Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-09-22
WATSON TALKS.
Admits lie Met That DEN
YER Woman In st.
Louis.

county Will be Interested IN the
following taken from the Hannibal
Courier Post:
DR.. Jones Watson, who is under
arrest at New London charged
with the murder of his wife, is out
with version of his trip to st.
Louis Immediately following the
death of his wife and his subse-
quent meeting with Miss Ada Nj.
Burks, the Denver milliner, at the
Inside Inn on his arrival at the
Fair where he is alleged to have
spent several days with the woman.
Sphinx like, the doctor has posi-
lively refused to talk of the case in
any phase as his attorneys have inn
pressed him with the fact that they
do not want to try their case in the
newspapers. An intimate friend of
the doctor, living in the South,
went to New London from Hanni-
nibal this week, however, and Wis
tied the prisoner in his Jail apart
ments. The doctor talked freely
of the case to this gentleman, as it
was the first meeting of the two in
several years and DR.. Watson APP
peared anxious to place his side
of the story of the death of his
wife before his friend in his own
light.
In the course of his cOnversa-
tion DR.. Watson unwittingly out
lined his defense along certain
points, especially those pertaining
to his sudden trip to st. Louis
following his wife'S death,
and his associations with
Miss Burks, of Denver. His
story is looked on with some i'm
portance by the attorneys for the
prosecution.
| DR.. Watson now gives as his
reason for going to st. Louis so
soon after his wife's death
that he wanted to avoid publicity.
He stated that everywhere he went
people questioned him regarding
the death of Mrs. Watson and al
ways wanted him to go into de-
tails. This, he claims, was a most
unpleasant feature for him, as he
considered the parties suspicious OF
him, altho they had never intimat.
ed such thing, so he went to st,
Louis.
Going to the Inside Inn, the doc,
tor declares that his meeting with
Miss Burks, the Denver milliner,
was coincidence. He asserts
that when he walked up to the big
Office to affix his signature to the
hotel register, he encountered Miss
Burks. After he registered ht
says that Miss Burks asked hin
about the accident and that wher
he asked her to sit down with hin
: in order that he might give her ;
detailed statement of the runawa!
she said that she would first ge
her mail, so he inquired for her a
the postofiiee window. This is hOy
he accounts for the statements o
the postOffice clerk at ihe Insid
Inn testifying at the coroner's in
quest that the doctor called for tn
woman's mail. The doctor ha
not stated, however, how it wa
that Miss Burks called for his mai
t during his stay at the hotel.
e DR.. Watson told his friend il
n the course of the conversation i
e Jail that Miss Burks was particu
}. lar friend of himself and his wifi
/ aud that when she took her depart
g ure from t,Louis to Arcadia, Mo.
e to visit her brother, he natural
, accompanied her to the station, a
|. she was not familiar with St.Loui
g and the methods in vogue at th
3 Union Station.
# The acknowledgement of Dl
q Watson that he was with Mis-
J, Burks in st. Louis, shows that n
m attan,nt will he tnada nv tha 4,