Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-11

Jones' Wilkerson-s SANDER case which
las occupied the attention of the court
here and most of the people OF the
county for nearly four weeks went to
the jury at midnight Saturday. a
night session ending shortly before
midnight was held to complete the
case.
The case was submitted at 1885
o'clock, following the reading of the
courts instructions to the jury. Those
were voluminous and filled forty
two pages Of typewritten manuscript
They went fully into the law of the
case and were regarded as fair and
impartial.
The climax of the case was reached
jury, in which the attorneys berated
each other in the harshest Kind OF
language, hurled epithets and dis
cussed the evidence. The court room,
was crowded to suffocation all day
with people who wished to hear tile
pleas to the jury.
The case has in many respects been
the most remarkable ever tried in
western Iowa. The testimony has been
exceedingly contradictory and there
has been much bitterness.
Says Wilkerson Has Hypnotic Influence
Referring to Wilkerson Attorney
Pringle. OF counsel for Jones, said TO
the jury:
''He is man of some hypnotic in
fluence. a man of some experience, q
man yersed in the ways Of the world.
man who knows how to raise preju-
dice and knows the value of having
men pre5udced beforehand" Then
Pringle called attention to the Mont
gcmery night meeting at which Jones
was accused and which was opened
with prayer. He knows the most
cunning and insidious way to attack q
man is to attack him surrounded with
officers and members. of the church.
He calls to his assistance in the at
tack on Jones the cloak of the church.
The attorney called up the fact that
lWilkerson opened all his accusations
against Jones at the meetings with the
words II am without prejudice against
anybody, then launched into TRADE
OF abuse and pours out Walls Of wrath
against Jones. He closes his state-
n.ents. hours long with the sentence,
You have the measure Of the man.
''Why does this detective do thiss
He knows as we'll or better than any
enc else. that if you can get the minds
20. a community against a man, no
matter how high he stands: If you can
get his circle against, him heal not
have fair chance. This detective
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bring his case before jury from this
county some time and he was busy
prejudicing the people Of this COM
n,unity so that when the time arrived
when jury would have to determine
whether Senator Jones was connected
with this horrible tragedy at Villisca,
his case would be presented in com
n:unity that had already been preju-
diced"
Appealed to Class"
,Wilkerson appealed to a class, such
as there is in every community. which
likes to hear attacks on man that has
achieved some success.
This defendant organized, prior to
this case and after the meeting of the
grand jury, as industrious and insid
,ious campaign to destroy and assas-
sinate the character OF Senator Jones,
as ever was known in any community.
Then he says he was privileged to do
1t. Why. no man is privileged to do
less man whose success
depends on fastening crime on some-
body. and whose success will be called
greater if that somebody isl one as
widely known as Senator Jones.
'All the evidence presented by the de-
ferdant against Jones. all this framed
up evidence and fanciful and chimeri-
cal statements. group themselves
around the evidence of several persons.
What kind OF a motion picture does
this detective present to you? Here Is
what, in story. is more imaginative
than 'Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer
plot was ever conceived. It has the
ear marks Of q dream. Let's look in
to it,
Slaughter House First Scene.
1.-THE main actors are VIVA Tompkins,
Ed Landers,s e. M. Nelson, Alice Will
lard and j. w. sNoell.
THE first scene is placed down by
the slaughter house, down on the banks
Of the Nodaway, the place where hob
COLLINS and ghosts dwell in the minds
Of children where bandits congregate.
Isn't it good scene
THE next scene IS some nine months
afterwards. near the Moore house.
Three more men enter. and bow to you.
They are becoming acquainted with the
neighbOrhood.
Then the scene changes to night
This is the third reel. Mrs. Alice Will
lard comes out from behind a screen
and leans on the fence and you know
her. Three men come up from the