The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-02
Murderer 81 Clara Roze en- Will be Hung al Fl.
Madison the Last Friday In
July, 1910.
SPECIAL TAKES PRISONER TO PEN
) Good Sized Mob Was COngregated at Court
House When Verdict Was Rendered
Wanted 10 .Get Him.

M CENTERvILLE, Iowa. June 2.Ne-
/ no John Junkin last night was found
/ kuilty here on the charge of the
murder Of Clara Rosen, the Ottunwa
4 choir singer on February 5, last, and
sentenced to be hung by Judge Rob-
erts the last Friday in July, 1910.
The jury returned a verdict after a
+ deliberation of less than four hours.
There was an immense crowd await
Ing the result OF the trial and as the
last words were read by the clerk a
shout went up which was taken up
\ BY the crowd in the court house
square.
The attorneys for the defense waiv-
ed the customary right OF three days
before the sentence Of death is passed
and agreed that the Judge pass sem
tence Immediately. which the court
dit.
Taken to Fort Madison.
He was & : once taken on special
to Fort Madison for safe keeping till
the day OF execution Adjutant Gem
\ eral Logan Of Des Moines, was in the
% court room when the sentence was
pronounced. He stated last night
that there would be no need Of 4 mil:
4 tia to guard the prisoner a the YER
dfct met with popular favor.
Junkin's crime was one os the most
atrocious In Iowa. He confessed to
killing Clara Rosen with stone while
she was returning from the home Of
her sister Later he dragged the girl
into an excavation and assaulted her.
Her dead body was found by search
Ing party next morning.
Under the state laws OF Iowa the
date of the hanging must be removed
from the date OF the sentence at least
one year. This is for the purpose oi
8 granting the defense suficient time
to perfect an appeal to the supreme
court.
Mob Cries "Get Him.
A good sized mob congregated abou,
the court house when the verdict was
announced and cries Of get him
WVl6 uCdt u III all oIuGc,i UuL tuS kudIuc
formed about the prisoner and made q
dash for the street car fighting theft
way aboard. The car was run with
all speed possible to the Burlington
n tracks, where the special train was
waiting and Junkin was hurried to the
Fort Madison penitentiary. The de
tense will appeal.
The Junkin case went to the Jury al
four o'clock Judge Roberts and Gov
ernor Carroll were in communication
by telephone over the situation. There
was much local Irritation over the
calling Of troops following report,
that stragglers were arriving from OF
tumwa, the scene of the crime.
AS a last effort to save their ellen
rom death on the gallows, Attorneys
John R. Price and Judge j. G. Mitchell
consumed practically the entire morn
ing session in arguing to the twelv,
men in the jury box. Court opened a
$50 o'clock, thirty minutes earlie
than usual, that the case might b,
completed today.
Try to Save Client.
Attorney Price at the outset held III
as contrast, the pure, innocent
christian victim Of the brute Junkin
Nwlth her murderer, who, he said, wa
acriminal Of the blackest type, who's
earllest days were saturated In crim
land whose evil tendencies had thei
cllmax on that night in early Febru
ary when he struck Clara Rosen dow
70 death. Pointing to the reason 70
a Junkin's viciousness, Mr.. Price sal
part.
That black spot in ottumwa." sal
ne known from Boston to San Frar
CISCO and from Seattle to New Oh
ieans. where crime is rampant an
annan life Is no; ssfr, IL responsible
,or encouraging the criminal in job
sunkin; and who is responsible TO
smoky Row? | say to you men, tn
ponce department OF the city OF o.
sunWa, the sheriff Of Wapello county
ana all the peace officers Of that con
monwealth are to blame for that d.
sract. Recently It was cleaned out. tn
Saa Characters, SO it was said, wer
sl'yen out OF town. but who do W
ssnd paid the price OF cleaning out tn
Smoky Row? Nobody but Clara RI
ne speaker touched upon the las
.,s Moras Of the dead girl. i am chri'
Ns and likened them to the word