He gave her good treatment so far
as | know. She would have these vio-
lent attacks sometimes"
1t was not fair then for some 9TH
er woman TO get good treatment from
him?"
Perhaps So"
stole Money to stop Murder.
You wanted a pair of shoes and
, when she gave YOU the IS to buy pis-
tol you bought the shoes?''
Yes, sir: 20 keep her from commit
ting murder. l thought I'd buy pair
OF Shoes"
You didn't want her to kill John
ny 2"
Il didn't want her to commit muir
der"
She could buy a pistol as we'll as
you could, couldn't she?"
Il guess she could not buy pistol.
l guess they would not give it to her"
why not?"
q don't guess they would sell it to
her?"
why not?"
Being a female. don't suppose they
would sell a pistol to her"
Don't you know you told her you
would get that pistol and then put up
job on herr"
NO, sir"
You would not do a thing like
that?"
In case of emergency, I might"
I'm case of emergency"
Eyes. sir.''
And about that razor You kept
that too, didn't you?"
"Yes, sir.''
WAS that a case of emergency"
q suppose so, SIR" and the witness
came down from the stand
The Defendants Statement.
The defendants statement to the
jury was as good a one, certainly. as
has for years been made in the Su-
perior Court by man in his position.
! 1t was clear, consistent and concise,
delivered without haste or excitement
and with an appearance of simple sin
certify that wrought conviction
He told of the several attempts he
claimed the woman he killed had made
upon his life during the time he had
been living with her and of her vio-
lent and ungovernable jealousy. He
declared she would not let him leave
her, and that he was in constant and
mortal dread she would carry out the
threats she had often made to take
his life. He described quarrels that
had taken place only a few days be-
fore the homicide and some of the in
cidents of that fatal day. He told of
a conversation he had had with her
in room on the lower floor of the
house in which she met her death, and
stairs. Thus he approached the fatal
moment.
I'VE went up stairs" he continued.
I'VE got to the room. l said to her:
g Turn the bed down.
I'm that time she. said:
a. Johnny, what about that warrant?'
IT said, don't know anything about
that warrant. Hattie, you and these
people go about taking out warrants.
7 don't lxYoXV nofhinC a hont II no moro
1 don't know nothing about it
no more than Joe Brown, the
warrant out against this woman, Liz
zie Williams. 1 told him not to arrest
that woman
'In that time we were upstairs in the
bedroom. She wheeled around q had
started to take my coat off and blew
out the light and said:
g You = -, I'm going to kill you
Il knew she was a woman to do
what she said. She cut me twice and
she shot at me twice. When she blew
out the lamp and said that l commenc-
ed to fire. Not knowing whether the
first shot hit her 1 again fired.
She would not allow me
to quit her. I went downstairs and
went out the back way"
Burke then described his movements
for the next couple of hours, winding
up with his arrest by Patrolman Deig-
nan. He said he knew Deignan was
policeman and had made no effort
to avoid arrest. On the contrary, he
had deliberately gone up to the officer
and thus invited it.
He denied he had been dishonest in
his dealings with Mr.. Van Giesen, and,
in a subsequent statement, that he had
Eever threatened to kill any one
whether the Bruen woman, the Will
liams woman or himself
Neither Mr.. Colding nor the solicitor
general made long arguments to the
jury and at $3.50 o'clock arguments and
the charge of the court as we'll had
been concluded. The jury retired at
that hour, and with such intervals os
its members have allowed themselves
for eating and sleeping have eeen en-
gagged in an effort to reach a decision
ever since.
Now Houses Going I'm