South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-17

The former told OF a conversation
with Eversole Saturday morning in
the presence of Schwartz and Gully in
which Eversole asked whether Davey
was entitled TO plead at the bar in st.
Joseph county. Upon being told that
he was not by Bailey. Eversole is said
by Gully and Schwartz, TO have
shouted angrily:
We'll, keep him away from here,
then. l am afraid Of him, and / do
not want him to come up here. Tell
my people to come, but tell them to
leave Davey behind"
Murdered on Tuesday
The police department and Coroner
SwantZ have agreed that Cora Logan
Brandon was murdered on last Tues
day night, or at least that most of the
evidence is 20 that effect. Search for
the mysterious ALEC" whose last
name is unknown, is continued.
Deputy Pros. Schwartz declared
Tuesday morning that the further the
state deived into the case, the greater
became the evidence that EVersole
might have committed the murder of
the Logan woman. That there was
an understanding of some sort be-
tween the Logan woman and EversOle
since the night of the Macklin muir
der and that the woman knew more
than was ever made public concern
ing the affair. all Investigators are
convinced.
IS. Newton Eversole. the SON" said
Sheriff Bailey, knows more of the
case than he has told, in my opinion"
From Bailey, for the first time since
Eversole's arrest last Thursday, was
obtained Tuesday morning a state
ment OF the events leading up TO the
arrest and Immediately following. 1t
was as follows:
tSaTed Investigation.
1T was upon the advice of Deputy
Gully. who had "a conversation with
an eX-Dunkard minister that / de-
cided TO investigate the case. Gully
and I started from South Bend for
Elkhart after we had learned that
Sheriff Scott Thomas OF Goshen was
also going 10 Bristol TO interview
EversOle At Elkhart. Kuespert join
ed US and we all-CUlIy, Kuespert.
Thomas and myself,-drove to the
home OF EversOle. There we learned
that he had gone TO Bristol.
When we arrived in the town, We
located Eversole. his son and another
man in one of the stores. We posed
as probable purchasers of the Ever
sole farm. until EVersole admitted his
by one arm. a young man there
started 10 interfere. and Gully asked
MN his name. He Said il was New
ton Eversole.
/ want you. too, then said Gully.
ana ne called me. We took them TO
Goshen, where the elder Eversole
came nearer. ] think, TO telling US
what he knew o fthe case than he did
AT any other time. However. shut Up
ike clam when he found there was
no mob had formed as Detective
huespert had told him Kuespert at
tempted 10 question him, but could
sam no information from him.
Is Brought Here.
we brought the elder Eversole TO
South Bend and left the younger in
the Goshen Jail. With the exception
! OF Saturday morning. Eversole refused
20 talk. At that time he asked me
about Atty. Davey and 1 told him
that Davey had been said by several
/ local attorneys whom 1 talked with.
not To be able To plead a case before a
county court He said that that was
| his oniniOn also. and that he had not
known Davey until he had been re-
, tanned by Mrs Eversole. although the
I latter had claimed that Davey had
managed their affairs for some time.
| The last time Eversole was eren