Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-16
WIFE MURDERER THROWS HIM.
SELF ON MERCY OF COURT
COMMITTED TO PRISON.
GUILTY SECOND DEGREE
MURDER ouicKs PLEA
Judge Nichols Influenced Not 20 Give
Heavier Sentence by Condition Of
Prisoners Health and Quiek's Rec
ord in Navy-Quiek Will Be so
When Frsed From Prison.

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wife, Mrs. Clara E. Quick, the night of
May 20. pleaded guilty before Judge
| Nichols this forenoon and was SEN
| fenced to thirty years a. hard labor
in the Fort Madison penitentiary.
Quick will be taken to prison Wednes-
day. The entire court proceedings.
which disposed of this, the first murder
case since the Lepley murder, occupied
less than thirty minutes of the courts
| time.
| Indicted for first degree murder,
Quick at first pleaded not guilty, put
this forenoon his attorney Wtthdre"
I the plea. and substituted one of guilty
of murder in the second degree. Ihe
court might have sentenced Quick TOT
| life, but the sentence OF thirty years
| can be shortened to twenty by goou
| behavior. Quick, who is now 80 Will
| be free again when he is so years OLD.
| Country Attorney Aequissess.
| To the plea of murder in the second
degree County Attorney A. G. DAILY
agreed. The court in sentencing Quick,
| was Influenced toward leniency by the
| condition of the prisoners health ana
| his record in the United States navy.
! Quick has a tubercular tendency, which
has become more marked since he at
| tempted to commit suicide the night
of the murder and during his three
months in jail. He is an honorably dis
charged veteran Of the navy.
An effort to secure from the court
no heavier sentence than twenty years
which was made by Quick's attorney.
I Robert E. Johnson. appointed by tho
| court, was not successful.
Had Some Provoeation.
Judge Clarence Nichols mentioned
this effort to tighten the prisoner S
sentence when he sentenced Quick. The
p! court said he could not consent to pass
such Judgment, but added:
Il did say that II you would save
| this county the expense of trial !
would be inclined to pass sentence 1or
a term of thirty years. You are now
approximately 80 years Of age. Good
] conduct will shorten 1t to twenty years
/ Of actual confinement. You will then
be so years OF age.
'sYou have had some provocation. !
have kept in mind the condition OF
1 your health, and your service in the
navy. It is the judgment Of the court
that you be confined in the Fort Madl-
son penitentiary for thirty years.
Attorney Urges Leniency.
! Mr.. johnson urged the court to be
lenient when he arose to address the
| court on behalf of his client. The at
torney said it was the first criminal Of
tense Quick had ever committed, and
called the courts attention to the
tubercular tendency Quick had de-
veloped and the fact that Quick was
an honorably discharged sailor of the
| United States navy.
Taking all these things into consid-
Grafton 1 ask the leniency OF this
! court" he said in closing.
Sentence Suits Prosecutor.
! County Attorney DAILY assured the
court that he believed the ends of JUS
tice would be met if Quick were SEN
fenced to term Of twenty-five or thir-
ty years.
IF the case had been tried, 1 have
no doubt" he said, that the jury
would have returned verdict of guilty
of first degree murder I urge that he
receive the punishment due for his
act"
| Synopsis Of the Crime.
QUICK QdO DeeIl dppoAu@So Cry ooS
catcher just few days before the
murder. Mrs. Quick was divorced
woman when Quick married her. The
couple quarreled and separated and
Mrs. Quick went to work to support
her child and herself.
Quick made an effort, no longer than
few days before the murder. to per-
suade his wife to come back to him.
Mrs. Quick refused. and Quick threat
ened to murder her. and went so far
as to thrust the barrel of the revolver
against her breast.
On the evening of the murder Quick
telephoned the Miller home. sos West
Linn street, where Mrs. Quick was
staying, and attempted to talk with his
wife
Later in the evening Mrs. Quick
went to a dance at Forney's hall. Quick
seized her by the arm and attempted
to drag her down the stairs. but Mr..
and Mrs. Hendrix, who were with Mrs.
Quick. prevented. Quick then threat
ened he would get" his wife, threat
that he had made earlier in the eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hendrix accompanied
Mrs. Quick most of the way home. Aft
err they left her Quick Joined his wife.
They quarreled on the Miller lawn and
Quick there murdered her. Running to
the home OF his sister, Mrs. Charles
Hopkins. 507 West Church, Quick at
tempted to kill himself. The bullet
failed to inflict fatal wound. Since
then the murderer has been In Jail ex-
cept for few days, following the trag-
edy. when he was a patient under
guard a. st. Thomas hospital.
Edwards Pays 500 Fine.
The buggy ride taken Sunday by
C. Z. Edwards and Thomas Reece, OF
the Bangor neigIiborhood, proved not
only expensive to Reece, VINO is in ST.
Thomas hospital with compound
Rrao4,ra Of the left anklo hut To Ed