Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-24
attorneys USE FISTS
OPPOSING COUNSEL IN MoULTON
ARSON CASE COME TO BLOWS
IN COURT ROOM.
LAWYERS UNDER ARREST
FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT
Sensations Of Day in court-Defense
Would Diseredit Testimony Of Ray
Repiosie - Alleged $500 Jackpot
Figures in Days Hearing.

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! torney Howell 70 state that the check
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was Te2.eNleaeo. was really in payment
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croft 10 MAKE a confession, ne refusing
an the time ana saying ne Aao ao1le
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eight pages long, that would SEND MN
70 the pen.
The interview lasted into SUNDAY
morning. when the hre deputy re-
marked he couldn't take statement
: on Sunday anyway and they left Clar-
ence seihert told Of calling Ray Rep
: logic the night Of the fire several times
ct his home, getting no answer, and
: shaking on the door, when Kay an
swered that he had been asleep, and
: that about five minutes later Ray ana
his wife went TO the fire, after the ele-
vator roof had fallen in Mrs William
9 Bennett and Mrs. Allen corroborated
Seibert in this.
Defense After Rep'os'e.
Another strange development OF the
: day vas when John Smith was put on
: the stand. He SAID ne vas al the Croft
: yard the day Mr.. Gleason came over
from West Grove 10 identify the man
: who sold seed there under the name OF
john Smith. and ne was pointed out
az tce nan. When Gleason was on the
: stand ne positively identified jim
! Hendon as the man ne picked out. the
. Two man stood Up together and We're
i the same height and build, but smith
was smooth faced and HaEdon with .
n Il..sracFe. The witness sald hs WORKED
i at the elevator the cay before the Are
and that Ray Repiosle loafed around
most Of the day Aauhng sand ana did
= not haul several leads OF lumber TO
! Hendon's as he had testified
. Lew Fowler, night watch and street
: commissioner at Aou!ton, said Pay
= Rsplogle said 10 him after the fire that
: others were holding Croft up for
r,oner and he vas going to also. and
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have or testify against him.
New Line Of Defense Revealed.
Several witnesses were put on q
= testify that the reputation Of both John
Replogle and his son Ray was bad 70.
truth ana ve-aciry.
q Tie defense curing nc SaE revea l@G
q another Of its lines of defense BY stat