The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-17
my fathers hands this was after faith

| my fathers hands this was after faith
er was hit.
i Question: After Tom Young struck
your father you saw Ed Young grab
the gun out of your father hands?
Answer: Yes sir. When my
mother, brother and 1 went out OF
the house Clarence Teale was the
only one in the house. was behind
my mother. After we got to the
corner of the house / walked in front
of my mother. When l first saw
Clarence Teale he was between the
we'll and cave. He run directly to
where mother was and struck her
with board or club.
Henry Zornes testified as follows:
I Tom struck me when l was trying
to get the shot gun. That was after
father had been knocked down. Ed
Young got the shot gun and pulled it
in my face and said he would shoot
my brains out. 1t was loaded. l
put the shells in it. The gun has a
safety on it. The second time | was
knocked down in the door Of the kit
chen. Father and l went out Of the
house, then Tom, Ed and Roy Young
was pursuing us. We went to get
some rocks. Hugh Teale was there
with revolver and some stove wood.
He said if we picked up the rocks he
would shoot our brains out. He had
; it in his pocket when we first went
out, and he pulled it in our faces. He
didn't throw any wood at us this
time. l went to the wood pile. l
; went to get an axe but they were
; gone. Tom Phillips and | had chop
ped wood there about o'clock. They
> followed us up to some place east of
!, the barn, and they run out of wood.
They just stopped throwing long
enough to go back and get more
) wood. During the time they stopped
, to get the wood ] saw Clarence Teale
, coming from the northwest corner of
the house. He had a club or a
board She was facing the south
when he struck her. 1t knocked her
, down. One of the boys was close to
; her. And the other one wasn't very
} far away. l was about forty seven
feet from where she was struck.
Hugh Teale told us not to get any
; rocks. We were probably twelve
, feet from the southwest door. l new.
2 err swore on the preliminary trial that
. l went down to get some wood.
| Willie Zornes testified as follows:
, The next l saw OF Tom he was out
, when mother was hit. l don't know
when he went out. l don't know
whether he went out before me OF
not. | did not swear in the case oil
? the State of Iowa against Clarence
2 Teale that these parties came to Oul
house about half past nine o'clock,
3 said half past eight or nine. ! never
< saw Hugh Teale do any thing thai
| night l don't know whether he said
| or did anything of any kind or char.
acter out of the road that night OF
7 not. | don't know how long after
: Henry had been knocked in the kit
chen before Tom Young, Clarence
| and Hugh Teale went out in the kit
7 chen. l can't give the number oil
minutes.
3 ! heard some remark made about
| it being a noise like occurred at the
supper table. When that was said,
2 think my mother says, Teale is thai
you. Immediately after that Clar
l ence said, didn't know you were ir
3 there Mrs. Zornes, where's Ora;
? Then l heard some conversation
I about her shocking corn up there
3 and what pay she was getting. Teale
e said he could give her more money
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3 him. Some one said something abou1
!. losing their cook down there. Hugh
: Teale said he was the only cook
l down there. If there was anything
1 said about the cook I guess this talk
2 about the cook was after the corr
I business. Then Clarence Teale
f spoke up and said there had been 6
2 report going around. Mother sale
l,Lo l.
3 ried. Teale then said something
i. about the report there was about
!. their cooking down there. Mother
! said it was a lie, that Dick Pray tolC
! it, and that she hadn't started it
. Clarence Teale said that Dick Pray
t or anybody else that said it was 8
t mother said, put them out. The bot
t double window. The west bottom
l only one glass in each sash. The
y table cloth was fastened over the
window. The windows were broker
: out the Saturday night before at the
t dance when Kirkpatrick and Collins
l sey was at our house. l don't know
: ucIlcI IllCy NC1C pay llS pOhC1 ou
S at the barn or not.
1t will be noted from the foregoing
that only Levi and Henry Zornes
= testified to any conduct on the part
r of Hugh Teale evincing any hostil
e ity whatever toward anyone. They
l were partially corroborated by Tom
!, Phillips The evidence in contradic
e ton of these witnesses is strong
r ly supported by all the circum
r stances of the case. According
$ to the defendants testimony, he
! never had revolver. 1t is
e undisputed that no revolver was
: in fact used. That a person bent or
murder and equipped with a revolver
t in his right hand should want to load
4 his left arm with stove wood presents
( weight of improbability, difficult tc
3 carry. True, the jury had a right tc
3 accept the statements of Zornes in
!. that respect-in preference to the 9th
3 er testimony. And yet, the duty de-
! wolves upon us to examine the entire
+ ,ocOrd and fo satisfy ourselves thai