The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-24
Attorney Shows Crimson
Splotch Head Rest Which
He Says Wife Lay on as
She Was Slain.
RATCHET KILLED HER,
PHYSICIAN DECLARES
Children Could Not Be Awaken
ed to Realize Mothers Fate,
Asserts Detective-Hints They
Might Have Been 'Doped.'

st. Joseph, Mo-, Nov. 20.-Suddenly
pulling from underneath the counse
table bloodstained pillow, upon which
the State alleges rested the head OF
Mrs. Mcdaniel, when she was murder.
cd, the prosecution in the trial of Pros
ecutor Oscar D. Mcdaniel, charged
with the murder of his wife, caused q
sensation this afternoon.
The pillow, with great crimson
splotches upon it, is one of the main
exhibits. Its introduction raised to It's
feet the audience which filled the
courtroom to almost overlooking, while
groans and means were heard Sick
cned by the sight of it, women turned
away their faces and buried them in
handkerchiefs.
As though determined to drive home
his sensation to the uttermost. with
the pillow held in his hands before
him, so that it, with its stains were a
sickening sight, Prosecutor Lockwood
brought forth this statement from De
tective Henley, who was on the stand
and who testified previously that blood
hounds could find no trail to an al
legged burglar who, the defense will
contend killed Mrs. Mcdaniel after
robbing her hands of her Jewels.
yes, sir, we found that pillow in
the basement of the Mcdaniel home"
do you know what became of the
bedclothes ?"
Il only know what heard, that they
were burned" he testified.
Mcdaniel sat through the trial to-
day like man of steel. Even the in
PRODUCTION of the pillow did not dis
turb his apparently complete equil-
ibrium. He was almost expressionless
while experts corroborated the state
ments made on the witness stand Sat
urday that his wife had been killed by
a left-handed blow" and that he had
opposed the inquest.
Never a muscle twitched nor an eye
lash quivered as the accused County
Prosecutor sat in the courtroom calm
ly facing witnesses testifying against
him.
The defense is expected to attack
bitterly the testimony to be given by
Mrs. Luke H. Moss and Miss Ailleen
Moss, mother and sister of the muir
dered woman, and will declare "the
mother and sister have purely personal
reasonings for wishing now to convict
Mcdaniel" The defense also will at
tack the personal character of Bart NJ.
Lockwood, special prosecutor, it was
stated today.
J. W. Henley, chief detective, cOrro-
borated testimony by other police Off
GERS regarding the condition of the
basement window, through which a
burglar is supposed to have entered.
He said he noticed a small hole in the
screen.
In the basement under the window,
he testified, there were buckets that
would have been disturbed had any
one entered that way, and that there
was dust and cobwebs on the window
sill.
Two hours after the murder he con-
ferred with Oscar D. Mcdaniel, who
told him he had been called from his
home at about 11:15 o'clock on the
GRAND to find his brother.
Henley said he and other detectives
tried to get information about the cali
from the telephone centrals-the time
it was made and the place the call was
from-but were unable to learn any
thing at all about it.
Concerning McDanielS' automobile
which he left in front of the garage
door. He examined it and noticed a
dent in the hood and the shattered
windshield. He said there were no
lamps on the machine lighted.
The screen from the basement win
dow in the Mcdaniel home, which was
cut. the motor car hood, containing al
legged bullet marks and the dressing
table chair in Mrs. McDaniel's room,
which is said to contain blood marks,
were introduced at this afternoons
session when Henley resumed his tes-
timony.
Two or three days after the murder,
Henley said, he met Mcdaniel, and the
Prosecutor said to him: "You haven't
found any trace of the murderer yet.
have you?"
Henley told about the arrest of Nc.
Daniel. 1t was on Sunday night. De-
tectives found him reading. They
searched him and found a revolver.
Henley said. He was given time to
.et his raincoat, but didn't bid his.