Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-11-21
FOR MURDER OF FlNKELSTElN
Several Mild Sensations Are sprung BY
Each Side In Levich Triai-Attorney
Evxns Saw Men In Alley, But Neither
Was Lsvsch or walker.

ich as far as it goes. Galloway refus-
ed positively to identify Levich. al
though twice saying that the man he
saw strongly resembled him. On cross
examination Mr.. McHenry laid the
foundation for what will be undoubt-
edly an attempt to impeach Gallo
ways testimony. The defense will
claim Galloway was in Carbonate at
the time he said he saw Walker
Policeman De Long testified that at
about Z 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 Finkeistein. 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 Lev
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 Leyich 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 a revolver from him the
night of the murder, saying it was to
kill a dog. H H. Church. who lives in the
saloon, confirmed the revolver story,
and sa-t that he took a 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. N. 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 WhitesIde as
to a strange negro lettering at Hyman
Levich' cigar store early in the even
ing the night of the murder. H. 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
1eTich's statements after his arrest
and to threats they had heard him
make.
Des Moines. Nov 1s.-The state
closed and the defense opened yester-
day in the Levich murder trial. On
the whole it was an exceedingly good
day for the defense, although the
states lawyers refused to admit their
case had been materially weakened.
The witnesses introduced by the
state were I. NJ. Pearson, fireman on
the Northwestern railroad; George
Carpenter, liveryman. and S. S. Frost.
coming to the west side after the muir
testimony on Friday that on Sunday
before the murder Levich stated in the
presence of Boyle and Frost that Fin
kelstein ought to have his head
knocked Oh, and Fireman Pearson tes-
titled to meeting Finkelstein 100 feet
west of the place where he was muir.
dered and that when he passed the
fatal alley he saw heavy set man
and anot--er man about thirty feet
up the alley. These men were un.
doubted1y the murderers. After CIV
ing this testimony he gave valuable
evidence for the defense. He said that
he came down Walnut street, stopped
at the Lyman Levich cigar store and
saw Harris Levich there. If this tes-
tmony Is correct Harris Levich was
not in the immediate vicinity of the
crime when committed.
The most important witness for the
defense was Tom Littleton, clerk in
the Simon clothing store. who swore
point blank that he was at the Levich
cigar store from about 8 o'clock to the
time the news of the murder came.
and that Harris Levich came there
shortly after s o'clock and sat in a
chair within few feet of him all the
time he was there. Mr.. Littleton was
an exceedingly intelligent witness, and
SO far as shown had no interest pre-
judicing him to Levich.
Lyman Levich, Sol Sondolusky and
Harry Feerlong corroborated Little
ton, although they could not swear
Harris Leyich was at the cigar store
the whole evening.
Des Moines, Nov. 19.-The feature
OF the Levich trial yesterday was the
testimony of l.. H. Evans, Des
Moines attorney, that on the night OF
the Finkelstein murder, at about 9:45,
as he was going home. he saw two
men in the alley at the mouth of which
the murder was committed. Mr..
Evans told the jury the following
story:
Il came down town about o'clock
the night of the murder and was in
the vicinity of East Fifth and Walnut
streets until $40. ! then started
home, going east on the north side Of
Walnut street. passed the drug store
at the corner of Walnut and East Sixth
and walked up toward the alley. Just
as was twenty or thirty feet distant
from the alley saw man stick his
head out around the corner Of the al
ley, or the house that stood on the
west side of it, and look cautiously
down the street. The movement at
tracted by attention and aroused my
suspicious. sheered of as far as l
Tragedy in Davis County.
Bloomfield. Nov. ia sad acci-
dent occurred at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jake King, who reside on farm
snl,thvest AZ Pulaski. Mrs. Kings