The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-13
.CORON[R'5 JURY CHARGES
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on the stand Wirth testified that he
saw O'Donnell at about 900 o'clock
on the night OF the murder. Wirth
stated that he was standing in front
lof his house when O'Don..ell passed,
going toward Eighteenth and Timea.
jODonnell seemed to be drunk. Wirth
said good evening to O'Donnell as he
passed. O'Donnell then stopped and
,said to Wirth: My wife's over there
stark naked. Somebody's beat her to
DEATH.
| With said then to o'Donnell: why
don't you call the police?"
O'Donnell said: That's what I'm
going to do
Wirth stated that he stood there
land watched O'Donnell pass down the
street to the corner where he en-
tered the grocery store of Stebingers
With then went into his own house
land called tie police station. When
the officers arrived lie entered the
mouse with them and helped to carry
MRS. osDonnell upstairs. He stated
that the O'Donnell's had lived in the
house since the middle OF october and
that he had never heard any disturb
ance there.
Clarence Hinkley Testifies.
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seventeen year old son o. mrs. O'Don-
nell, who lives at 800 Blonceau street,
failed to throw much additional light
on the crime. The boy stated that he
had not lived at his home since the
first of December. He said that
O'Donnell and his mother had had
trouble before. He had heard O'Don-
nell threaten his mother, saying, Il
will beat you,'' or II will kill YOU"
and that lie had seen O'Doanell strike
his mother. He said that O'Donnell
called him over the telephone Satur-
day night at about 800 o'clock.
TO'Donnell told him that his mother
was sick. The boy asked O'Donnell
to call her to the phone. but O'Donnell
said: She has gone nuts
The boy then caught car and
went to the house, arriving shortly
after the officers. He stated that
ODonnell was in the habit of coming
home drunk, and that when in that
condition he would often throw things
around or throw things in the stove.
Doctors Held Autopsy.
Il The testimony of Doctors Dorsey
and Dimond was almost Identical.
They testified as to- the bruises all
over the woman's body, both on the
front and back, and on the head.
The skin had been rubbed off
her body In number of places, caused
by her having been dragged over the
rough cement floor Of the basement.
They stated that the woman could not
possibly have received her injuries
from her own hand but that they
were suchsas might have pe-n caused
by some blunt instrument, such as the.
poker found at the head Of the stairs.
Dr. Dorsey stated that on the night
Icf the murder, O'Donnell had said to
him just before being placed in the
patrol wagon: Hell, If you think Pm
beat up, you ought to see the other
fellow, 49,
Said II Was Not all His Fault.
Policeman Thomas Freeman testi-
fed that he had gone out to the house
on Saturday night with Officer Shep-
hard in answer to the call. About the
only additional information he gave
was that O'Donnell had said to him
that night before being taken to the
station: You'll find out that amt
all at fault
Officers Found Clothing.
Officers Conn and Holiday testified
that they had gone out to the house
Sunday morning to make an examina-
ton. They found the woman's clothes.
Is skirt rooe, some hair pins, and
some other articles of wearing appar-
81 were found on the floor of one OF
the upstairs rooms, lying in pile
on the floor by pool of blood There
was also blood on the clothes. The
skirt was torn. They foeh.I white
Iundershlrt on the floor in the base
mcnt near the foot of the stairs. 1t
was bloody, tern. and dirty They
said that some parer or rags had
been burned in the store. Both Of
acers testified as did several of the
iother witnesses, that they had seen
the bare foot prints of the woman
iaround the walls OF the basement
room. and that there was blood on the
wallis
County Attorney McManus left last
right for Fort Madison where he will
conduct the prosecution Of Fred Ham
mar. charged with the murder of Artll-
ur Hirschler. The case opens at 200
O'Clock today and will probably last
Cor some time.