The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-29

I ture extending backward through the
skull some distance. When the doctors
finished this two hour operation on the
skull, Mrs. Job said to them:
st feel as though there was something
wrong down here
A further examination revealed the
mutilatiOns and another hours work
was necessary.
When it was all over, Mrs. Job said:
''These doctors thought I wouldn't live
through that operation, but I showed
'em, didn't I?''
Mrs. Job insists that she is going to
recover from her injuries. The doctors
think she has some chance.
Mrs. Jobs two sons, L. z. Job and
Albert Job, of Wellesville, both arrived
in Ottawa this morning. L. E. Job
said to a State Journal reportre:
My mother did not have an enemy in
the world, so far as I know. She was
the kind of a woman who would not
quarrel with anybody She would rath-
er turn around and walk away than ex-
change words about any difference. She
has great vitality, and is confident that
she is going to get we'll
Axe Was on the Porch.
As In the Niekum case, the location of
, the axe before the murder is a matter
of cOnsidera BILE importance It was
shown in the Nickun case that the axe
was always kept in the coal shed and
mat the murderer probably knew this
to be the case. The axe with which
Mrs. Job was struck was not kept in
any special place. How did the man
who used it know where to find it?
Mr.. ). Semple, brother of Robert Sem
pie of Topeka, says: This axe was al
lowed to stay wherever it happened to
be used last We had no regular place
to keep it. 1t was a new axe, pur-
chased only a couple of weeks ago.
Ada Vernoy, the hired girl, was the
one who put the axe on the back porch
She makes the following statement:
I was out splitting up some kindling to
start the fire for supper Monday. It was
about 9 clock. Mrs. Job was standing
there watching me. When I was done she
said Tt looks like rain. and you had
better put that axe here on the back
porch, where it won't get wet. I'll bring
IN your kindling- So she picked up the
kindlIng while I took the axe and but it
there
If the man who used the axe knew
where it was he must have been sowing
around the premises after O'Clock Mon
day afternoon
What Lucas and Hungate Think.
County Attorney Hungate was lust COM
ing Up from the Santa B-e dep6t in To
peka with a bunch of ducks he had cap
tured somewhere out in the Wilderness
his way to take the train for Ottawa and
learned about the Ottawa murder Hun
depot turned his ducks over to a friend
and took the train for Ottawa. Sheriff j u
cas- was also hand.
On arriving at Ottawa they found that
Sheriff Cody and ex-Sheriff Costiean had
Deen doing excellent work on the case and
had things well in hand. After making
their Investigations last night the Topeka
OFFICERS gave the following opinions:
Sheriff Lucas: The evidence is very
strong that this was done by the same
man VINO murdered Mrs. Nickum. If it
turns out that this degenerate Hebrew
told of by Mrs Semple is anywhere in
these parts It viii be evidence of the ut
most Importance. At any rate we have
some clues to work on in this case which
we did not have in the other
County Attorney Hungate: This all
goes to prove the theory that I have held
about the Nickum case from the very first
namely: that the crime was committed
by a degenerate. There is not a bit of
doubt in my mind that the NiclxuTn muir
der was committed by the same man who
did this deed"
Hungate Returns.
County Attorney Hungate returned from
Ottawa this morning, where he has been
at the scene of the brutal assault upon
Mrs Job. He is convinced that the muir
derer of Mrs. Nickum is the assaflant of
the ottawa woman and believes that it
is but question of a few days until the
mlscreant IS captured and that with his
capture the mystery of the Topeka muir
der, which has baffled our local police
will be cleared
There are several clews left BIZ the OF
tawa assailant which will probably lead
the pulse of the people in their present
condition it is not a serious matter to con-
lecture as to what will be the end of the
aSsa1Iant should he fall into the hands of
the people of that community Sheriff Bert
Lucas is on the ground and taking an ac-
tive interest in the case and assisting the
OFFICERS in experimenting the assailant
whom he believes to be the perpetrator of
the Topeka murder