The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-17

tend to it. or. third, to tender his
''The evidence is that kirkpatrick
went to Chicago and brought him home
and on the way home by way of
Omaha, DR.. Warner admitted to him
THAT Kirkpatrick did his duty to
him and told him those women hang
ing on his trail were will-o'the-wisps
and to leave them alone.
Six Years Ago Today.
'Six years ago there came into DR..
Warmers life that of a young girl, we
see them in st. Louis walking arm and
arm, We see them in the next occupying
adjoining rooms at Ma ckinac, she de-
MES that she allowed him to button her
dress but she told Mr.. Fulton with her
own lips that she permitted him to
do so. We next see them in the spring
of 1906 in the Office of Mr.. Fulton at
Chicago, on the street. to dinners, and
at the Sherman house. We see them
the same year on the train toward
Montreal, they are next seen in Chi
cago buying tickets changing from the
going by another road. We next see
them at Niagara, and then at Lewis
ton getting on a boat, next at Toronto
taking an automobile ride, as she says,
truly as her own shadow.
1--WE next see them landed in Mont
real at the same hotel occupying rooms
side by side. We next see them start
ing out next morning to find- hotel,
eating lunch together at noon, and
eating supper again at highland
then the register. The clerk would not
know whether the record names a man
or a woman.
1--WE see them on a ride at Montreal
together. She denies that. Where do
we next see her? On way home? No,
on her way to Boston with DR.. War
ner.
whatever her excuse for travelling
over the country with DIR. Warner, she
now tries to hide from you that she is
ashamed of 1t. We see them at Mont
Montpelier to Boston and that DR..
Warner went there on business. But
she says she came back that way and
stopped because 1T was so pretty there
Dr. Warner was there. she says, on
business. We see them on a carriage
ride there with Mr.. Merriam.
Followed Her Shadow.
''Dr. Warner has Followed her as her
very shadow-as her second shadow.
Mr. Schenck suggested to you th&t we
must believe DR.. Warner insane. Mr..
Kirkpatrick, on the stand, says that
certain things are fixed. One is that a
married man allowing himself the af-
lection of an unmarried woman has no
brains.
1--WE need only refer to a tragedy IN
a nearby city. An automobile ride
after midnight and the return to the
husbands home. We need not relate
just as DR. Warner was insane
Power Behind Throne.
"You know that this DR.. Warner who
has Swallowed this girl like cloud OF
grief ever since he came into the life Of
this unfortunate girl, is the power be-
hind the throne. He is the power be-
hind this suit.
Let us go back to the Meriden affair
and from there trace him over the
country. Everywhere he is talked
oh nd h0
What does a man do who gets to
running after women7 Neglects his
duties. That's what DR.. Warner did.
1T was Kirkpatrick who stood like a
this neglect and raised the membership
from $4,000 to $4,000 and when DR..
Warner neglected to answer letters of
the thousands, he took the matter IN
hand to protect the society and planned
to remove DR.. Warner from office.
These men had worked hand in hand
for years in building up this great
order which is the pride of this city.
and of the nation.
Sat Like Sphinx.
This man sat here here in the court
room throughout the trial silent as a
sphinx. He never offered to testify to
take the sting Off his ruin of this girls
reputation.
''Why, ask you, why didn't he come
into this court and sue Mr.. Kirkpatrick
instead of throwing her into the breach
and hiding behinds her skirts? Silence
answers all.
Mr.. Kirkpatrick is a plain spoken,
square-speaking man. What did he
say when asked If he had considered
the girl when he saw those names on
the register? He said No. He
thought like any of us would think
when he saw DIR. Warmers name with
that of d. NJ. Tilford-misspelled. He
knew the handwriting of the sigma
ture and knew that it was written by
man who knew well the true name
of his companion and he thought that
name had been misspeIled for a pur-
pose.'
Mr.. Doran turned the contention of
plaintiffs counsel that the present Of
ficers of the knights and Ladies had
testified because of their pay, to a
charge that the past officers testified
as they had, because they had lost
those same positions.
Capt. Waters Stirring Speech.
Captain Joseph ]. Waters, who has
fired the trial during it's entirety with
the spontaneous energy of his per-
sonality, and conducted the prosecution
throughout with all the vigor as if it
were his own daughters reputation at
stake, make the closing plea to the
jury on behalf of the plaintiff, Miss
Dolly M. Tilford.
The Topeka Bar association was
well represented. Many lawyers came
court room was crowded with those
who had been interested before and
many who came solely to hear the
closing address. None were disappoint-
ed. Tears filled the eyes of many and
a silence prevailed broken only by
the words of the captain and the sobs
of the plaintiff, her mother, and their
sympathizers.
Rising from the chair. Capt. Waters
said:
IT am too much interested in this
case to stoop to the attack of this
man, and I have no time to spend in