The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
SENSATIONAL.
Hearing of Mrs. Susan Caldwell
at Salina.
Bound Over to District Court
for Trial in November.
FIRST DEGREE MURDER
Charged With killing Her Hus-
band Sept. 8.
Young Daughter Gives Some
Damaging Evidence.
Sight of BlOodstained Clothing
Causes Defendant Agony.

odlina, Kan, Sept. 2S.-MrS. Susan
Caldwell. charged with the murder of
her husband ]. F. Caldwell the night
of September 8. was bound over to the
district court for trial at the Novem-
Der term at the preliminary hearing.
The charge is murder in the first de-
gree.
The preliminary hearing began
Wednesday afternoon. Two justices
of the peace presided in the case. They
were d. r. Wagstaff and D. J. Addison.
The court room was packed to it's full
capacity by persons interested in hear
ing the evidence, the greater part of
them being women. The afternoon
was taken up for the most part with
the testimony of DR.. Neptune, the
coroner, who testified as to the posi-
ton of the body and the number of
blows struck. He stated that no less
than six blows struck Caldwell as he
lay asleep. The state made the point
that it was impossible for Mrs. CaId-
well to sleep by her husbands side and
not be awakened by so many blows,
which she declares she did.
The state sprung a sensation when
| 1t called Lena Caldwell, the 15-year-
her mothers most faithful partisan,
but she was forced to give damaging
evidence against her when she testified
that her mother had told her some
is killing me and / cannot stand it
much longer"
Mrs. Caldwell Weeps.
For the first time since the murder
the mother cried in public during the
hearing while Sheriff Meyers was on
clothes upon the floor as he found
them on the bed after the murder. AS
the bloodstained pieces were laid out
one by one, Mrs. M. T. Miller. the
E1-1I
had been sitting with her mother dur
ing the preliminary, wept bitterly, and
as the sheet. disclosing the great
bloodstain where CaldwelPs body lay,
mingled with the cries of her daughter.
She rallied her strength again in few
moments, however. and assumed her
unconcerned manner.
The state introduced only Coroner
Neptune, Sheriff Meyers and. Lena
Caldwell to testify to material facts in
| the case. The. defense introduced no
witnesses after the evidenced was in
troduced.
Mrs. CaldwelI's family werewith her
| in court. but of all those III attend
ance she was the coolest and most
self possessed person in the court
room, except for the few minutes that
she wept.
Review of Murder.
| James F. Caldwell was brutally muir
dered, in his bed while asleep on the
night of September 8. At the coroner's
inquest it developed that the husband
land wife had quarreled frequently, and
/ from the condition of Mrs. Caldwell's
night dress it was considered impos-
sible that she could have been in bed
at the TIME of the murder. as she
claimed The foot track near the
place where the ak was found fitted
that of Mrs. Caldwell. She was
brought to Salina that night and placed
in Jail. The next day she was ar
raigned before Judge Addison. who
held her. placing the bail at $500.
Mrs. Caldwell's friends tried in vain to
secure bond but failed.
Mrs. CaldweH's children have re-
manned true to their mother, and there
has never been time when any OF
them have shown more than a passing
sympathy for their dead father. The
accused, in company with the sheriff,
attended the funeral.
Today the attorneys will argue the
bail. 1.-THE attorneys for the defense
hope to be able to get the defendant
out on bail. but the state will fight 1t.
Mrs. Caldwell is represented by At
torneys z. c. Milliken and T. L. Bond.
The state is represented by County At
torney C. w. Burch and Judge Thomp-
son of Minneapolis.