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The Marshall republican., 1909-07-02
Local Items

B. c. Alder returned Sunday from
Tulsa, Okla.
Miss Laurie Carrie of BoonvilIe,
the guest of p. f. Donehoe's fam
lily.
Theo Lohoefner of Alma is anew
employe at Robt. Smiths meat
market.
Miss Frances Adams is visiting
her grandmother, Mrs. Bradford,
this week.
Mesdames Kate Akers and A. NJ.
Carroll were guests OF Mrs. Jno.
Mikels Sunday.
The Marshall Acetylene Co. will
move across the street into the
Scudder building in July.
Miss Susie Lynch returned from
Nelson this week where che has
been visiting friends.
John Wright a pupil o.. Park
College is here for few days visi,
to his uncle, e. M. Wright.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Lex. McDan
lei at thei: home in Kansas City a
daughter Tuesday June 22nd.
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Emil Keehart and Miss Berta
Rasse spent Sunday with Geo. Sci
berts family near Mt. Leonard.
Mrs. l.. L. Whitman and son Dom
aid left Thursday for Seattle Wash.
where they will reside in the future
Miss Gabe Piper who has been
quite sick since the Blosser-Lantz
wedding is reported much improv
ed.
Mrs. Otto Grotjan and her moth
err, from Slater, visited j. A. john
son and family Saturday and Sum-
day.
Miss Margaret Fisher, who has
been a pupil OF Park College the
past year is home for her vaca-
ton.
j. B. White informs us that Mrs.
j. L. Woodbridge is'back at Fowler
Colo, and again enjoying good
health.
STRAYED-A 3-year-old light
bay horse from my place on June
goth, E. c. Merrill, 419 Russell Ave,
Marshall.
Misses Gorrell and Marshall Of
near Wanamaker were guests over
Sunday OF Miss Laura Parks north
OF town.
Judge and Mrs. James Hanna re-
turned last week from Stanford,
Texas where they spent several
months.
Miss Leona Greene left Thursday
n Of last week for Tulia, Texas where
she will spend the remainder of
the summer.
Miss Nellie Page went to Mexico
last week to attend the wedding
OF Miss Mary Emmons which took
place Wednesday June goth.
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Mrs. s. c. Taylor Jr., OF PhiIadel-
phia, arrived Thursday to visit her
father o. Houx and family and will
spend the summer in Marshall.
G. F. Jennings sends us his re-
newal from Kansas City, wheSe he
located three months ago. He was
formerly a resident Of Marshall.
J.>S. Crockett and family and A.
Peecher and wife spent Sunday
with Dave Anderson and wife at
their country home west OF town,
DR.. j. w. Young, wife and chill
dren, OF Hutchison, Kas, are the
guests OF Jno. T. Russell's family.
Mrs. Young is the SISTER OF Mrs,
Russell.
j. Louis Railey and Miss Martha
Ecton were married Tuesday June
22d at the home of the brides moth
er of 2sth and Tracy Ave. Kansas
City, Mo.
Blackburn, Houstonia and Glass
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Corset Covers 19c to LIS

Between these two prices are corset
covers of every degree of fineness, made Of
Nainsook and more or less deliberately trim
med with laces, embroideries and ribbons.
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B. c. Alder returned Sunday from
Tulsa, Okla.
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New Lingerie Shirt
Waists Csc.

Your choice of any Lingerie
Shirt Waist in our stock, many
STYLES to select from, value up to
$1.e8. Clearance Sale price 95c
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Mems and Boys Clothing
A massing Of bargainslin every

We have enjoyed a most successful seasonof selling in this de-
partment, but still have alarge stock left on hand, WHICH MUST
BE GREATLY REDUCED before our Fall Stock arrives. We
offer during this sale some exceptional bargains in this depart
ment. "
All $1,000 and $119 Suits 60 at.....,.. S 7s5
All $12e48, $1295 and 13.48 Suits 60 at ..... 995
All $14.48, 1895 and 1895 Suits 60 at...... 11.48
All $16.95, 1748 and 1848 Suits go at .,....' 13.48
All $1,000. 81 48 and % 48 Suits go at...... 1896
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sale Observation-Disclosures. Toe
All Ladies SIPS and SLAB
black Umbrellas and Para
soils at :. ...,........... 98c
20 per cent discount on all Laces
and Embroideries.
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Night Gowns 39c to $2.4S

Many styles made Of soft fine nainsook
and cambria, with or without V shaped
neck. simply or deliberately trimmed, priced
as follows:
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20 per cent discount on all other clothing, such as boys
suits, childrens suits, etc. Don't put off looking at this lne-t
will pay you well.
Elastic seam Drawers, regular soc garments, sale price .43c.
100 pair Of those 2oc work gloves worth at least SOC. This is the
third lot we have had at 2ec. Don't delay if you wanta pair
at this price.
One lot Mems and Boys Straw Hats. about 500 in all, values
up to 7c algo at. 15c each
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GROCERIES.

19 lbs. GRADUATED Sugar $1.00
Is OF, can K. c. B. Powder. 10
3 cans Tomatoes Us
3 cans Corn $50. {. rs
Mason Fruit Jars PIT. .43
Mason Fruit Jars OTIS .48.
Mason Fruit Jars ID gal. SO
8 lbs. California Peaches 20
S Id. Bucket Coffee. 100.
100 lbs. GRADUATED Sugar. 5.25
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All SLAB colored dress goods
and silks 60 at. ........ $1.19
All $1.23 colored dress goods
and silks 60 at ....... .98
All o7c colored dress goods
and silks go at ~. 10
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Skirts 69c to $3.4S

Skirts made of Cambria. cut in ample
widths, variously finished with tucks. ruff
files, lace and ribbon insertings.
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Drawers 15c to $l.4S

Muslin Drawers all grades. Made of
Nainsook and Cambria. plain or richly trim
med with laces, embroideries and ribbons.
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Sheer, Summary Under
muSlinS.

Buy your summer supply now-while
prices border on wholesale. You a buy
the materials for these prices-not to men
ton the drudgery Of making them.
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the probability of his account of the
way the murder was committed, and
may take the same into consideration
in passing upon the question of the
guilt or innocence of the defendant.
If you find from the evidence that
the defendant Frank Smith. hid or
helped to hide the body of Holland j.
Ledbeter and endeavored to mislead
those searching for him, and made false
statements in relation thereto, you may
take the falsity of such statements
into consideration in passing upon the
question of the guilt or innocence of
the defendant.
There is evidence in this case tend
ing to prove that the blow that caused
the death of Holland j. Ledbeter, if
you find from the evidence that his
death was caused by q blow so struck,
was one of great force, and you may
take this fact, if such you find it to
be, in consideration in passing upon
the probability Of the statements mada
by the defendant as to how and when
Holland j. Ledbeter was killed, if you
find the defendant did make statements
as to this matter
y
said defendant Frank Smith has made
statements IS to the manner and time
Holland j. LedDeter came to his death,
and you further find that such state
ments were false and untrue, you may
take such matters into consideration in
passing upon the question of the guilt
or innocence of said defendant, as one
Iof the circumstances surrounding the
lease.
Ii you find from the evidence beyond
"a reasonable doubt that at the time
and place as alleged in the indictment
the defendant Frank Smith killed
Holland j. Ledbeter with the premedi-
tated design to effect the death of said
Holland j. Ledbeter, in the manner
and form alleged in the indictment
and if you find that such killing was
not excusable or justifiable under the
law as | have charged you, then you
should find the defendant Frank Smith
guilty of murder in the first degree as
charged in the indictment.
If you do not find from the evidence
beyond a reasonable doubt that at the
time and place as alleged in the in
dictment that the defendant Frank
Smith killed said Holland J. Ledbeter
with the premeditated design to effect
the death of said Holland j. Ledbeter
in the manner and form as charged
in the indictment, or if you do not so
find that such killing was not excus-
able or justifiable under the law as |
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There is evidence in this case tend
ling to prove, that near the grave
where the body of said Holland ]. Led
better was found another false grave
or hole dug, at distance of twenty
live feet or thereabouts, therefrom.
/ That when said false grave was so
found, and before the finding of the
7 body of said Holland j.. Ledbeter the
defendant herein was asked as to who
dug the same, and that he answered
that he did not know. That after the
body of said Holland j. Ledbeter was
found, the defendant admitted that he
| dug the same, and claimed he dug said
false grave at the instigation and re-
quest of Grace L. Ledbeter, and others.
There is evidence in this case tend
i ing to prove, that the defendant claim
ed, after the discovery of the body of
said Holland j. Ledbeter, that in re-
moving the said body from the grave
in the barn to the field where it was
found, they had used wire fence
stretcher for the purpose of raising
said body out of said grave in said
barn, and pointed out to one P. A.
Ledbeter, brother of said deceased,
where the wire stretcher had been fast
|ened to beam or joist overhead
Evidence Must Be Considered.
Now the evidence in this case is a
question alone for you to consider;
what is, or what is not proven, is
alone for you to determine. You are the
sole judges of the facts. The court
is only to instruct you as to the law
bearing upon such facts, and where l
have said to you that there is evidence
tending to prove one thing, or tend
ing to prove another, you will always
bear in mind that l do not say that
such things have been proven, for it
is no part of my duty, or my province
to intimate in any manner to you what
facts ] think have. been proven, or
what have not been proven, and as to
those ! have no opinion whatever to
give you. | have not undertaken to 60
over the evidence of the different wit
nesses, because to do SO might we'll
lead to false conclusions, as | might
give more prominence to some parts OF
the testimony than to some others. As
l have, before stated to you, it is for
you to examine the evidence. to use
your best endeavors to solve the same,
weighing it in its different parts and
giving it such credibility as you deem
proper in the premises.
/ wish to draw your attention to
some of the important matters which
say there is evidence tending to
prove; consider well the condition in
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THE TR|AL OF SMITH.
Continued From Page Seven.

standing on the ilrss floor OF SAID barn
near an opening therein descending to
the basement, and that said Frank
Smith told said Borgmeier, that the
last he had seen OF said Holland j.
Ledbeter on the morning in question
he was going for chicken feed, that he
pointed out 10 him door of said barn
opening upon the second floor of the
same, which was partly open, and told
him, said Borgmeier, that he thought
the said Holland j. Ledbeter must
have left the said barn by the said
door and gone away in westerly d.
rection.
That the said Frank Smith the de-
fendant herein accompanied said Borg
meier and pointed out to him some
tracks in a soft place in the ground
and intimated that they might be the
tracks of said Holland j. Ledbeter.
There is evidence in this case tend
ing to prove, that afterwards, and
after the body of said Holland j. Led
better was found, he admitted to the
said Borgmeier that said tracks had
been made by him for the purpose of
misleading those who might search
for said Ledbeter.
There is evidence in this case tend
ing to prove, that after the disappear
ance of said deceased, Holland j. Led
better, the said Frank Smith the de-
PENDANT herein claimed to several par
ties that he had seen said Holland j..
LedDeter and had conversed with him,
and that said Ledbeter had offered
him some money to take to the house,
all in the field upon the premises in
question.
There is evidence in this case tending
TO prove that after the body of said Led
better was found, the said defendant,
Frank Smith, admitted that such
statements by him Heretofore made,
We're false.
There is evidence in this case tend
ing to prove, that in the barn in ques-
ton, in the alleyway in the basement
of said barn, and directly under the
hay chute leading from the hay loft
i'll said barn towards said basement,
there was found grave dug, or IA
hole dug, as if for grave; that said
Frank Smith, after the recovery of
the body of said Holland j. Leabeter
admitted he dug the same.
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have charged you, then you should
find the defendant Frank Smith not
guilty of murder in the first degree as
charged in the indictment.
If you find from the evidence be-
yond a reasonable doubt that at the
time and place as alleged in the in
dictment, the defendant Frank Smith
killed Holland J. Ledbeter with the
design to effect the death of said Hol-
land J. Ledbeter in the manner and
form as alleged in the indictment, but
without deliberation and generalization,
if YOU so find that such killing was
not excusable or justifable under the
law as | have chadged you, then you
should find the defendant Frank Smith
not guilty of murder in the first de-
gree as charged in the indictment, but
of murder in the second degree.
If you do not find from the evil
dence beyond reasonable doubt, that
at the time and place alleged in the
Indictment the defendant Frank Smith
killed said Holland j. Ledbeter with a
design to erect the death of said Hol-
land j. Ledbeter in the manner and
form as alleged in the Indictment, but
with deliberation and generalization, or
Tif you do not so find that such killing
was not eXcusable OF justifiable un-
der the law as l have charged you, then
you should find the defendant Frank
Smith not guilty of murder in the
second degree.
In closing, the court said: "The
evidence is before you. You have a
very important duty before you. 1t
was not voluntarily sought, but was
forced on you. 1t is duty that you
might well wish to escape, but it is
ia duty that you owe to the laws of
the state. Consider the evidence care
fully and fairly, and render a verdict
according to your conscience, and not
in accordance to what the people think,
and you have done your full duty to
both sides"
At the request of the defense, the
court to instruct the jury that it could
not find the defendant guilty of being
an accessory after the fact, or of any
other charge than murder in the first
or second degree.
1t was decided to allow the jury to
have what exhibits it wishes, but none
were to be changed, marked or altered
In any way.
The jury retired at 1890 p. M,
latter the bailiffs had been resworn.
Judge Pau said that he would receive
a verdict up to 0 p. M, but if one
was agreed upon after that hour it
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BELGRADE


Mrs. John Peterson was i'll for
few days last week.
The farmers were busy hauling nay
to Mankato last week.
There is still a lot of corn out to
husk i'll this neighborhood.
The farmers were busy hauling wheat
to Mankato last Saturday.
Nels Johnson visited his brother An
drew Holmgren last Monday.
Miss Ida NJ. Abby spent last Sunday
at Mrs. T. ID. Johnson's home.
The roads are very bad and it is
almost impossible to get to town.
Mr. and Mrs. c. Farm visited Mr.. and
Mrs. John Peterson last Sunday.
Miss Nanny Roust visited Miss Al
freda Nordgren in Mankato last week.
Miss Man6a Gustavson spent several
days at Mrs. G.. j. Johnson's last week.
Some friends in North Manllato Wis
tied Mr. and Mrs. John Brown last
Sunday.
Mrs. John Gustavson. and Manda and
Edwin Gustavson, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
John Peterson last Sunday.
Win Peterson left last Tuesday for
North Dakota, where he will visit his
brother Albert for few weeks.
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which the body was found.

which the body was found.
If you find from the evidence. that
| it was clother as l have stated to you
there is evidence tending to prove
take into consideration the explanation
came dressed, heretofore made; deter
mine the reasonableness of such ex-
PLANTATION, and give such evidence such
weight in your consideration as you
deem it deserves.
If you find from the evidence, as l
have stated the evidence tends to
prove, that the deceased when found
had in his mouth chew of tobacco;
take that into consideration with the
statements, which i say there is evil
/ dence tending to prove, if you find
| them so proven, of the defendant, as
to the time of the death of said Hol-
land j. Ledbeter. Give it such weight
as you deem it is entitled to in your
consideration.
If you find from the evidence that
the cap of said Holland j. Ledbeter
was destroyed by the defendant, and
that the top was torn therefrom! take
that into consideration with the state
ment of said defendant, Frank Smith,
las to how and where this murder was
committed, and give it such weight as
you deem proper.
Bear in mind also, in considering this
matter, the evidence tending to prove
the place of the wound inflicted upon
the head of him the said Holland j.
Ledbeter. You should take into con-
Isideration also, the evidence of the lit
tie girl, Hazel Ledbeter, that she
heard her father call the defendant,
Frank Smith, early in the morning of
the 9Th day of May; consider this with
the evidence of statements testified
ito by several witnesses, of the said
Frank Smith, as to the time and place
iof the murder of said Holland j. Led
better.
1t was stated to you upon the en-
paneling of the jury, by the attorney
for the defendant in this action, that
Iother parties were indicted for the
same offense, and among others the
said Grace L .Ledbeter. You are now
upon the trial of the defendant, Frank
Smith, accused of said murder, and you
have 10 concern as to the matter of
the guilt or innocence of any other
parties accused thereof The question
for you to determine, is not, whether
|some of the other parties who may
be accused thereof is guilty, or inno-
cent, but the question for you to de-
termine is whether or not this de-
lfendant is guilty or innocent.
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Different Degrees of Murder.

The killing of human being, unless
1t is excusable or justifiable, is murder
in the first degree when perpetrateo
with premeditated design to effect
the death of the person killed, or an
other.
Homicide is excusable when commit
ted by accident or misfortune in doing
any lawful act by lawful means with
ordinary caution and without any un
lawful intent.
Homicide is iustifable when commit
ted in the lawful defense of the slay
er, or of his or her husband, wife
!parent, child, brother, sister, master
or servant, when there is reasonable
ground to apprehend a design on the
part of the person slain to commit q
felony, or to do some great personal
INJURY to the slayer, OF to any such
person, and there is imminent danger
iof such design being accomplished; OF
III the actual resistance of such an
attempt to commit a felony upon the
slayer, in his presence, or upon or in
a dwelling or other place of abode
i'm which he is.
To constitute murder in the first
uOSioc, lHSlt HluSl- have DttL pre-
imeditated design on the part of the de-
PENDANT to affect the death of the
person killed, OF of another. That
lis, there must have been pdior in
| tent to do the act, but it is not neces-
sary that this intention should have
been carried for any particular period
of time before the doing of the act
lresulting in death.
1t is not generalization if the act is
the result of mania, or of sudden
paroxysm of passion such as suspends
the intellectual powers.
If, however, there is evidence that
the act is a part of conspiracy to
take life, or if there is evidence that
deadly weapon likely to take life
| is intelligently and unlawfully used, OF
j if there is evidence that there had
been designs against the life of the
person murdered. this is evidence OF
premeditated design which the jury
should consider, though such design
had not prevailed or existed for any
definite period of time.
| If you find from the evidence that
! the defendant Frank Smith after the
death of Holland j.. Ledbeter, destroy
ed the cap of said Ledbeter, as detail
: ed by him in his statements made, il
| you find they were made, in reference
to said matter You may take into
consideration the matter of the de-
| sruction of said cap, in passing upon
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Nub Frederickson, a Farmer, Suffers
i Injuries in a Runaway Accident.

Northwood, Mimi, Dec. l4.-The body
of Nub Frederickson, farmer living
five miles northwest of the city, was
found Thursday afternoon hanging
across snow fence, four miles north
of this place, where he had evidently
been hurled when his cutter and the
team which ne was driving to town
had been struck by the northbound
Iowa Central passenger No. l. One
of the horses was killed and the cut
ter was somewhat broken up. He was
brought to Northwood and placed in a
hotel where he died later.
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ty Attorney Plymat.
Smith was in the upper corri-
dor, alone, and was seemingly
eager to tell his story, and eX-
pressed relief that at last he
could talk about it, all restraint
being off. He remarked that he
was tickled to death to tell his
story, and that be. felt. much
better since the body had been
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Good Roads Meeting.

Topeka, Kan, Dec. l4-The move
ment for good roads in all parts of the
nation is expected to receive a decided
impetus from the national meeting of
highway improvement bodies convened
in the Kansas capital today.
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This is the sensational story of the Ledbeter
der, related by Frank Smith to The Free Press
the night of Sunday, June n last, and published in
the special clifton of Monday morning June 20
This is the original story and will be read with
much interest at this tme
Frank Smith, who locked up Saturday night
in the county Jail, denied any knowledge of Ledbeters
death of the whereabouts of his body, until after
the body had been found yesterday afternoon. Them
at about six o'clock, he made confession to Deputy
Sheriff Eli Klugherz, and short time later much
more complete and detailed to the reporter of
The Free Press, in the presence of NJ p Kennedy and
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should be sealed and returned IN the
morning
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wanted more money than ten men could have earned.
She tried to get poison of doctor at Redwood Falls
to clean Clothes she said but the doctor would
not let her have any The Sunday before the murder
she quarreed with him all day. The evening before
the murder they had words, and everything
quiet. The axe and in the wood
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-01
TOnODdh fishers in
Year Ndnghty-Nine

whistles of all the other mines. Pts
tolls, automatic guns, shotguns and
rifles, cannon crackers and sticks of
giant powder, horns, bells and
bugles now all added their clamor to
the general din, and Tonopah sue
ceeded in raising quite a genteel din.
The employees of the Mizpah mine
contributed the most spectacular
piece of work to the nights celebra-
ton, for ON the top of Mt. Oddie
they had arranged an illumination of
electric lights, and then when the
whistles and blasts of giant powder
gave them the signal the numerals
"O9" fiared up on the mountain top,
outlined in flame and of heroic size.
The numerals must have been visible
for miles around, and practically
every one in Tonopah was out gazing
at the illumination. So high up were
the letters, and so dark the back
ground, that they seemed to hang in
the cloudy sky. 1t was very happy
idea and admirably executed.