Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-20
MORLEY MURDER CASE
TRIAL BEGUN WEDNESDAY AT
LOGAN AND MAKING GOOD
PROGRESS.
FIVE JURORS SECURED
THE FIRST HALF DAY
Spectators Throng Court Room-Re-
view Of the Crime, Which Occurred
in December-Mrs. Morley's Version
of Shooting Confederation by condi-
ton Of Room-Defendants Indifferent

Special to Times-Republican.
Logan, Jan. 2O.-TheMarley murder
trial is in progress here, beginning
Wednesday morning, with Judge O. d.
Wheeler presiding. There has been an
unusually large attendance at the ses-
sions thus far. Five jurors had been Sc
lected by the noon adjournment.
Review Of the Crime.
The following are the main facts
leading up TO and including the alleged
commission of the crime for which Guy
Marley, the stepson, Henry Marley, his
father and Ira Brundridge. the visitor.
We're arrested and indicted for the
murder of Mrs. Henry Marley, on Dec
| 2, 1909; Guy Marley, accompanied by
Ira Brundridge, came home from Dow
City with a supply of whisky and after
1.-The three men We're all under the in
iuence of the liquor Guy Marley pro-
ceeded to smash up the household fur
niture, and when he began on the
dishes Mrs Marley. as she alleged be-
fore she died, entered verbal protest
which so angered her stepson that he
picked up the shotgun and fired the
shot that struck her in the arm and
j shoulder and almost severed the arm
from the body With her arm hanging
by a few shreds of flesh she fled to {
,neighbors, where a surgeon was called
her arm was amputated, and the Of
iicers We're notified at both Logan anG
Missouri Valley.
Henry Marley and Ira Brundridgt
admit that they heard the shot. but af-
firm that they We're not in the room
lsequently did not see Who shot Mrs
Marley.
4 Tho Guy Marley stated to the au.
thorities at Missouri Valley land t.
Constable Peckenpaugh of Logan, while
on the way to Jail, that he knew moth
ing about the shooting of his step
mother. yet the young man has sine
admitted to Sheriff Rock that a sho
lgun was accidentally discharged while
in his hands Thursday afternoon, Dec
y. but he emphatically asserted tina
his stepmother was neither in the room
nor in sight when the alleged acci
dental discharge of the gun occurred
Victims Story corroborated.
Notwithstanding the alleged limo
cence on the part of the three men her
in Jail, Sheriff Rock and IAttorne
Smith. after personal investigation
state that Mrs Marley's story is cor
roborated, in that the household furni
ture and dishes We're not. only broke
. to pieces in the Marley house. but tina
the wall of the house where the shoot
ing is alleged to have taken place wa
: spattered with blood and shreds @
flesh and punctured with shot, evident
ly fired at close range, as asserted b
Mrs. Marley.
Accused Not Worrying.
Since the Incarceration of Guy Mar
ley, Henry Marley and Ira Brupdridg
here, with full knowledge of all cir
cumstances leading up to and includin
\ the death of Mrs. Marley and the re
: sponsihility for the same. the thre
men indicted for murder have, it
said, not missed a single meal or mani
lfested especial mental depression {
anguish which might be reasonably eS
. pected of men under like crcum
= stances.
). Contrary to expectations the jur
!. was completed before adjournment la:
Nevening. Following is the panel: j. ]
. Boyle, G. w. Tough, Ben Yeager, I
Hitler, E. futile. Fl. Van Arsdal, v
Stack, H. r. Bonn, L. j. Unmack, w. ]
. Kennedy, Henry Noland and H.
Howard.