The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-19
As He Lay in Bed, Partly I'm
conscious From Wounds.
SWEETHEARTS YEARS.
School Children Attend the
Teachers Funeral.
Last Saw of Hall He Was Carry
ing Bucket of Coal.


Glass. the young school teacher who
was found dead with her throat cut in
a little district schoolhouse near here
Wednesday night, gathered with their
parents at the farmhouse of Mr.. and
Mrs l. c. Glass, the dead girls par
ents. shortly after noon of Friday. At
ter brief funeral service the body of
Miss Glass was placed in an uncovered
wagon and the funeral procession in
heavy rain started to a cemetery at
B--inard, little town five miles away
Silently the friends and pupils of the
Gead girl rode over the muddy roads
that were impassab BILE almost in places.
but at the grave at the cemetery their
attitude was different Many spoke
threateningly of Robert Hall, the girls
sweetheart, who is accused of her muir
der. There was little excitement, but
after the ceremony in the cemetery the
friends and neigh bors of the girl stood
in groups discussing the manner of her
death. Developments since the finding
OF Miss Glass body leave no doubt that
she was killed and the circumstances
brought to the minds of those in the
cemetery another murder that occurred
in this county in 1901, when Jessie Nor
rison killed Clara Wiley Castle. the
young wife of Miss MoTrison's former
sweetheart
They discussed the Morrison case and
compared it with the killing of the
young school teacher Wednesday night.
The longer they talked the more threat
ening was their attitude toward Hall.
Finally. however. they went to their
various homes without more than an
open expression of their feeling and ac-
cusa ton. At the cemetery was NJ. Z.
Jolliffe. sheriff of Butler county
Had not known that Hall was in
a dangerous condition 1 would have
feared for his safety" said the sheriff
after he had returned to his home in Ell
Dorado last night He will be brought
TO the Jail here as soon as it is possible
10 move him.
When the funeral of the girl was in
progress, in another farmhouse, his
mothers home, Hall lay in bed partly
unconscious. from the knife wounds in
his throat. Clarence Owen, a deputy
sheriff who guards him, sat near.
rs she buried?" whispered Hall
once.
Yes" replied the sheriff
The young man was silent He
seemed to be in a stupor most of the
afternoon Twice or three times he
aroused himself to repeat his ques-
ton He showed no other signs of
interest nor sympathy. He was scarce
ly able to talk because of his wounds
which have swollen and become slight
~ infiamed. He made no attempt to
tell the officer of the scene at the
schoolhOuse. He was visited during
the day by DR.. Frank Fullinwider, who
made another examination of his
wounds and dressed them again Dr.
Fullinwider said that unless compli-
cation arose Hall had good chance
to live. He said, however, that it
would be dangerous to bring him to
the county jail in this CITY, a distance
OF fourteen miles
The story connected with the find
n CSfS T.
jealousy and love. Thirty years ago
Halls parents came to Butler county
and settled on a homestead of $50
acres in Murdoch township. They were
among the early settlers in this coun-
ty. About the time that Robert was
born L. A Glass moved to this county
from Illinois and purchased a farm
near that of the Hall family. Mary
Glass was born three years afterwards
The children went to the same
school and their parents were neigh
bors and friends. The children nor
only played together on school DAYS
but on Sundays, when, according to
the custom the families visited eacb
other. When Robert was too large to
remain in school he began work on his
fathers farm. The girl remained IN
school. studied a night, and in the
summers went with her teacher
summer normal school in this town
She was bright, industrious and always
a faverite with the other pupils or
ten when the teacher was sick or ah
sent for few days, it was the custom
for the other pupils in the school r.
choose a teacher from one of their
number
I'VE want Mary Glass; the, ni,ni1s
ALWAYS said Thus the girl became ac
customed to teaching and few years
ago. before che received her teachers
certificate from the county sInarin
tendent she was appointed a sIhstit,,+a
sch DOL.
Although they no longer attended
school together. young Hall did NOT al
low their friendship to wane. He had
three brothers to help him with his
farm work and often he drove To fbe
Glass home in the afternoon. evenings
or Sunday He took her to picnics IN
the summer time and church sociaIs
in the winter time. When she re-
ceived her teachers certificate fonr
years ago and began teaching he vas
always at the little sch dollhouse to tale
her home Friday afternoons ana pen
orally he stayed at the Glass home nm
til Monday. No engagement had ever
been announced, but it was commonly
believed that they were to be married
About a year ago Miss Glass told her
girl friends that she and Hall had
quarreled.
He objected to my going to a So
cial with another boy" She said.
A few days afterwards the two were
in ElDorado together and the incident
was forgotten among their friends.
Two months ago another rival came
Nance Thompson. young man who
was employed by Leslie Robinson as
d farm hand on the farmers ranch in
Fairview. Thompson lived with Orb
Littleton. a tenant of Robinson's near
Glass also boarded at the Littleton