Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
Former Members of Church
Flock at Carroll Give
Evidence.
TELL OF TALKS
HAD WITH KELLY
Ak Murders at ViIIisca Appear to Have
Been Continually on Mind of Kelly
After His Removal From Vicinity
State Brings Witnesses From South
Dakota to Tell Of Defendants Con-
versations in Jail at Sioux Falls.
tBy a Staff Correspondent ]

Red Oak, Sept. 17.-When Rev. Lyn
}. Kelly was incarcerated in Jail at
Sioux Falls, S. d. in 1915, he declared
he had killed the people at Villisca.
according to w. o. Mcqueen and julius
Wald, Of Sioux Falls, who were the
first two state witnesses this morning
at the opening Of the third week of
the Villisca ak murder trial here. Nc
Queen. who was United States mar
shal In 1914, said he went to Kelly's
office in Winner, S. D., in January of
that year with warrant for his ar
rest and Kelly said he did not want
to go to Iowa and that he was no
murderer. Mcqueen said he told Kelly
he was not charged with killing any
body and that they were not going to
Iowa. ..
Again during the year 1915, while
Kelly was in jail at Sioux Falls, Nc
Queen said there was q disturbance
in the jail, and he asked Kelly what
he meant by talking before other pri-
soners about killing people. Il meant
what I said," Mcqueen testified Kelly
replied. Il killed those people dowgi
there"
Mr.. Wald, now deputy sheriff at
Sioux Falls, told OF a conversation he
had with Kelly along in February,
1914. He asked what them people from
Iowa wanted" Wald said. HE said I
done 1t, but how did they find 1t out? /"
Wald said he asked Kelly about the
laundry sent to Council Bluffs, and
Kelly told him he was q student and
had the nose bleed. He said he tried
to wash it out and then sent 1t to the
laundry. ~
Soldier Witness for State.
On cross examination Wald was
asked II Mr.. Ratliff and Mr.. Jackson
had been to Sioux Falls. They were
the county attorney and sheriff OF
Montg gomery county.
There had been somebody there, !"
Wald answered.
did they see Kelly" -
"Yes sir"
Defense tried to get an answer from
Wald that tho county attorney and
sheriff had told him they did not think
Kelly had anything to do with the
murder, but the state succeeded IN
keeping the answers out. The defense
also sought to show that Kelly was TAX
en- back to an asylum after this, but
the state shut them off.
James Tyler, now a United states
soldier and q cell-mate Of Kelly at
Sioux Falls, said that Kelly told him
he knew nll about the murders; that
he was one of the first men in the
house: that he stayed at the home OF
preacher in Villisca the night before
and could not sleep, that he went
down the street and heard a noise,
went into the house and found these
people dad. Two days later Tyler said
Kelly told him: II killed the Moore
family and would like to kill Jerry
Carlton and some Of the United States
officials. Tyler said he told the attorney
general about this a month ago.
O. G. Umstead an attorney Of Win
ner. s. D., declared that Kelly told him
the villsca murderer "either sent or
took" a bloody shirt to a Council Bluffs
laundry and that it had been returned
TO the man who committed the mur-
ders and that he knew who that man
was.
What the state claims as further In
eliminating evidence against the
preacher was offered by six other Wit
nesses this morning who were parish :
toner's OF Kelly when he was occupying
the pulpit Of the Presbyterian church
in Carroll in 1918.
Former Parishioners Testify.
These witnesses were Misses Mildred
and Margaret struck. of Sioux City:
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Stevens, of Carroll;
G. w. Thomas. of Carroll, and Miss
Beulah Galloway, Of Carroll. They all