The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-22
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there until all the policemen and off,
GERS had left, didn't your"
mo, there were some of them there
I think, when 1 came out"
When you came out, what was the
condition of the back door of the hall?''
1t was standing open a little"
VIVA had been your relations with
Mrs. Nickum2
always pleasant inc jolly, except
when she was sick"
What Grace McLane Said.
Grace McLane. the chambermaid at
lives at 51S Chandler street. There
usually is a pretty girl mixed up in
every murder case. In the Collins case
it was Frances Babcock; in the Nickum
case it seems to be fixed for Grace Nc
Lane to take the role.
Miss McLane came to work for Mrs.
Nickum last Thursday. Mrs. Nickum
told her that one of her girls had quit,
UNI had employed Grace McLane for
about two months last year.
Saturday night, Miss Nolan took
Mrs. Brown with her and went down
=on Chandler street to visit her parents
They returned about 8 to $50. and Miss
McLane took into Mrs. Nickum's room
a package of candy which Mrs. Nickum
had asked her to buy for her. Miss.
MCLane teSt1f1ed positively that Wnen
she and Mrs. Brown came in at @the
back gate, she locked the gate with a
staple, so that it could not be opened
from the outside without climbing over
the fence
Did you sleep well that h ask
ed ME-. Hungate.
Yes, 1 slept soundly."
What woke your"
when I woke. I thought I heard
some one moan I thought somebody
was sick. Mrs. Brown was just getting
up. 1 did not get up, but stayed in bed
until Mrs. Brown. came hack and said
somebody had hurt Mrs.sSNickum, and
to go and call some one"
Was there a light in the room?"
yes"
when was it lighted?'
Mrs. Brown lighted it34before h
went out"
did you see her light it?'
No, 1 can't say 1 saw her light 1T.
But it was there when h came back"
What did Mrs. Brown do?"
She sat down on the edge of the
bed; first, though. she washed her
hands,"
What did you do?"
Il put on some clothes and went and
called Mr.. Smith. Then I came down
stairs and. went in where Mrs. -Nickum
was. h was sitting up, n called
the name Emma n Della several
times"
who was Della"
She was the girl whose place 1 took"
What did Mr.. Smith do?"
H called the police and a doctor"
Sergeant r. T. Darby was the last
called. He testified thatsft was
about 2:2o in the morning When he ar
rived at the house. He went at once
to Mrs. Nickum, and tried to get her to
make a statement of some kind. He
heard her say: I'm q box in a safe,' or
something like that, and thought that
some one mad attempted to blow the
safe. He went into the front office
looking for the safe, but found none,
and later learned that the safe was the
name which the Nickums gave to a
cupboard in the kitchen where dishes
are kept. He examined this cupboard,
but found no box.
Mr.. Darby. There was a streak of
blood ffofn@the door across the hail,
and clear under a sofa onEthGHDppoSite
side.ofthehall. h WasEAbeut eight
feet from where the~b66Gay.-There
also blood spattered an over the
was shut when 1 got there. L looked
for tracks. but found one. There were
no indications of a struggle in the
Can you imagine how that blood
shout be spattered All yer everything
unless there was a ~struggle?" asked
Mr.. Hungate.
well, I don't know that I can. I
have my ideas on the subject. how
Sergeant Darby thinks that the blood
spattered on the walls on the room
came from the hands of the murderer.
after drenching his and in the
blood of his victim, shook them off, and
the room.
There was no blood on the axe han
die or on the handle of. the knife with
which the woman was cut.