The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-01

to the hospital cell and locked up, and
Connors, the man whom the officers
believe to have been wrongly accused,
walked up to him and began TO curse
him and tell him that he would get
even with him for telling lies and i'm
plicating him in a murder.
He seemed about to strike Sparr,
who begged Jailer Patterson to take
him out of the hospital cell and put
him somewhere else Patterson refused
to move him until the return of Lucas,
who had gone to the court house, and
in the meantime ConnorS cursed and
threatened Sparr The latter seemed
afraid of the man he had implicated,
and tried to excuse hlmSelf. Il didn
tell anything but what Patterson told
me- L didn't think you had anything
whole story he said. Connors, who is
of a nervous temperament, refused to
be pacified by SparrS weak apology,
and it was with great relief that Sparr
greeted the sheriff when he came to
turn Connors out of jail Connors was
freed and told that he would not be
bothered further.
He took his detention greatly to heart
and seemed to be greatly disturbed by
the notoriety he had acquired The
officers do not believe him guilty of
any part in the crime, and he will not
be bothered further, unless as a wit
ness.
Keith Tells of Sparr's Actions
One of the best witnesses the county
will have against Patterson, and per-
haps against Spar, If the officers
choose to charge him with completely
in the crime, is Frank Keith, the drug
gist who first heard Sparr's story, and
held him at considerable trouble until
he could get him before the county at
torney. Keith is a pharmacist at the
Eagle drug store, and it was he who
morning. After County Attorney Hun
gate had "sweated" Sparr at the coun-
ty Jail, where he had been brought by
Keith, he wanted to lock the man up
for safe keeping. Keith objected to
this on the grounds that he had been
compelled to promise protection to
Sparr before he could get him to go to
the county Jail. Keith said that he did
that he would keep his eye on Sparr un-
til the next day. every we'll" replied
Hungate Put him to bed
1t was while following these instruc-
tions that Keith got some more infor-
nation out of Sparr.
''Sparr told me that he was boarding
at the Pleasant Home, said Keith to-
day. 81 took him down there, and
about o'clock Sunday morning), he
said: Maybe they won't let me sleep
there unless 1 pay in advance L told
him to go in and see. He went in, and
in a minute he came back and said:
You will have to go in there and pay
for a bed before they will let me stay
1 replied, I won't do that, but come
back UP town with me, and l will get
you a bed at the Savoy Then he
said: DO you know anything about
these houses down here?' 1 said that
1 didn't Then he led me around the
corner and said: I will show you
the rear of the Nicxum house and
said: They went in through that
gate, and into the house from that
end. The woman was up toward the
Right here. in the Pleasant Home, is
where Patterson roomed. You see it
is mighty handy
II asked him how he knew so
directly to the sheriff. turned up
the man and claimed the reward. He
said: am a stranger here and on
the bum. and like as not they would
be shut up told him that couldn't
protect him always, and that he was
very liable to be locked up anyway.
''He didn't say anything in his sworn
tails about the house, and [ think his
memory ought to be logged little on
those subjects. He knows entirely too
much to be running loose, and he
would have to show me, if I was an Of
hcer, how he came to know all about
how the murdererS got into that house
and killed the woman.
'I got him a bed at the Savoy, and
kept close tab on him, fearing that he
would scoot. He was well filed with
booze before he went to bed and slept
late. I attended to that because 1
didn't want him to escape, and he was
mighty willing to drink"
Keith's statement puts Sparr the in
former, in a bad light. and the officers
will not overlook him in their further
Investigations. He charges Patterson
with saying things to him, and Patter-
son as vehemently charges him with
making the remarks himself. It is a
mixed up affair, and as far as the Of
fcers have any evidence, the suspicion
is equally divided between them. Sparr
seemed anxious to get out this morn
ing, and repeatedly asked to see Lucas.