The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-07

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been drinking?"
'Yes, saw him drunk once"
The defense will endeavor to show
that Patterson and Haught and
| Thomas Kane left the Pleasant Home
| hotel at o'clock the night of the
murder and went up town. Kane left
the other two and Patterson and
Taught went to the theater and re-
turned to the hotel at IL o'clock and
went to bed. Mrs. Kiernan and Mrs.
White of the Pleasant Home hotel F.
H. Wait and Haught will be among
the witnesses to testify for the de-
fenSe.
Attorney Doyle said this morning:
1--WE are certain that Edgar Patterson
is innocent and that this will be
proven. We will allow him to remain
want him to stay there until the au-
thorities are satisfied of his innocence
There is only the word of this man
Sparr and / think there will be no
are not true. We will show that Pat
terson and SDarr did not have any
conversation at the time Sparr says
Patterson talked of their going out to
browse around
Brother Is Confident.
John Patterson, chief of police at
Moberly, Mo, brother of Edgar Mon
roe Patterson, is in Topeka preparing
the defense for his brother.
Mr.. Patterson said this morning: ''I
am satisfied that the boy will come out
all right. He has been going it a little
fast, and has been drinking too much
since he left home. but he is not bad.
as all the prominent citizens of his
home town will testify. He worked
there a long time, and was we'll liked.
I believe he will come out of it all right
and perhaps he needed a scare of this
kind to straighten him up, but a muir
der charge is pretty severe treatment.
1 have brought with me the recon-
mendationS of a number of prominent
T,1,, IL l.,
will show them to the county attorney.
know he can prove better character
than the man who accuses him. Mr..
Doyle and L thought when we first
came up here that this man Sparr
might have committed the crime him
self, and we looked around a little yes
terday to find out what we could about
him
1T was while making these investiga-
tions that we were told of the horrible
mutilation of Mrs. Nickum'S body, and
now 1 don't believe Sparr did it. He
might have robbed a house, but 1 can
not conceive that any man would add
such horrible crime to murder unless
he was mentally unbalanced. Sparr just
seems to be common drunkard and
bum.
Il am confident that my brother will
be released at the preliminary hearing,
for 1 do not see how they could feel
justified in binding him over on the un-
supported testimony of that man
Mr.. Patterson had with him endorse
ments and recommendations for Edgar
Monroe Patterson, from the prominent
business men of Moberly. Among them
were statements from L. Wayland,
city collector; Henry Levi, a merchant;
S. c. Griswold, police judge; ]. E.
Lynch, formerly q. S. marshal, now a
Moberly contractor; H. B. Pitcher,
superintendent of the Gas and Electric
company, who employed Patterson for
several years as a light trimmer; J. b.
Jennings, cashier at the Mechanics Saw
ing bank; ]. S. Bowers, a merchant,
and Chas. Feldenheimer & Bro, mer-
chants. All spoke well of Monroe Pat
terson, and said that they had known
him since boyhood-
E. E. Sparr, the man who furnished
the alleged information upon which
Patterson was arrested, complains
about the Jail fare, and says that
Sheriff Lucas promised, while they
were in Kansas City, to get him job
in Topeka so that he might be earning
wages while waiting for the prelim-
mary.
"I made him no such promises said
Sheriff Lucas when told of Sparr's
statement, land if he gets out of here
before am through with him, he will
have to break out, that's ALL"