Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-08-27
Offer NO DEFENSE.
WILLIAMS AND LANDAU BOUND
OVER FOR TRIAL
Must Answer Charges OF Burglary
and Grand LArceny-Neither
Man Takes tho Stand

Clyde Williams AID Charles Ian
daw were bound over to trial In the
district court on the charges OF bur
xlary and grand larceny at the con-
c,us,on OF their preliminary trial
before Judge J. p. Quinn this after
noon. Neither of the two men took
the stand in defense. Their bonds
were set at $4,000 each and they
were returned to the county JAIL
II Landaw and Williams have any
defense to offer, they are withhoio-
ing It. C. s. Crawford was obtained
ms their attorney, and G. W. Hurd
represented the state. There were
no pleas made when the evidence
had been introduced. Circumstantiai
evidence, strong in itself, added 10
the positive identification OF John
oliver. the negro porter who testi-
fled that he found the men In the
office of DR.. T. R. Conklin and Dr.
IT. w. Sorrels Saturday morning
makes. the case against the young
men, both of whom are youthful in
appearance, a strong one.
Sunday Mr.. Aumiller found In
the barn vial containing some gold
foil, a gold bridge and some gold
scraps which were identified by DR..
IT. w. sorrels as belonging to him.
A fountain pen and an instrument
for injecting dope, which were found
Saturday morning by DR.. T. X.
Conklin as belonging to him. The
articles had been in his offices FRI
day night.
Mrs. Lorena Hutchinson, living on
North Buckeye avenue, testified that
the two men, Williams and Landaw,
whom she pointed out to the court
came to her rooming house between
10 and II o'clock Friday night and
engaged rooms. They asked her,
she testified, If she used her alarm
clock, saying that they wished to get
up early in the morning. When she
asked them just what time they
wished to arise, they said about 4
or 4:3O O'Clock. When she said that
another man in the place was to
be called at o'clock, Williams and
Landaw then asked Mrs. Hutchinson
to call them at that time. She did
this, and the two men, Mrs. Hutch
ison testified, left the house about
$50 o'clock.
This does not correspond with
the story the two men gave Sheriff
Herman Hassler when they said
that they had come from Junction
City on freight and went to the
barn at the rear of the home OF
Wesley Aumiller on Enterprise
street. in which they were arrested
by Undersheriff Hinchon, to sleep
John oliver, the negro porter who
gave the two thieves, whoever they
were, a chase, provided the comedy
for the hearing today, and set his
hearers in a roar with his answers
to the attorneys questions.
Mrs. w. G. Kreps, living on En-
terprise street, denies that the two
men entered her home and stood in
the hall way. The men came on the
porch, she says, but did not come
inside the house. The theory was
that the men might have gone into
the house, thinking the family away
or out in the yard, and attempting
this way to throw the pursuers off
the track. Mrs. Kreps says the men
did not enter the house.
A. ]. Wallerstedt, city marshal OF
Lindsborg, and brother of ]. R.
WATERSHED of this city, came here
when he learned of the arrest of the
two men and said that he saw the
same two young men in Lindsborg
Friday, the same day that a den
lists office was robbed between
noon and 1 O'Clock. The two men
declared they came here from juno
ton City. Mr.. Wallerstedt was not
called as a witness.