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

He told of often seeing May Sapp
going by his home to the residence of
the Whitlows. One night he and his
family was sitting on the porch when
a woman strolled by, tall and slender,
with hair braided down her back. The
entire family agreed that it was Miss
Sapp. She went to the Whitlow home.
Again his boy lighted match and fol-
lowed the same woman and she
again went to the Whitlow home.
Many times he had seen her going by
his house moonlight nights as late as
i and o'clock.
To him Miss Sapp acted like she
was demented or craZy-muttering
moaning and tossing her arms in the
air.
The Warmers live close to the Whit
low home.
Mrs. Delong was placed on the
stand again this morning. She con-
firmed all that she had testified to on
Tuesday afternoon. She asserted that
she was on the spot shortly after May
fell and saw Mrs. Sapp rush to the
spot and heard her say: MAY, why
have you done this
Mrs. Whitlow was called to the
stand for a few moments but was dis
missed almost without a question be-
ing asked her.
The husband of Mrs. Kate Hoddy
who aided his wife in washing the
bloody garments of May Sapp de-
clared that the clothes on exhibition
in the court room said to have been
the ones worn by May Sapp the night
of her death, were not the bloody
garments they washed from the Sapp
home the day after the tragedy.
John Rumble said that the G. F.
Smith home north of Sapps, where he
had often seen the dead girl go, had
once owned two razors and now one
was missing and he thought Miss
Sapp might have gotten it. Rumble
is the administrator of the Smith es-
tate.
The court ordered Rumble's testi-
mony to be stricken out.
Frank Young had often seen May
Sapp going back and forth to the
Whitlow home muttering to herself
and acting as if she were dazed.
Mrs. Emma Goldsbury testified
that May Sapp had told her she did
not care to live because the man she
wanted was married.
Here the defense rested.
lola, Kan, May 27.-.I have
passed a dozen teachers examina-
tions, but I have answered more
questions in the past twenty-four
hours than I did in all those examina-
tions and I was reasonably scared
when l took an examination" Sam
uel Whitlow commented after he had
left the stand in the Sapp murder
case. The lawyers declare that he
was one of the most remarkable wit
nesses they ever dealt with.
The defense after Wh1tlow left the
stand continued to furnish evidence
to bolster up his story. The most
convincing witnesses was Mrs. A. H.
Delong. whose husband, DR.. Delong.
was the first physician called She
testified that she was there within a
few minutes. Mrs. Sapp was in the
house, her hands a mass of blood,
and blood was spattered on her face.
Mrs. Sapp told Mrs. Delong, she saws.
that she could not find May in the
back yard, and that she stumbled
over the body. 1t was lying against
the chicken fence.
The mother said to her NAV.
have you tainted? ?" She attempted to
lift her daughter up, and in doing so.
her hands came in contact with the
warm blood, which gushed out and
flowed over her hands. Mrs. Sapp
called to her daughter again, May.
have you done this?" Mrs. DeIong
says Mrs. Sapp told her that she
''knew what had happened" for her
daughter had been acting strangely
for a week.
Mrs. Delong made minute
examination of the body. She aided
her husband in making the examina-
ton. In doing so she removed the
clothing. The dress was made in
two pieces, she declared, and a white
duck belt encircled the body The