Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-29
COURT ROOM AT BLOOMFIELD rs
y CROWDED BY THE WHis-
LER MURDER TRIAL
LITTLE NEW EVIDENCE
Coroner and Justice of the Peace Go
on the Stand to Testify to About the
sans Points That Had Already Been
Brought Out by the Prosecution.

-. bloomfeld, March 27.-(SpeciaD -
me court room continues to draw
large crowds to hear the testimony in
the case OF Claud whistler. Yesterday
the trial and the city election we're
counter attractions. and the election
was the less popular.
inquest IL Reviewed.
]. NJ. Jones, the justice Of the peace
VINO acted as coroner at the post NOR
TEN examination Of Frank Ogder,,s
body, was on the stand yesterday att
ernoon. Jones identified the bullet as
the one he saw DR.. Patterson take from
the lung of the deceased. He said he
saw the doctor cut 1t out He also
identified the articles that were taken
from Ogden's clothing at the time, his
purse. piece of tobacco. etc.
Following Jones was s. II. Rogers.
the constable. who went down to the
place with the county attorney the
next Friday after the homicide, Rogers
testified that while looking around on
the premises, he found little cloth
strap with someb lood stains on 1t,
which was introduced in evidence and
Identified by him. He also testified
that this strap was found at po,nt on
the premises in direct line between
the gates on the south and on the east
of the house. This strap corresponds
to the one on the trousers of the de-
ceased, and the trousers in evidence
have one strap missing. 1t is the
strap provided for the use of belt.
Coroner G. G. Heady was the next
witness. He saw the body on the day
after the shooting but made no special
examination at that time, but did on
April g. He testified to the location Of
the wound, saying that it was gun
shot wound the size of a 32-calihre bull
let, and mortal wound. The shot, he
said, entered the left auricle of this
heart, about half an inch from the top
OF the passed through just in
front OF en> aonary artery and
ranged inward, backward and down
ward.
TELLS Of Eds ot,ds-,..
John Ogden, be fall c.fhe deceased,
was the next witness. He testified that
Everett Whistler and Burl Hull awoke
him about 2 a. m. April . and he went
with them. to the defendants home
and there saw the body Of the de-
ceased, covered with blanket. When
he got there the witness described the
position Of the body the same as the
other witnesses.
He also testified that on the Monday
before the homicide he had CONVERSE
ton with the defendant about moving
a division fence and that defendant Of
fered to pay him thirty cents he owed
him and spoke of the Ogdens having
criticised him about borrowing tools.
The witness said he told the defend
ant that they had talked about the
defendant borrowing their tools and
objected to loaning them because this
defendant forgot to bring them back
and that he had heard that the defend
ant had said there was no need Of
buying tools when one could borrow.
The witness said in that conversation
he said he didn't mind loaning his tools
but didn't want to be accused of steal.
ing. The defendant asked the witness
who told him that he did that and he
said Frank Ogden; and defendant said
he would settle that with Frank.