The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-13
Inquest Held at 800 O'Clock
Yesterday Afternoon Nine
Witnesses Testify Be
fore Jury.
HE PLEADS NOT GUILTY
o 'Donnell Arraigned in Super :
ior Court Bound Over
to Grand Jury With
out Bail.

Mathew ODonnell was arraigned il
the superior court late yesterday az
ternoon on an information charging
/ him with the murder of his wife
Inez O'Donnell, in the first degree
O'ponnell himself entered a plea OF
not guilty. waived preliminary exam
nation, and was bound over to the
grand jury without bail. His case
VII come up during the February term
of the grand jury which meets on
February 8.
The coroner's inquest over the body
o. lnez O'Donnell was held yesterday
afternoon at 200 o'clock. The jury
returned the following verdict: I'VE,
the jury find that Inez ODonnell came
to her death from wounds and bruiseS
inflicted by her husband, Mathew
O'Donnell."
Coroner's Jury.
The jury was composed of the fol
lowing men, all of whom live In the
near vicinity OF the O'Donnell home.
outs Stebinger, Richard +. Sullivan,
/ and Frank G. Miller The following
witnesses. testified at the inquest:
Bernard Conn. policeman, Warren Hol-
llday, iailer, w. A. SHEPPARD, police
man, Thomas Freeman, policeman,
Clarence HinkIey, son of Inez O'Don-
nell, DR.. Dimond. DR. Dorsey. Herman
With, and Thomas Walden.
Testimony Of Thomas Walden.
Thomas Walden. 1901 Timea, was
the first witness placed on the stand.
Walden lives near the O'Donnell
house and wns acquainted with both
O,ponnell and his wife. He. testified
that he saw OsDonneII on the after
room of the murder between 4:30
and $3.50 O'Clock. He stated that It
was his opinion that at that time
0'Donnell was not intoxicated. He stat.
ed that he was aware,of the fact that
oDonnell and his wife had had diff
ficnlties before but that he had never
seen O'Donnell beat. his wife. He
stated that on last Thursday o'Don.
nell's wife had said in his house that
she could not live the way she had
been any longer" The neighbors,
said Walden, were under the impress
sion that O'Donnell was in the habit
of beating his wife. d
OFFICER Sheppard Made Arrest.
Policeman W. A. SHEPPARD when
placed on the stand, stated that he,
together with Officer Freeman, an
swered the call to the O'Donnell
house on Saturday night He stated
that he went to the house at about
800, After searching through the
upstairs part Of the house he found
Mrs ODonnell at the foot OF the
stairway leading to the cellar. He
heiped to carry her up stairs and place
her IN bed where she died within a
lew minutes. He stated that he no.
ticed the iron poker lying in the
doorway at thestop OF the cellar stairs
ne went to the house of Herman
With next door and called the station
70 nave them notify the coroner He
,hen went out on the street to look
Tor o'Donnell and found him in few
minutes at the corner OF Eighteenth
ana limea streets. O'Donnell seemed
TO be intoxicated. he stated, when ar
rested, and was staggering. When
ne arrested him. Sheppard stated that
ne sad to O'Donnell: You are just
'he man we were looking for O'Don.
neil said. What do you want? Let
go OF me- o'Donnell ker, mumbling
uIunkenly and said after while.
where's my wife?"
Talked to o'Donnell Before Arrest
herman With. 172s Timea. who
owns the houro in which o'Donnell
ved, and who lives in the same block
win the O'Do~ aell home, was placed