Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-22
MRS. KELLY 1Es7IFlEs
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preacher told him he was Christ him
self and couldn't do any wrong.
One popularity OF persons suffer-
Ing as Kelly was is that such people
who are told they have done certain
thing may finally come to really believe
they have. The defense claims that Is
a strong point In their case.
Dr.. Rundlett said it was not probable
that such persons would have homi-
ciial intent towards persons whom
they had never known. But would on
the contrary seek to kill those whom
they imagined to be prosecuting them.
Mr.. Mitchell propounded a lengthy
hypothetical question to DR. Rundlett
setting forth as suppositions all OF the
admitted facts of what Kelly had done
in Villisca that day and winding up by
asking that II terrible tragedy were
discovered after he had left II 1t were
probable that Kelly was the person
that returned and entered the Moore
house and committed the crime, but
the court would not permit an answer.
Mr.. Mitchell made his hypothetical
afestion In general terms. leaving out
all references to Kelly, to which the
doctor replied that he didn't think it
probab Bile that a paranoid patient such
as he had described Kelly to be would
kill those who had not crossed his
path.
"Spells" Last q Week.
Or cross examination DR. Rundlett
said that it was common thing for
paranoid patients to act so natural at
times that q layman would not detect
there was anything wrong with them.
They might have brain storms, suffer
and become irresponsible he said. Any
peculiar noise with which the patient
| was unacquainted might cause one Of
these spells" However, DR.. Rundlctt
said, It was not prabable that the
patient would recall what he had done
in any one of those spells" He said he
had never heard of Spell" lasting
less than week.
Mrs. Margaret Landers, u years old,
who told the story last fall 9: the
Jones -Wilkerson SANDER suit of see
| ing two strange men go into the Moore
back yard on the Sunday afternoon OF
the murder and examine the edge Of an
AK which was leaning against a chop
ping box again told her story for the
defense. Mrs. Landers Is the mother
| of Ed Landers. who yesterday testi-
fed that ne saw Albert Jones 90 into
the Moore house on the Sunday even
ing Of the murders.
Mrs Landers also declared that dur
ing the night of the murder she heard
voice which she recognized as that
Of Mrs. Moore scream: ooh! Dear!
oh! Dear! Don't! Don't! Don't!" Mrs.
Landers lives not far from the Moore
home.
postoffice to get the mail when she
was returning homo and saw the two
strange men enter the Moore yard and
pick up the AK, examining it's edge.
She didn't know whether any Of the
Moore family were at home at the
time she said.
She described one Of the men as
wearing light clothes. The other one
was dressed In dark clothes.
State Objection Fails.
The state sought to strike all OF Mrs.
Landerss testimony about the two
lstfange men but did not succeed. How
ever they did succeed in striking out
the testimony Of Mrs. Cora Mccoy. OF
vviiiiissa. FRS. Mccoy had told OF stand
ling in the doorway OF her barn on the
| Sunday afternoon Of the murders and
OF seeing two strangers pass her house
She LATER saw the two men about dusk
|she said. She lived two blocks from
1.-THE Moore home.