Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-25
CASE IS STRONG
AGAINST HAYES
State Witnesses Testify That
He Pursued De Coils
Night of Murder.
THREAT MADE IN A SALOON
After Losing in Dice Game, He Turn
ed on Belgian Youth, Saying
iii Get You YETI

The state expects to finish its case
against j. w Halves In the circuit
court either this afternoon or early
Monday morning Then the defense
will bring forward whatever evidenea
ii has towards proving that Halves did
the shooting in order to protect himself
from an assault by Peter DeQ0ls, the
deceased.
Thus far there have been half doz-
en- witnesses on the stand to substan-
tiate the charges made by the state
and their evidence has made it look
very dark for the defendant. L. Rhy
gheham. owner of the saloon on Tween
ty-fourth street and Fourth avenue, in
which the quarrel which ended in the
shooting occurred, was one of the prin-
cipal witnesses. He testified that
Halves had come into the saloon on
the evening of the shooting at o'clock
and that afterwards he was in off and
on until 1870. The saloon keeper told
of the fact that Halves, together with
Ed Tillman, Peter DeGols, Joe Dheere
and Alfred Banks, the latter the step
son of Halves, engaged in a game of
dice which ended in Halves losing 1t
accordingly fen upon him to set EN-
up" to the others of the party, but
Banks refused to drink on his step
father and the two had hot words.
Dheere was the first to come between
the two men as a peacemaker, but De-
Coils soon took his place and told
Halves to keep quiet and behave him
self, as he was always causing trouble
Halves Threatens DeGOIs.
This was as far as the saloonkeep-
er's testimony went. Joe Dheere took
it up from here and the following
story was woven together by the
state from the evidence of Dheere, Ed
Verbiest, the bartender, and Charles
DePowell. who was in the saloon al
the time the argument occurred:
HAYES took the rebuke from DeGOls
to heart and remained quiet for a
time, but his anger arose more and
more all the time. Finally he walked
up to DeGols and in the hearing of
DePOwen said You - -, III
get you yet" and then left the saloon.
The party of young men remained at
the saloon until closing time and then
to get into the Casino a
block further north. They found The
place closed, and they started back t.
the Buffalo saloon half way between
the other two. When they passed the |
Buffalo they heard some one call from
across the street and upon looking
closely they saw it was Halves, who
who appeared to be partly hiding be-
hind a telephone pole. Dheere said
that Halves used a vile name and then /
called to DeGols to come across the /
street. which the youth started to do. |
His friends warned him not to go, as
they feared trouble, but DeGols kept !
on walking over to Halves. AS he |
stepped up on the curbing, Halves |
showed a revolver against his stomach |
and fired one shot, and then ran away. /
The Belgian lad fell to the ground and /
it was not long before he had breathed /
his last The police soon arrived on |
the scene and Halves was found cary |
the following morning. The police |
officers who made the arrest and who
arrived on the scene right after the
shooting were on the stand this after
noon. They were Arthur Kinsley, Join
Furlong. John Johnson, c. C. Church
and Detective James Brinn.
Introduce Photographs.
The state produced photographs
made by G. c. Blakslee to give the
jurors clear idea of the location 81
-arious objects constantly referred to
n the testimony produced by the
state. The defense made objections
o these photographs at first, but final
y agreed to having them introduced
n the evidence. There were three
,ictures showing the relative locations
f The three saloons referred to and
he watering tank and the telephone {
ole near which Halves stood when ]
e fired the fatal shot.
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