The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-11

ed him, or who hit him and knocked
him down the steps?'
Il don't know whether I would or
not"
the child could not identify him as
the man. -
What did they do after they took
him around to the shed?"
'"They picked him up and took him
around to the side door and after
ward they took him home.''
1.-THE same man that hit him took
him home?''
IT don't know
Clifford Sullivan. a little negro boy.
whose big eyes did not fail to see
everything in the court room, was
the next witness.
White Boy Cried.
1.-THE man on the porch was taking
hold of peoples coats I think" said
he, then another man pushed him
down on the steps. He hit him in the
side. The man fell on his head on the
cement steps. He laid there awhile.
| Three men carried him around to the
shed. They stopped by the pump and
tried to set him down. The man
| couldn't stand up. Then they took
| then to the shed. They put him in
/ the shed and he started to come out
and they pushed him back and shut
the door. Then Edwin was scared
|
scared, too.
"a lady asked a man to go part way
| home with him. The man fell at Har-
| rison street, in the middle of the street.
While the man was walking around in
| the middle of the street a man came
| out of the hall and went away with
| him.
The principal witness this morning.
beside the children, was Axten Sode,
| who is employed at the Topeka foun-
| dry. Axtell say the entire affair and
| told of it. He said he believed John
Nelson caused the death of Bjorkman.
81 went out on the porch and Bjork-
man and Pete Anderson were there
| talking Pete Dah1ene came out
''What was ?" he was asked.
BjorISnan Wanted Money.
'Dahlene said, You're a crazy fool.
I don't owe you any money Bjork-
man said, You know better You give
'eWas Bjorkman staggering or did
he appear to be drunk"
HE talked sensibly He did not
stagger, but 1 could tell he had been
After testifying that Nelson came
out of the halI Sode said he seized
Bjorkman by the arm. he thought
and swung him around and pushed
him. Bjorkman, the witness said
missed one step and fell On the other
He did not get up.
At saw him fall. I was scared my
self. I went back into the hail.
'sBjorkman could not stand, could
, hep
mo, sir. But I do not think John
meant to hurt him.
HE killed MIN, didn't hep
stI believe SOL
Mrs. C. C. Lindquist testified thai
she saw Bjorkman at the shed. She
Hooked out of the window. Knutt
Hansen was one of the men she knew
with lim. The first time she saw
!. him Bjorkman was standing up. The
! next time he was fiat on his face, hi:
hands outstretched before him. She
asked Nelson to take him home be-
cause she thought he was too DRUM
, to get home without assistance.
Carried to the Shed.
Mrs. Pete Anderson of 314 Tyler
: street testified that she saw the meI
take Bjorkman into the shed. The,
carried him by his shoulders and hi!
feet dragged upon the ground. The.
seemed to be making an attempt Il
get Bjorkman on his feet.
'"They stood him up and let go ant
he fell' she said on the witness stand
'.They did that twice. He couldn'
stand up.
do you know that an attempt wa
made to conceal the fact that Nelson
| caused Bjorkman's death2" asket
' | County Attorney Schenck.
The witness denied such knowledge
Albert Carlson, president of the SO
ciety testified that he had seen BjOrk