Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-21
Court Refuses to Admit
Evidence of Important
Witness For Accused.
WOULD CONNECT
JONES WITH CRIME
WITNESS Ready to Testify He Saw Al
bert Jones and Others Driving Rap
idly from Town EARLY on Morning Of
crine-Defense Offers Expert Evil
denee to Prove Kelly Paranoiao
and Confessed Under DeIusion.
[By a Staff Representatives

Red Oak, Sept. 21-What the defense
promised as a sensation in the testi-
mony of Frank Archer, Jr., Omaha real
estate man, failed to materialize this
morning when the court refused to
permit him to mention certain names
upon the states objection. In June
1912. Archer was living in the country
not far from Villisca and had told of
leaving Villisca on horseback about 5
o'clock on the morning of the MUIR
ders when he met an auto travelling
rapidly south. He was going north, he
said. from Villisca. The court would
not let Archer tell how many persons
or who were in that auto and demand
ed to see a written statement of what
the witness would testify before allow
ing him to continue.
The defense has five witnesses OF,
this feature and court adjourned short
lys after. II o'clock to permit defense to
submit statement to court Of their
testimony. It is understood according
to the defense, that Archer would tes-
tify that Albert Jones, son of r. F.
Jones, Of Villisca and w. B. McCaull,
also Of Villisca were in the auto.
Kelly Paranoiae.
Rev. Lyn G. j. Kelly was a victim
of paranoia four years ago, according
to DR.. Alexander Fitzsimons. Of Omaha.
who testified for the defense this
morning. A paranoiac is usually more
or less serratic and sooner or later de-
velops s-delusions, according to Fltz-
simons. Paranoiaos are often notoriety
seekers and full Of egotism, the doctor
said, and more or less subject to sug-
gestion. Contention of the defense is
that Kelly is a victim Of paranoia, in
which he at times has delusions that he
committed the Villisca ak murders.
Cross examination brought out taht
paranoiacs ~often imagine they have
great missions to perform and fire.
quently hear q voice commanding or
calling them to do something. In his
signed statement, in which he admitted
killing the eight persons at Villisca,
Kelly said he did the murders In re-
sponse to the voice Of God commanding
''slay utterly. DR.. Fitzslmons studied
mental diseases at the Clarinda hospi-
tai under DR.. Witte. He said he was
treating Kelly for an injury when he
diagnosed him as a paranoiac of more
than a years standing. Mr.. Faville
for the state. called DR.. Fitzsimons' at
tention to the cases Of the ASSASSIN
Guiteau, who killed President Garfield
and Prendergast who assassinated
Garter Harrison, mayor Of Chicago
Both these men were victims OF para
noia, it is claimed, and imagined they
had missions to fulfill.
Havner Admits II.
"The case Of Kelly Is exactly parall-
ell to that of the assassin Guiteau, who
murdered President Garfield, and Prem.
dergast, who murdered Carter Harri-
son." said Attorney General Havner.
Both were proven paranoiacs. We,
paid the death penalty The state ex-
poets to call DR.. Witte. head Of the
Clarinda asylum, as an expert witness
on paranoia and mental disorders.
Disputes States Evidence.
Charlie Pontie, of Creston, who was
conductor on the branch train from
Sidney to Carson on the morning o.
June 10, 1912, when it Is claimed by the
state Mr. and Mrs. William Simons
heard Kelly talking wildly Of the muir.
ders, said this morning heN did mo-
recollect OF hearing any talk on his
train that morning of the murders
He learned Of the crime that after.
noon, he said.