Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-18
night of September %, with 4 num-
Der of invited guests.
Played Cards All Evening.

Der of invited guests.
Played Cards All Evening.
George came home about 10 min
utes after g." she testified. "Mr.
Morrell let him in the back door and
George ate his dinner in the kitchen.
Later he played the player piano and
played cards with US all evening"
Edward Morrell, = son OF Adam
Morrell, barber in the Woodmen of
the World building. one Of the
guests at the party, testified to the
same movements of George Davis.
wasn't the riot downtown men
toned at the party that evening"
County Attorney Shotwell asked.
mo, sir" said Morrell.
George Davis didn't say anything
about it when he came home"
"No, sir" ..
"You noticed the crowd around
the court house when you were on
your way out to the Davis home"
Eyes"
"And you didn't mention it"
mo, sir"
lfSe IL WltNeSu.
Miss Margaret Hevelin, a trained
nurse, also guest at the party, tes-
tilted that George Davis was there
the entire evening.
She now resides at the Davis
home but lived at 2l02 Chicago
street at the time the riot occurred.
Wasn't anything said at the party
about the riot?" asked the county
attorney.
mo. sir"
George didn't mention it after he
came home?"
mot a word"
Didn't you see anything Of it on
your way out to the house?"
well, l heard people on the car
say there was a mob gathering
around the court house"
"But you didn't say anything
about that at the party?"
mo sir"
Men Look Alike.
William N. Jameson, one OF the
attorneys for Davis, brought Ed
ward Hanlon from South Omaha
and had him stand beside George
Davis before the jury. The two men
look much alike. This was done
with the idea of showing that the
states witnesses who identified Da-
Wis as the man who struck the
mayor might be mistaken.
Thomas J. Cronin, 3214 California
street, a bookkeeper for Sunderland
Brothers, was the first witness for
the defense.
Cronin, on direct examination dis
played an evident desire to clear
Davis. Some of his answers such
as Davis wasn't in the crowd sur
rounding the mayor" and "Overbay
| wasn't there" were ordered stricken
out by Judge Redick.
On cross examination by County
| Attorney Shotwell, Cronin admitted
| that he is a first cousin of Davis.
mo, I Don't Care"
"And you are interested in seeing
your blood relative acquitted OF
these charges of assault with intent
to murder and assault with intent
to do great bodily injury to Mayor
Smith, aren't your" asked the coun-
| ty attorney.
mo, l don't care" replied Gro
min. "a
Cronin said he saw Russell Nor
gard in the mob, but did not see Da-
Wis. Norgard testified for the state
yesterday and said he saw Davis.
| Cronin also said he was certain
that the mob, when it emerged
from the east door of the court
house with the mayor, came directly
across the street to the corner #
Seventeenth and Harvey streets.
This differed from the testimony
of all the witnesses for the state
who said the mob hustled the mayor
| first to the vicinity of Mickey Glib
sons place in the Keeline building
and that there was where Davis
struck the mayor and knocked him
unconscious.
Crowd Surged East.
Cronin, however, said he did not
see the mayor and the crowd around
him until after they had emerged
from the court house.
Il saw a foreign-looking fellow in
an army shirt trying to hit the
mayor over the head with the butt
of a revolver" testified Cronin.
Then the crowd surged east and
stopped under pole. I saw three
OR four men hit the mayor with their
fists.
Someone said, let's hang him
and a fellow had a rope about FIVE
feet long and they put that around
his neck and two men kept see
saving it back and forth, one having
hold of each end.
Ran to Get Help.
They didn't have no place to
hang him there so they moved east
and put a rope over a pole and
around the mayors neck. Then l
began to yell, Don't hang a white
man. And / left to try to get help.
When / came back two men were
getting the mayor out of the mob.
About half dozen of US helped to
get him out to a car in Harvey
street but he fought against being
put in the car and finally the crowd
turned the car over In the street.
So we hurried him down to Six
teenth and Harvey streets and there
we oct hin, IN = car and then came