Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-29

the shawl about six feet east of his
straw pile.
Afterwards the pair of gloves with
the bracelets were found on the north
side of the stack. The shawl was
found March 6. The gloves and brace
let's were found April %.
Jeo BoIicheck.
Joe Bolcheck saw Soldier and an
Poweshiel1 boy on the night of March
4, about sundown. He saw nothing
unusual in their actions.
Frank Boicheck.
Frank Bolicheck testified to a. cir
cumstance on the night of March 4,
about a mile west of the Jackson
crossing. 1t was about a mile from
the place where the body was found,
half way between that place and the
Jackson crossing.
After he had eaten his supper and
was doing his chores that night he
heard a pistol shot Afterwards he
went in the direction from which the
sound of the shot had come to seek
for an animal which had not come
home with the herd. An Indian came
thru a fence, evidently following
Raven Creek towards the reservation.
The Indian was going east. but when
he saw Bolicheck he turned north and
thus avoided meeting him. The wit
ness did not know George Soldier. The
Indian he saw that night was not very
tall and somewhat heavy set, wear
ing dark clothes and dark hat--cor-
responding pretty we'll with the de-
scription of George Soldier. The In
dian was carrying something on his
arm, a rag, scarf, shawl or something.
1T was about two hours from the time
he heard the shot until he met the In
dian.
George Soldier was asked to stand
UP in court. The witness said the
Indian he saw was about that height.
but was heavier and had a fuller
face
Horace Poweshiek.
Horace Poweshiek said Nellie Dav-
export, when she was little girl,
lived with Chief Push Elton E. Qua's
wife. She was the chiefs grand
daughter.
He was out with George Soldier and
Nellie Davenport one afternoon In
March near the river bridge.
George Soldier had been in the
house all day. He and George had
been in the house cutting wood all that
day. The witness denied that Soldier,
himself AMI Nellie Davenport had been
drinking on the bridge that afternoon
or that they had been seen by Mrs.
Davis.
An Indian Jeweler.
Ke-ah-na, the Indian jeweler. iden-
titled the bracelets found in the straw
stack as the pair he had made for
Mess ah-Che, or Nellie Davenport. He
had made no others like them.
On the evening of March 4 he saw
George Soldier, Horace Poweshiek and
Nellie Davenport on the railroad track
near the river bridge. They were go
ing east 1t was growing dark
Frank Push-E-Ton-E-Qua.
Considerable difficulty was exper-
fenced in getting the witness TO talk,
an interpreter being finally called. He
identified the shawl, gloves and brace
let as having belonged to Nellie Dav-
EXPORT He said that he saw George
Soldier and Nellie Davenport on the
wagon bridge at about o'clock. He
was in company with Horace Pow
eshiek. He said that the woman's hus-
band left the day before the murder
and that he did not attend her funeral.
James Poweshiek.
The witness denied having left his
house at any time during the day OF
the murder except for short time
at about 8 o'clock in the morning,
when he was with his wife. over to
see his mother. George Soldier stayed
at Poweshiek's house. The afternoon
of the murder the witness testified that
Soldier left the house with his son,
James Poweshiek, at about O'Clock
and returned at $50. He said that
they did not question them as to where
they had been or what they had been
doing.
He denied emphatically that he and
Soldier were at Tanla the day the muir
der was committed or that they had
been drinking. He said that the first
he knew about the murder was when
the tribe was called together and
Push E. Ton E-Qua told them Of the
crime. He then asked his son what
had happened to Nellie Davenport,
and the boy replied that as far as he
knew she had gone home. He denied
that Nellie Davenport and George Sol
dier's wife had had quarrel during
the day.
Bone Mya-Tah.
Witness said he was on the bridge
at o'clock with Horace Poweshiek;
that he saw George Soldier and Nellie
Davenport at that time but did not
see them afterwards, and did not know
where they went or what they did.
He said that he was at the Mcintosh
dance that evening.
DRUG STORE BURNED.