The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-27

dress she said. was buttoned in the
front, a statement which Mrs. Sapp
has denied.
Miss Sapp's right arm had blood
streaming down the arm almost to
the shoulder, Mrs. Delong declared.
The Importance to the defense of this
statement lies in the fact that If the
girl committed suicide, blood must
have run down her arm. Only one
jugular vein was cut, and only one
carotid artery. The cord on one side
of the neck was cut.
Homer Warner was sitting on his
walk one night in July of last year
when a strange woman passed him.
His son, he said, lighted match to
see who she was for she had been
passing back and forth many times.
Mrs. Delong remembered having
seen a strange woman passing back
and forth several times during the
summer as late as midnight Warmers
had seen her time and again as late
as midnight going north. Had Miss
Sapp gone from the Whitlow home to
her own home she would have had to
pass both the Warner and Delong
homes.
Mrs. May Whitlow was on the
stand She told of all the things be-
ing moved about the yard. Her tes-
timony was simply in corroboration
of what her husband had told. He
told her of the tragedy the night it
happened, but not until the next
morning did she know that he had
been present. Then he told her all,
and the next day wrote the first state
ment, which she did not read until
Whitlow came to lola on the following
The hair which Whitlow found
wrapped about the washing machine,
she saw him throw it in the garden,
and when he went up to town she got
it. She kept it all the time, but not
until after his arrest did he know she
had it.
She made it plain that she suspect
ed that something was wrong for a
long time, but she said nothing about
it to her husband. She declares that
she suspected a girl, but not May
Sapp.
She described the outer clothing worn
by Whitlow the night of May Sapp's
death. These garments were not wash
ed until the second day of the second
coroner's inquest, she said. when they
were laundered by her mother. She
said Whitlow had only one razor. he
once owned two raZors, but she said
she had seen only one for two years at
least. She didn't know what became OF
it. She was shown the razor picked up
near May Sapp's body. She said she
had never seen it except at the inquest.
On cross-examination, Judge Schoon-
over endeavored to show that the
things about the Whitlow home might
have been disarranged by playing chill
dren Mrs. Whitlow said that other
children besides her own three had
played about the house and often in
the garden.
Hollidge Whitlow, 13 years old, told
of meeting a woman several times near
their home early at night. He said she
was about the size of May Sapp, but he
never recognized her. He said that he
saw a woman at window of the bed
room in which he and his father slept
one Sunday night.
II yelled to her to go away" he said.
"She didn't, and I woke papa up and
we went out to see. She ran around
the house"
He said he heard her that night two
or three times. He remembered the
note which May Sapp had written and
quoted its contents. On cross examina-
ton he couldn't remember what year
it was the note was written.
The washing woman who launder-
ed Miss Sapp's underclothing declar-
ed that the skirt shown the jury and
in evidence as the skirt
she wore, was not the one she laun-
dered, and which was brought to her
stained with blood.