The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-02-24
DANDY BANpITsn TRIAL
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p NAOlklHAEu lINtA AAAhe pakEI
packed almost as tightly as sardines
during the entire morning and early
7 afternoon session.
Bell admitted that two pistols were
kept under the pillow of his cell
bunk for three days before the
dandy bandits" killed Reeves anc
made a dash for liberty. One Of the
pistols was his own, Bell said, and
/ the other was Hamilton's.
AS Reeves shot, Bell said, Hamilton
stumbled over a cuspidor and fell
The bandit shot at Reeves from the
floor, holding the weapon in Hill
/ left hand, Bell said.
Shaw ran out the front door before
the shooting, Bell said. He didnt
see Kelley flee, he said.
He saw a woman run up to Ham.
4 ilton a moment before the shooting
and he thought Reeves drew his pistoI
as the woman grabbed Hamilton's
shoulders to beg him not to shoot
4 The woman was Reeves wife.
During the escape plots. Hamilton
told him they would "break for BeaIe
street and stick up bank there as
soon as we get out" Bell said. This,
however, was ruled out by Judge
Baptist
/ Bell said Shaw didn't pull gun
or fire during the escape.
"Shaw said during one conference
that he wouldn't shoot Reeves Bell
said. "When they began to talk
about shooting, told them / was out
of the plot to escape if there was
gring to be any shooting" Bell de-
clared.
Hamilton and Shaw frequently
talked of how long they'd have to
serve in penitentiaries for crimes
they had committed" Bell said
These conversations occurred when
escape was talked Of, he said.
Kelley was on the stand during
the entire morning session Wednes-
day. He took the stand about 1890
o'clock. This lateness was caused
by arguing of two motions Just after
court opened bv Abe Coin, attorney
for Kelley, and A. B. Galloway, at
torney for Shaw
The motions came at the close OF
the states case against the pair
COINS motion was for a directed
verdict of not guilty for his client,
on the ground that there was no
evidence of plot to murder Reeves
and nothing to show that Kelley had
taken part in the murder. Judge
Baptist overruled this motion.
| Galloway then entered motion ia
exclude all evidence as to the shoot
ing Of Reeves by Hamilton. He at
tackled the indictment Of the pair
saying that the indictment didn't
charge conspiracy, nor did it charye
that Shaw or Kelley fired any of the
shots which took Reeves life. This
motion also was overruled and the
first defendant ordered to take the
stand after the jury was brought
into the courtroom.
Kelley began his testimony with
his firstmeeting with Shaw and Ham
ilton last summer. From that point
he began to detail checkered ca
reer. Abe COIN questioned him or
direct.
Before Kelley got well into the
tale Cohn attempted to introduce
into evidence a story which ap.
peared in Tuesdays News Scimitar
detailing what a model boy Kelley
had been in his home town, INLAY
City, Mich.
Cohn got as far as details Of
Kelley's Boy Scout activities and his
connection with the Baptist church
when the state objected to the char
acter Of the testimony, and was sus-
tanned by Judge Baptist. Kelley ther
continued his life story.
Kelley met Shaw in Lansing, Mich.
last summer, he said, and in Sep.
TENDER met Shaw and Clyde Hamil-
ton in the workhouse at Detroit
where they were held for automobile
theft. Kelley himself. had met
Shaw's brother, he said, who was moi
in Jail.
Kelley said Shaw and Hamilton
escaped, and he got into his auto
and drove to their hiding place, ther
took them to Flint. He intended tt
return to Detroit that night, but
Hamilton warned him that as he hao
helped them escape he probably would
get into trouble.
He spent two days in Flint, Their
went to Saginaw, he said where he
was arrested on charge Of robbine
a bank.
"You did rob the bank, didn't your
Bates questioned.
4 didn't say | did" Kelley shot
back.
"Well, did you?" Bates asked.
Il didn't say" said Kelley.
DO you deny you committed
crimes there 2" Bates shot.
II neither deny nor admit it,
Kelley answered.
Kelley said he went to his home in
INLAY City, Mich, for couple Of
days after the Detroit episode with
Shaw and Hamilton. Then he went
to Port Huron, then to Detroit
where he received wire from Shaw
who was in Memphis, asking him tc
core South. He came and brought
with him Edna Padget. he said.
Shaw took the stand Immediately
following the noon recess. He said
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