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HAVuER Result
Of 3RQ DEGREE
Mrs. Alice Willard Makes Affi-
daVit That She Was Cues
toned Until She
tainted.
PASSES Gle" TO HER
States He Tried to Cause Revo-
cation Of Third Party"
Evidence by Charg-
ing Perjury.

fidaVit that caused the indictment OF
Attorney General HaNner, of Iowa, N
connection with the Rev. Lyn Kelly OF
trial on a charge of being the Villisca
AK murderer.
The affidavit is that of Alice Wit
lard. one of the main witnesses fol
Kelly.
He (Sheriff Dunn, told me that |
must go into that room lthe Judge
Deemer office rooml and said: This is
where l was told to bring you. Ee then
took my arm and pushed me ahead of
him into the room and closed the door
behind him.
In this room were Attorney General
Havner, State Agent O. O. Rock and
Attorney Fred t'aviile. The three men,
Messrs. I%Iavner, Rock and ~iFaville, took
me into the eas room of he office and
closed the 400
Charge Disagreement.
Then they began by telling me that
my testimony before the grand jury
last summer, and the testimony | gave
in he -Wilkerson Islander suit,
and testimony 1 gay before the pres
ent grand jury all disagreed. l told
them that as far as | knew that | had
told the same story at all three times.
And they had k this opportunity to
give me a chance to ave myself be-
cause it was Hayner's business to look
into things of this kind and hun out
false evidence and false testimony.
Mr.. HaVner told me that he knew
my story was not true. He said that
he had hunted up every bit of owl
dence had given him concerning those
Inen that | saw on Saturday night n
Sunday night, June 8 and 8, 1912. 1
asked him il he did not believe | saw
those men, and he said no, that he had
been told that the town was full of
strange men of kinds at that time and
that had no reason at all to lay the
lilo m m, tho thrnn CT 70 =, orn n I hn1
seen there Saturday and Sunday. be-
cause ! could not identify those men
as the ones | saw.
~ Know It's a Lie"
Mr.. lIavner said Mrs. Willard you
know that you are not telling the truth
when you said it was +. r. Jones and
= McCaull that you saw there that night
meet the three strange men.' | said:
Dent you thinll that story is true?'
and he said, L know it is not true when
you say that il was Jones and McCaui
who met those three strange men there
that night | asked him if he thought
that | was lying and he said: i know
you are He said that if l would tell
him the truth he would protect me in
it | tod him 7 had told the truth at
all times.
He told me that Mr.. Wilkerson was
one of the most disrcputable and unrc-
liahle men in the Burns agency. l
asked him il ] could not see Mr.. Mitch
ell, and he said i could not see any one.
MIR. Havne told me that | had been
going around to different points with
MIR. WIkerson and | said ! had not. He
said that the trip | said l made alone
to Sioux City he knew i made with Mr.
Wllkersoh. / told him that | did not
that | met Mr.. Wilkerson there. and
after Mr.. Wilkerson had located the
man he wanted to see. he went and saw
him. and | identified him as John
viz fr- 4I~ ,-+ --~ -,
a train and l came back to Omaha, and
l don't know where he went.
Mr.. Hayner showed me Il statement
that he and Mr.. Wilkcrson had made il
open court hat threw all the burden
OF proof onto me, and that both Mr.
ready to cave town. and once in Mis-
souri, they could not be bothered. He
said that | would have to go back tC
Villisca and live there as an outcast;
that J. didn't have Il friend there; thai
they all know / hadn't told the SAM
story; that MIR. Willlerson's story turn.
ing my evidence down had beer
spread broadcast by the
Then he asked me why Mrs. Wilkersor
went around with me and said: Dom
you know that she knows what kind OF
a woman you are, and that she is doing
it only to keep Mr.. Wilkerson out of the
pen, because neither one of them, hi
said, cared for me at all. He said, All
want OF you is to come through ant
tell me the whole truth. He said, 'You
have not for have proof that none o.
those men were on the back of tina
lot J. asked him if he thought 1 wa:
making that all up and he said. Yes
TO- | have proof that f. f.. Jones ane
McCaul We're not there II said tina
he knew l had changed my story arouno
al tho suggestion of Wilkerson. H
said, Mrs. Willard you could not hav'
recognized those men there after dark.
] told him hat we followed them ia
enough that both Mr.. McCrae and my
self recognized who they were and t.
the very best of my knowledge and be
lief it was F. j.. Jones and w. B. Nc
Caui!.
Wanted to Square Her.
Mr.. Havner told me that this was m.
last time to square myself.
Il said: Mr.. Havner, what 1 sait
about seeing those three men Satilrda,
morning and Sunday morning, and tn,
five men Saturday night was true H
aid Mrs. Willard, you know you ar
not telling the truth when you stat
that these men were there | then said
IF / so now and say that l had no
told the truth before. what will be tn
consequeIlces?' And he said: I'll hel1
you all I can, but il you don't you vii
have to take the consequences and per
jury is 2 penitentiary offense.
~ began to cry about that time an
started to walking the floor. AS | drey
near the window he reached in front o
me and pulled the window down. TIL
next thing i remember was fallin;
backward, and later OF coming TO con
~sciousnes while lying on q couch wit
my face and waist and hair wet from
the water which they had Used in bath
Ing my face.
"Mr. Havner then said: Well. Mrs
Willard. ( have said al! i could for yo
and tried to reason and talk TO you, an
II you DOM do as / want you to yo
will have to take the consequences.
asked him ii j could not leave the rotr
and come to the hotel and come BAG
and talk to him again. and he sale M
that if / wanted to talk to anyone no,
1 could talk to Faville and Rock. an
Havner left the room. !
"Mr- Rock then said: Mrs. Willart