The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-11
NOT A SUICIDE.
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ing there. or even pass the time OF
night with him?" was the coroner's mex
question.
mo, didn't I thought that the best
place for me was in the house.
thought If he had any business with me
he would come there. 1t was almost
$50 o'clock at night. 1 was about
eight feet from him when I saw him
IN the barn. He was medium sized.
Haner said he saw the man the first
time probably two weeks before the
tragedy.
II was walking north up the alley
back of my barn. 1 saw a man ahead
of me. 1 guess he thought was going
to overtake him and he stepped into
my barn right ahead of me. He just
stepped into the dark and I passed him.
looked around after passed the barn.
l looked back to see if he was following
me-
do you mean to say that you were
that close to that man and didn't know
who he wasp Mr.. Anderson said.
No, sir, didn't know him. He was
a medium sized man. 1 think it was
the same man I saw both times"
Didn't Know 1t Was Whitlow.
Was it Sam Whitlow?" a juror ask
Il don't know
Did you ever see Miss Sapp out in
the yard in the EVENING"" asked An
oerson, deputy county attorney.
Yes; once was washing for sup
per 1t wasn't dark, when I heard
voice. looked out and saw Miss
Sapp north Of their house. She was
making gestures with her hands and
talking. I couldn't see anyone else.
She wasn't talking loud enough for
me to hear her words. She walked up
and down and clapped her hands"
Did you notice which way she was
going?" juror asked
Yes: she walked east and stopped
when she clapped her hands,"
You didn't see any person there
mo, sir; I couldn't see anyone Her
voice didn't sound angry, but very
earnest. 1t seemed to me that she
was talking to herself. I never spoke
cept my wife until the day after the
No Other Queer Actions.
Haner said he had never noticed
any other actions upon Miss Sapp's
part that would indicate she was Pc
culiar. He said he knew both Miss
Sapp and Whitlow, but had never
seen them together. He said he had
never heard any signals about the
Sapp place and never saw a man talk
ing to Miss Sapp. He said he had new
err heard anything concerning Miss
Sapp except that she was gentle |
woman.
lola. told Of seeing the body of Miss
Sapp after her death. He said that i
he found a large bruise on her
shoulder and the cuts on her throat |
.sThe cuts on the throat" he said, |
s'were made by two missions. There
was another little cut, just scratch,
in front. One finger on the right |
hand was cut and the thumb ana Two
cut. The cuts on the fingers were not |
straight in. They seemed to have
been made at an angle.
CT found her undergarment was
~Io Ia
eight or ten inches long, near togeth- |
err They seemed to have been fresh
81 made
whitlow was brought from the Jail
+o testify again. In passing through the
office corridor he met his wife for 1
moment, the first time they have seen
each other since the officers brought |
him to lola Monday night.
"I want to see you, papa. she SAID
in the presence of an officer who came |
between them. 81 suppose l Will have
to go to the Jail after you get through"
yes I guess there is no other way
now" Whitlow said dejectedly. Before |
they could say anything further Whit
low was called into the jury room. For /
three hours the jury and the lawyers
asked him questions. Every possible de-
tail was repeatedly gone over. He an
swered every question quickly, taking
no time to think of its possible effect.
He talked freely, apparently, OF the CIR
cumstances that were against him as
he did of those which pointed more
strongly to his innocence.
He testified that on the night of the
tragedy Miss Sapp pulled razor from
her shirtwaist and slashed her throat
with it. In spite of the statement of
jirer to him that such thing was inn
POSSIBLE because her dress opened In
the hack. WhitIow said the fact never
theless was true. The county attorney
said almost every juror took a hand In.
questioning him but he never varied
from the original story.
Whitlow wrote two statements of his
with Miss Sapp and gave
Them to his wife. One of these state
ments is missing. Mrs. Whitlow said
she read the first statement carefully.
she put 1t in a drawer and one day
when she went to look for it it was
gone.
Mrs. whitlow gave the substance of
he first statement. Whitlow started by