The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-21
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clean the room in which the crime
had been committed.
Clouser was followed by John
Frank, motorcycle officer, who was at
the Mcdaniel home the night of the
murder. One point considered dam
aging to the defense was Franks dec
laration that the shades in the death
room were drawn. This is at variance
with a defense version that the blinds
were up and that E. E. Gard, neigh
Dor saw a woman in the room an hour
after the state claims the murder was
committed.
Refute Cards Story.
Franks testimony tended further
to refute Cards story by the declara-
ton that Gard told the officer over
the telephone, about 1 o'clock the
morning of July IS, that he had just
returned home. This was about for
ty-five minutes after the police had
been called by Mcdaniel. Gard is SAID
to be one of the ch1e1 witnesses Oh
the defensre.
Judge Strop questioned Frank fully
in an effort to bring out that FRANK
had been mistaken on other testimony
and might be on this.
A small piece of the skull of the
murdered woman was exhibited by
Bart NJ. Lockwood, special prosecutor
when Samuel Townsend was placed on
| the stand He was a city detective at
| the time of the murder but now is en-
ployed by a private agency he VS.
| tied the Mcdaniel home shortly AFTER
the murder.
floor near Mrs. McDanieFs bed the
| witness declared. He gave testimony
| corroborating previous witnesses that
| no marks were found on the basement
! window sill thru which the defense
! maintains the murderer entered the
house. A screen said to have been
from the window was produced.
Dust on Window Sill.
..The window was very dusty"
Townsend said. 1.-The dust was not
disturbed"
The state thru Townsend, sought
| to develop facts unfavorable to Nc
| Daniel concerning the revolver duel in
which the prosecuting attorney has
| spoke of being engaged before having
| entered the house and found his wife
| had been attacked. The windshield
from McDaniePs motor car, its glass
| broken by a bullet hole, was intro
| duced Judge Strop attacked Town
sends motives in testifying against
Mcdaniel and his methods of obtain
ing evidence
ssYou tried to make McDaniers ne
gro washwoman say he and his wife
were unhappy" he was asked.
mo, sir, I tried to find out if she
| knew such was the case.
Did she ?"
|
The washwoman was asked by an
other detective, Townsend said, if she
| had heard Mrs. Mcdaniel say her
husband had beaten her. The answer
| was no, Townsend said. Other state's
| detectives expected to be witnesses
were attacked thru the cross-exami-
nation Laughter i'll the court room
was admonished by Judge Ryan.
Divorced Woman Named.
The state Yesterday barely more than
opened the evidence which its attor-
neys say will be produced against the
accused man. With subpoena list
| of more than one hundred, less than a
dozen witnesses thus far have been
placed on the stand and indications
today were that at least week might
elapse before the prosecution has
mpleted it's case.
around the admissibility of certaiI-
| evidence the prosecution declares it
hopes to produce to show what rela-
tions existed between the accused man
and his wife before she was dubbed
to death in her bedroom the night. of
July IA This testimony was said to
be the story of Miss Aileen Moss, sis
ter of the slain woman. Defense at
| torneys declared it would rot be CONT
petent and probably would be re
jected.
The case, as developed late yester-
day brought into the trial for me
first time the name of Mrs. Dagmar
Krucker, divorced wife of St. Joseph
business man and friend of Mrs. Nc
Daniel. Testimony was adduced
showing that she had been present.
with her husband, at a fishing club
near here, at which were Mr.. and Mrs.
Mcdaniel about a week before the
murder She was said to have worn
overalls.
Guard Witnesses Stories.
aftnrneyS Tins far have
guarded jealousy lists showing the
order in which the various witnesses
Il will be called. The defense. it is
known, has had little indication of the
line of testimony to be given by those
whom the state will place on the stand.
and for this reason, it was said, the
prosecution desired to keep silent con-
corning its witnesses until they actual
ly had been called.
Most of yesterday was devoted to
the questioning of police officers who
worked on the crime and as several
have not yet been on the stand. it
was supposed such testimony would
continue today.
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