The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-22

Mr.. Richardson said: I'll go and get
her. He put on his coat and re-
marked to one of the clerks that he was
only going across the street and would
be back in a few minutes.
1.-THE evidence will show that, instead
of going across the street, he went
home, and that as he entered the sit
ting room of his home he was shot
dead.
1T is painful for me to say it. but it
is my duty to state that we will under
take to prove that Mrs. Richardson, this
defendant, had become infatuated with
a clerk in her husbands store, that her
relations with him were of such
character as to furnish a motive for
this crime"
George D. Crowley, Frank W. Rich
ardson's business partner, was the first
briefly of having gone to the Richard
son home for supper the day before
Christmas. After supper, which was
had at a few minutes after z o'clock.
Mrs. Richardson took him and Rich
ardson into the parlor and showed them
the tree she had set up for the chill
dren. He and Richardson then went
downstairs. In a short time they sepa-
rated. An hour and a. half later ne
heard Richardson had been shot. He
hurried to the Richardson home. There
he found his partners body lying upon
the floor where he had fallen.
Where was Mrs. richardson" asked
Senator Brewster on cross examination.
She was lying on the COUCH
w nat was nGr cOnQltlOnI
This was objected to upon the ground
that the witness was not medical ex-
pert. The question was asked in a
different way, and Mr.. Crowley re-
piled:
''She seemed to be Frustrated. I and
another man carried her into another
room, because she could not walk She
was hysterical."
out what it hopes to make one of its
strongest points. Mr.. Crowley was
asked If he looked for buggy tracks
near the Richardson home that night.
Did you find any?"
Would you say. from their appearance
that they were made by buggy or a
You don't think. then asked Mr.
Booher. for the state. that they might
NO. sir; they looked like buggy tracks,
house and made a sharp turn there
OF the Tds Mer
camille company's store, was next called,
Of the killing. Richardson came down
frsn home about 7:So O'Clock. At about
sons little boys came into the, store. One
was the ts ySo gn Howell; he vas not
Frank. They asked where their mother
was. Their father said he didn't. know
and asked If she was not at church.
1.-The older of the boys replied that she
was not" said Mr.. Brown; Mr.. Richard
took him aside and had a whispered con-
versation with him. I heard him say to
er don't Want "a toe the s boy sG said, cf III
go, then. said Mr.. Richardson. He then
went he said to me: I'm just going across
the street III be back in few min
Did he seem to be angry?"
mo. I don't think he did,
owl ATr oh rl-
II saw him at his home after he was
ibid you see Stewart Fife that night?"
mo, sir; the last time saw him was
goods department, and was at work
Sam Ardby, who in the store when
scribed by Martin, said he left the store
with Richardson when, the latter set out
conversation that took place between him
and the dead man.
II think he did,
Did he seem angry about anything?'
II couldn't say he did,
John Eaton. who also was in the store
Did he seem angry about anything?'..
have been mistaken about it, but L think
he was angry.
goods at Richardson's house the afternoon
before the killing in delivery wagon.
said that Mrs. Richardson came to her
home during the evening before the kill
ing and called up some number by tele-
phone. She did not know to whom Mrs.
Richardson talked, but said Mrs. Richard
son told her that it was to Mr.. Brown.
''She said" continued Mrs. Kerr, in re-
citing the talk over the phone, that she
had not been able to go to the church
that she had gone halfway-down town.
and then came back.
Mr.. Richardson called up later in the
evening and asked If his wife was still
there Nothing more occurred until few
minutes later, when heard wheels Then
there was a rap at the door and Mrs.
Richardson's voice cried out for me to let
her in
Il want to use the phone" she ex-
claimed when she entered franks shot
He's dead
II caught her around the waist and said:
Let me call for help / called to Mr.. Ell
lis whom / saw the walk and Mrs
Richardson then ran home and / followed
her. 1 was the first person there
What was Mrs. Richardson doing?"
s'She moaning aAd crying"
Just inside the sitting roomT'
1T was q combination sitting room and
bed room aud had a bed in it"
did you hear Mrs. Richardson say any
thing about what Mr.. Richardson said
when he came in?"
'.She said he asked: Has it come to
this% or something like that
How was the sitting room lighted?"
There was a lamp in it.