Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-02

under the spell of the woman that he
had been induced by her to convey
his ranch to her, the roundabout meth.
cd described being used for the pur.
pose of forestalling the comment a
direct conveyance undoubtedly would
have caused.
With the facts as here related in
my possession l conferred with Col.
Hallowell, and we took an inventory
Of the evidence in our possession. OF
it's circumstantial character there
was, Of course no doubt. The cut.
line of the facts have related was
strengthened by search of the per-
sonal effects belonging to Bothamley
at the time of his death, and of the
contents Of the car in which he died.
In a box in the car, besides a large
quantity of jewelry which had be-
longed to the woman with whom
found bottle of morphine l tried
to establish the identity of the pur-
chaser Of the drug, but was unsuc-
cessful, for, after locating the drug
gist who sold it, I found him unable
to recollect the person who had bought
it. The facilities for the elimination
and examination Of bodies on the
frontier were not such as to make
an analysis of the Bothamley stom-
ach feasible, and the part played by
h. IN, - he ;cI,
man. if any, was left in doubt
When we had finished taking stock
of our evidence Col. Hallowell, known
throughout Kansas as prince Hail."
and l decided that we could go into
court with a circumstantial case of
great strength. Personally | was
confident of being able to present
such evidence as would convince any
unprejudiced juror of the guilt of
Nellie Bailey or REESE.
The physical circumstances sur
rounding the death of Bothamley, had
the accused been man, would have
gone far of themselves toward convict
ing. These circumstances, consid-
cred in connection with the history of
Nellie Bailey from the time of her
marriage, the disappearance of her
husband, the finding of the human
bones and flesh, her possession of his
jewelry and money, her marriage to
REESE and her confidence that Bailey
would never bother them, the evil
dent attempt on her part to secure
title to Bothamley's ranch--all these
things and many minor circumstances
seemed to me to constitute case Of
much merit from the legal viewpoint
In this view Col. Hallowell agreed
with me. The genial United States
district attorney and l differed, how
ever, on one material point-the
chance of securing a conviction.
Remember, Tyrrell" he said, that
it's a woman on trial, and a pretty
woman"
The trial of this remarkable woman
was one of the most memorable in
the history of Kansas. She had ample
means and had retained able counsel.
Col. Hallowell, in his capacity as
United States attorney, represented
the prosecution, as the crime had
been committed in the Indian terri
tory, where there were no local
courts. The governments array of
circumstantial evidence was mar
shaled before the jury with much
skill and force by Col. Hallowell, and
a display of correlated facts produced
that would have caused an ordinary
defendant to weaken. But the little
blue-eyed woman remained as calm,
as the discriminating circumstances
were piled up against her, as she had
been from the first. Counsel for the
defense made the best of the some
what meager case they had, but when
the evidence was all in there was a
wide margin in favor of the prosecu-
ton. After the summing up by the
lawyers Col. Hallowell said to me: