Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-07-19
.UNVRIYTEN LAW
BAILEY'S DEFENSE.
ASSERTS THAT HE KILLED Jay
LAwDER IN COLD BLOOD FOR
DEsPOILING HIS HOME
DID NOT WANT TO Es-
CAPE.
BAILEY CLOSES EARS WHEN
LETTERS ARE READ.
Case Will go to Jury Late this after
noon or in the Morning, Mrs Bal.
isy's Trial to Start Thursday
Morning.

FULTON, Mo. July lin the trial
to-day Of Emund Bailey for the killing
OF Jay Lawder, Of Mexico Mo, at Far.
Der, on November 10, 1905, after the
defense had made its effort to prove
that Lawder had wronged Mrs. Bailey
the prosecution introduced in rebuff.
tai David A. Steel, a merchant OF Gin.
cinnatti, Ia, to testify that when Mr..
and Mrs Bailey resided at CINCINNATI
Ia Mrs. Bailey sought to draw him
into an intrigue.
Mr.. Steel said that be knew Bailey
and his wife while Bailey was mining
coal and he was clerk In a store. He
said that Mrs Bailey wrote letters to
him asking him to meet her, and that
finally she wrote him a remarkable
letter. The witness said he told Bal
ley about these letters, and Bailey
after falling to get them by persuasion
met him on the street one day and
threatened him, but he was not afraid
or so small a man, and told Bailey so.
j.. A. Stewart of Farber testified:
81 saw Bailey and Ed Lawder wres.
tie after the shot ana he took the
pistol away from Bailey. l heard a
man named Hess say You have play
ed hell and Bailey answered, Il done
just what l wanted to- Hess said,
No use for you to try to get loose
and Bailey said, i don't want to-"
The first witness for the defense
was Edmund Baily the defendant.
He testified as follows: ~ am 80 years
old was born In England and was lett
an orphan at 2 years old, dependant
on charity. l vas brought to. this
country at the age of Is | worked on
farms in Audrain, Rails and Pike
counties, and went to public schools.
| enlisted during the Spanish wal and
went to Cuba After the war l mar.
ried Alva Clarke at Bowling Green iu
1899
BAILEY DENIES PATERNITY
OF wIFE's YOUNGEST CHILD.
/ have three children the oldest a
girl Of 8. My wife has another child
that is not mine, 1t was born on June
/ since our imprisonment. / worked
for the Lawder-P Peterson Coal Company
in Farber, Mo as a miner till August
1908, and then went to CincInnatti, Ia.
for eighteen months and then came
back to Farber,
II shot and killed Jay Lawder for
running my family. l learned on
the day that / killed him that he had
done this, and that he was going to
Mexico by that train to arrange with
a doctor for a criminal operation.
II went to the depot and watched
for him ] did not speak to him. l
learned from my wife that morning
that she had been intimate with Law
der"
On crosS-examination the defendant
said:
"When / vas In the st. Louis Jail |
did not converse with a representative
Of an afternoon newspaper and tell him
that my wife had not been intimate
with Lawder and that she only said
she was intimate with him to protect
me. l did not tell him my wife was a
good woman"
MRS. BAILEY ON THE STAND REMARK
ABLY sELF-PossEssED
Mrs: Alva Bailey wife, of the defen-
dant and who is to be tried on Thurs
day, was the next witness. She sat
with the baby which she claims to be
Jay Lawder'S, In her arms and with
out a culver or a blush, or even drop
ping her eyes, in a firm and steady
tone, related the story which has
brought her husband within sight OF
the gallows. She said:
~ am p years old, met Ted Bal
ley when he vas a boy. l was married
to him In the fall of 1899. l have three
children by him. l also have a baby
girl 6 weeks old, who is the child Of
Jay Lawder.
al became friendly with Jay Lawder
while my husband was at work in a
coal mine at Martinsburg, Mo-, in July
1905. He used to come to the house at
night, after the children were asleep.
l told him when | was In trouble, and
he got me a vial of medicine, but 1t
did no good. Then be gave me a box
OF pills for the same purpose, but they
failed also. Ed Lawder, jays brother
first mentioned going to a doctor at
Mexico Jay Lawder wanted me to go
alone, but / refused. The he said he
would go Sunday and arrange for 1t,
and | could meet him at Mexico on
Monday. | had written several letters
to Jay. Ialso went to see Ed Lawder
and we all talked about 1t In the coal
Office.
81 told my husband about my inti-
macy with Lawder, because all OF Far
Der knew about It, and l knew some
of the union men would tell him.
On cross. examination Mrs. Bailey
said; 81 don't know whether Jay or
l made the first o~vertures." The wit
ness identified several letters she bad
written to Jay Lawder.
~ put that pistol in the bureau