The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-01
DOUBLE DESTRUCTION.
Trial of Gallon for the Dill
ley Murders.
Incidents and q summary
OF the evidence.

of Mrs. Dilley was commenced at Cam.
bridge last Monday. The first day and a
portion of Tuesday was occupied in secur-
| ing the jury The following persons con-
stitute the panel who are to pass upen the
prisoners guilt in this well known homi-
eide:
r. ]. Hawthorne, of Burns; Lyman
Richards, of Yorktown; Clinton Ague, of
| MunsOn; d. L. Cowden, of Burns; @. J..
Paden, of Woodhull: John Hoppock, of
/ WethersGeld; John Thorp, of Glover, A.
r. King, of Burns; Cornelius Patterson of
Burns; b. B. Ballard, of Cornwall, Thorn
as NJ Robinson. of Wells, Lucius Turner,
of Galya.
| The trial of the prisoner for the murder
of Thomas Dilley has been continued, and
| the indictment for the murder Of Mrs. Dill
| ley viii first be passed upon.
| INCIDENTS.
| GALLON the prisoner who is accused of
the crime, appears to be unmoved as the
| different testimony is submitted that con-
| meets him with the murder. He is still i'll
good health and if convicted viii die game,
The prosecution is conducted by Thos.
E. Me1christ, and the defense by j. p
q,
Geneseo.
About fifty Witnesses for the state have
been sworn, while an equally large number
will do service for the prisoner.
An unusually large number of spectators
have been attracted by the trial and the
court room is filled every day to its utmost
capacity.
In speaking of Minnie Dilley who was
the first witness, the Cambridge Chronicle
says:
Her testimony was clear and straight
forward, though she labored under great
emotion, which often threatened to choke
her utterance as she rehersed again the
narrowing circumstances of that dreadful
December night. When the point was
reached where her naturalization of the
murderous shovel handle with which her
mother had been beaten to death was
necessary, and the horrid instrument was
presented to her notice, she broke com
pletely down and could go no further.
The court thereupon excused her till morn
ing, and adjourned. The scene was most
affecting. The large court room was
crowded with spectators attracted from all
parts of the county, including many
ladies; and many an eye was wet with the
ready tear of sympathy Her examination
was continued Wednesday mOrnin, but not
completed, as the trial was too great for
her, and ether witnesses were called
THE EVIDENCE.
Minnie Dilley testified that she was
awakened in the night of the 10th of last
December, at her home, the farm house of
her father, Thomas Dilley, in Colona. and
saw from her room a man standing by the
bureau in her parents room whom she
then supposed to be her father; dropped
asleep and was again awakened by groans
from her mother, got up and found her
father dead and her mother horribly
mutilated with a club, could not arouse
her mother, and then called up her two
little brothors and went neighbors, three
quarters of mile away, after midnight,
and gave the alarm swore that the bureau
drawer was open, and two watches and
chain belonging to her parents missing and
identified the watches and chain presented
in court.
Henry Warren and Thomas Kerwin,
neighbors, testified to going to the Dilley
house that night, on the alarm given by
Minnie, and finding the condition of things
there as shown above, with the wall behind
the bed spattered with blood, and the plas-
tering and Hath broken through by wild
blows.
George TTolsapple, from LIE Claire, Iowa,
testified GALLON was in his grocery on the
morning of the 18th of December, and
there traded to him the large watch in
court. and the chain to the small one, for
his watch and chain, the same found upon
GALLON when he was arrested; positively
identified both watches and the chain in
volved in that trade.
Drs. J. H. and r. r. Sale, of Cleveland
and Dayton, summoned to the Dilley house
on the 11th testified to the death OF Thorn
as Diley by a pistol ball in the left eye,
and to the fatal character of the wounds
upon Mrs Dilley, from which she died 96
hours after they were inflicted; identified
the bullet in court as taken by them from
Mr.. Dilley's brain, and the shovel handle
found in the house covered with blood and
hair.
Mrs Seymour of Missouri, sister of
Thomas Dilley, identified the large watch
in court as one owned by her husband
which she had recessed in st. Louis and
sent to her brother, after her husbands
death
The express agent at Potosi, Mo, test
fed to sending q watch for Mrs. Seymour
as testified by her.
G. s. TAYLOR, jeweler Clinton, Iowa, tes-
tilted that GALLON came to his store Dec.
13, and traded with him violin and case
for watch charm, which he attached to
the watch and chain traded by Holsapple,
which witness identified in court, with the
charm, as found upon Gallon when ar
rested
John Whitson, City Marshal of Clinton,
testified to arresting GALLON in Clinton,
Dec. 18th. and identified the watch, chain,
and charm POUNDS upon him, the gloves
worn by him, and the violin and case re-
ceived by him from Mr.. Taylor, and eX
pressed to the officers here.
F. G.. Welton identified the violin in
court as the one received from Marshal
Whitson.
Jacob Kline, switchman, and Harry
Reeder, restaurant, at Colona, identified
the prisoner as one who picked corn with
Roddick for Dilley before the murder.
Jacob Smith, merchant, Colona, testified
to selling to GALLON and Roddick 32-cali-
bre revolver on the Monday preceding the
murder Identified revolver in court.
w w. Warner, of Western, testified to
the condition of the premises on the morn
ing after the murder.
At late hour yesterday the prosecution
had not completed its case, and the defense
will probably occupy two or more days, so
u L. If