The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

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passed by him coming from the north.
As they passed he hoard the accused
say to his brother: 81 believe the --
- - has a lot of money
on him"
They passed on across the street
and then tried the door of Jacobson's
pawn shop on the southeast corner
| Finding this locked they went on
down south on the avenue.
| once again did Morris Lieberman.
| the clerk in Jacobson's pawn shop,
| tell the story that is particularly dam
| aging to Van Horn of his appearing at
| the pawn shop on Wednesday morn
/ ing at 1920 O'Clock and taking out of
| pawn the thirty-eight caliber blue
steel barreled revolver which was
| found lying across the breast of the
murdered man. Van Horn also pur-
chased eight thirty-eight caliber cart
| ridges at this time and loaded the gun
| in the shop. Two bullets were fired
| into Mcrkinson's head and when the
revolver was found there was but one
! empty shell in the chambers, the other
four being filled with loaded cart
ridges Another loaded cartridge
rolled off of Morkinson's coat when it
was picked out from under his head.
All of the other testimony given at
today's preliminary hearing was prac-
| t1caIly the same as that given at the
inquest, except that DR.. Keith testified
as to the results of the autopsy on
Morkinson's body instead of Dr.
Blandel who assisted in performing
it and who testified to il at the in
quest. DR.. Keith told of finding the
two bullets in the skull and of the
fracture posteriOr to the bullet wound
He thought this fracture had been
made with a blunt instrument before
the bullets We're fired into the head
and he expressed the opinion that it
would have been. impossible for these
wounds to have been self inflicted by
Morkinson-
Co.. NSorl-irsf,,, Nxrt+T, vor, Horn
John Wagner told of the trip he
made on Wednesday morning with
Van Horn and Morkinson across the
river. he being left by them at the
and they driving on north. Robert King
and Elmer Krone testified to seeing
MorkinsOn on the hack with Van Horn
on Wednesday morning and that they
were driving north on Kansas avenue.
Henry Cowan, for whom Morkinson
worked, testified to giving Morkinson
s8-all the money due him on Tues
day night-as he said he was going
away. He said that Morkinson passed
the night in his barn at 202O West
street, but that he was not there in
the morning and he hunted for him
down Kansas avenue and met two or
three persons who had seen him rid
ing north on the hack with Van Horn.
He also told of Morkinson displaying
quite roll of bills to Van Horn a
couple of weeks before than time He
ing for five or six days before his
death.
Sergeant Joe Ross, of the police !
force told of the contra dictory stories
that Van Horn had told about Where
he picked Morkinson up on Wednes- |
day morning and where he left him 7
and also of the denials of Van Horn !
that he ever owned a revolver and I
then of his admissions that he had |
made and his several stories of how |
Morkinson got in possession OF it on |
Wednesday morning. Sheriff Wilker- /
son also told of some of the conflict /
ing stories told by Van Horn and also |
of finding what he believed to be
tracks made by hack wheels just east
of the Granville road at the point |
where it crosses the Union Pacific
inson's body was found. He would
not swear positively that these tracks
were made by hack wheels.
1t is the opinion of the county au-
thorities that they have a particularly
strong case against Van Horn and it is
that they have some cards up
their sleeves which they did not care
to expose at the preliminary hearing.
Van Horn seems to take the most Sc
rious charge against him coolly and
looks to be in a good deal better ply
sical condition than when he was first
taken into custody week ago. He
protests his innocence and refuses to
talk about the case under instructions
from his attorne eys.
ZoOE Murder Mystery Drags.
Although an arrest has been made
liam Zook, the Omaha boy, whose
body was found on the Union Pacific
tracks on Monday morning within a
hundred yards of the spot on the
river bank where Morkinson's body !
was found few days before, little has
been accomplished ed by the county au-
-horities and the police within the past
-wentv-four hours towards clearing up
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case. Still the officers are sanguine
hat the mystery will be unraveled ,
md they are working hard to this end.
HAT" Maybe, a woman of notorious .
ch haracter, is the person who has been
arrested with the belief that she knows
something about the murder of Zook. ,
She was taken into custody by Sheriff
WilkerSOn yesterday afternoon and is
still in Jail and will be held there until
ler actions during Sunday night can
De investigated. She has been ques-
toned and "sweated" a bit by Sheriff
and j. J. Sch enck, the coun- |
" attorney, but without results. She '
claims to know absolutely nothing I
about the murder. ]
The Maybe woman, who was held at
he county jail, was released at 2 I
o'clock this afternoon as nothing to f
connect her with the Zook murder had {
developed.
hat she might have known the man.
5 the fact that her acquaintance with
i'm could not have been of long stand !
ng as he was practically a stranger in !
he city and did not arrive here until
saturday night or Sunday morning l
rhen he and some hobo pals got here
rom Denver, having beaten their way c
" train from that place.
This Maybe woman lives in a hovel I
ear the river bank in the bottoms. 1t 7
as no street number. 1t is a place
there persons of the lowest sort are '
7ont to congregate and carouse. Here /
is that negroes and whites fraternize .
4 the widest kind of orgies. 1t is one V
f the real flesh pots of the bottoms a
nd has been cleaned out by the police