Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-16
DR.. powers, MISSING
Witness, RETURNS
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stat. seor,. Aa.in.. Witness.

SA~dinlldllOn, she aQfnltteu tldt sic anu
Miss Warner We're not friendly. The
girls had been perpetrators in the
Sheffield telephone exhange for a long
period Of time and Miss Randall had
given much information to the jury re-
garding Miss Warmers -issNnneI talks
with Rush o y OF
The young woman. 1espite the Zee
ing she exhibit s'SaMGIe Miss Waracr
in her answers, ss!a :uso4the testimony
regarding her sister operator and the
station agent which the defense sought.
Gerdes Surprise to State.
The sensational testimony of Gerdes,
who had beer subpoenaed by the de-
Tense on Friday night, took the state
unawares. Gerdes repeating. as he
claimed. the words of Rush which ne
heard while alone. and therefore WAS
not corroborated. He wsstsn excellent
witness. Liggett failed to Shake the
evidence the farmer gave. 'In spite OF
the fact that the states attorney
tracked him back and forth and trailed
him forward and backward thru his
testimony given on direct examination
and called non him to explain every
detail connected with it. Gerdes stuck
to his original statement without wav-
ering.
Women Of Audience Shaned.
1t was due solely to the states cross
examination that Gerdes' repetition of
what he alleged he heard Rush say to
Mrs. Rush became bluntly obscene
when he was forced to repeat Rush's
exact words.
AS the unprintable words sprung
from the witnesses lips women Of the
audience hung their heads in shame.
Some blushed violently. Others turned
their faces away and other pressed
their handkerchiefs to their lips. AT
that moment the wisdom OF Judge
Wright's order Of the forenoon barring
children under 10 years Of SO was
appreciated by the sober thinking.
Heard Rush Threaten Wife.
Gerdes testified that while driving
home the night before the murder on
the road which passes alongside OF
the rear of the Short Line station. he
saw Rush thru the open upstairs win
dow and heard him speak. The witness
said he stopped his horse and istened.
Mrs. Rush was crying. He heard the
station agent shamelessly admit TO his
wife illegal relations with Miss Warner.
Cierdes sale Rush continued by threat
ening Mrs. Rush with the words, and
If you don't like It you a get up and
leave and if you don't quit fussing
about 1t I'll knock your -- brains
out he hour was II o'clock.
The witness persisted in saying that
lie had not told of what he claimed to
have overheard until Friday night be-
cause he didn't want to get mixed up
in his case" and h thought it would
make a bad matter worse"
Were Seen Together Alone.
Altho Miss Warner had testified dur
ing the forenoon that she had never
been alone with Rush at any other time
and place than at h telephone office
in the day time. three of the witnesses
for the defense contradicted her.
Gerdes said he saw the hello girl"
and Rush in the station one time when
he went there TO consign a livestock
shipment. Cross examination did not
shake him on this point.
George Esslinger. liveryrlan and bus
driver of Sheffield. testified he saw
Miss Warner at the Short Line" sta
ton one forenoon. The train he was
10 meet was one and one-half hours
late. and when he went to the station
the second time she vas still there. He
could not fix the day very definitely.
Then cross-examined. and he was not
positive but that it might have been
,he time when Miss Warner left for
Mason City.
Seen Walking at Night.
He also swore that he saw the girl
and Rush walking together on Main
street at Sheffield n night about 9
o'clock last summer The state at
,orney's questioning developed that the.
witness could not fix The date with any
certainty except as to the season of
the year.
HAYES Esslinger. a Sheffield real es-
tate dealer. who said he was book
keeper for the phone company for a
time while Miss Warner was employed
in the exchange in the same building,
said Rush came there three or four
times a week.
The former b~ookkeeper said Rush
talked to the operator and that their
talking and laughter annoyed the
s~tenographer and himself. Then Es-
singer took a hand. He said he spoke
TO Miss Warner about Rush's frequent
ca!.s and told her people would talk
about her. Il don't care a darn if they
do was the reply he said he got from
the girl.
He showed some spirit when being
cross examined and his direct testi-
mony was som ewhat modified. he ad-
mitted he didn't know" but that Rush
might have talked to other girls in the
exchange room. That Miss Warner was
answering calls at the witch board
while Rush was in tn exchange room,
he ~professed he knew.
Add to Phone Talks.
Rush was a member of the band ard
regular attendant at practice. Roy AL
len. the 17-year-old leade Of the Shelf
field band, testified. The band held it's
rehearsals in the engine room" and
~reauent calls for Rush came on the
phone. Allen y eered most of the
calls and he 81 -, .oice on the other
end OF the - } bought he re'"g-
uized as Miss Wcyrer's
While admitting t. | not al e" The
| calls that came duril )ar practice
v.ere for Rush, he persisted in cross
examination that most of them die.
LAS a matter of fact wasn't the fire.
| ouency of these talks a matter OF COM
mon talk among the band boys?" An
drews asked him.
Yes" the lad answered.
co.operator On Stand.
Miss Randall. altho admitting and
| showing by the ann OF some of her
ANSWERS during cross examination that
Mise Warner were no longer