The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-15
Attorney Theodore A. Craig Makes
Eloquent Argument for convle-
tlon Of William
Dunn.
DEFENDANT CONFIDENT
Mecoid Tears States Case to Pieces
In Early Part of Argument and
Is Given Closest
Attention.

Theodore A. Craig, county attorney,
opened the argument for the state In
the Dunn case at 2:15 o'clock Friday
afternoon and spent two hours sum-
ming up the evidence for the state.
Mr.. Craig made a strong argument,
picking out the weak points in the
testimony introduced by the defense
and dwelling upon the facts as pre-
sented by the state.
The attorney was given the closest
attention by the jury and court and
he presented his statements with
mastery force.
One by one he tore open the breast
works of the defense that had been
drawn around the defendant by
Messrs. Hughes and McCoid, and
showed the jury how the evidence in
troduced by the state had completely
shattered all that produced by the de-
Tense He took the witnesses state
ments and showed how all the evil
dence pointed to the fact that Dunn
had carried the gun and had gone
/ down Fifth street to where he knew
Hickey was for the express purpose
of killing him.
He ridfculed the testimony OF Char
les Jester. saying that the boy was
too deeply interested in the case to
give unbiased testimony and that the
rebuttal testimony Of Mcpherson,
Cavanaugh and Clemmons was suffi-
n;o 10 "A IF "a
4 jury in this matter.
I Mr. Craig finished shortly after
four O'Clock and Mr.. McCoid immedi-
ately began his address. Seldom has
court of Lee county heard more
4 eloquent and graphic plea for a mans
liberty than that which Mr.. McCoid
made in defense OF William Dunn.
The speaker began by taking the
statements of MT. Craig and picking
them to pieces, waxing more and
more eloquent in his efforts and fin
ally coming down to graphic de
scription Of the way in which the
shooting occurred.
Blood Stained Shirt.
4 Walking UP to the jury with the
blood stained shirt worn by Mr.
/ Hickey upon that night Of May 2sth
he showed them how the powder
burns were self-evident that the men
i were at close quarters when the shots
4 were fired He called their attention
4 to the fact that man who was as
badly afraid of Hickey as Dunn was
would hardly walk UP that close tc
him and shoot him when the act
could have been done from safer
range.
He recalled to the attention of the
jury the testimony of Charles Jester
the only eye witness to the whole
affair who said that Hickey struck
the defendant before the shots were
fired The way Dunn was struck
the attorney described by taking the
heavy cane of Mr.. Hickey and hold
ling 1t SO thai the blow, such as
lclaimed by Dunn, could have been
made.
Mr.. McCoid 6welt upon the state
ment that the jury would be commit
ting much greater crime than was
charged against the defendant if they
sentenced an innocent man to prison
and that several Of the states wit
nesses had contradicted themselves
upon the stand. Chief among these
were the men who had testified that
they took the gun out of the defend
ants hand Two men testified that
they had relieved Dunn of the gun.
At five o'clock Friday evening court
adjourned until nine O'Clock Saturday
morning.
! Attorney MeCoid again took the
floor and did not finish his argu
ment when Judge Bank adjourned
court until Monday at nine O'Clock
Mr.. McCoid did not get through his
argument and it is thought that he
\ will take most OF the morning.
Mr.. Miller will close for the state
and Judge Hughes will make the last
appeal for the defendant.
Dunn expressed great confidence al
the close of court Saturday morning
+ and declared that he would soon be
free.
Said More Than He Eeant.
/