Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
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crimes against women ever commit.
ted in the state.
| Day before yesterday the newspa-
pers carried stories about the request
or Junk1n for trial. Early yesterday
morning the first call came over the
/ wire to Sheriff Ness. 1t was a woman
and she wanted to know If there was
any way flowers could be sent to the
negro. Others called, always women,
some wanting to send flowers, others
wanting to send fruit and some just
desiring chance to look at the negro
fiend. All were given the answer
No except in few instances where
the sheriff granted special privileges.
Many Brought Flowers.
Jailer Scott Wise and his assistants
had the same experience as the sher-
if. All day came the incessant re.
quest of the women. Many brought
their offerings of flowers and fruit to
the Jail. Some the jailer took and
gave to Junkin and some he refused
! At one time yesterday at least TWEEN
! ty women, well dressed, respectable
looking women. came to the bastile in
a body. They wanted to see Junkin
And when they were turned away they
We're really disappointed and SO ex.
pressed themselves.
| This desire on the part of the wom-
en- of Des Moines to look upon the
negro flend cannot be explained by
the officials except on the theory OF
morbid curiosity. Why they should
1 i,
able. But they were offered.
1T may have been out of sympathy
for Junkin, but can't believe it," said
Jailer Wise. "Why women, above all,
should have sympathy for man the
type of Junkin is more than 1 can un.
derstand. One would think he was
martyr who had practically sacrificed
his liberty or his life for women, in
stead of a murderer and alleged raw
isher.'
Jailer Wise estimated last night that
at least 200 people had been to the jail
yesterday to see Junkin and he de-
clared he was safe in saying that one
third, If not more, of this number
were women
Did Crime Alone.
mo one was with John Junkin when
| he murdered Clara Rosen," declared
B. D. Way, Pinkerton detective VINO
has been Investigating the Ottumwa
crime and who was in Des MONIES
yesterday to see Junkin. "The story
he tells duplicating two white men is
made out of whole CLOTH" continued
Mr.. Way. "Itfwas manufactured on
second thought as possible means
of saving thought as possible means
of savin., himself from death penal
ty. His own confession, made Satur
day night at Abba, Is the true story of
the crime and his later confession,
which he made the same night, was
disproved within ten minutes by my
self.
After the second confession, in
which Junkin implicated two white
men, Tommy Saunders and Jim White,
| ,yent back to his cell alone, to test
him, as we thought he had lied.
"'John, said, there's Just one
thing more l want to ask you What
was the position of the body of Clara
Rosen in the cellar?'
"He thought a moment, and replied !
that the head was toward the north |
east. Then he told me of the position |
of one arm. His description talliad |
exactly with the condition in which |
the body was found, and l knew he
had had no confederates, as he claim
ed in his second confession
In that confession he said he had
not touched the girl after the scuffl,,
on the sidewalk, and that the two
white men had carried the body up
the terrace and thrown it into the
cellar while he stayed on the walk and
watched. Had that been true he could
not have known where the body was
lying nor the position of the arms"
Confident He Was Alone"
Detective Way, who was in Des
Moines all day yesterday with joan
w Gray, former chief of police of OF
tumwa and now private detective
there, is certain that in the arrest Of |
Junkin the only man connected with
the brutal murder was taken into Gus
tody. The two detectives with Sheriff I
w. B. Griffin of Abba, Chief of Police
Peter Gallagher of Ottumwa, former
Chief H. G. Williams and Ed Webb,
witnessed the confession at Abba and |
conducted the sweating process
which preceded it.
Junkin told Way and Gray yesterday
Wien ue was dIfSLeu on suspicion
two days after Miss Rosen's death, he |
was taken to the Otthmwa police sta
ton, searched and questioned. That |
the search was a careless one is evil |
denced by his declaration that he then |
had, secreted in his pockets and in
side his hose, the trinkets he had |
stolen from the dead girls body. He
was released after few questions
had been asked, and it was not until |
two days after that time, he says. that
he hid the girls effects in his mothers !
home, where they were later found by |
the police.
When he was arrested the first time
the police had no reason to suspect |
Junkin more than any of the dozen or
more negroes they arrested and ques-