Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-20
EVIDENCE TO SHOW
ANOTHER GUILTY
Witnesses Testify Regarding Presence
Of Two Men on Train on Morning Of
villisca Murders, One Of Whom Was
"BIackie" Mansfield - Effort to I'm
peach Ono Of States Witnesses
More Of Havnsr's "lnquisition."
[By a stair Representative

morning began their attempt to prove
that another aside from Rev. Lyn G. J.
Kelly was responsible for the Villisca
ak murders. r. H. Thorpe, Of Jeffer-
son, Iowa, was called to the witness
chair shortly tefore noon as the first
witness in this part of the effort to
show Kelly not guilty Of the murders.
Thorpe was one of the principal wit
nesses for Wilkerson during the Jones'
Wilkerson slander suit last fall.
Thorpe told of riding on train be-
TWEEN Shenandoah and Clarinda the
of June 10, 1912, leaving
at 10:40 a. m. and arriv-
ing in Clarinda at 11:55 o'clock. He
described two men who boarded the
site the depot. One came in the front
door and the other the beck door of
the smoking car2in which he was then
the sole passenger. He described their
personal appearance in detail. One
man was spattered with mud up to his
knees. he said, Thorpe was handed
q picture of "Bill, Mansfield. the m3D
who in July Of last year was investi-
gated by q Montgomery county grand
jury in n,connaction with the Yillisca
murder and turned loose. s4de is the
man Detective WtIkerson says WELD
ed the ar IN the yfiifsca tragedy.
ldssstifiss Mansfistd.
That Is the man that talked to me, :
Thorpe declared.
Thorpe said he noticed scar on the
mans adams apple" at the time. He
later saw this man in the court house
at Red Oak, he testified. Thorpe was
still on the stand at noon and had
not yet related some of the important
details he told Of last fall.
Milton Osler Of Macedonia was put
on the stand this morning sby the de-
tense in an effort to impeach theHtes-
tin1onyy Of samkBarnett, Of Villisca,
who testified for the state that from
Kelly he learned of the Villisca muir
derst before they were discovered In
villisca. Osler testified that this was
the conversation he had with Barnett
about the time Kelly was arrested
Osler-" Sam Is it fact that the
preacher told you Of this murder al
Villisca that Monday morning when
he got off the train at the depot that
morning"
Z 'Barnett-''No, it was up towards
town after that day that l heard him
talk and went home and told my wife
about it."
Barnett was called to the stand just
before Osler and denied the converse
ton. Two other witnesses this morning
related Of Kelly's doings on the Sun
day Of the crime, telling how he was
at their homes and preached at two
churches near villisca that afternoon
More Of the "inquisition.'
Miss Fannie r. Longman, a LogaI
stenographer, this morning read from
the witness chair the story Of the frs
two hours of the alleged 'inquisition'
Of Rev. Lyn George J. Kelly in tht
sherin's office at Logan on the nigh
of Aug. 30. Miss Longman was pres
ent when Attorney General Haynel
first began TO question Kelly and Sc
cured a confession from him that M
killed the eight persons at Villisca II
response to the voice Of God com
manding him to "slay utterly"
Miss Longman read her notes. Sh,
read for nearly an hour and a hall
During these hours, according to th'
reading, Havner was insisting tha
Kelly tell the truth as to how he killed
the Moore family. Kelly was ever o,
the alert, pleading his insanity II HI
did it. Miss Longman commenced TAX.
ing notes about 1890 and continued
until about 2:30, when J. ]. Ferguson
OF Council Bluffs, who read his tran
script yesterday took up the work
Some ot the questions and answers
were:
Havner-'eWhat was it you called mi
back for?'
Sheriff Myers-"Mr. Kelly has mad
up his mind to tell you about this mur
der
Havner-"I want you to tell me how
you killed Joe Moore and his family
.Kelly-'Hadn't 1 better send for m!
attorneys?'
Havner-'You go ahead"
Kelly-"Had better, without my at
torneys?"
Havner-~Well. you go ahead, II 70,
committed this crime. as know yol
did. You better go ahead and tell It,
Kelly-Mr. Myers told me you iwoul,
help me-"
s. !. sI1avner-'I can't make any promises
now"
/. Kelly-"Slay utterly. had hear
Smith preach 1t and others. and wha
i remember that seemed to get hold Q
imee q suppose started on the chii