Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-31
BOTH GRAY AN|D Dunn
Two Prisoners Suspected Of Compli.
city in Shooting Of Williams
Held for Murder.
Warrants Issued and Served Thurs
day Evening and the Men
Arraigned.
Gray Keeps Cool and Laughs While
Dunn Gets Ratified and kalses
a Protest:

Probably as an indirect result of the
sealed findings of the coroner 9 jury in
vestigation of the murder of Joseph
Williams, both John Gray and Pat
Dunn have been arrested charged with
murder and held to await the action of
the grand jury without bonds.
/. Late Thursday afternoon informations
We're sworn out in Justice Aliens court.
signed by the widow of the victim of the
tralnps8bulleta charging both men with
the crime, and the warrants were served
on tbs prisoners in the county Jail at a
o'clock. Both were arraigned today in
Justice Aliens court, after being given
an opportunity to employ counsel,
waived examination and We're held TO
the grand jury without bonds. Had they
not done this their hearing would have
sbeensset at a date that would have made
a justice court trial unnecessary, as, the
grand jury will convene next Tuesday.
Gray made all the arrangements for the
employment Of counsel for himself and
Dunn, and when they met prior to being
taken to the justices court he informed
his partner that he had done 50. nti-
mating that Dunn need not worry on
that score.
Gray took the whole proceeding in a
good-natured way and tried to make it
appear that he had little need TO be in-
lateiested in the outcome. He is either d
good buffer or is sure he can clear him-
self. On the other hand Dunn was wor-
Tried. BOT mad and protested against his
arrest saying it was a nice way to treat
| d man among strangers and without
friends
That Dunn and Gray are pals has
been proven beyond doubt. They had
Ibeen seen together by several people
prior to the murder, having been in
| the city a week or more prior to that
Occurrence. Gray was once arrested and
Isssntenced to Jail, and last Sunday Dunn
secured his release by paying his fine
1 south side bartender is authority.
lsfcr the statement that Gray was the
Ipos'asssao of tNon reSoiyers, and that he
had seen them in his possession. The mer.
are not of the typical variety of tra.nps
4 that do not work because they are sin,-
ply too lazy, but appear to be men who
are familiar With the ways of courts.
| Gray Is by far the most intelligent of
the two. He admits that John Gray is
| not his right name, that 1t might be
John Reece, and sarcastically$ remarked
Ito Justice Allen when arraigneds that
| he Was not sure What his name was. as
I his mother mad been twice married.
4 IDENTIFIED Il Y WILLIAMS.
The meshes of the web Of guilt tina,
| has been woven about John Gray. the
tramp held for the murder OF JOSEPH
Williams, We're drawn still more tightly
i Thursday night When two sons of tbs
murdered man. Thomas Jefferson. agec
4 16, and George Ellis. aged IA, were
brought toSthe5 county Jail to see if they
alcould identity Cray Sheriff shoeinak-
Ter nadeit as hard for8tke boys as pos
#sibie, and put Gray in With a lot oil
iother men. Each boy. without, hesitat-
ling in the ieast. picked out Gray anJ
said he MAS the man who shot tlleii
father. The boys. Who wsrs employed
lin the night shift in the canning fac
tory as huskers. Mere near t4leil
dfatfsr when the crime was com
limited. in8gtfe direction of the fac
tory, after ne went to his home To Sc
tcurs his revolver They saw the scuf-
itie5 between the tranlps and their par
Il ent. and say that they saw Gray as he
i followed Williams up. shooting a him
Las the latter ran. The fact that they
were eye Witnesses was not known al
1.-The time OF the coroner's inquest, bu,
they Will make strong Witnesses wher
1.-The case is brought 10 trial.