The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-02
Probation Officer Gives Evil
dence Against Mary Turner.
Grover Cleveland Says Mary
Turner Went Voluntarily.
WORD AGAINST REPUTATION
Witnesses Declare She Was of
Naughty Repute Here.
Prisoners Who Were i'm Jail De.
livery on Stand.

On the witness stand this afternoon
Grover Cleveland told the story of
his trip from Topeka to Fort Worth
with Mary Turner and declared that
Mary had not only accompanied him
voluntarily on that memorable jour-
ney but that she had paid her own
way.
Cleveland told a direct and fairly
convincing story, which left a favor
able impression upon listeners in the
court room. He is making a desper-
ate fight for acquitta1 from the white
slave charge against him and while
on the witness stand he exhibited to
the court an injury which he says
is suffering badly from his conf1ne-
ment in Jail. He has a broken arm,
only partially healed, which he stated
had been examined by physicians who
were given hospital attention. The
bones, at the place of fracture. are.
he declared. decaying.
Il was in a barber shop with hot
towels over my face when Mary
Turner came in and started to talking
with the barber as though she knew
him. Afterward 1 walked up the
street with the barber and met Mary.
After they talked a little I was shown
a picture of Mary, herself. which I
offered to buy. She said:
".1f you take that picture you'll
have to take me, too.
Il told her l was going to Fort
Worth. She asked what kind of a city
it was and when I said it was good
place she said, I'm going to Fort
Worth, too
Cleveland then recounted how he
later went to the Santa Fe depot to
join his partner with whom he was
going to Fort Worth, and there found
Mary in conversation with the man.
Clarence Engler. whom he said Mary
had already met. He said he was
taken by surprise at finding her there
as he had not taken their earlier con-
versation seriously. Mary had bought
and paid for her own ticket. He said
the other two rode together in a chair
car while he went into the smoker.
AT Fort Worth Engler engaged
room for himself and another for Miss
Turner, while went to the Greer News
agency and got q job to run from Fort
Worth to Caldwell. I started work that
same night. We reached there Friday.
I returned from my first trip Sunday
morning and went to the Trinity hotel,
where Miss Turner was stopping. She
told me detective was after her. that
she was on parole from Topeka, Kan.
She wanted me to quit my job but /
told her I couldn't afford to.
The two finally went to Dallas. con-
tinued Cleveland, and registered at a
hotel as Mr.. and Mrs. D. D. Clark, but
he asserted that even under those
circumstances there were no improper
relations between them, Mary Turner
spending the night dressed while he
took the pillows and slept on the
floor.
At Dallas he became frightened by
reports of Mary's disappearance, he
said, and went to friend for advice.
This friend loaned money and told
him to go back the same way he had
come. After that he devoted himself
to eluding the officers, going to Kan
sas City, where his arm was broken,
and subsequently to Joplin where he
Mary Turner, complaining witness
in the Grover Cleveland white slave"
case now being tried in the federal
court. is slated" to go to the state
reformatory for girls at Beloit. ac-
cording to statements made on the
witness stand this morning by Edward
Rooney, probation officer.
Rooney was the first witness intro
with the first sentence Of his testi-
mOny there was a battle on between
attorneys. A. P. Tone Wilson, repre-
senting Cleveland and United States
District Attorney Fred Robertson and
his assistant Francis M. Brady, and
Marshal Wood was kept busy rapping
for order.
Beginning with Rooney's testimony
Judge Cotteral several times admOn-
ished those in the court room to re-
frain from laughing and to keep bet
ter order, and finally announced that
his last warning had been given and
that at the next offense the court
room would be cleared.
When Rooney in answering the
first question referred to Mary Turner
as having IAN escapade with a thea
trical troupe" Robertson was on his
feet. After triangular verbal spar
ring match between Robertson, Will
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