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J. T Iff i V. iTHg BSE; OMAHA; THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27,- 1917. l . s 5 i t a MAX BER "CASE, HISTORY OF AX MURDER CASE DEATH PENALTY IN WHICH LIVES Of NOT DEMANDED 0 PERSONS WERE SNUFFED OUT IN KELLY TRIAL I AT VILLISCA ! 9 Rev. LynG. J. Kelly First One Ever to be Put on Trial for y. Mysterious Crime Which Has Become Politi .4 . tal Issue in Hawkeye State; "Arouses i " . V , Intense Interest . . , 1 1 n I I I 3 ) The Villisca ax murder .for which Kev. Lyn G. J. Kelly was tried oc :ured Sunday night,, June 9, 1912, at '.he home of Mr. and Mrs. Joi Moore.' The victims were; Mr. and Mrs. Moore, their children, Herman, Boyd, Paul and Katherine, 11, 7, 5 and 10 years of age, respectively; and Lena nd Ina Stillinger, 11 and 6 years jld, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jo seph Jstiliinger. The Stillinger sisters had attended children's day exercises in the Pres byterian church at Villisca, and ac companied the Moores home-. for the night ; as guests. - Herman Moore spoke a piece about "God Watching Over the Sparrows," and Lena Stil linger also took part in the program. The crime was discovered at 8:30 o clock Monday morning, when Ed Selley, clerk in the Joe Moore store, became anxious because Moore failed to appear at his place of business at the usual hoiir. r1oss Moore, brother of Joe Moore, with '.Marshal Iforton, went to the Joe Moore home and dis covered the eight victims of "the murderer's ax.- v' J v . ' Find loody, Ax.,' . ,' The gruesome weapon was found near the bed of the Stillinger sisters, who occupied a downstairs bed room. The bodies of the Moore family were found in two rooms upstairs. Many detectives worked on the case, foremost among them being J. N. Wilkerson, former Burns opera tive. During July, 1916, Wilkerson went to Kansas ; City' and arrested 'Biir Mansfield, a packinghouse em ploye, and brought him back to Red Oak, 'where a ..grand jury investi gated the charges against him.? The vote of the grand jury was four, to indict and threw. againsfc It required four to indict. Last April Attorney General Hav- . 2 ner brought before the grand , jury C sufficient evidence 'to indict Rev. Lyn ,C J. Kelly. The little ministef was : , bought to. Red Oak May 14 by At- torneys A., L Suttonand J. A. Mc s I Kerme from AUa ?assr where , f- Kelly had been preaching. Accord- wg to the contention of Sutton, he had to urge Sheriff Dunn at Red Oak to take the ministenlnto custody. s Tried for-One Murder. ' Thettnal of Kellyvwas on first degree murder charge of killing Lena Stillinger. although. .the, trial, in. fact covered the slaying of eight victims. Particular preference, k was .' made .ttf icna ouuinger on account of the con dition in which witnesses said her jody was found and the furthef fact ;bat a witness for the prosecution testified that in one "of hit' conversa tions on the Thurdcr at' Macedonia on the day after the crime, Kelly ssfid one of the-girl was aroused and the murderer had fnore trouble killing her. The trial started Tuesday morning, September 4. Much time was taken up selecting a jury from 140 men ex amined. The 'extent of the feud which has been .engendered was demon strated in the examination f -veniremen. .Many of them declared they had contributed toward, the Kelly de , fense fund,-.-- i' i r The defense '. called forty-six wl( nessea and the.ftrastcution eighty-five. The ttate sought to prove that Kelly .iku ucuiiis vi inc. crime, ociore II had been discovered at Villisca ; that he sent a bloody shirt to a Council Bluffs laundry: that he made various confessions before signing the Logan confession, "and that he lent obscene Vttera to girls.. - v. i. Wo.re Same Clothing. The defense placed stress on the contention that Kelly was a paranoi ac; that tie' was susceptible to sugges tions; that' in his state of 'mind -he accepted .accusations of detectives and Other as realities; that, the Logan1 confession was obtained by third degree methods; that the state was trying to protect others, and offered testimony to impeach prose cution' witnesses regarding the time Kelly was alleged to have related de tails of the crime at Macedonia. The defense further contended that Kelly ocucpied the bed at the Ewing home, where he was a guest on the night of the crime; that he did not know the;-Moores, and Stilljngers, who were murdered; that his first day in Villisca was the Sunday of the night or the crime; that he. returned to Macedonia the following Monday morning wearing the same clothes' and personal -effects which be took when he left home; that he was home with his wife in Macedonia during, the hours of Monday when Mace donia witnesses testified he talked to1 them of the ax murder. - . , . Starts County Feud, ' One( of the outstanding features of the case is the marked division of public sentiment in Montgomery county. Aa soon as Detective Wil kerson returned, from Illinois last May. at the time Kelly returned with button and McKeniie. he entered upon a vigorous campaign in behalf of Kelly. t Aligned with him were relatives of the ax murder victims. Among these were Joseph Still inger,TJohn Montgomery,, father of Mra. Joe Moore; Mr. and Mrs. Ross Moore, and many others. , Wilkerson .was enjoined from holding public meetings, under an act of the last Iowa legislature, known as the Thompson - bill and otherwise re ferred to as the anti-Wiikerson till. The operation of that Jaw was sus pended and Wilkerson held thirty-five meetings after arrival of Kelly in Red Oak last May.?!- One , , of the meetings, was held in the Boyd thea ter, Omaha; Thousands of dollars were contributed toward the legal and personal expenses of Kelly. .At each meeting a committee solicited funds after Wilkerson spoke. - V; viy ; Stillinger U President V This Kelly defense organization was headed by Joseph Stillinger 'aJ president; C I. Miller secretary; C E. Peterson, treasurer; Harvey- Wil liet, fourth member of executive committee. It is stated 2,000 mem bers have, joined the organization, which is now known as. the "Iowa Protective association." : On the first day of the Kelly trial eighteen members of this v organiza tion, including relatives of the mur-J der, victims, offered their personal bond in the sum of $50,000 for release of Kelly onbail. Running into the fabric of the case State Will Not Ask Capital Punishment if Minister is ' Found Guilty of Ax 'Murders. ' ' By EDWARD BLACK. (Special CortMpondant (or Th Bm.) Red Oak, la, Sept. 26. (Special Telegram.) Special Prosecutor Fa ville began this morning the state's dosing arguments to the jury in the Villisca ax murder case.X; " Before a crowd which packed the court room to the walls the prosecu tor delivered to the jury the remarks which will play a part in deciding the fate of the little minister. urging the jury against committing is the Jones-Wilkerson slander suit KeUy to an asylum, Faville intimated "I which consumed thirty days last fall at Ked Uak. When the grand jury last year failed to indict "Bill" Mans field, Wilkerson went to such lengths in his accusations against former Sate Senator F. F. Jones of Villisca, that Jones brought , suit for $60,000 damages K The senator lost the suit. Wilkerson claimed ta have evidence sufficient to warrant, his accusations against Jones. Many of the witnesses in that suit aooeared in the Kellv trial. In the slander suit Ed Landers, now or Jsnenanaoan. testified that on the Sunday night of the trime he saw Albert Jones, son of Senator Jones. enter tne Moore home, and at the Kelly .trial he gave similar testimony. witnesses Shut Out, The defense was unable to hrini into, the Kelly trial the Jones-Mans- nc a icarnrc nr in m oa n inni further than . the testimony, of Ed Landers, partially corroborated by his wife, , w, . ' -. ; , Jv.. ,,. . .. The defense had nlanned to call Alice Willard, Vina Tompkins and Others on this phase of the case. They submitted tvoe written conies to the. judge of testimony which sixteen wit nesses would offer, but the eoirrt ruled that testimony out on objections' by prosecution, which maintained proper foundation had not been laid. After R. H. Thorpe of Jefferson, la., tes tified to having met "Bill" Mansfield, on the train on the Monday morning after the crime; the court ordered his testimony stricken out on motion of the prosecution. v Havner to Face Trial j The Montgomery ' county "fued" however, is not over. C. E. Peterson, treasurer of the "Iowa Protective as sociation"; stated-that he commands $100,000 which wilt be used tp bring the tguilty nersons to justice."4 Clti tens of Montgomery county know what he means. Others tre hoping that the ax murders will be perpet ually disposed of.; :. ; ; J, : Another feature of the case was the Indictment of Attorney General Hav ner by the grand ' Jury .at Red Oak. Havner's case will he called for trial about October IS.- The attorney gen eral was indicted upon an affidavit by Alice AVillard, who stated -that she was . intimidated when serving as a witness! before 'he grand jury that in dicted Kelly last April.- v, ; V In the slander suit last fall Mrs. Willard testified that on the evening before the night of the murder she Overheard Senator F. F. Jones, "Bill" Mansfield,, Bert McGaull, Harry Whipple and , another man in con versation. iShe ws to have been one Of the star witnesses for the defense in the Kelly trial if the Jones-Mansfield feature had been admitted. . ! Detective 'Wilkerson is now under charges of tonsDiracv to enter the Jones store at Villisca. That case is pending at Corning, la. ;, Kelly's Life Story. j Rev;. Lyn G,. Kelly is-38 years of age, was born in Kent, England,.and came to this country in 1904. He start ed his ministerial work in North Da kota. His history during the last five years was completely covered during the trial. - On Saturday, June 8, 1912, he went to Villisca to preach at Pilot Grove and Arlington churches, near Villisca. He was driven from .Vil lisca depot by Lou Ennarson to the home of Henry Ennavon, where -he passed Saturday night. He preached at Pilot Grove and Arlington on Sun day and late in the . afternoon was driven to the home of Rev. W. J. Ewing at Villisca. -v Sunday evening he accompanied the Ewing - family to the Presbyterian church and attended the Christian En deavor meeting and children's day exercises. He returned to the Ewing home about 9:30 and was directed to an upstairs room, while the Ewing family slept in a tent in the yard. Early next morning he returned to Macedonia, which had been his home. I ? ; . Returned to Villisca. .. . Two weeks later he returned to Vil lisca and preached a sermon in the Presbyterian church. During the latter part of 1912 and the early part of 1913 he attended the Presbyterian Theolog ical seminary in Omaha and to one witness of the trial he presented a letter from Dr. Marshall of. that in stitution. He was pastor of a church at Carroll, la., during part of 1913 and advertised for members of a short hand class in that town, During. 1913 he "went to Winner, S. D., where he engaged in church and stenographic work. While at Winner he was indicted at Sioux Falls on a charge of writing obscene fetters to girls, and committed to the federal insane hospital at. Washington, D. C From'the federal hospital he went to Sioux City, where ' he worked for a short time as a stenographer in a grocery house and opened a steno- fraphic office. He was assisted at ioux City by Horace Houghton. For a year and a hr.lf (1915-16) he filled the Congregational church pul pit at Sutton, Neb., and had his name on the church door. His last church work before' going to Red Oak last May was at Alta Pass, III i The trial disclosed that dnrinc tiia varied existence over a otriod of five years he declared himself. to be Christ, the son of God,, and the grandson of God. nd President. Wilson. Bee Want Ads Produce Results. life imprisonment will be the penalty wnicn tne state will demand should Kelly be found guilty. ADMIRES JUDGE SUTTON. "I have learned to admire Judge Sutton," began Faville, . "but yester day he delivered to you a July Fourth school oration which 1 spoke twenty five years ago. "During the talk he called his client .an idiot, a crazy man, a car load of nuts, a beast, lunatic and nervous wreck. That won'f help you gei me tacts oi wis case, we are trying Kelley. v - "Hysham told you yesterday the stairs in the Moore home were fcreaky and the murderer could not have gone up without awakening Mr. or Mrs. Moore. Don't you think that little fellow (pointing to Kelly) could ,have pussy-footed up those stairs like a cat. He was ascending Jacob's ladder to the bloody sacri fice. You have heard from reputable witnesses that he said the murderer stunned them first." , , . , No Apologies for Havner. "faville referred to Kehy as 'a "servant of the Lord." : "I hold no 'brief for the attorney-, general of Iowa. He can take care of himself at any time and at any place. I offer no apologies for what officers of the state have done. Thev have done their bounden duty." . J. he prosecutor , contended state. agents have, done nothing more than usual in this case in their efforts to obtain evidence that justice may be done. , ; -; ; - He. said Havner did not. speak a word to Kelly at Logan until the stenographer was there, and all that was. said is now a matter of public record., V , :-r . "Havner urged Kelly to tell the truth," Faville continued. "Havner had no notion of the sermon,' 'Slay Utterly 'or Jacob's Ladder '.' until Kelly mentioned' those matter Sutton and Hysham said these are th4 ravings of an unsound mind; that Kelly was hounded by detectives. ; I say . it was the consciousness of a seared soul. . Defines Paranoiac. "If Kelly cau't remember, if .his mina, is mercmush, 1 would not be a . party to prosecuting him. We brought before you four of the best experts we. could get. ..- We have been told Kelly is' para noic. Judge Sutton told us a para noiac is a carload of nuts. A para noiac is a man, who can preach .a ser mon on-Sunday and on Monday ask his stenographer to ' remove ; her clothes. ' "Kelly remembered and truthfultv related other matters, and why can't he' do the same as to what happened that night? Kelly was eight months in" the government asylum at Wash ington and as soon as he was re leased he returned to preaching gos pel of the lowly Nazarene and thirty days later he was trying to strip his stenographer at Sioux City. " Asks Life Imprisonment "I am not asking for this man's life, because I believe every man should run his course of years, but I ask that in your verdict you .send him to a place where he will be un able to ' commit 4hese acts. 1 -f , "You have been told that Kelly's inspiration foe a book was to see a nude girl and his inspiration for a sermon was 'Slay Utterly.' ' "We have had too much of this maudlin sympathy of sending flowers and dinners to men who go wrong. "Men have been hung on less evi dence than has been offered in this case. , , , "He told several persons he was the first one in the house and saw the bodies.. I guess he was. He said the murder was committed between 1 and 1:30. How did he know? He made statements to fourteen people Wilkerson Raises Chair To Strike Sheriff Dunn Red Oak, la.. Sept 26w (Special Telegram.) Wilkerson and Sheriff Dunn Had a slight mix before court opened this morning. The court had ruled that space inside the rail should bekept clear. Wilkerson insisted on bringing in more chairs. "I told Wilkerson about the rul ing of the court and he. raised a chair as to strike me, but hf did not strike me," said Sheriff Dunn. Kelly is peeved over the pet names applied fo him by Sutton yesterday and said he is not an idiot, although he does not oppose the insanity pleas. "I know more than you think I do? said Kelly to a jail attache. ' "I know you did it and I want you to tell me how you did it" Was it at all just for Hayner to tell that to Kelly in the defendant s weak and emaciated condition if Havner knew he should have gone on the wintness stand and told you. vvasn t there an arrangement at Logan. Why were Hess, Lahman and Bachelor there r , Mart Hid in Closet The confession was not obtain ft wairaLteatKae,!Leathenr KeTy " Attorney General of Iowa Says was ot unsound : mind and it stands NO DOUBT ABOUT GUILT OF KELLY, ASSERTS HAVNER during a time when he was preaching the gospel and no. state agents or de tectives were around. Are you going to turn this man loose in the face of such mountain-high testimony irom reputaDie witnesses? "I want Kelly put behind stone walls, where he will be cared for and 'kept. ' !"I don't believe one of you hon estly -believes Albert Jones went into the Moore house that night." ; Faville urged' the ' jury .'to weigh carefully the confession and "the bloody shirt'.' features, t'You can't get away from the bloody shirt. Why didn't Kelly' put ' his name on the slip when he left the laundry at Council Bluffs?" " Mitchell Addresses Jury, W. E. Mitchell of Cminril Ttl,,ff began at 10:50 the last argument fnr me aciense to the jury. Hs is an im passioned speaker and made, this ad dress the ettort of his life. "Once and for all, I want to declare to you that Kelly lias said ,he is not guilty," iviucneu Degan. , . : . .' --He said Kelly had been preaching me gospei witn success until the time Of thev crime.. . v - "The state contends," Mitchell con tinued, " that Kelly is insane, and yet they ask for oenal servitude. ITnnn that basis you should return a verdict of not guilty. - "If Kelly had a delusion ini which God told him to slay eight people, he would not have' concealed it. He would have walked back, complacent and proud, that he had followed the distate of .his creator." Reviewing Kelly's movements at Villisca Satnr. day and Sunday, he- declared there was nothing to show he was not sane at that time. ; . '' ' . No Homicidal Tendency. 'Nothing, to show that up to the date of the crime Kelly was a moral pervert or had homicidal tendencies. Experts will tell you that a paranoiac will not develop homicidal tendencies in five minutes or an .hour. If the .prosecution , is to be believed, then Ktlly is an anomaly. Not until two years after the tragedy did Kelly manifest any tendencies which they are talking about." Mitchell attacked the probability of Mr; , and .Mrs. . Si monds having met Kelly on the train the morning of June 10, as claimed. He held as mprobable the testi mony that jvelly referred to the crime betore its discovery, because, he '-t gued, sOme one. must have reported it ione auworities aj the time when the tragedy was the topic of general con- versauon.!. i.-t.i-:.. tor notnine. "Does not the evidence show that the man who went to the Toe Moore nome went mere oreoared? - "Doesn't it appear to you he hid in the "closet until slumber had destroyed the sensibility of Mr. and Mrs. Moore? I have shown you the utter lack of motovie on the part of Kelly. I believe themurderer intended tp kill ioe Aioore. une witness heard Mrs. foore' scream. It is probable she recognized her husband's assailant, wno Kiuea orners to escape detection, Not Work of Maniac. "I don't believe this crime was the wortc ot a maniac Judge Mitchell referred to the Scriptures and said the prosecution had placed a misconstruction upon "slay utterly," which in fact meant to" siay elements ol evil. He showed a pole seven feet and eight inches in height, the same as the height of the room wnere the ax marks appeared in the . ceiling1. Taking the original Villisca axm his hands, he illustrated the point that Kelly's height discred ited the theorv that the' reiliner marks could- have been made by ivcuy. KELLY CASE GOES TO JURY , 'AT RED OAK Minister Can Remember and Told Truthfully of Crime in His Confession. (Continued from Pare One, For trial Ta Ualcrr Ton Get Fre Trial t Pyramid ptl Treatment th Bet ter. . It Im Watt Ya Am LwkUs Fr.' - - - Pon't talk epsratton. If you can't jfalt for free trial of Pyramid PU Treatment get 6 do box at any drug- -tore and rat relief now. If not near a. stora send coupon for frae trial Mokaaaln plain wrapper, and ret rid of itching, bleeding- and protruding pile, hemorrholda and ach rectal troubles. Take no aobitltut. FREE SAB3PLE COUPON PTRAMTD PRTJO COMPANT. S, Pyramid Building.. i Jfarahall. Mich. vV V t22Ly-Bdjr ample plain wrappeA Kama Street DLL 1 . V J... 4,,,. .t, 11 I "It .was . buried ia. the breast nf the witnesses, if they are telling the truth.. The least responsible, evidence in me wurm is mat wnicn is onerea after a lapse of years." Resuming" his arguments at the afternoon session Mitchell analyzed the evidence, piece by piece,, to show that the Macedonia witnesses could have been mistaken as to the time of meeting JCelly. . ',, . . ? , "This alleged confession sfat Wat after Kelly killed eight "people he went back to bed. I don't care whe'her he wore his pajamas or his B V D s, he would have left evidence of his crime on his bed at the , Ewing home if that confession is true.' There was no evidence that the shirt which went to tne council mutts' laundry had one drop of blood on it' The point I make is that Kelly had no such shirt on at the time of the trag edy. .. s . j--. - -, 'Are you going to convict Kelly because he made statements after he had been committed to an asylum, and the men to whom he made state ments did not attribute enough im portance to advise . the authorities?" .. His attacked the Logan matter, say-' ing the prosecution could have legal ly . served notices on Kellv'a counsel instead of on the -defendant himself comprenena the-nature of, the act, men ne is not guuty ot any crime. "If yoif believe he was in nosses sion bf i rational, intelligent, sound mind, then;, though passion or re venge may, for the time, have driven reason from its seat, and usurped it and urged the defendant with a force at the moment irresistible to desper ate acts, he cannot claim for mirh acts tne protection ot insanity "The practical question for you to determine from all evidence ! whether passion and revenge, or in sanity, was the controlling atrnrv which icu 10 ine commission, it you believe the defendant killed Lena stillinger, and that such action was the; direct result or offspring of in sanity, you should acquit; if passion or revenge, you should convict. . "If it should appear that not only the mind of the, accused was insane, but that the act for which he is in dicted was the direct offspring' of m sanity, this being shown, responsibil ity is annulled, but not otherwise."" . instructions on contessions were: "You are instructed that the state claims thei defendant admitted his guilt since-the death of Lena Still inger, and; you are told that the state's' claim must be based, if it has any basis in fact, ' upon r testimony wnicn has been admitted, and in this connection you are told that such alleged -admissions t" of- defendant should be received with great cau tion, as that kind o( evidence is sub jeot to imperfections and mistakes. Such, statements often come from loose and random conversation with out a purpose to express what hear ers may understand, and you should give suc,h testimony only such weight as the same is in your judgment enti tled to; : "There was introduced a purported confession of the defendant. You are instructed that any statement of the defendant or confession of a commis sion of an act charged is admissible, in evidence if -the statement is the free and voluntary act If the confes sion is produced or signed under cir cumstances, indicating that1 it was in any manner- the result of coercion, duress inducement or promise of any character, it is not admissible. "If you find from. the testimony .that the. defendant signed the same, and if you find that said . confession was signed by the defendant iby rea son, of any inducement or promise or hope of reduced punishment or coer cion or duress, then you will not con sider the same. ' "But.' if upon such consideration you find that said purported confes sion was toe tree and Voluntary act. of the defendant, then you. will pro ceed to determination of the said confession and you will give the same By EDWARD BLACK. (Staff Correspondent for The Bee.)' Red-Oak, la., Sept. 26. (Soecial Telegram.) Attorney General Hav ner made the last of the six closing arguments to the jury in the Kelly murder case late this afternoon. He began by stating that the prosecution had made an honest effort to per af- the "very truth" of the case. I have no anolocrip. for hrinc Wr I am a mere incident," he said. "If the state cannot obtain the' ron- viction without harsh words, then we want no conviction. t i vv iivc years mvsterv nas sur rounded this tragedy and uo to this time no man has-been placed on trial. "We told you that the defendant talked of the crime before anyone in Villisca knew it had been committed Has the state failed in any instance to bring '.testimony we said we wuld bring? "I want you men. in vour heart of hearts, to sav whether the state has ailed to make its case." Havher placed stress on the imnort- ance of the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. William Simonds. who testified thev heard Kelly refer to the crime on the train at 7 o'clock the mornirisr after the tragedy. . ; . -r You might eliminate all other tes timony, he continued. ' Ihere is no mistaking the oroDO- sition. that the man who sits in that chair is' the man who took those lives. iY ok. know that a man of his in clinations cannot be at large and not endanger society. , "There cannot be any honest opin ion that this man did not know of the murder before 7 o'clock that Monday I morning. , "I want to say to you, and the record will show, that Kelly a Logan said: 'No,' when , asked .fifteen times -whether he killed Joe Moore and his;" wife first. , . - ' j "That shows he1 was riot susceptible to suggestion as stated. He has cor rectly related the details of his life. It is for you to determine whether he can remember events, and if he can, then other, statements he has made j are true." Evidence Memory Good. Attorney General Havner stated the. . circumstances of the shirt as shown ' by testimony were according to what-' actually happened. He said Kelly re fpeatedly and correctly related details-, of the shirt,, further evidence that ne could remember. "I have no hatred in my heart for that man, , (pointing to Kelly), but . I have a duty as a public officer to .", perform and you men have a duty "to ' perform. If yqu find he was insane "; when he did it, there will be a special", form of verdict for you to return. ' , "They said i we coerced Kelly'at ; Logan. God being my helper, we did ; alk we could to bring the record com plete before you. Kelly told the.'.", sheriff at Logan several times he.; wanted to see me. The record shows" he was told twenty-five times riqT promise would be made to him and " . fifty-one times he was admonished to tell the truth. v . . , . .- ' "This man told what I. believe is the r truth when, in his confession, he told , . of the shadow, voice, light, ax) andl of how he killed those people. Testimony of Landers. . "Not one word receivable in court : against any other man could they of-r fer, except testimony of Ed Landers. ; Do you believe a man going on such ar mission would go in the manner de- . -scribed(by Landers? ' . . -7 . "You men stand between society t. and this man who is criminally insane v and you should see that this man'does m not have another opportunity. He has said he would do it again. I want you to read this sermon on which he:- refers to bloody sacrifices. There isn't ' any ' question ds to the tendency ofv this man of lecherous disposition who; would destroy pure womanhood. 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