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

who said let's 60 back and finish her.
Said the moon was an hour or two
high. The shot gun was loaded, did
not see any shells picked up in the
house. That Henry and Tom Phil
lips took no part. Did not see any
one on top of the cave. .
WILLIE ZORNES..
The fifteen year old son of Levi
substance the same as the previous
witness in regard to Roy Young
coming there before supper and re-
naming after supper, as we'll as
minor incidents up to the time that
Roy Young first went out. The wit
ness said when his brother Henry
went out of the house his brother
Ellie followed after him and heard
the conversation with Hugh Teale.
When Hugh Ieale came in and stood
up in the corner some one came to
the kitchen door and somebody told
them to go around to the other door.
Clarence Teale and Tom Young came
in the east door and Clarence threat
ened to whip his brother Hugh and
the latter said he had better not try
it. Ed Young came in and spoke,
and Clarence Teale sat down and
Tom and Ed Young leaned up against
! the sewing machine. Clarence Teale
wanted to bet that he could drink
more beer than any one in the house
and then he accused Mrs. Zornes OF
tellig the story about him having
Jane Young down there cooking for
him. She denied it and he called her
names. Dad opened the door and
told them to get out and Tom Young
said he couldn't put them out. Saw
Tom Young strike dad and Henry,
and saw Ed Young pull the shot gun
on Henry Saw Tom Young throw
the pump at mother and then threw
the stove hearth and hit her on the
tleg. Then mother got up and her
and Elsie and l went out. She said
to hurry up or they would hurt us.
We went out north of the house.
saw Clarence strike mother with a
club and then he went on. l was
about five feet from her. l saw her
fall then went up to the northeast
corner of the yard where Tom Phil
lips and Ellie were, and Henry Phil
| lips came there from the northeast.
Have known Clarence Teale about a
year. Saw him draw back his club.
l was out in the road when they took
mother in the house. l saw the blood
out on the ground where she fell and
saw the distance measured. Was
there when DR.. Tallman came. I was
there when Roy Young came back
and got a sheep lined coat of Clar-
ence Teale's. l saw Clarence Teale
go west to the fence where father
and Henry were. heard Tom Young
say come on Teale here goes some
more of them let's finish them.
saw the club around the house since
corn planting. Think Harrison
Young made it for Paul feale to
plant corn. Saw it four Or six feet
south of the house the day my moth
err was killed.
ed before court adjourned Thursday
evening.
When court convened. at 9 o'clock
Friday morning the first witness
twas E1Zle Zornes, the twelve year
old son of the murdered woman. He
told of hoy Young coming and stay
ing to supper, and other little details
before the arrival of the other crowd.
Heard Hugh Teale boiler outside
and Roy Young went to the door and
stepped out on the step. He said
soeone wanted to see pa and Henry.
Henry went out and / went out after
him. Hugh Teale said why don't you
invite fellow in, and Henry said he
didn't know whether he would or
not. Hugh Teale followed us in at the
east door. Someone asked him to
take a chair but he wouldn't. Then
someone came and raped on the
kitchen door. Pa said to come around
to the other door. When Clarence
Teale got by the window he said to
send his brother out that he wanted
to whip him. Clarence Teale and Tom
Young came in the east door and
Clarence went over to Hugh and said
he had notion to whip him and
Hugh said he had better not try it.
Ed Young came in at the east door
and leaned against the sewing ma
chine besides Tom Young. Hugh
Teale said he was cook down in the
bottom and Clarence Teale' said ma
was telling around that Jane Young
was cooking for him and ma said it
wasn't so, that Dick Pray had told it
to her. He called ma bad names. Pa
opened the east door and told them
to go If they couldn't behave them
selves, and Tom Young said he
couldn't put them out and then he
hit pa, and knocked him down and
he fell towards the southwest. Then
Tom Young struck ma with the
pump. / did not see him strike Hen
ry. Saw Ed Teale have the shot gun.
He got it in the corner of the room
by the door. He stepped back and
pulled it in Henry's face and said he
would blow his brains out. Ma was
standing between the two beds in the
northeast room. Tom Young hit her
with the stove hearth on the ankles.
He was standing in front of the heat
ing stove. 1 was in the northeast
room. Ma, Willie and l went out the
east door and went north to the cor
ner of the house and then went
northwest out by the molasses pit. I
saw Clarence Teale hit ma with a
board or club. I was standing by the
molasses pit, northeast of her, about
~ feet 7 saw Clarence Teale coming