The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-01

foolishly, Mr.. Tennyson is quoted as
having stated on this occasion
TrOsDer Witness.
Harvey Trosper, a brother of W. H.
Arospers who married one of the Ten
nyzson girls, was a witness before the
jury. Trosper is the young man who
| has been going around a good deal of
late with Flora, and over whom it is
said that Flora and her father had a
quarrel, because Mr. Tennyson had
objected to her keeping company with
/ him and denied him the privilege of
calling at the house.
Trosper declared to the jury that ne
knew OF no trouble between Flora and
her father over him. He said that he
had never called at the house and that
ne did not know that his attentions to
Flora We're objectiona Bile to Mr.. Tenny-
son. he said that If he had thought
tnat they were he would not have con-
tinued them.
There were a number of other wit
nesses, in fact everyone who was con-
nected with the case in the slightest
way was called by the jury but the
testimony given by the others was not
material.
BloOdhounds Turned Loose.
Mr.. Pithond and his bloodhounds ar
rived at Frankfort from Beatrice at
Two o'clock in the afternoon, They
were driven over the long fourteen miles
from irving. By the time they had ar
rived at the scene a crowd of several
hundred persons had gathered around
the house. For eighty rods on either
side of the TennysOn home the broad
road was just damned with vehicles.
Excitement was at fever heat in the
crowd. Stories by the hundreds were
going the rounds. Opinions were open
" expressed by nearly every one and
their trend was in the same general
way as already indicated. There has
not been as much excitement in any
part of Marshall county in the last
seventeen years as there V as yesterday
when the bloOdhounds arrived. Seven
teen years ago old man Pennington and
his wife We're brutally murdered. A
farm hand was accused. He was Jailed.
mob took him from the jail and
strung him to a bridge. There were
men in the crowd yesterday who had
participated in this bit of lynch law
Ali kinds of threats passed through the
crowd 1t looked as though i would
need but a good strong leader to organ
lie another lynching bee in case the
blOodh0unds speedily and surely traced
to earth the murderer.
The first efforts of the dogs did not
amount to much. They were taken to
the spot whore the women's shoe mark
was found in the turf just outside the
window through which the shot was
fred.
They apparently picked up a scent,
skirted over a side of the cave cellar
and then nosed rather straight to the
storehouse where the gun was found.
From there they ran to the door lead
ing into the kitchen from the southwest.
They then ran back to the starting point
and took the same trip again. This time
the authorities had a number OF persons
gathered in the. kitchen. among them
George and Flora. The dogs we're let
in the kitchen and they nosed around
everyone in the place, Flora and George
included Their efforts on this scent
seemed a trifie futile. They We're Fer
mitted to nose in a pair of Flora's shoes
and turned loose again but they would
not take up this scent.
The dogs were then given rest and
later in the evening just IS dusk was
falling they were placed on the trail OF
the footmarks found skirting he ban
and going through the pasture 70 the
west They followed this trail quickly
and easily. It led straight through the
pasture to the creek and in the uud on
the banks of either side Of the creek
the foOtnlarlxs were exceedingly distinct.
The trail was picked up on the ether
side of the creek and followed straight
into Second street and down that street
to McMinney's restaurant. Most d me
Deople had returned to town by 1hls
time and were on the street corners dis
cllssing the murder In. all its phases. a
cry went up, Here comes the logs GET
off the sidewalk. Give them a chance.
There was a great Scurrying to the rad
came along the north sidewalk Win
noses on the ground. Once in While
they would whine in a sickenlng way
They slowly approached the restaurant,
turned. ran back so or so feet and 1arted
through a vacant lot to Third street and
thence east to the vicinity OF The Jzauf-
man house where George called N MISS
sylvester. This completed the work CT
the dogs for the night and early thls
morning it was undecided whether or
not thew would be used again To-Day.
Sheriff Barrett said that the shoe marks
in the mud around the creek on This trail
taken by the dogs were unusually CTS
tinct and that they measured. exactly
the same as young Tennyson's SHOES.
some other Theories.
None of the authorities working on
the case would listen to any theories
that the murder was committed by
ira rnps for the purpose OF robbery or
by the enemies of Mr.. Tennyson. OF
course none of the officers working on
the case would give expression to their
theories. but they had them Just the
same. In some instances they were
almost convictions.
Town folks trying to think of some
avoWed enemies of Mr.. TennysOn re
membered that many years ago, seven
teen to be exact, a fellow stole a. horse
from Mr. Tennyson. The latter Sc
cured the mans conviction and punish
ment with a term in the penitentiary,
but it was a sh Ort one, lasting not more
than two years. At the time of his
conviction this man swore that he
would be revenged on Mr.. Tennyson
If it took him years to accomplish his
This fellow has never been
seen in the vicinity since he was sent
to prison
Another story going the rounds was
that some time ago Mr. Tennyson had
told a man he must settle a mortgage
which was due This the man was un-
able to do at the time and Mr.. Tenny-
son was pressing him for it. This man
was heard to remark that if the mort
gage was foreclosed he would FIX Mr..
Tennyson. Mr.. Tennyson had taken no
steps to forecIose the mortgage.
Detectives on Scene.
A couple of detectives from Kansas
City. hired by the Tennyson family,
appeared on the scene early this morn
ing and started working on their own
hook. Sheriff Barrett went out to the