Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-20
4 KISSING WITNESS
Important States Witness II the
Gray Case suddenly Disappears
From the City.
Prosecution Claims he Has Been
Bribed to Leave Town-Pro.
gress Of the Trial
States Evidence Closed Conviction
Doubtful on Identification
Evidence.


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lh nVt case against John Gray and Eat
Dunn, charged with the murder Of
Joseph Williams cnlnrad. IL missing
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case against the men under 1ndlctment
is thus weakened to considerable de-
gree. The states ATTORNEYS onenIv al
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f1arr fllint, mas Deen indueed 10 leave
defendamta or their relatives and
f'ilnt ~ young man VINO was one
of the eye witnesses Of the murder and
who before the coroner's Jury and the
grand Jury positively identified John
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shootiDR, aHu ~ mas ta peeH proven con,
\ sclusively tnat ne was one OF the party
4 OF assailants, the state eVloetlce =
more or less conflictlng ana " is doupt'
ful " the jury mas peen cohVi l ina y
Gray has been positlVely ioentlHeo
4 sWitnes ses who 1denttfied era 'mme'
diately after his arrest have lost con
i fdenca in themselves and at this lat,
day are not positive IN their declara'
tons. The Identification evidence is no
so strong as 1t was before the coroner
Il jury and before the grand jury whicf
indicted Gray in September, and tht
disappearance OF Flint has crippled thu
4 states case. altho County Attorney
\ Stone and his assistant counsel have
4 snade the most Of the evidence they
|zhaye
4 Attic 1T was late in the afternoon o,
{ Monday before the taking Of evidence
was. commenced. eight witnesses wer,
4 examined before adjournment for tn,
Il day. This evidence vas not az import
A ant as that which followed today. alth,
l3s,rne OF the witnesses gave testinon,
i THAT VII terd to strengthen the state.
lease. The witnesses examined, in the af
il8ternoon we're Officers f. S. Weaver AM
Burt Cochran, who were called to tn,
i sceneof the shooting after the TRACED,
4 occurred: Rosa Buhrer and Mary Khile
4 who were near by when the shooting DC
i CURED; ]. P. Glen, teams.er who wa.
i passing when the first quarrel betwee,
lE5Willians8 and the tramps occurred
Mary Rouska, Is cannery employe wh,
4 saw the early trouble. and Charles ste
Y pan. another cannery employe. Mrs
i Williams, the widow Of the murdered
j man. was ALSO a witness. but her eyi
1saence was unimportant, except that Il
4 vas shown. on cross examination, tina
4 Willialns after he reached home on til,
4 evening OF Aug. q. nut his horse in tn,
4 barn, Went into the house and secure,
4 t,is revolver. and then started back TO
wards the canning works. his two son