The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-05-27

tive mind and a good memory. His
manifestation of anger in the court
room will be used by the state as an
argument against him. The theory of
the prosecution is that Adam God
could distinguish right S.., wrong
when he engaged in the "tc n,s
and that he was angry beo.. SO,
police had interferred with his re...
ious meetings, be means of which he
collected money and avoided hard
work.
Tracked Him Through the Mud.
e. P. Barrett, farmer living in
Johnson county, Kansas, told of meet
ing Sharp on the country road Thurs-
day morning after he fled from Kan
sas City. The street fight was Tues
day afternoon.
Sharp wore an overcoat and had
his hands in his pockets" Barrett
said. "As I met him in the road
horse ridden rapidly by a boy was
coming from the other side of the
knoll. Sharp could not see the
horse, but he could hear the hoof
beats. Sharp crawled through a wire
fence and struck across a cornfield."
Il object" Attorney Martin said.
Let him co." Sharp said. Hes
telling the truth. l remember it,"
about noon that day we heard
from Kansas City and the chief of
police and knew that was the man
they wanted" Barrett said. "Then
we started out to find him. About
mile from the place where I saw him
go through the fence into a corn
field, there was a straw stack. We
tracked him in the mud to that stack.
He was in hole in the stack and had
pulled straw over him so he would be
out Of sight. When we got right
close, about fifteen feet, he struck his
head out of the straw and said:
Are you hunting rabbits?"
A Bloody Knife and $11S.
Another man was with me. We
told him to throw up his hands. He
said he couldn't because they were
paralyzed. At last we made him put
up both hands and searched him. In
his pocket was a big knife stained
with blood, and $1O5 in bills and
about So in small change. The small
coins were collection money that he
got preaching on the street, guess.
They were in sack and that was sat
urated with blood.
AS Barrett passed Adam God in
leaving the witness stand the prisoner
shook hands with him and said:
How are you, brother?"
Joseph r. Beaver, a farmer, who
lives ten miles northwest of Olathe,
Kas., and at whose house Sharp slept
one night, was another witness.
when Sharp came to my house
that night he said his hands were
paralyzed and that he couldn't get
them out of his pockets" the witness
said. II removed his overshoes and
hat and asked him to let me help
him remove his overooat. He wouldn't
let me take of the overcoat. He slept
that night on sofa. The next morn
ing I washed his face and told him I
would wash his hands If he desired.
But he refused to take them out of
his pockets saying it hurt to move
them. raised the food to his mouth
and fed him. Then he went away"
Feared Mob and Lynching.
John 8. Steed, sheriff of johnson
county, Kansas, told about Sharp's ar
rest and what he said when he took
him to his office in Olathe.
0udip Adlu Iue UldLue IOr Ine SnOOt-
ing on the salvation army" the sheriff
said. SHARP said the salvation army
had incited the police against him
because he preached differently.
When told him that two policemen
and citizen were killed in the fight
he held up his hands and said:
"'My God, brother, is that true?
They will lynch me for that. want
to write statement, letter to my
people and tell them how l have been
misled. Then will be ready to die
and pay the penalty When Captain
Whitsett and Inspector Ryan came
from Kansas City to take him back,
he asked that they not take him
through the Union depot. He feared
a mob and lynching."