The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-01

WILL Haunt SLhItR
Denounced Bickel as a Wretch
and Dog While She Was
Dying
Olathe. Kan, Oct. 1.-"My girls
hand will come out of tie grave and
haunt Bickel until he dies. She told
me before the breath left her that
she would haunt him all his life and
l know her hand stretches out of the
grave like this-and this--and this!"
Mrs. Katherine Peters, whose
daughter, Frances, died of mercurial
poisoning after spending night in
an Olathe, Kas., hotel with Karl Bick-
ell, Kansas City divinity student,
testified dramatically at Bickel's pre-
liminary hearing yesterday. She NOV
ed about continuously in her chair
as she told her story. To show how
i1OA oe1uGutCl udnu WOulu uduul
Bickel she rails ID her right hand from
her lap. Every eye in the court room
watched with intense interest as the
hand slowly went into the air. When
the arm had stretched to its full
length, Mrs. Peters unclasped her fin
gers and closed them three times.
slowly and Missed land this-and lnls
and this!"
My girl called Bickel every name
she could lay her tongue to while she
was dying" Mrs. Peters said. "She
said he was wretch, dog, every
thing she could think of until l said,
Frances hush l did not want to ex-
cite herself while she was dying.
"Asked Her to Join His Church"
"One time she said to me, The idea
of villain like him coming here and
sitting by my bed and reading the
bible. My hand will come out from
the grave to haunt him. He asked me
to join the Baptist church, away from
my own church.
R. R. Brewster, attorney for Bickel,
tried to find our whether Mrs. Peters
believed in spiritualism. The effort
causedsa heated debate, in which B.
H. Tillotson, the justice of the peace
before whom the preliminary hearing
is being held, told Brewster that he
was going too far in his questioning.
you can't insult me, even if you
are Brewster of Kansas City," Mrs.
Peters said. Supported by Justice
Tillotson, she refused to answer sew
eral questions MIR. Brewster asked her
along this line. Mrs. Peters also re-
fused to answer questions in regard
to her travels last summer She said
that Frances was her only support.
Mrs. Peters said that up to year ago
she managed the Gypsy tent at Fair
mount park. Mr.. Brewster wanted to
go thoroughly into the Gypsy busi-
ness at the park, but was stopped by
the justice.
I'D Judge kyle's Palm.
Some of the best people came out
to the Gypsy camp and had their for
tunes told" Mrs. Peters said. "Why,
Harry Kyle, the ex-police Judge, had
his palm told and"
Ibid Mr.. Kyle ask anything about
his political future?" Mr.. Brewster
asked.
Justice Tillotson stopped question:
ing bearing on this matter.
do you believe in fortune telling?"
Mr.. Brewster asked.
"Madge Stanley-she owned the
Gypsy camp-could read the future.
She read mine many time. She was
a spiritualist and could see things
She could tell you anything-she real
ly could. She told my fortune many
a time.
II lived with Frances in a little cot
tage at 110S East Seventeenth street."
Mrs. Peters said, until last June,
when went to see relatives. She
was the support of the home, After
left Frances went to board at the
home of Mrs. Ethel West, 2S4S Harri-
son street."
Bickel lived at 926 East Twenty
ninth street. around the corner from
the Peters home.
T, Told of the Olathe Trim.
. "Did your daughter tell you that
she met Bickel near her home?" Mr..
Brewster asked.
~ never asked her where she met
him and she never told me-" Mrs. Pc
ters replied.
Mrs. Peters said her daughter told
her how it was that she went to
Olathe with Bickel and took along a
night dress, kimono, some under
clothing and a brush and comb.
Frances was visiting near Fair
mount park with Mrs. Gerwe, her
friend" Mrs. Peters said. "She went
out to Mrs. Vests where her room
was, and got the clothing. She had
s.n engagement to go to Olathe with
Bickel. 1t was her intention to leave
the clothing at Twelfth and Main
streets with Mrs. E. C. Templeton, a
sister of Mrs. Gerwe. Bickel told her
to take the clothes along with her
and they could save the stop at
Twelfth and Main streets.
The relevancy Of the girls dying
statement is depended upon by the at
torneys. for the defense to be a big
factor in the trial. The state has
proved by the conductor on the car on
which Bickel and Miss Peters went to
Olathe that they reached the town
at $3.50 o'clock at night. This testi-
mony is supported by that Of the me-
gro porter Of the hotel. In her dying
statement Miss Peters said she went
to Olathe to hear Bickel preach that
night. The car ON which they rode to