Arizona republican., 1917-09-18
BLOODY SHIRT MAY
 CONVICT KELLY OF
 MURDER OF EIGHT
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RED OAK. Iowa, Sept. 17.-Nineteen witnesses testified today in the trial of the Rev. Lynn George J. Kelly, charged with murdering one of the eight victims of the Villisca ax slayings. All were states witnesses and were called in an effort to establish: That Kelly was in Omaha, June F, 1912. two days after the murders; That an unmarked package of laun- dry containing a shirt and undercloth- ing was forwarded from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to him at Macedonia, Iowa;
 That Kelly had admitted sending stained shirt to a Council Bluffs | laundry
 F. A. Faville, of counsel for the state, said tonight that the thirty nine wit nesses for the state thus far examined, represented more than half the total number it would call. He said the state I likely would conclude it's presentation | of evidence Wednesday or Thursday morning.
 w. o. Mcqueen, jailer at Sioux Falls | in 1914; Julius Wald. deputy sheriff | there and James Tiler, an inmate of 1 the jail that year. testified that Kelly | had said he committed the murders, i varying this with the assertion that he I entered the house after the eight per | sons were dead.
 W. C. Miller. druggist of Macedonia, where Kelly had his nome the summer the murders were committed, testified in reference to the laundry incident Miller has an agency for a Council I Bluffs laundry and the Saturday after | the murders. a package with no denti- | fication slip was among those received 1 from the laundry. He opened it to l ascertain its owner and delivered it to 1 Kelly. Miller sad he had not sent | clothes belonging to Kelly to the laun- 1 dry that week.
 | postal card received by Miller and
 bearing the name of Kelly as the sen- | der was admitted as evidence. It was
 postmarked in Omaha at S:30 D. m..
 June F, 1912. and referred to business | ietaining Kelly in Omaha for another i day.
 The state contends that within a day
 or so after the murder some sorted
 clothes including q bloody shirt, were
 left at a Council Bluffs laundry hy
 Kelly. Dr. and Mrs. C. w Spaulding
 of Carroll, Iowa, testified that Kelly
 in conversation with them in 1913
 had said he had sent stained shirt to
 council Bluffs laundry and that the 1 oiii " iAO lCCtlktQ IL UdQ thought the
 stain was from blood and has "caused
 him trouble
 Another witness te%tified he had said
 he sent a shirt to the laundry soiled
 from nose bleed and still another
 quoted Kelly as saying he had soiled
 It with blood when he cut himself while | shaving,
 Doctors H. H. Schultz and S. K.
 Streate, of Sutton, Neb., told of con
 versations they had had with Kelly
 While he lived in that city The former
 said Kelly told him he was suspected
 of the murders and the latter quoted
 Kelly saying he couldn't have done
 that murder; the ax hit the ceiling;
 couldn't hit the ceiling could I?"
 The Rev. o. C. Garden of Shelby
 Iowa, who met Kell, Tn a theological
 seminary in Omaha in 1902 ted of g
 conversation. on train with Kelly ii which the latter said: He had beer charged with being a religious ia. natic"
 At the instance of the defense th, court has issued an order directing ; MISS Longman to appear with steno
 graphic account of that part of Kelly.
 alleged confession which she is said f,
 have copied in the jail at Logan.
 The state will present the confession
 as evidence tomorrow it was state, I tonight.