The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-04
WHY PROFESSOR
KILLED DARLING
Continued from page IL

mysteries OF the pshysic world entered
into the trial of Prof Oscar Olson OF
the University Of Minnesota for the
murder of Clyde Darling. The power
OF mentral control was flashed into
the story of Olson as he today de-
scribed in broken sentences the con-
fessions of his wife.
Il was held in his arms and he
would gaze into my eyes until he had
me under his control His mind mas
tered mine and could only do what
he wished. He hypnotized me.''
This is what Olson declared his
wife had told him. Under the mental
scouraging Of County Attorney
O'Brien, the prisoner was forced to
go into detail of the alleged intimacy
between his wife and the murdered
man.
Word by word, sentence by sentence,
with odd little rushes OF descriptions,
the suffering man gave up the story.
His body turned and twisted and his
lips trembled. but he was forced to
bare every vestige of the skeleton in
his home. He gave description of
his talks with his wife in the bedroom
after his return home at her tele-
graphed request and he dwelt on the
excuses she offered him.
That man has strange power
over me- Olson said his wife told
him. "He looks and looks at me I'M
til feel my will swaying and my
moral hold loosening i can deny
him nothing. | am in horror of him. .
Olson told of the first confession
and of his visit to the Office of the
Capital laundry where he waited for
an hour for Darling to appear. He de.
clared his wife had told him at that
time that the driver had held her in
his arms and kissed her and made i'm
proper proposals. She did not tell
then of threats of the other crime.
II warned him to stay away from
my home or suffer the consequences,
Olson said he told Darling, in the
presence of the manager of the laun
dry.
From there he was led to tell of the
buying of the revolver. He dwelt or
the threats that Darling had made
according to his wife's story. ''He says
he will kill you if he cannot have
me- were the words the wife tolt
him.
With the terror and shame heav,
on him, he declared he strove desper
ately to secure place in another in
stitution SO he could leave the city
He said he had no intention of killing
Darling at that time. He intimatet
that from his wifes story he feared
that he was helpless to protect her a.
his work called him away and he
moral and mental powers were unde
! what she termed "superhuman in
/ fluence."
1t was evident from the story O
i Olson that from the time his wifi
confessed her guilt in November unit
the time of the shooting he lived in
constant state of terror. Darling
threats of murder and suicide, a
conveyed to Olson by the wife, wer
turned over and over in his mind
lie could not refrain from talking
over the matter with his wife. Th
home that had been a happy one nov
became a place where horrible
secret, silent shame, threat O
death and worse was ever present.
Every minor event in the life O
each became finger pointed to
tragedy According to his story
hearse passing aroused the fear o
death in their hearts. A slam of
door was pistol shot. The wall o
i a night prowling cat became a scream
of mortal agony.
Olson bought pistol in December
shortly after Darling had followed hin
and Mrs. Olson for two blocks. TIL
couple were sure he was followin
them with death In his heart an
/ perhaps in his hand
The pistol was taken home an
placed on a beam in the cellar. TIL
wife was not told OF the purchase
IOlson intimated that he was afraid t
let her know of the weapons presenc
in the house He did not say why
but the message the prisoners word
gave was that he feared that sh
would use it on herself He then toll
of his hunt for Darling On the day Q
the confession in June. He met him /
the evening at the laundry.
''I've got to admit 1t, said DARLING
according to Olson, when they met i
the laundry Office and Olson asked a
to the hugging and kissing of his wife
81 warned him to stay away fror
my home or he would have to suffe
the consequences" Later he adde
that he did not have any definit
course of action planned at the tim
in case Darling ignored the warning
From this point he described the SCI
ond confession of his wife, made |
November. 1t was this time that sh
wired him to come home.
She met me at the door and kisse
me- Then she said oscar do loo
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