Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-11
PEPPERY ARGUMENTS EAIIJURE JONES JONES CASE CASE

Montgomery county court room In
many a day was that made
by w. e. Mitchell on behalf Of his
client, j. n. Wilkerson. For three
hours. broken only by short recess,
Mr. Mitchell paced up and down before
the jury box summing up the evidence
which had been introduced In behalf Of
the defendant and hurting charge after
charge at Senator Jones who sat be-
fore him. Mitchell also strongly at
tackled the conduct Of counsel for the
plaintiff and in opening his argument
to the jury. referred to the plea OF Mr..
Pringle and declared, Il never felt the
noon when 1t fell from the lips of the
man that preceded me-"
Mitchell devoted the earlier part OF
his argument to the alleged attempt
made by Jim Atkinson to induce Mrs
Alice Willard to change her testimony
In referring to G. ]. Junkin's part IN
the transaction in assisting Hal Hau-
sen in finding "a driver for his automo-
bile to make the trip TO Villisca Mr..
Mitchell said he had nothing but
sympathy for the young man. sour
only regret is the deplorable and unholy
conspiracy that was attempted here
against Mrs. Alice Willard.
[ Mitchell also paid his compliments tc
Atkinson in no uncertain terms. "What
do you thinkjof man who would coun-
tenance a conspiracy OF that kind. Mr.
Cool?" Mitchell asked directing his
question to one of the jurors. did yoL
not see the picture of despair on Mr.
Junkin's and Mr. Pringle's face as Mr.
Junkin was called to the witness
chair he continued. ave waited
twenty four hours for Beeson ant
Prinsle to explain the transaction
Mitchell said. and they did not know
It," Then Mitchell turned his attention
to Mr. Pringle.
Where is Pringle?' he shouted. Goo
knows where he is. think would &c
hide too" At this declaration a ripple
or handclapping was heard In the au.
dence and the bailiff was forced tc
announce, that another such expression
would mean the clearance of the cour
room.
Talks to Individual Jurors.
"They knew this matter long before
we did" Mitchell declared talking this
Time to G. J. Kampe in the Jury box
''Do YOU think this story as told by
Mrs. Willard and Atkinson would evel
have reached the light of day thru
Beeson ana Pringle?" he shouted.
'eWhy do they assail Mrs Willard aut
Mrs. Tompkins?" he continued, ant
then answered his own question with
Because Mrs. Willard and Mrs. Temp.
kins assailed Jones. That's why they
did It,"
Referring to Mr.. Pringle's charge thai
Imagination got hold of Mrs. Tompkins
Mr.. Mitchell asked if it was magma.
ton that got hold of Mr.. Jones wher
he wrote to his brother senator's ant
lawyers in Marshalltown to help hin
do the job Then he produced the
letter Senator Jones wrote to Senator
Arney. This isn't my evidence" he
said, "this letter belongs to F. f. Jones
superintendent of the Methodist Sun
day school," He then went into an
analysis of the letter. Coming to the
portion of the letter reading that Will
kerson was trying to frome up q job
lin which l am interested" Mr.. Nit
chell walked directly in front of Sen
ator Jones and shaking both hands in
his face shouted. which one of them
Brother Jones, are you interested in?'
What would Mr.. Jones care about
the testimony of this woman il 1t was
false?" asked Mitchell. 'Why didn't
they bring the court reporter down
here who took down the words that
fell from her lips?'' e~
IF he'd been armed in honesty he'd
let these threats pass him by as the
idle Winds Mitchell said. Mr. Mitchell
paid special attention to the testimony
of r. H. Thorpe who said he saw two
men whom he identified as Mansfield
and Harry Whipple board the train at
Clarinda, June 10, 1912. "And yet they
tell me there Is no reason to indfct
Mansfield" Mitchell shouted
Back of Mansfield he continued.
was a master hand, a master mind.
more than one master hand more than
one master mind
II insist it was Mansfield who welded
the AK and further l insist it was Al
bert Jones or Bert McCaull in the room
When that AK went thud. thud. eight
times and crushed out as many lives,
was another startling declaration in
Mitchcil's plea Mitchell said that il
Mansfield was alone ..hy did he want
to kill them all. Only that they
couldn't identify him If they awak-
ened.
But if Albert Jones or Bert McCaull
was there they could identify Them
Mitchell declared
Speaking of the issue in this case
Mr.. Mitchell declared It's not matter
of dollars and cents. it's an effort to
get this jury to soy that Jones was not
connected with this murder
The attempt to get Mrs. Tompkins
and Mrs. Willard out of the road,