The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04
O'MALLEY TO END HIS
LIFE ON THE GALLONS

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lie Sueur Center. Mimi, October 90
Martin ONlalley must hang. He
was found guilty by jury in the
district court here of murder in the
first degree. He was charged in The
indictment with having poisoned his
two step-ehildren.
Jury Out All Night.
The case was given to the jury at
3:l5 o'clock yesterday afternoon and
at six O'Clock this morning the verdict
of guilty was presented to Judge G.
W. Morrison.
At $3.50 o'clock O'Malley was SEN
fenced to be hanged All ONIalley
had to say to the court when given
permission to speak, was: Il am not
guilty"
0Malley Was Cool
The convicted man was cool and ex-
hibited no emotion. After receiving
his sentence he was returned to the
county Jail. The date of the hanging
Will be fixed by the governor.
Will Ask for New Trial.
O'Malley's attorneys, c. C. Kolars
and Thomas Hessian, will probably
ask for Il new trial and in the event
OF denial, will appeal to the SUI
preme court.
The verdict of the jury meets with
the approval of the people here.
The case was prosecuted by County
Attorney $. j. Hannell.
lie Sueur Center, October 27.-Inter-
est in the trial of OMalley, charged
with feeding arsenic to his step-chil-
dren, continues undated. Louis Chaser,
the Deceive, resumed his story on the
witness stand. He said:
I'VE We're talking in the kitchen the
same as we had before and defendant
told us where he had buried the rag.
We tried to find that rag but were
buried it in the manure pile and show
ed us Il soft spot in the manure and
said he had buried it there. This was
about l:30 or = Il. IN. We had a Ian
tern, barn lantern that O'MalIey
got and lit up. Traxler dug up the
manure in the spot indicated and
and Thur were also looking for it
but could not find it. 1 suggested
that we look for it in the day time.
IraXer asked defendant what kind of
rag it was and the defendant showed
how large it was and said it was
rolled up like ball. He said he had
placed it in the manure pile after he
used the poison out OF it for the
children. The manure pile was large
pile against the barn and it was pack
ed. OMalley said, Here is a soft spot
and it must be the place. and TraX-
Ter dug and shook up the manure thor
Oughly and tried to find the rag, but
did not succeed. | could see that when
TraXler raised the manure it was not
packed SO hard in that spot as fur
Their away from that spot. We then
returned to the house-Traxler, Thur,
OMalley and |, and sat down again
and OAlalley commenced to dress to
90 to town. This was about 2l5 or
2:3O a. m. While O'Malley was dress
ing lie said he would wake his boy SO
that he could take care of the house
and barn while defendant was gone.
TraXler accompanied defendant up
stairs and woke up the boy. | stood
at the bottom of the stairs. After
OMalley and the boy came down
stairs we went back to tOwn-Traxler
Thur, O'Nlalley and myself. We stop
ped at kendalfs house and l made
the request. We drove to town and
stopped in front of the county Jail.
TraXler and defendant left the ma
chine and walked towards the jail
Thur and l went to Montgomery.
This was about $40 a. IN. About
a. N. on August ii, the next morning,
| saw OMalley i'll the county Jail.
He talked freely and voluntarily. !
asked him how he felt and he said
he felt better now than he did before.
| saw OMalley again in the county
attorneys office in the morning of
August II. There were present Trax
Ter, OAlalley, the county attorney and
myself. | saw OMalley little time
before that i'll the county Jail. Traxler
office At this time there were no
threats or promises made by anyone
and no offers of reward nor was there
any force used to obtain a confession.
The county attorney asked him if he
would repeat the statement he made
to me in more detail and sign it and
he said that he would. The county
attorney had paper and a fountain pen
and asked O'Mallcy the questions
which he answered. He said that he
poisoned those children. and said he did
it because the neighbors made fun of
him for marrying Bohemian woman.
He said he went to picnic with
his wife and her children and some
of his and on the way people made
fun of him and were always kicking
because he married Il Bohemian woman
and those children and he made up his
mind that he would get rid of them.
He said that he had some white poison
in the granary and that he put pinch
of that i'll some gum candy and gave
it to the boy Frank about the middle
of June He said that he gave the
girl some poison when he sent his wife
to the neighbors with note. He gave
both of the children some poison at
this time. He said that when he saw