Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-02
BAKER CASE SENSATIONS
Development in Taking Of Testimony
Likely to Cause Indictment Of Wit
ness For Psrjury-PrebabIe That
Terror. Stricken boy Will Be Star
Witness For Dsfsnss.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City. Dec. 2.-Will a man. in
nocent of participation in the Baker
Driver tragedy. be indicted for perjury
as consequence of the trial?
The sensational development in the
Baker murder trial involved a witness.
not the defendant, in the second day
OF the trial proper and the man en-
broiled is T. w. Hankins. 6 resident
Of Conesville Muscatine county.
County Attorney Mcdonald. furious
ly angered by the slump" OF the wit
ness on the stand just before o'clock
last evening. dismissed the Muscatine
county man with an expression OF dis
gust. and then announced, at the adj
journment of court, Which followed i'm
mediately afterwards, that the witness
would be indicted for perjury.
The states attorneys strove to prove
on the witness stand by Hankins, that
Baker had cursed Driver "up and
down." during nearly half hours time
prior to the tragedy on the fatal thr
teenth Of June. 1910 Testifying, how
ever, Hawkins would only swear that
Baker used a single oath. and that was
directed at an unnamed person.
Boy May BE Star Witness.
A 13-year-oid boy, whose dinidence
and almost terror nearly PROSTATE
him when ne discusses the Baker
Driver tragedy. may prove the key
stone in the arch of the defense.
Guy Bakers attorneys have found a
lad, fearful and terror-stricken but
firm in his relation OF alleged facts.
who declares positively, the layers say,
that he saw the knife on which the
defense relies so much. He Is ex-
pected to testify that the knife lay
near Driver after the latter fell under
Bakers blow, and about the time that
Baker told Driver to pick 1t up.
No other witness is known to have
seen the knife, declared by Baker to be
Drivers, and to have been in Drivers
hand at the time Of the trouble. and
which Baker alleges Driver threatened
to use in cutting out his intestines."
Knife Makes It's Appearance.
The knife, which is to play a star
part in the effort to maintain the
theory of self-defense, made its appear
ance in the proceedings. when the cross
examination Of Charles Frank. a black
smith at Lone Tree, who saw the fatal
blow, was conducted by Attorney c. NJ
butcher, on behalf Of the defense.
Questioning in the teeth Of many pro-
tests by the state, Mr.. butcher ELECTED
statement from the witness that Mr..
Baker few moments after the trouble
showed him Crank a knife. The wit
ness was not permitted to tell what
Baker said concerning this knife, and
the state, alleging that any OF Bakers
statements at that time would be self
serving. won Its point. but could not
keep the references to the knife out
entirely.
Frank also stated on cross examina-
ton that he heard Baker say to Driver
after knocking him down: "--
you. aren't you going to take your
knife with you?" He heard no reply
from Driver.
Frank heard Baker declare to Driver,
30 he testifies. that the latter thought
he was soft since Baker had been so
good to Driver, and that the employe
had come to believe that the employer
was an easy mark"
Sensational testimony this morning
~ that Of Squire George windess.
a. aged father-in-law OF Driver. He
wore that Baker struck Driver twice,
nee with his fist and once with q club.
This IL the first time in the case that
wo blows have been testified to.