The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-30

keep from getting hurt. Ma said in
here. l was running from Clarence
Teale. The instrument Clarence
Teae struck ma with was about
three feet long. Heard ma say after
they brought her in the house to put
her on the bed and cover her up. She
did not talk very plainly. l saw the
club around the house ever since
we planted corn last spring. Saw it
the day before mother was killed in
the east yard as l was coming from
school. Clarence Teale took the club
with him after he struck ma. found
a pair of mittens out west of. the
barn about quarter of mile a day
or two after l saw them find the
club and cap down by the fence the
next day The witness identified a
bly, as one he saw Ed Young have
down behind the barn four or five
weeks before.
On cross examination witness said
he did not see Tom Young strike his
mother with the bicycle pump. In
sisted he saw Hugh Teale throw three
sticks of wood just before Clarence
Teale struck his mother. That he
only saw his father and Henry struck
once by Tom Young. Saw the stove
poker the next day in the sitting
room about 4 o'clock. One of the
double windows in the southeast
room was knocked out the Saturday
before when Kirkpatrick and Collins
had fight.
On redirect examination he said
there was no whiskey there and
night, and no cards or games of any
kind played there that night.
On recross examination denied he
told Ed Young that his pa was going
to have a box of Whiskey that day.
Said there was some games played
down in the pasture some time be-
fore, but he did not see them gam
bling down by the barn the previous
Sunday when Allan Ramsey came
along.
WILLIE ZORNES
recalled for further cross examina-
ton, said he heard Tom Young tell
clarence Teale to come on, but
could not see him. I don't know
whether the moon was shining or
not. 1t was light. I testified at the
preliminary that Tom Phillips was
standing in the corner of the yard. I
stayed up there until after mother
was taken in the house. did not see
them pick her up because was not
Hooking that way.
JOHN L. BROWN
Was constable of Richland town.
ship in December, 1910. I arrested
Clarence Teale at Harrison
Young's early the next morning
about 5 o'clock. He was sitting on
the bed, and had his clothes on. He
asked me if had the papers for him
and l showed them to him. He
wanted to know where l was going
to take him to, and told him Squire
Brammer's. He said I was making
a mistake and wanted me to take him
to DeKalb and phone to sheriff An
drew to come in an auto and get him,
for a man who would commit that
crime was not safe. AS we left the
house he wanted to speak to Mr..
Young and he told him / was going
! to take him to ~Brammer's, but 1T was
to be fixed about bond, and wanted
to know if Mr.. Young would go on
his bond. Young told him he did
not know whether they would take
him on a bond but he would do all
he could for him. He asked me to
take him to his home to change
clothes and l did so. AS We were
going through the pasture he wanted
to know if l had a gun, and l told
wanted it flashed. He said no, but
that needed gun for his protec-
ltion. He kept looking back and
thought we were not going fast
enough and was uneasy about being
mobbed. At different times he said
was making mistake in not taking
him to Leon. He said the last few
days had been pretty gloomy ones
for him. That he and jamie Young
were to have been married the first
OF the year, that he, had furnished
her with the money to get her d.
vorce, pay off doctor bill and get
clothes and she had left him and
married another man, and If she had
not disappointed him this would not
have happened. That Roy Young
was the worst one and made it un-
endurable for jamie to stay at home.
He said he was innocent and did not
do anything, and then said, Eyes,
did too. I gave Lee good kicking
asked him what the fight began
about. He said directly after We got
in the house conversation was
started about jamie Young, and Mrs.
Zornes called jamie bad name and
he could not stand for that, and Tom
Young knocked her down and then
the fight began. He said he wanted
to refrain from talking and wanted
to hunt counsel. He told me Tom
Young was headed for Sargent, Neb.,
but he would have to go to Kellerton
to draw on the old man for money
which was due him for shocking
corn as he had no money: He said
after the fight we went down home
and went to bed. Later on Roy
Dung came down and told us she
was dead, and I went to Mr.. Young's
because it wasn't safe for him to stay
at home alone.
On cross examination there was
quite an argument between the wit
ness and the attorneys for the de-
Tense over what the witness had
sworn to before the grand jury as to
whof C1oropoo Too1o told Harrison