Show EAGER FOR DETAILS Big Crowd Attends Tophamte Preliminary Pre-liminary Hearing The crowd that filled the district court room yesterday listening with morbid curiosity for something sensational sensa-tional to develop in the Wessler inquest in-quest were disappointed The evl dence brought out yesterday did notr deal directly with the affair In t the saloon but rather the circumstances before and after A hack driver named Varley testified testi-fied that Neil Osborn had told him that there had been a hell of a fight in Tophams place that Tdpham had given someone a dm good lickipg Police Captain Brown saw Wessler near Munseys about 230 He said Topham had licked him and wanted the house pulled Went to the station with Brown for the purpose but changed his mind Wessler was excited ana said Ill show you what they did tome to-me and raised hit hat to sfcowj the bumps they made Witness did not notice anything on his face further than that his lip was somewhat swollen swol-len His shirt was torn and his collar and tie gone Witness saw Wesslerrin the saloon about 1 oclock and passed the place several times after midnight but heard no disturbance Wessler was not drunk enough to taggerHd talked rapidly and said that he Wished Wish-ed Brownings store was open he would not ask his wife for a gun Jie said he had gone to Tophams to cpl lect a bill Topham paid him 5 and Wessler gave him a receipt said something about another 35 which witness wit-ness did not understand and aid Topham then wanted the 10 back but said he didnt pet It Wessler however how-ever pulled 5 from his pocket and said there it is When he made up his mind noLto prosecute he saidhe whole house is against me The si of bs could all be bought with a barrel of whisky JU W Butcher night bartender at the Atlas saloon testified that Wes ler came into the Atlas about 230 Sunday morning and remained about an hojir Weesler was not drunk said he had had trouble with Topham and that Topham had licked him aid wanted a gun His lips were swollen and tfne skin was broken over the right eyebrow eye-brow his shirt was torn and his collar and tie were gone On crossexamina tion he stated that Wessler stated that Topham had kicked him Wesslei qom plained of his lungs but witness did not see him spitting blood Frank Baird a hack driver in the employ of J C Slade saw Wessler near the Mint saloon at about 2 oclock Wessler was crying Police Captain Shaw told of We slers appearing at the station with Officer Brown about 2 oclock Sunday morning Understood that he Canted to make a complaint said he had had a fight with Topham and got licked Heard him say he wished Brownings store was open Tom Topham would be asleep told him that if he wanted an arrest made they would do sa but he said he would call it off that they were all against him and that they could all be bought for a drink of whisky his collar and tie were missing mis-sing and his lips appeared swollen did not > notice the appearance qf his eyes Thomas Passmore manager of the club rooms over the Mint saloon saw Wessler come up ham the outside entrance and go down into the barroom bar-room came back up shortly afterward on the run and asked someone lo < gq down and get his collar hat and tie but finally said Ill go get them myself my-self if I have to kill a half dozen of them Wessler came back and left the club rooms and witness dd not shim s-him again Saw Topham after the saloon closed and he said well theyve handed It to me but its all right its all off |