Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-25
STATE ARGUES SEX
PERVERT WELDED AK
Continued from Page IL
Rebuttal Confined to landers.

Rebuttal Confined to landers.
Rebuttal testimony of the state was
confined mainly to an ATTACK on the
evidence offered by Ed Landers who
mad testified that he saw Albert Jones
go into the Moore house on the night
of the murder and an attempt to refute
the statement Of alienists produced by
the defense. who said that a paranoiae
would not be likely to remember wha,
he did when suffering from brain
storm" The state Monday afternoon
produced four alienists, heads of Iowa
institutions for the care of the in
sane, and after they had finished ii
was quite apparent that all alienists dc
not agree.
Dr. Max Witte, superintendent of the
Ciarlnda hospital. was the first alienist
put on the witness stand by the state.
Attorney Faville propounded a lengthy
| hypothetical question to Dr. Witte. as
Stunning man SO years Of age, Of Eng
lish ancestry, trained and educated for
the ministry: that he had begun
preaching al an early age. had occu-
pied various charges covering a period
| of years; that while he was occupying
the Passionate of church he had writ
ten Letters to girls he had never seen
! asking them to appear naked before
him as stenographers while he die
| tated book: that a physician ex-
amined him and adjudged him to be a
paranoiac and assuming him to be a
paranoiac, Mr.. Faville asked in conclu
sion: Gould he at the age of 3s have
y1,r 4
truthfully relate circumstances of the
same?"
HE certainly could,--or might" re-
piled DR.. Witte.
DR.. NJ. y. Voldeng head Of the state
hospital and colony for epileptics at
Woodward then was called. DR.. Vol
deng was at one time connected with
state hospitals at Independence and
Cherokee and has studied In Paris,
Berlin and London.
To Dr. Voldeng Mr. Faville pro-
pounded a Hypothetical question such
as put to Dr. Witte and the doctor
gave 1t as his opinion that a paranoiac
Of Ke1ly's type could relate the circum-
stances Of his part with accuracy.
Are not paranoiacs splendid VIC
Mitchell in cross examination.
Il think not DR.. voldeng replied.
DR.. White, who was recalled, also
bore out Dr. Voldeng's statement that
paranoiacs are not victims Of sugges-
ton.
DR.. C. F. Appiegate, superintendent
Of the Mount Pleasant state hospital
for the insane, supported the statement
of the alienists that preceded him, de-
claring paranoiac such as kelly
was described to be could remember
the events of his past.QA
DR.. Applegate went. little further
on the idea Of a paranoiac not being
the easy victim Of suggestion. It's my
| opinion that he would oppose sugges-
tion," the doctor declared.
Other Aiienists Disagree.
Alienists who testified for the de-
Tense said paranoiacs might be easy
victims OF suggestion, finally comm g
| to hold as realities that Of which they
had been accused. The defense has in
| mind in this connection the question
ing that Kelly was given by states
| attorneys during the hours OF the night
Of Aug. 80, in the sherif's office at
lLpSdH, pTcCSuiuS 1liS oA6ASo
| made two hours after this examination
| had ceased.
DR.. w. P. Crumbacker, superinten-
| dtnt of the state hospital at Indepen-
| dence. was the last. witness used in the
case by the state. DR.. Crumbacker
| declared a paranoiac might remem-
| Der past transaction In which he was
personally interested or took part
Sur RebuttaI Evidence.
Mrs. Ed Landers was the last wit
ness used by the defense. She corrob-
GRATED her husbands story Of leaving
the restaurant down town the Sunday
| night Of the murders a little after
| o'clock She refuted J. T. Posten's
statement that he had walked part way
home with them that night. Mrs. Lam
| ders said Poster was not with them.
Mrs. Landers was not asked anything
about seeing man go into the Moore
| house.
The defense offered Mrs. Guy Baker.
of Villisca, another sur rebuttal witness
| to show that Mr.. and Mrs. Landers
| went by her house on that Sunday eve
ming not long after 8 o'clock, but Judge
Boies sustained objections Of the state
| and refused to let her testify.
! The state met with a defeat in its
rebuttal at the beginning Of the after
| noon session upon objection from the
| defense. A number of witnesses whom
they had subpoenaed and who were
! present to testify were not permitted to
take the stand. Written statements Of
| what the witnesses would testify to
were submitted to the court, who ruled
| that it was not rebuttal testimony. It
is understood that some Of these wit
| nesses who were excluded would tell
something of Wilkerson's activities in
getting Kelly back to Red Oak from
Alto Pass, ILL.,. at the time Of his ina
dictment.
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