Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-11-20
HAPPENINGS IN
HAWKEYED0M
What Has Been Going on
During the Past
Week,
SENSATIONS IN LeVlCH TRIAL
Attorney MeHenry BIames City Admins
tratiOn and Gamblers for Finkelstein's
Murder and Says Lev.ch Was Selected
as u Victim.

DeS MONIES, NOV. l4.-Eflner 81
gantic conspiracy has been formed by
the city authorities to railroad Harris
LeVich to the penitentiary for crime
which he is not guilty, or else the cir
is much stronger than has been the
popular supposition. This was the i'm
preston left after the first days testi-
mony in the Levich murder trial. Per
Jury of the most wholesale character
has been carried on or else Harris Lev
ich has told stories of his where
abouts on the night of August which
do not agree with the claims made for
him by his attorney in his opening adj
dress. Five witnesses yesterday, four
OF them members OF the police depart
ment and one of the fire department.
ment, swore point blank to threats and
discriminating circumstances which
Leyich's attorney denies.
The defendants attorney threw
down the gauntlet in his opening adj
dress, and charged the police depart
ment with having protected the gam
blers of Des Moines for a money con-
sideration and of having selected Har-
ris Levicn to be the victim of con-
spiracy to escape responsibility for
the Finkelstein murder. Mr.. McHenry
mentioned Mayor Brenton by name,
and while he disclaimed charging that
he knew who committed the murder,
declared that the police department
did not dare pursue an investigation
in the right quarter for fear of the
revelation which might be proved.
The speech of Walter McHenry
created a surprise through certain adj
missions contained in it. He did not
claim that Levich went directly to his
home, but admitted that he had his
horse 4-.tched up after the murder
and drove to the west side. The state
is attempting to show that Levich
went to the Whitechapel district and
met Walker; the defense says he
stopped at Nose Levich's pawnshop on
West Walnut, and not finding him
there went home.
Mr.. McHenry also created sur
prise by acknowledging that Levich
had borrowed a revolver the evening of
the tragedy. He explained 1t by saying
Levich wanted 1t to give to watch
man In one of his houses.
Des Moines. Nov. 15.-In the Levich
murder trial yesterday Sam Galloway,
Policeman De Long, Henry Payton,
Pearl Burton, Beach Embody and H.
H. Church were the states star wit
nesses, Galloway, a colored man, who
kept his head and made a favorable
impression, testified to seeing Walker,
whom he knew, in an alley two blocks
from the murder after 8 o'clock on the
evening of the murder talking to "a
chunky white man with big sandy
moustache." The description fits Lew
ich as far as it goes. Galloway refus-
ed positively to identify Leyich, al
though twice saying that the man he
saw strongly resembled him. On crcss
examination Mr.. McHenry laid the
foundation for what will be undoubt-
eddy an attempt to impeach Gallo
ways testimony. The defense will
claim Galloway was in Carbondale at
the time he said he saw Walker.
Policeman De Long testified that at
about o'clock OF the night of the
murder he was talking with Levich,
and that Levich told him of a man
who was to have come over the night
before to slug Finkelstein. That while
they were talking Walker came up and
Levich nudged him. He heard Walker
say something about him being unable
to find him the previous evening.
Henry Payton of hitching up Lew
ich's horse for him after the murder.
and said that Levich told him not to
tell his wife that he took the horse
out.
Pearl Burton said that he was with
Walker between $3.50 and 1880 the
night of the murder in Whitechapel,
and that Levich drove up and called
Walker to the buggy. 1t is the theory
of the state that after the murder
Walker came Immediately to the west
side and that Levich came over either
to pay him or to tell him that Finkel-
stein was dead from the blow, and
that he must be careful.
Beach Embody, the barekeeper at
Kennedy's saloon, testified that Lev
ich borrowed revolver from him the
night of the murder, saying it was to
kill dog. H. H. Church, who lives in the
saloon, confirmed the revolver story,
and sal that he took drink with
Levich, who told him to look in the
morning papers and that gang was
after Finkelstein.
8. A. Press testified to meeting Lev
ich in his buggy on his way to the
west side after 10 p. m. Painter told
that he heard Levich say Finkelstein
ought to be killed. Deputy Marshal
Peterson testified Levich had told him
he would get Finkelstein. Edward
Abraham corroborated Whiteslde as
to a strange negro lettering at Lyman
Levich's cigar store early in the even
ing the night of the murder. ii. r.
Boyle testified Levich told him he
would not be in Finkelstein's shoes
for half OF Des Moines, and Detec-
tives McNutt and Brothers testified to
Levich's statements after his arrest
and to threats they had heard him
make.