Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-28
JURY IN KELLEY
CASE STILL OUT
Put to Bed at Q O'clock After
Reporting Failure to
Reach Verdict.

RED OAK. Iowa, Sent 27 -
/ Prospects Of verdict In the trial Of
Lyn George J. Kelley. charged with
The murder Of one OF the eight victims
/ of the Nillisca az murders, appeared
doubtful tonight when after reporting
| az > o'clock tina; they had not been
aDle 10 arrive al a verdict. the Jurors
were gwen permission TO so to bed.
=. Ifial OF the Rev. Lyn George J.
Kelly on an Indictment charging him
Tlth the murder Of H-year- old Lena
Scllnser one Of the eight victims
| oI ths Fillisca, Iowa az slayings OF
/ 1912 began Ia the district court here
September {.
Figuring prominently IN the states
| Gaze were number Of confessions Of
sullt the little clergyman was alleged
10 nave made, while one Of the lat
| ters main cerenses was that he was
mentally irresponsible when he made
ftatements duplicating himself.
Prosecutors Theory.
Testimony OF witnesses for the
state was intended to show that Kelly
had talked OF tho murders on a train
and In his home town Of. Macedonia.
iowa. more than thirty minutes to an
hour before the crime is generally
known TO have been discovered
state witnesses aLso testified that
he had directly implicated himself
IN the crime on several different oc-
cssions; that he spoke on Intimate
details OF the crime not generally
Known. The state also sought to
snow that he left a bloody shirt at
"a Couuci. Bluffs, Iowa, laundry
shortly after the murders
The defense contended that the
train talk referred to took place a
week or two after the murders and
ha "a q 81.
Macedonia after the crime was gen
orally known. IL unsuccessfully
sought the admission OF testimony in
tended to connect someone other than
Kelly with the murders.
In reference to the confession Kelly
Is alleged TO have signed in the Logan
Jail Al ound Z O'Clock the morning Of
August 81, last, the defense intro
ducec as evidence the stenogra phic
accounts Of q conversation between
Kelly and state counsel including At
torLey-General Hayner, which oc-
CURED between midnight and
o'clock that morning
This conversation, which included
numerous questions by two prosecu-
tion attorneys, one OF them Mr.. Hay
ner. took place In the sheriffs office.
Kelly was quoted as acknowledging
guilt OF the murders in "a manner
somewhat similar TO that in his al
legged dictated statement OF u few
hours later.
In this latter statement, Kelly was
quoted as saying that "a voice" di- |
rected his actions In killing the eight
persons, while his mind played ever
on "Slay Utterly" a text OF sermons
he had heard and read.
The eight ak victims were found |
about $3.50 O'Clock in the morning of
June 8, 1912, in the home of Joe b. |
Moore, an Implement dealer. The |
first persons generally known to have |
entered the house after the murder
were brother OF Moore and the town
marshal
Eight Slain I'm Bed.
The eight were slain in their beds |
and apparently had been given no OPP |
portunity for defepse, as the testi- |
mony showed that at least seven OF |
them probably did not awaken before J
their death. The victims were, Moore, |
43 years old; his wife, SO; their four |
children, Herman, IL Katherine, 10; |
BOYD Z, and Paul, 5, and two children |
visiting them, Lena Stillinger, / l, and |
her S-year-old sister Ina, daughter Of |
Joe Stilinger.
j. n. Wilkerson, a private detec-
tive from Kansas City, Mo, figured
prominently in the investigation of |
trast with those of the attOrney-gen-
erals office and a bitter controversy
resulted.
Sentiment in Montgomery county
divided to a certain extent, Wilkerson
addressed mass meetings on the sub
1ect "nd his utterances resulted in an
unsuccessful 100000 SANDER suit be-
ing brought against him by r. f,
Jones, former state senator and Vii
lisca merchant
This suit was brought after n grand
jury had refused to indict William
Elackie) Mansfield of Kansas City
whose arrest Wilkerson had caused.
few months after Jones lost the
sian lcr suit, he and his son Albert, a
man of about 35, were eXonerated by
"A grand jury OF any connection with
the crime
When Kelly was arrested May II,
last. after his indictment. the So
called Wilkerson faction Immediately
became Interested in his defense and
during Kelly's trial. Wilkerson sat
with the defense counsel, assisting
them.
Kelly is 3s years old and came to
this country from England about 12
years ago. He is married and thruout
Kelly attended a theological
seminary in Omaha, Neb., but did
not graduate. He was not ordained
In this country. but had served con-
in Iowa, Illinois, South Da-
kota and Nebraska In the last six
years.