Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-26
LULU IN
! COMMAN
MRS. DAVIDSON TELLS HOW SHE
MARCHED" JAKE RICH OUT
OF HER HOUSE
"E ATTEMPTED TO
KILL SWEETHEART

Exhibits are Varied In the Extreme
jealousy Said to Have Played a
L the Affair.
n Thursdays Daily.
~ And then you say, Lulu, that you
got Jake to go out"
No sab, | didn't say I got him to
go out. All says ah matched him
out. And not one of the jury or
counsel upon looking over the portly
S person of the witness and viewing the
fire that flashed from her eye and play
ed about her ebony features, doubted
the statemen for one moment
The evidence in the case OF the
State of Iowa vs.. Jacob Rich, who ia
charged with assaulting his sweet
heart Nora Jones, with an ak with
the intent to murder her because Nora
refused to be reconciled to him was
begun this morning. The second wit
ness for the state was Mrs Lulu
Davidson at whose home on East Mill
street, Nora was living when Rich
used the ak so effectively upon her
features.
Lulu played the part of the end man
to the minstrel show while Attorney
Walter Coen, Rich's counsel, was in
terlocutor.
did Jake ask you IL you wanted to
tight him them" asked the attorney.
"Yesah. he did, and / told him not
to bother me, that / did not want to
fight with him but If he keep poster
en- around me, there was goin' to
be fight alright"
Was a Strenuous Day.
According to the claims of either
the state or of the defence, it was a
strenuous day for Jake Jake, the
state claims and the defence admits,
on Sunday, December 9, went to the
Davidson house several times to see
his lady friend. Upon his last visit
there he left his calling cards in the
shape Of a broken clothes pole, which
he cracked over his sweethearts
head orshoulders, and bloody ak
with which he had sliced the left side
oil Nora's cheek.
i According to the state, Jake made
four visits to the Davidson house. The
first trip he tried to become reconciled
with Nora and was finally lead from
the scene Of warfare by another man,
Perry COPYRIGHT. The second trip &C
Cured about noon At this time it is
claimed Rich threatened to kill about
everybody in sight, and principally
Nora and lars. Davidson
This Is the occasion upon which
Mrs., Davidson marched" him out,
her baton of command being a large
sized butcher knife. Again for
third time he returned and this time,
strategy was used instead OF force ana
Rich was again induced to leave the
Davidson home.
Climax of Story Is Reached.
The story now rapidly approaches
the climax. As the state sees 1t, ina
CINE Nora cleaning her finger nails
with a large sized pocket knife. She
takes a bucket and leaves the house
to get some water for Mrs. Davidson
AS she approaches the wei, Rich slips
up behind his sweetheart with "a
lengthy clothes pole. Biff. The pole
descends upon Morals devoted head
and snaps in twain. Biff. The separat-
ed half again descends upon the ex-
posed craninum and flies from the
hands Of the jealous lover. Grasping
the broken part he again belabors his
lady who now has turned and with a
finger nail knife in her hands is ward
ing off the blows. Nora admits MAX
ing one stab at Rich, but claims 1t was
only one
The Defence Says Not.
The defence sees this last scene
slightly differently. They !, say that
Nora and Rich stood near the porch
in front Of the house and that Nora
. made divers jabs at him, with dirk,
which Nora says Rich bought ito kill
man with" but which he afterwards
gave to her. She says she lost it
however before the fateful Sunday
Running from behind the apparitiun
of his lady love thus turned against
him, the defence says Rich, who 1t Is
claimed, had been drinking, fell to the
ground. While lying there. Nora cut
him, they say, and then Rich stagger-
ed to his feet, got the pole and start
ed the performance.
Both state and defense agree in the
meager details as to the final scene in
which Rich grasped an axe and used it
with telling effect upon the left cheek
of his former sweetheart.
The exhibits in the case are varied.
They congist Of the two pieces of the
clothes-line pole, the axe, the jack
knife, with which Nora cleaned her
finger nails, and an original plat Of the
Mill street district drawn by Attorney
Lowenberg, which Prosecuting Attor-
ney Cornell called these irregular
lines and odd rectangular drawings
County Attorney Seneca Cornell Is
being assisted in the prosecution Of
the case by 3. r. Mitchell. Lowenberg
& Cosn are the attorney for the de,
tense.
Trump Not Guilty.
The jury in the case of the State Of
Iowa VS.. Frank Trump, charged with
larceny, by indictment, returned into
court yesterday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock with a verdict of mot guilty.
Trump was at once released. He was