The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-18
SERVING LIFE SENTENCE
FOR MEADOWS KILLING
Attorneys Still Arguing Motion
for Instructed Verdict
Of ACQultiaI
ipeoIaI % naIIy Lealer. j.

Special TO Daily Leader.
Oklahoma city miy iS.-~There is
man in the Lansing penitentiary to-
day Who was convicted on those let
tars chat passed through the hands
Of Mrs Meadows and which have
created 50 much argument in this
t3iaL but say that truth crushe /
to earth will rise again and / will 50
iurthe that Rudolph Tegeler viii be
brought back into the very court room
and those present here today may
have an opportunity OF seeing him
tried and set free"
Thus declared Colonel Johnson In a
very able and mastery plea before
ldge George W. Clarke while argu-
tng tie question OF instructing the
n-y to acquit Mrs Meadows. lie
compllmented Attorney Harris upon
MS very able and learned address to
The court but excoriated linn most
vigorously for the position Harris had
taken In this case.
BY no off native act of Mrs.
Meadows but Dy negatiOn and silence
be hopes to convict before this jury"
said Col. johnson. "a want him to-
ogoadcn his argument aud as law
yer argue this case upon its legal
3erits
d b. Wclty FOR the defense led off
the argument yesterday afternoon and
briefly summarized the stand taken
b the defense
I'm taking up this testimony. Ills
eliminating mere, analyZing there. we
find no consultations or declarations
made that tend 70 show any comec.
;ion with Rudolph Tageler IN aiding
or abetting in this crime"
Commenting upon the stand taken
b. the prosecution, Weity said that
Attorney Harris must prove cen,
spiracy or facts or acts relating to
conspiracy before the fact
In this ease" continued Welty.
I'm unable TO fathom. from this
testimony, any facts or inferences suf-
iicient 10 show that she took any part
In a conspiracy. There is no testl-
nony before the fact that can be con
nected itn testimony adduced after
he fact sufficient to show evidence
Of guilt There is nothing here to
show even hostile feeling towards
her husband before the fact Moth
ing to show that she had an uncontrol-
liable passion for Tageler And II
James X. Meadows as claimed by the
state was a part of her revenue. in
that sne got most of his salary then
I say that she would not have a desire
TO cut of that source of revenue"
The forenoon Was given over al
most entirely to Prosecutor Harris
who dealt one blow after another to
the defense and picked up the
threads here and there which. woven
together, viii be offered to the jury
for consideration in rendering a yer
dict IN case the motion OF the defense
for an acquittal Is overrulei.
The mysterious letters IN the case
we're gone ove- by Harris who showed
that Mrs. Myers Is none other than
Mrs Meadows herself who served as
the supposed clairvoyant and that the
letters that passed through her hands
were written by Amelia saromek and
/ rudolph Tegeler lie also showed
that the supposed Mrs. Myers in ques-
/ iion has been dead foc two or three
/ yeers A statement from Mrs Mead
uNs brought IN the testimony where
/ ln It WIS stated that MIS- Meadows
sent $40 and SOME aowers for the
! funeral bears out that theory accord
ms io Harris
~The statements Of Mrs Meadows
! VIII be- heard TO clear mp as felating
/ lo the lstte-s for she told Sam Bar
1 tell Ga the presence OF Tegeler tnai the
letters came to her through a lame
man who she said was blackmailng
( her husband and Who was at the room
/ Ing house on the night Of the alleged
murder" declared Harris 1T IS a
/ fact that the letters are now in Tege-
I ler's handwriting and that iaey were
I given to him by Mrs. Meadows with
Instructions 70 copy them ii they
4 we're En- tho Handwriting of Mrs My
/ en. the fortune teller 70 IS SHOWN on
I the other hand that AIRS Myers was
I dead before the Disappearance u
1 Meadows and mrthc than Mrs Ny.
ers hanIwriting Daa been positively
Identified by Amelia shromek and
others as that OF Mrs Meadows The
maid took the stand arj sitter stating
thEt she was familiar with Mrs My.
ers handwTlung took a leiter writ
feB bi Mgs Meadows and told me on
the stand that j. was MIS- Myers
handwriting li has never heen mny
explained who have tho letters Il
airs Meadows. why sne was 20 extre
mely nervous and repeatedly PRESSED
them to her breast before sending