Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-03-25
JURORS ON ASHER
CASE SPEND WEEK.
END UNDER DEPUTY
TWELVE MEN, GOOD AND TRUE,
FACT PROSPECT OF PUTTING
IN SABBATH AS GUESTS OF
THE coUNTRY"-cRoWD HEARS
GIRLS STORY.

The twelve jurors who were chosen
to hear the case against Perry Asher
viii have to be held in the custody
Of the court baliM over the week end
upon the inability of those in charge
of the trial to finish the presentation
of evidence before court adjourned
for the day The twelve men who
are hearing the evidence will be per.
mitted to take walks and enjoy what.
ever recreation that can be provided
for them over Sunday. but they can.
not be separated one from the other
or from the court balft, at any pc.
Rod until the verdict is reached and
handed out
RumOrs that the state intended
placing the complaining witnesses on
the stand today caused the crowds
who have been listening 10 the evi.
dence to be greatly increased this
morning. The crowd of morbid.
minded men were on hand early to
get front row seats in the part of the
court room allotted 10 spectators
The same curious listened intently
10 the testimony given yesterday al
ternoon by Mrs. Edith Brady, wife
Of Edward Brady. Of Streator who is
a son of the adopted mother Of Bur
della WorreIls, the complaining wit.
ness
Mrs. Brady stated that she peaked
thru the window of the Worrells home
on the night Of the alleged attack and
saw Asher and Berdella She alleged
that she placed her face against the
window pane and her husband. Ed
ward Brady who reached the window
Just an instant after she arrived.
peaked over her shoulder.
She alleged that Berdclla and Ash.
er were not a foot away from the
window, from whore she watched
them. although they did not know
she was there
Complaining Witness Story.
Burdella, who has been confined at
the Home of the Good Shepherd at
Peoria, was called to the witness
stand when court recOnvened A
complete story of her relations with
ASHER at the home of her aunt and
uncle, Mr.. and Mrs William Wor-
reils, Of Streator, was told by the
girl.
Burdella testified that she was four.
teen years Of age and that she would
be fifteen Oct - next. She said that
she went by the names of Dodge and
Weber besides that OF Worrells. Bur.
della said that she was born in Toni.
ca Oct. l3, 1907, and lived there un.
I'll she was three years of age. when
her father, Al Dodge. died. She then
said that she took the name Of Weber
when her mother was united in mar.
riage for the second time, adding that
when she was adopted by her aunt
and uncle she took the name of Bur
della Worrels.
According to her testimony she
met Perry Asher several times before
Nov. IL, 1921, at which time the
charges were preferred against the
StreatOr man, She said that the first
time he called on her was one We'd
nesday night in June, 1921, shortly
before school was out She said that
she met him about Z o'clock on that
night Shortly after school had start.
ed In September of the same year
Burdella said that Asher again call
ed on her, The last attack occurred
on the night of Nov. 10, 1921, at the
home of her uncle
Nv and Mrs. Worrells, according
to the girl, had gone to the latter's
office on Bloomington street, and that
Asher came to the house about 7
o'clock, shortly after they had de.
parted She said that she asked Ash
er into the house after which he as
saulted her in her bedroom. Asher
left the house about s o'clock. after
which Mr.. and Mrs. Worrels and
Chief of Police Hopkins arrived.
Mrs. Jessie Worrells, the girls
aunt, was called to the stand yester.
day afternoon and denied that she
was awaiting chance to catch the
girl doing wrong that she might be
sent to a school of correction.
Miss Nellie Maher, employed in the
county clerks office, and C. J. Byrne,
superintendent of public schools, were
called to the stand to testify in re-