New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-24
STIEL0W WINS
MONTH OF LIFE
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Mr.. Kohn have read the record and
that they believe Stielow 70 be inno-
cent. Then there is an affidavit by DR..
George Kirby TO the effect that S'lelow
is mentally deficient, and dictograph
record OF a conversation between De-
tective George Newton and Mr.. Kohn
in the latter's Office in New York.
Mr.. Knickerbocker asked time TO
study the new affidavits. Justice Suth-
erland also pleaded for time. Because
his calendar is crowded Justice Roden-
beck set September p for arguments.
That there may be no further COM
plants concerning withheld papers, ne
directed that Stielow's attorneys sub
nit whatever affidavits they have to
Mr.. Knickerbocker on September Is and
that the states return affdaylts De
served on the defence ten days later.
In the new Stielow aihdavits two
newspaper men, a reporter ana pho-
tographer. on the staff of "The Buffalo
Times" ten having heard King make
his second cllfession TO the double
murder in the presence of District At
torney Knickerbocker.
Auburn Prisoner Concerned.
Clarence O'Connell. now in Auburn
prison for another crime, and alleged
by the LAWYERS representing Stielow TO
have been Kings accompllce IN the
murders at West Shelby, Is the subject
of several Of the derositions.
Charles Lasky and p J wife, in whose
home at West Barre O'Connell lived IN
March. 1915, make the sworn statement
that O'Connel drove away from the
house on the afternoon Of Sunday,
March 81, headed toward Medina, and
did not return until some time after
midnight.
O'Connell, the Laskys assert, was in
his light. spring buggy-the vehicle
described in Kings confession. King
it will be remembered, says he was
Joined in Medina by O'Connell the even
ing of March 81. 1915, and that the TWO TWO
drove to Phelps's home in OConnelIs
rig. III,
that O'Connell told them at the break
fast table the following morning that
Phelps and his housekeeper had been
murdered at West Shelby the night be-
fore, adding that money was the mo-
tive. Since the bodies were not discov-
cred until ) o'clock the next morning,
by which time O'Connell must have been
well on the way back to West Barre, II
not already there, the inference drawn
by the Stielow lawyers is obvious. fet,
il Is pointed out, that such a remark
as he is said to have dropped would De
foreign TO a person credited with the
criminal shrewdness that the defence
attributes 70 0'Connell.
The following day, according. &c
Lasky and his wife, 0'Connell Dor
rowed a bicycle and rode 70 Medina,
where. he said, he had business.
There Is another affidavit sworn to by
Leo Nowak, a farmer. At $3.50 o'clock
on the morning following the double
murder. Nowak said, he came upon p
pedestrian in the state road south OF
Shelby Centre and gave him a lift IT
his lumber wagon. From his passenger
he got the information that "a man
and woman" had been murdered at
West Shelby the night before.
ale said he was in hurry 70 get 70
the Alabama station TO get the Wes'
Shore train" the affidavit continues. 81
said il was almost as near to go to
Medina and get the train there, but he
said NO. must get IL here He rode
with me as far as the stave mill. |
turned east on the road that goes east
at that place, and this man got off the
wagon and went walking south in the
road. He was very nervous while on
the wagon, kept rubbing his hands to-
gether and kept looking back of him"
Nowak is not acquainted with King,
but from pictures which he has seen
Swears he is positive King and his pas
sengers were the same.
Sill other affidavits, made BY Bern
hard Hall, Of Alden; Mary Hall, his
wife; Horace Aylsworth and Mrs. Nell
lie Aylsworth, of Crittenden, and Au-
gustus Drischler. OF Newstead, purport
to show that Kings actual mover lnii
in the days follow ng the nu,dti Inc
With those listed l. hii rtpuiiated
confession.
Alfred T. Lane. small arms and
ammunition expert IN the employ of
the Remington Arms-Union Metallic
Cartridge Company, is the author of
an affidavit declaring that the bullets
taken from the bodies of Phelps and
his housekeeper bear no distinctive
markings showing them TO have come
from any particular gun or make OF
gun or that they even came from the
same weapon. At Stielow's trial ex-
perts for the state testified there were
grooves in the bullets showing they
were fred from a revolver afterward
.