Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-31
JUNK|N Degenerate
But NOT insane
EXPERT IN cRlMlNoLoGY TEs-
TITLES IN MURDER TRIAL AT
cENTERvlLLE.
DEFENDANT ON STAND
TELLS OF HIS CRAVINGS
Addicted to Liquor and Drug Habits
Since a Child of Years - Tolls
Story Of an UnbridIed Appetite for
StimuIants Since Earliest Reoollec
tions.

tions.
Special to Times Republican.
Centerville, May 31.-Dr. II. ]. Hoeve,
of Des Moines, an expert in GRIMM
ology, gave testimony today at the ,rial
of John Junkin, charged with the
murder of Clara Rosen. He declared
defendant a typical degenerate from
heredity, environment and education,
and incapable of self control, but he
found no traces of insanity.
Junkin Tells of Disspated Life.
That he was addicted to the excess
sive use of whisky, morphine. cocaine
and opium before he went to the reform
school when just past years of age,
and that the cocaine habit was con-
tinued while he was serving term in
the Fort Madison penitentiary. was
the sworn statement made by John
Junkin before the jury which will de-
clare whether or not his life will be the
penalty he will pay for the murder of
Clara Rosen. The prisoner himself was
called and seated on the witness stand
With a guard on either side of him. he
solemnly swore that he had used in
toxicants and dope" sinn his early
childhood until placed in Jail for the
crime he now faces.
County Attorney Cornell. using all
the strategy at his command. tried
hard to break down the testimony of
the negro, and in some instances Ia
succeeded. Junkin told straight
story as to his whereabouts after he
escaped from the reformatory at I'll
dora. He told of touring the east. por-
tering and gambling in Chicago work
ing in Sheridan. Wyo.. and re-
viewed the criminal life he led from
the time he was sent to the reform
school until he killed Clara Rosen He
was not questioned relative to the
crime. the defense introducing him
for the sole purpose of showing how
his mind had been affected by the use
of liquor and drugs.
During the defendants examfnati m
by Judge Mitchell, he was asked to
stand up and show the jury what
sized man he was. His attorney also
had him place out one foot. show the
jury his hands, back of neck and both
sides of his face. In fact, the defense
let no opportunity slip by to impress
the jurors with the brutal appearance
of the negro and his general rough and
burly makeup. Junkin was guarded
by William Bray and Lem Dale. He
wore a dark suit, no vest and had IN
white figured shirt with small bow
tie.
Tells Of nrIn Habit
Judge j. C. Mitchell in exam;n-
ing the defendant reviewed his
history from before the time lie
entered the reform school until he
murdered Clara Rosen. The pris.
oner acknowledged that he was
sent to Eldora because he was
"ornery' and thieving and wouldn't go
to school. He said that when he was
9 years old, he used to pick up
partly filled bottles of liquor in alleys
and drink the liquor, and that money
he received for junk, rags. etc. he
used in purchasing whisky. He also
stated that he, with other boys stole
some whisky from the Baker house in
Ottumwa. He never used cocaine be-
fore ne went to the reform school. but
testified that he smoked opium COM
monty called hops. in Smoky Row, in
stead of going to school.
After running away from Eldora
some seven years after he was sent
there. Junkin went to Marshalltown.
Tama, Muscatine, and Centerville, not
returning home at once as he knew
the officers would be looking for him.
He portered In saloons and hotels and
in Muscatine was a member of an old
plantation show. After remaining in
Ottumwa two months, working at the
packing house. he went to Des Moines
and did porter work at the dives Of
White Chapel. 1t was In Des Moines
that he acquired the cocaine habit,
From Des Moines he went to New
York state. Pennsylvania and Ohio to
see the country, working his way by
gambling and doing porter work.
The defense brought out thru Jun
kin that most of his life was spent in
doing porter work around saloons and
bawdy houses, and that he had been a
gambler, user of cocaine. opium and
morphine, and had drunk considerable
whisky. He told of working in Sheri-
dan, Wyo., of visiting in Buxton, and
later returning to Ottumwa, where he
committed highway robbery and was
sent to the penitentiary. After return
ing home Jan. 10, 1909. from the peni-
tentiary, Junkin stated he bought some
"coke" from Brock, a colored man in
Smoky" and from three white men
who peddled 1t here. He also said he
drank all the whisky he could get. The
witness declared he smoked opium In
the joint run by John Boyd and BUS
Bell. He also said that he visited a
Chinese Joint In the east and "hit the
pipe"
An admission made by the defend
ant, and one which surprised many of
his auditors. was that he received gum
opium while in Fort Madison. and also
had secured six talcum boxes filled
with cocaine during the time he was
there. He would not divulge who fur
nished the drug. except that he said
he got the opium from the man in
charge OF him. County Attorney Cor
nell finally pinned the witness down
to the statement that he was not suf-
ficiently under the influence OF drugs
at any time since the return from the
penitentiary not to know what he was
doing. The defendant also testified to
-tssasss ".