Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-05
Rock Islander Tells Of Elk.
change of Visits in House
Where He Roomed.
DEFENDANT is RELEASED
Mrs. Rena b. Morrow Freed on $25,.
900 Bond Pending Murder
Charge Hearing.

Morrow, the inventor, who was found
slain on the rear porch Of his house,
4545 Michigan avenue, Thursday Of
last week.
Judge Fake, appointed sole arbiter
to determine whether the woman
ought to be released or held for grand
jury action. indicated the question of
her release was serious one.
Assistant States Attorney Northrup
produced much testimony and opposed
her temporary freedom in any sum.
The court, however, took in consid-
Grafton an offer from Attorney
Charles E. Erbstein to place upon the
stand at once Masonic lodge members
who would swear the widow rejected
Morrow's repeated request for crema-
ton.
Erbstein pointed out that if Mrs.
Morrow had complied with this Gre
nation request when the coroner
turned the body back to her on the
day of the first inquest, when a YER
dict of suicide was given, it would
not have been possible for Coroner's
Physician Springer to have held the
secret autopsy which caused the pres
ent charge of murder.
TELLS OF WOMAN BEING MISSING.
Mrs. F. H. Woods, a roomer in the
house, swore that Mrs. Morrow was
strangely missing from her room
when the shots were fired.
Mr. Morrow had been absent from
home for some days and l was sur
prised to find him in the dining room
on the third floor the Wednesday
night he was killed." testified Mrs
Woods. "We chatted together foI
perhaps a half hour while We ate and
he was in a jovial mood. 1t might
have been 8 o'clock or $50 when ]
heard two shots.
81 ran to the window and looked
1 out. Then i went to thes :thresholi
Of the dining room and called Mrs
Morrow. There was no response
There was light in the kitchen
Perhaps ten minutes later / remem
? bered my laundry had not been SEN
away and 1 stepped into the hall ant
called Mrs. Morrow. She heard me
and invited me to enter her room
She was in her night gown, combine
, her hair. She was not hysterical ant
acted as if nothing had happened.
D "She peered out the door over my
: shoulder and asked me If / had no
g ticed Mr.. Morrow, that she was afraiC
s of him. twitted her about his return
: to the house and she said he cam,
0 back on Christmas and wished her
n merry Christmas.
b., Thursday morning | was awakened
o by her crying in the hall. The bod.
a had just been discovered and Mrs
e Morrow asked me to quiet the sery
n ants. l did so. Mrs. Morrow slept Il
e my room Thursday night and Frida
r morning we were both startled by
d report similar to the two pistol shot
e of Wednesday night. Mrs. MorroN
: told me she didn't hear the shot
u Wednesday night. l heard loud voice
s. in the hall and supposed it was a Ii
tie family quarrel"
e ROOMER TELLS OF QUARREL.
u VIII H. Palmer, also a roome
Il swore that Morrow quarreled with "'
IL woman" behind closed doors and wa
, heard to assert his rights as head {
"a the household shortly before the tw
Ii shots were fired.
81 heard Morrow shout, 'Hereafte
| am going to have my meals serve
in the regular dining room. Your
T not doing right" testified Paine
:. who occupied the sleeping room nea
est to MoTrow's kitchen bedroom.
- couldn't recognize the other voice, b,
- 1t was during this commotion tn;
n the shots We're fired. There was
- light in Morrow's room, but this ws
30 extinguished subsequently,"
n Harry G.. Gilmore, the automobi
,s salesman whose name has frequentl
n been mentioned in the case, testifie
a against the defendant. He swore
O. visiting Mrs. Morrow in her room c
r two occasions and said she returne
both visits.
m Gilmore went into great detail
discussing his doings at the MORO
rooming house at 4545 South Micf
gan avenue. His testimony appeare
perfectly free and he did not seem
have the slightest hesitancy in ri
IN turing himself in a light from whiC
r. the ordinary individual would shrin
ny VISITS WOMAN AT STATION.
IN Mrs. Morrow wept while GiImo
he assailed her, but made no display
n her feelings couple of hours lat
s. when he visited her at the Hyde Pa
station and asked permission to
move his personal belongings fro
her house
B. Inspector Clancy was elated wi
of his showing and declared his int
d, ton of proving that Mrs. Morrc
rt slipped from her own room on I
1T third floor of the house, down the ba
ce stairs, and entered Morrow's kitch
as bedroom on the second floor, and sh
e. him, and then she returned to her oy
ed room to chat with Mrs Woods as
lnothing had happened.