The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20

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Williams of this city and Senator AL.
len of Madison.
On Monday, May 2, the case was
called for trial. And after nearly two
days jury was secured and sworn
in. 1t was then that Senator Allen
moved to discharge the accused be-
cause of a clerical error in the infor-
nation. The motion being overruled
by the court and the prosecution per-
mitted to amend the information. The
trial then proceeded.
The state took the testimony of
about fifty witnesses and forged a
powerful chain of Circumstantial evil
dence connecting the accused with
the crime The summary of the most
important points of this great mass
of circumstantial evidence is as fol
lows:
The Chain of Evidence.
That the person of Albert G.. Brown
was alive about the hour of 6 o'clock
on the morning of Tuesday, Deem
Der Z. This being the morning that
the defendant had taken the hog from
the Brown premises to support its
contention; that the deceased was
alive on this fateful morning, the
state showed that a heavy snow had
fallen on Monday night, December g.,
that amounted to three or four inches,
and that on Wednesday afternoon the
parties who found the body of Brown
/ IN, lie in
this snow where he had been about
during the early hours on Tuesday
morning doing his chores.
A pan full of ashes had been emp
tied on top of this snow where he had
dug through the snow in the coal box
to get fuel for the fire; and that the
body when discovered was fully
dressed, including overshoes and cap.
The examination of the finding of
the body of Mr.. Brown disclosed the
fact that his pockets had been rifled.
1t was shown by the evidence that the
murdered man had always carried
large sums of money upon his person,
as he was afraid of banks.
Saw Mckay at Brown Home.
The state also showed by the wit
ness, Mrs. Ed VanKirk, a neighbor
who lived to the south of the Brown
had seen smoke issuing from the
Brown home, and in the same block,
that she had seen smoke issuing from
the Brown chimney at about $50 on
! Tuesday morning. The state showed
by an eye witness, William Woolley,
that Mckay came from the rear end
of the Brown house at about Z O'Clock
that morning, and instead of coming
around and out of the front gate, he
had gone directly north through snow
drifts that were hip deep, and across
the fence on the north of the premises
into the street. Upon seeing Woolley
the defendant told him he had beer
over feeding his hog. He had no bias
ket or pail in his hand at this time
The state showed by the party thai
had bought the hog from Mckay anC
the two assistants who went with him
that they went to the Brown hog shet
that morning about 9 o'clock to ge
the hog, that the snow about the hos
shed door plainly showed that the doc
had not been opened that morning
nor had the porker been fed; and tina
there was no slop bucket about thu
shed.
The prosecution also showed that a
no time after the 18th day of October
last year, when the defendant hat
moved away from the shack in tn,
rear of the Brown residence, where h,
Mckay and wife, had been living 70
the past eight or nine months, had tn,
defendant ever been seen by any o
the neighbOrs going over to the Brow
place to feed the hog. The state als
showed a number of conflicting ste
ries told by the defendant and wife a
to how they came to get the hog from
Brown.
Aside from the pocketbook contain
ing the $50, which was found in tn
defendants home, there was ais
found a pocket knife, which wa
shown to have been Browns knife
and which the defendant in his test
mony claimed to have borrowed fror
p Brown about a week before the lat
ter's death. The state pointed out o.
this day that Joe Mckay was in tn
employ of his brother Alec, abou
three or four miles out in the country
The jury was out from o'clock 4
the afternoon until in the evening