The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

spoke to him until she came to To-
peka. to testify in the present case.
| Blame Placed on Woman.
On redirect examination, the state
brought out prominently the fact tina;
the. girls missteps had been at the
| insistence of Mrs. Thomann. Ross
| she said, was a guest in the Thomann
home in Summerfield and the expert
ence with the travelling man occurred
while she was working in Mrs Tho
! mann's hotel in Holton.
What did Mrs. Thomann say
about a preacher coming to see you?
asked Simon.
She said for me not to say any
thing, that preacher would prob
ably call on me and ask me about
this matter" the witness referring to
incidents related in the affidavirs.
Dell Travis, former fish and game
warden, was the second witness called
for the state at todays session. lie
told of occupying double room
with Judge Gillett in the National
hotel and said that it would have
been impossible for the Kingman
man to have seen or talked with Leta
Foster without his knowledge the
morning of January so In company
with J. n. Tincher, Travis and Gillett
ate breakfast in the National and
none of them returned to their rooms
after breakfast. They arose after s
o'clock that morning and Immediately
took their grips to the hotel lobby
Travis and Gillett left Topeka on the
same train and were constantly in
each others company after arriving
at the hotel from Masonic temple,
where they attended the Kansas day
banquet.
He Denies Story.
On the witness stand late Tuesday
afternoon, Judge Preston B. Gillett
the arrests of the five defendants in
the criminal libel case. Not until late
in February, when the Kingman judge
received the letter from Corey Black
of Council Grove. he said. did he sus-
pect that a plot had been laid to
blacken his character.
Fright from the start said Gil1ett,
in response to a question from Major
Harvey, to why he did not visit
Black and learn of the charges against
him, Il saw the fine hand of Wilcox
at work As soon as l read that letter
1 associated the close relations of the
two men. I recalled that many people
had importuned me to block the VIII
cox disbarment case and / knew that
this was another effort to embarrass
me-
For so days, Gillett said, he told
no one of the letter from Black in
which the Council Grove man limited
at mysterious occurrences in Topeka,
told of strong afidavits and some pho
tographs. He offered to show all this
to Gillett-whom he said he loved and
considered bosom. friend-if he
would come TO Morris county and talk
matters over A month later began
the investigation of the Matchmaking
scheme, as Gillett characterized the
deal.
He Denies Relations With Girl.
Asked concerning the statements in
the Ericsson Medlock-F Foster TIL oma n
afidavits, Judge Gillett firmly declared
they We're all false. He never saw
Leta Foster until last Sunday, he said,
and the charges of their relations in
the National hotel were positively
groundiess.
Major Harvey and the Judge en-
gagged in several lively tits in the
course of the. long cross examina ton.
Counsel for the defense insisted on an
of the Wilcox disbarment
case and Gillett said he had nothing
to do With these proceedings and was
out of the state when they were filed.
His first knowledge of the affair came
from Wilcox himself, the witness said,
when the two men met in Wichita
Conc erning the charges against Wilcox
in which Judge Gillett's name is fire. |
used. the Kingman man said
he took no part in framing these
charges and did not know they were
to be used until after the filing of the |
c complaint.
Was Hotel Register Stolen.
l.
Charles o. Smith, owner and clerk at |
the Fifth Avenue hotel. were called as
They testified that the hotel |
register for the months of January and |
February for this year was missing and |
.ad been missing since about the time |
he case now being tried became pup |
ic Every effort to find the book had |
been made they said.
Handla testified that Mrs. Thoma nm |
and Medlock were known to the people |
Of the hote- as G. w. Chambers and |
wife of ST. Joseph. They We're register |
I'd in this way last January on the 9th |
Or 2Sth day, both men testified. Smith |
stated that he remembered seeing |
Ericsson in the hotel during the time |
he Thomann woman. Medlock and the |
Foster girl. registered as Minnie John i
son. was there. This bears out the |
story of the girl that Ericsson was at |
The hotel with a typewriter.
Several persons from Holton followed /
10 the witness stand. They testified 20 |
seeing both Medlock and Mrs. Thomann
n Holton. January 80
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