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

said that they were not playing poker
there that evening. Saw no one on
top of the cave. | ran around the
cave and then to the northeast, stop
ping quite ways from the north
east corner of the yard. No one
struck a lick in the house that l
saw except Tom Young. Denied tell
ing Paul Hubbell story as printed
in the Grand River Local as to Ian
lguage, and also denied telling Fred
Fuller that Roy Young took no part
in the trouble in the house. Had
no whiskey there at the house that
night, ana no express package was
brought there that evening. Had
not been drinking any. Witness adj
mitted that he could not read or
write.
HENRY ZORNES.
the IS year old son of the murder
came there that evening about 4:30
or o'clock. Did not say why he
came. Remained for supper. Told
the same story of the minor events of
the evening up to the time that some
one came to the house and hallowed,
Roy Young went out and came back
in and said somebody wanted to see
Lee and Henry. He was kind of
grinning when he went out. When he
came back he picked up the poker
and went and stood on the west side
Iof the room. | went out and saw
Hugh Teale looking in at the win
dow. No one else was in sight. He
wanted to know if | was going to
invite him in. l told him l didn't
know whether l was or not. He
went in first and went to the south
west corner of the room and stood
there No one offered him a chair
Clarence Teale came and hit on the
kitchen door and said something,
don't know what it was, and Tom
Phillips said for him to go around
to the other door. Clarence Teale
and Tom Young came in. Father
got up and told Clarence to take a
seat and he did so, and Tom stood
up against the sewing machine. Clar-
ence said he had a notion to whip
Hugh for running off from him, but
would let it go this time, but never
wanted it to happen again. Ed
Young came in about three minutes
after the others, just pushed the
l.
said, I'm the cook down there
and Clarence told mother he heard
that she had been telling around
that he had Jane Young down there
doing the cooking for him. She de-
MED it and said that Dick
Pray had told it there. He
cussed her and called her vile
name and father opened the door and
told them to leave. Tom Young said
put us out if you can and hit him on
the head with the bicycle pump. Saw
him strike twice. The stirrup broke
of the first time he hit him. Father
got up and he raped him again over
the head. I was in the room near
the flower table on the south side
near the double window. l tried to
get the shot gun and Tom Young hit
me and Ed Young grabbed the shot
gun and pulled it in my face and
|said he would shoot my Cd d-m
brains out. Tom Young struck me
land knocked me down twice with tne
Ipump. I fell near the kitchen door.
Then Tom threw the pump at mother
and also threw the stove hearth at
her. He was near the stove when he
threw the pump, and she was in the
northeast room between the beds.
He was about five or six feet from
her. l went out the southwest door
and saw Hugh Teale south of the
door. I went out to get rocks. Hugh
Teale said if I picked up any rocks
he would shoot our brains out. He
had stove wood and threw it at us.
Saw him giving wood to Ed and Tom
Young. l then went southwest to
the wood pile to get an axe and was
going to fight with it, but both axes
were gone. Saw them last at four
O'Clock that afternoon when Tom
Phillips and I were cutting wood.
We left them on the chopping block.
They pursued us until they ran out of
wood and rocks. We went north and
west. l saw Clarence Teale hit
mother. He was about five feet
from her when l saw him. was As
feet from there, by a stump of post.
Mother turned around and he struck
her overhanded. She fell to the ground
to the west. Father was so or so
feet away from mother. Tom Young
said here goes the rest Of them, let's
finish them. Clarence Teale came
within a couple of rods of me. Have
known him eight or nine months.
Was we'll acquainted with him and
could not be mistaken in it being
Clarence Teale who struck mother.
1t was moonlight and could tell who
party was. My two little brothers
were with mother. 1t looked like
they were four or five feet from her.
Then they threw at us again and ran
US $50 or 100 feet. l saw father
knocked through the fence. We went
by the barn then around by the gap
to the east side of the house. Tried
to find shot gun but could not. Then
father and went out and brought
mother to the house. There was blood
on the ground and where she had
vomited. l heard Clarence Teale say
let's go back and finish the d-m
BIB. She said to put her on the bed
that she was cold. She talked in a
mumbling way. went to jeff Blades
and got there about 10 o'clock. Roy
Young came in our house and got
Clarence Teale's sheep lined coat be-
hind the stove I asked him where