The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-02-26
RASOR DEFENSE
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er said Rasor was in his saloon at
Wadsworth at 7:4O. Frank Blxler,
who has drug store across the
street said he saw Rasor in the sa-
loon through a window at o'clock.
The defense is seeking to show that
Rason drove by the spot where Orie
Lee was seen to enter the buggy
and went straight On to the Robert
SON saloon, where he was drinking
when the woman was murdered.
Medina, o., Feb. 26---While Guy
Rasor's lawyers are striving here to
prove him wrongly accused of muir
dering Ora Iee, their messengers are
working in Chagrin Falls to find the
man who, about the middle 'Of Octo-
ber, left horse ana buggy in a
livery barn and was never seen there
alyain.
Rasor's friends are trying to learn
df the man seen in the buggy in
Wadsworh on the night Ora Lee
was killed near the village Is the
same who has so long failed to re-
tern for his RIG. Mardhal Lander of
Chagrin Falls said 'The descriptions
tally SO far.
The stranger who forgot his buggy
and horse was between thirty and
forty, says the marshal, was OF
medium height, wore a mustache-
the buggy and side and back cur
tains closed---the horse Is shod or
three hoofs, unshod on one.
In Judge Hayden's court here the
defendants lawyers say they will
show in the course OF alibf proof,
that the man who bought a revolver
in a Sterling store at 4:30 on the
aftsrnoon of October, was not Guy
Rasor, and the Rasor did not get
to the village within an hour OF
that time.
They will account for every minute
of that day and night, they main
tain, up to the minute the body of
Ora Lee was found on lonely Gus
tard Hook wayside the morning OF
Oct 8. From home to Wooster, to
Creston, TO Sterling, TO Wadswonth
TO bed they Will trace him they
claim, proving him finally away from
the scene Of the murder when it was
committed.
With a storm of states evidence
whirling about their ears, these are
cocks to which they cling-the word
of nine men today that the hoof
prints found on the highway differ
ed form those Rasor's horse would
make; the clearing up OF stains on
coat found in the Rasor barn;
evidence they claim from Rasor $
buggy itself that It couldn't have
been driven over the road that night
and solving the mystery OF the
man who drove a rug into Charles
Burnetts barn, Chagrln Falls, and
never called for Ii.
Rasors attorneys are still nom
committal as to whether he will tes-
tify in his own defense. From early
morning until court closed yesterday
witnesses for the hoy were on the
stand All who spoke regarding the
point declared that the hoof prints
leading TO the spot where Ora Lees
body was found were those OF a
horse with three feet shod one bare
contradicting the prosecutions cla6m.
Five men asserted that one states
witness who was on the ground with
them agreed with them ABOUT the
hoof prints, and changed his state
ments when he reached the stand He
has been subpenaed for the defense
and will be put on aIgain.
John &. Wilson, who got there
early that morning, before the body
was removed, grew confused as ms
testified and frequently changed his
answers regarding the hoof tracks
from ''three feet shod, one bare" to
''three bare, one shod" He did this
bopb on direct ana cross-examina
tion, but ended by emphatlcally
agreeing with the view Of the de-
fense. Ben n I.ahr, who says hs
went down on his hands and knees
In the road found trace of three foot
shod. one unshod.
B Knecht, a little bespectaeled
man with flowing mustache, was the
next witness, He has been cagIage
repairer, farmer. blacksmith, and at
one time detective About the
prints he agreed with those who
Peceded him. Arriving on the scene
early knecht had cut twig from
an oyerhanging tree and set 10 work
TO solve the mystery without delay
With his twig as a measure, nv