Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-12
Defense SCORES /
KELLEY REED .IIAL
SHOW A SECOND PAIR OF
BLOODSTAINED OVER
AILS FOUND
State Rested at Noon and De
feusc Immediately
Began.

Special 10 Tho World
CAPULPA, okla, Dec. ll-Court
- was kept until O'Clock tonight
in tho Kelly Reed case by the intro
ductiou of new witness for the de
fense named Cecil Thurston Of jerks,
who was suhpocnaed in the courtroom
at the instance Of some member OF
the Heed family The testimony was
new to both the defense and the state
and in substance was as follows:
lie had been searching for the little
girl on the day after the crime and
about two hundred feet from where
the body was afterward found he
picked up pair OF blue Oyeralls
(Repds overalls were Yellow on
which he thought were blood stains.
He could not be positive. but he
thought they we're blood stains He
tok the overalls home and showed
them to his wife and mother and then
turned them over TO Turner Brown,
brother Of the dead girl.
His mother and wife were then
called on the stand and COrroborated
hts statements, but on oss-eXamina-
tion said the stains might have been
made by oil or something OF that
kind.
Turner Brown not being in the
courtroom, tho states attorneys asked
for continuance until . o'clock this
morning.
State Rested at Noon.
Before the state rested at noon 1t
| introduced some now and important
testimony linking up the chain of tvi-
! dence between the time Kelley left
l<iefer and arrived home. Mrs Ida
| Spurgeon OF Neosho, Mo, testified
/ that Kelley had boarded there before
and arrived Saturday morning after
/ the crime. Before the morning pa
/ pers were out he told her that little
/ girl had been assaulted and killed by
/ three boys and that the body was
/ found with "A rock on It's head. The
morning papers which came after
ward did not have any story Of the
finding Of the body but told only that
! tho girl was missing.
| Previous testimony had shown that
! Kelley left Kiefer several hours be-
fore the body was found.
An Expert Witness.
The first witness for the defense
after an able opening speech by l.. j
| Burt was Or SpurgeOn of Springfield
who was put on to try and cOntrovert
the testimony Of Or. DeBarr. He In
| troduced n number OF books on physi-
Ology which. he said, did not contain
! DeBarrs discovery that the blood OF
! different people could be told apart
! On ross-eXumination, however. and
after both he and DeBarr had been
recalled he admitted that the books
! were textbooks for scholars and were
not exhaustive works on blood tests
| practically throwing that evidence
out OF court, and that was the only
evidence produced that injured DR.
Dcl3arr's testimony in any way.
Mr.. Rungert 1T whose house KELLEY
had lived. testified that Kelley left
the morning before tho body wa.
found. and that he had on a gra,
suit. He could not tell. however. the
color OF the suit he wore on the same
day
County Attorney Decker was IN al
his home yesterday and unable TO at
tend court. but IT Is thought he vii
be back tomorrow.
The daughter of l.. J. Burt. CHIEF
counsel for the defense. was taken II
with diphtheria yesterday and quar-
untined.
The mother-in-law of B. l.. Spruill
one OF the jurors. died after he hac
been empaneled. and the entire iur,
had TO attend the funeral with him. a,
the law would not let him 20 off Ia,
jury or permit him TO go to the fu
neral by himself