The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-09
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George Francis, marshal of Niles,
stated he met the claimant the day
after he arrived in Niles last SepteIn-
Der and that White said he knew the
marshal's face but could not recall MS
name.
DR.. John F. Burns of Niles said he
knew Kfmmel in his boyhood and that
the claimant did not in the least re-
semble his former chum. There was
no scar on the claimants eye such as
he knew should have been there. An
other deposition. that OF F. G. Dean, a
druggist of Niles, was that White IN
no Way reSem bled Kimmel and that
White when he arrived in Niles, did
not know him. Dean deposed that he
had been a companion of Kimmel and
had seen him in 1896 for the last
time.
White left the court room at the noon
recess and in the corridor encounter
ed Luke Wood receiver of the bank
who is suing the insurance company.
You fraud, White exclaimed at
Wood You --- shape OF a man.
Wood looked after the claimant and
That's no more Kimmel than I
am
Then White encountered an attorney
for Wood who gave the claimant d
searching glance, the claimant exclaim-
ed:
Haven't you seen me enough? -
you, haven't you any manners? l m
not going to stay here any longer
Prior to his departure White SAID
his mother and sister refused to own
him because of influence of his Uncle
Charles Johnson. He said he spent
month in Niles at the time he was sup
pOsed to be dead and worked on
the books OF his uncIes bank at night
and found out things which Johnson
dos not want known.
White refused to say when ne made
the secret trip to Niles or how he gain
70 17n "a nix n
DR.. BONNIE, a boyhood chum of
Kimmel who later operated on him
for disease of the eye. testified that
the man he saw in the Auburn, N. z,
prison where he was held under the
name of White, was not George A.
The operation on the eye Of Kim
mel testified the doctor. left a scar
which was necessarily permanent. The
convict had no such scar. The eyes
of the convict were not the same color
and the convict, the witness said, mis-
pronounced the doctors name:
A postcard was shown which DR..
Bonnie sent from Auburn to his
chauffeur with picture of the prison
and the words HE is in there" DR..
Bonine said that by the The he meant
vey the idea that the man was kim
mel
His Actions Not Kimmel's.
On oss-examination Mrs Hunt said
left Arkansas City to hunt for Kimmel
in Kansas City. She took charge of
KimmePs clothing and three months
after KimmePs disappearance not three
days as the defense contends sent the
missing mans property to his mother
in Niles. Mich.
Reverting to her trip to Mattewan
Mrs. Hunt said in answer to questions
that the convicted man had a shuffling
walk, that he dragged his fet, trembled
all the time and carried one shoulder
higher than the other. Kimmel, she
said. had none of these characteristics
Her husband who is to be a witness ac-
companted her on the trip to Mat
tewar
Attorneys for the defense told the
jurors in their statement that Hunt had
good reasons for wishing KimmeI TO
disappear and remain dead.
White Is Found Again
White was found again this after
noon and he said he had spent part
of the morning in the court room while
Mrs. Hunt was testifying He said 1t
was unkind of Mrs. Hunt to deny that
he is Kimmel for he befriended her
at different times.
Il shall depend on my personality
to prove that I am the man I say 1
am
The Kimme1 claimants said II never
went under the name of White