Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-19
Defendant Talks to sheriff.

about It."
Talks to sheriff.
Isaac ]. West, sherin Of Butler county,
was the next witness. He said in part:
ION the morning Of the murder Of Mr..
Lille. Mr.. Taddiken. night police, called
me to the telephone. l arrived at the
Lille residence about 6 o'clock. Mr.. Tad
diken, Bert Hall and Doctor Stewart we're
there when l arrived. / was down stairs
from ten to fifteen minutes before / went
to the bedroom up stairs where Mr.. Lille
was. / looked at Mr.. Lille and the
wound in his head, then went and sat
down by Mrs. Lille and commenced talk
ing to her. Mr.. Lille was lying on the
west side OF the bed, his head turned
slightly to the west. from the perpendic-
ular his head would be turned about one
quarter to the west, his head was from six
to nine inches from the head of the bed.
II had a conversation with Mrs. Lille
as to how the shooting occurred. l asked
her II she saw any one in the room. and
she said the man was about the size of
Harvey. which was a man about five feet,
eight inches tall. She could not tell sure,
but thought he wore a hat with the front
turned up. He was Of light complexion
and light hair, that he was pointing a gun
at her and she rolled of the bed. l asked
Mrs. Willie IL anything had been taken. /
had heard some way that money had been
stolen, and she showed me the drawer
and / discovered nothing in there only
some clothing.
MRS. Lille said that the man was
standing north of the stove pipe and in a
northwest direction from where they were
we're sleeping. She also did this by point
ing to the place where the man stood. -
uYHtpaao hare daanrfhad the location ag Zoe
tilted to by other witr esses.
The stovepipe comes up through the floor
about two feet from the bed and near the
middle of the bed ~lengthwise.
II went from there to the central tele'
phone office to have them notify all towns
around OF the occurrence. / returned "a
the Lille residence between 10 and II
o'clock. and went into the house and haC
a conversation with Mrs. Lille. I asked
her If she could give me a better descrip.
: tion of the man, and she said she did no
i think she could.
II asked her about the money ana wher,
: she got it. and she said for sewing.
] asked her from whom. and she said sh,
did not know. / asked her IL she usual!
kept that much money in the house, ant
she said she usually had some money il
the house.
NNhN ONhNOW dBalnB Uul IN - lev
moments returned to the house again. Will
lis Westover and J. Ira Duncan went will
me. We looked the room over and locke,
through the different rooms in the house
and the furniture in the bedroom was II
the same position that It was at 6 o'eIocl
IN the morning."
Witness here described the bullet hol
and powder burns in the curtain, glass an,
screen as testified TO by other witnesses
The direct examination was not conclude,
at noon.
At the afternoon session the direct exam
nation of Sheriff West was concluded. II
said;
Changes Since the Murder.
when /, Mr.. Westover and Mr.. Duncal
examined the bed carefully I went out Of
the porch to see II the screen had beel
taken out, and it had not"
Witness xamined the screen and said
THE hole in the screen is larger than /
was when ] FIRST saw It; It is longer an
wider. ! also examined the window glas
hat had a hole in 1t, and on the inside
was black around the hole. also exam
lined the lace curtain. and there was
powder mark on this"
Witness Identified the window and lac
curtain and said: The powder mar
around the mole In the glass Is not nea
as black as IL was, and the hole is not a
neat as it was on October "a; otherwis
it is the same, and the powder burn is nc
near as plain on the curtain as IL was.
got a paddock and locked uP the bedroom
in which Mr.. Lille was shot. DIT. stewsl
and Mr.. Derby were present at this tim
II went to the Lille residence IN II
evening. J. A. He'll, a detective fro
Omaha. was with me. I introduced him
Mrs. Lille. and told her he was a detectiv
/ had another conversation with Mrs. LII
the next morning in the presence Of Il
detective, and she described the man Il
same as she did the day before. She sa
at this time that the man stood south
the stovepipe and about a foot and a Ia
from the bed. We asked her II she sa
the party after she rolled on the bed. 81
said; No; l have no eyes in the back
my head She indicated 10 us he pla
where the bullet passed through the Gu
tains and screen. and they were on a lev
ranging straight east. The place where 81
said the burglar stood is northwest Of n
window. ! have had several conversation
with Mrs. Lille since the murder, and q
never sEd anything to me about the m
ing Of the guilty person"
The cross-examinatiOn ELECTED the IA