AK-SAR-BEN DATES
Carnival September 36 to October 6
Eiactrlta! rttI, Evening ... .October 3
Daylight Panda October 4
Military Firework October 4
Coronation Ball : Octobers
VOL. XLVII. NO. 80.
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OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917 TWELVE PAGES.
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ST A TE'S
KELLY'S
SECOND DRAFT
MEN LEAVEFOR
CAMP FUNSTON
First Group Starts at 8 A. M.,
Second at 8:30 and the
Third Goes at 10:55
Tonight.
Bulletin.
Washington, Sept. 18. Mar
shalled for the last time as civilians
and under civilian authority, more
than 300,000 men of the national
army will, go forward today to the
siteen cantonments to be trained
for the battle against German au
cracy. Their next move will be as
fighting men toward the battle fields
of France.
Greater Omaha's quota of 480 citi
zen soldiers, the second contingent of
drafted men to go from the Gate City
to the training camp.at Fort Riley,
will leave today in three divisions.
The first group, consisting of men
of the Fourth and Fifth districts, leave
over the Union Pacific at 8 a. m. The
second group, comprising men of the
Third district, leave at 8:30, while the
last group, making up the First and
Second district, go at 10:55 tonight;
The Fifth district men reported at
the court house at 9 yesterday morn
ing for roll call and final instruc
tions and a little drilling. Those ot
the Third district have orders to re
port at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Men from the First and Second dis
tricts report for call this morning at
10 o'clock.
The South Side's quota will be en
tertained today instead of yesterday,
owing to the later departure. At 5:30
this afternoon, ' the men will as
semble at the South Side city hall,
where they will be greeted by bands
and a committee of South Side busi
ness men. They will be escorted to
the Stock Yard's exchange dining hall,
where they will be guests at a dinner. !
The boys will then be taken to their
train in automobiles. -. i
The transportation of 194,000 mem
bers of the national army, who con
stitute 40 per cent of .the citizenrsol-
.....a 9 SVJbVIVV .V. .......... J
begins todap and continue! -oyer a
five-day, period, v; v . . ,
Requires Many Cars.
. In handling 194,000 men within the
time designated, railroad men figure
that it will require all of the available
tourist sleepers '.in' the country. This
number is placed at 1,500. In addi-1
tion, the movement will require ap
proximately 5.000 dav coaches.
Generally speaking, the tourist
sleepers will be used for the transpor
tation of the men living farthest from
the cantonments, while the day
(Continued on Tage Two, Column Four)
Head of Shipping Board
Goes to Settle Strike
Washington, Sept. 18. Chairman
Hurley.. of the shipping board and
William Blackman.Nconciliator of the
Department of Labor, will leave to
morrow for San Francisco to under
take adjustment of labor troubles in
plants building ships for the govern
ment. , '
Hurley today appealed to President
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor to stop the strikes which are
holding up government shipbuilding
on the Pacific coast.
i a e - . - J t
A conicrencc wiu uc new touay be
tween Mr. Hurley and Mr, Gompers.
Chairman Hurley also conferred to
day with Secretary .Daniels on the
navy's settlement of. wage demands in
government ship yards. - '
Court-Martial Triail
Of Nearo Rioters Open
San Antoflio, Tex.; Sept. 18. The
court-martial trial of negro soldiers
implicated in the Houston" riot will
be open to the public, it was announced
at the headquarters of the Southern
department today. Newspapers will
be allowed to have representatives
present and take the testimony. It is
expected the trial will be held in El
Paso in about two weeks.
Trainload of Troops to
Hold I. W. W. in Check
Portland, Ore., Sept. 18. Colonel
r F. Dentin-. II. S. A., announced
here today he would send a special
trainload of troops to Astoria. Ore.,
tonight to prevent Industrial Workers
of the World from endeavoring to
coerce employes of the Hammond
lUIilUCl IHl.t luiu LU ail i it. ojh-
pathy with Seattle strikers against
L'en-hour lumber. '
The Hammond mill is working on
' aeroplan spruce. v ;
Seven Hundred Carpenters
On Strike at Houston, Tex.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 18. Approxi
mately 700 union carpenters, engaged
in government construction work at
Camp Logan and the aviaiion camp
, . , i . i . i . . f . i
- here, strucK xoaay as ine result oi inc
failure of contractors to meet their
demands that none but union labor
be employed.
.Canada Jails Anti-Draft
Ortator on Charge of Treason
Montreal, Sept . 18. Paul- Emile
Mongeau, an anticonscriptionist or
ator, was arrested today on a charge
of treason. He is the third to be taken
here on this charge for publicly op
posing conscription. Mongeau plead
ed not guilty when arrainged and was
released on bail. "
DRAFT ARMY READ
CONFESSION R
Y TO LEA V.
EA D TO JU.
RY
DRY LAW IS NOT
ON TRIAL, SAYS
JUDGEESTELLE
Instructs Jury to Decide Cases
On Evidence; Beer is Intoxi
cating Also Declares
the Judge.
Judge Estelle, sitting in law court,
in instructing a jury hearing the first
liquor appeal case in district court
told the veniremen not to take, into
consideration whether they believed
the prohibition law to be good, bad
or indifferent, but to decide the case
squarely on the evidence. .
The case of the state against James
Kahout went to a jury at 11 o'clock
and immediately another liquor appeal
case was begun before twelve other
veniremen. Kahout was charged with
illegal transportation, of several bar
rels of beer after May -l. He pleaded
not guilty in police court and appealed
to district court. i
Beer is Intoxicating.
One of Judge Estelle's remarks to
the jury was: "Remember, gentle
men, beer is an, intdxicating liquor."
Judge Estelle also instructed the
jury as to the weighing of testimony
of the different witnesses. He told the
jury members to carefully consider
the fact that policemen and detedtives
in their quest for evidence are "apt
to remember at a trial only the evi
dence most damaging to the defend
ant." Special Prosecutor McGuire, . ap
pointed by Governor Neville to head
a drive against bootleggers in Omaha,
trained his legal guns on the first
state case against the Millard hotel
at 11:30 o'clock. The first complaint
against the Millard hotel appealed to
district court charges illegal posses
sion of liquor.
Judge Estelle, who is hearing all
liquor appeal cases twenty-eight in
number declared Prosecutor Mc
Guire should have assistance during
the trying of the cases. Mr. McGuire
has his city prosecutor's duties to at
tend to in addition to prosecuting all
appeals in district court
-f'l will ask Governor Neville and
the city council to give Mr. McGuire
some assistance, as his duties at fif es-
est are too. many.iot pne.msm,' de?
cured judge tstelle. " ; T
Dollar
Are Not oa.the Job
To Push the War
Washington, Sept. 18. Well-paid
employes in places of prominent men
now giving their services to the gov
ernment at nominal pay, such as $1 a
year, were urged on the house today
by Representative Dupre of Louisiana.-
"The greatest cause of delay in our
war activties,". be-said, "is the ava
lanche of men who have descended
upon Washington to 'do their bit' free
of charge. If you go down to see
them on Thursday you learn that they
have left town to return Tuesday and
if you go back on Tuesday you learn
they have just gone out to lunch. If
we bad paid-employes who were re
sponsible to someone this condition
would not exist"
Representative Gillette of Massa
chusetts defended the "dollar-a-year
men," insisting that their positions
probably would be filled by "deserv
ing democrats" if they were to retire.
Army and Navy Men
- Enjoying Fine Health
Washington, ; Sept. 17. Generally
good health for the navy, afloat and
ashore, was reported today by Sur
geon General Braisted, who said
there was little serious illness. Some
cases of measles and mumps still are
reported from the 'Atlantic fleet with
measles less prevalent than -mumps,
averaging only ten cases a week for
the" whole force afloat.
1 Conditions also are excellent at the
shore stations, except at San Fran
cisco, where there are a number of
cases of measles and mumps.
Will Teach Horseshoeing
Jo 20,000 National Army Men
Boston, Sept 1,8. Twenty thousand
members of the new national army
will learn horseshoeing under expert
craftsmen selected by the Master
Horseshoers" association through a
plan proposed at the annual conven
tion of the association today.
With the consent of the War de
partment the association will pay the
difference between the $51 wage of
the enlisted instructors and the civil
ian wage schedule. . . ' -
U. S. Grant Exempt fYom
Military Service; Wife
Bismarck, N. D., Sept' 18. Ulysses
S. Grant will not have a chance to
make himself as famous as the man he
was named after, in this war with
Germany, for the North Dakota dis
trict exemption board here has ex
empted him from military service on
the ground that he has a dependent
wife and as a result a great name is
lost to the military annals of the state.
Rev. Lvn G. J Jx ks Confession of Murder
Of Eight Arsons at Villisca, la., Placed
In Evidence at Red Oak Trial By the State
Red Oak, la. Sept 18. (Special Telegram.) The
confession made by Rev. Lyn G. J. Kelly at Logan to
state and county officers, admitting the Villisca ax mur
ders is as follows:
"I, Lyn George J. Kelly, being first duly sworn on
oath, deport and say that I make Ihe following affidavit
and confession without any promise or threats having
been made to me of any kind whatever and that this is
a voluntary statement:
"That I came to Villisca, la, the night before the
murder of the Moore family.
"Lou Emerson met me at the depot and I went to his
home for supper. I was taken out from there to Henry
Emerson's by Lou Emerso, where I stayed over night,
and I returned to Villisca at 6:30 o'clock Sunday eve
ning, coming directly to Rev. Mr. Ewing's home, where
I took supper and afterwards went with him to church.
.."After church I returned home witB Rev. Ewing
and his wife and stayed up and visited with him until
II or 11:30 o'clock, when he showed me to my room,
and asked me if I would mind sleeping alone, as they
were going to sleep in the tent. I said, 'No as I was
intending to go to sleep at once.
"I undressed and went ot bed, but was restless,
being over-tired. I heard a noise outside like a wind
mill and opened the door on the balcony; stood out
side on the balcony to see what the noise was, but
found nothing. Then I came back and shut the door
and tried to sleep, but could not My head was hot. I
began to feel sick and wanted to get ft walk, so I
dressed and went outside.
"I went downstairs to the front door and left the
house by the front door. I walked across to the Pres
byterian church. I did not intend to go any further,
but my mind was working on a sermon on a text
called 'Slay Utterly,' as I had been hearing and read
ing sermons on that text, and a voice said, 'Go on,'
and I went on because I was in the grip of something
that I did not understand.
. "I felt that God wanted me to 'slay utterly,' and I
did not know where I was going or where I was. I got
down near the end of the, street and saw a shadow on
the side of the house, going from the back to the front,
and God told me to follow that shadow. I walked on a
little bit further, still thinking about my sermon and
wanted to know where that shadow began. ' I went
hunting the shadow to the back of the house. I did
not know who lived there, but I kept on hearing that
voice, 'Slay utterly.'
"I said 'Yes, Lord, I will. I was walking in the dark
ness around the house, trying to find that shadow, and
accidentally saw an ax. I picked it up and went to
where the shadow went, for God wanted me to follow
that shadow. I went around toward the front door. A
voice says, 'Go in. Do as I tell you; slay utterly.'
"I saw no light, but I had to do as God told me
and I dare not turn back because somebody was urg
ing me on I did not know who. I did not know where
I was. I went right ahead because I heard that voice
and as soon as I got in the house someone whispered,
'Come up higher,' out of the night and I went up a
flight of stairs, because I thought I was going up
Jacob's ladder.
"I walked through the middle room into the further
room. I don't know what I went there for, only I was
driven by an impulse and a voice. I saw some children
lying there. The Bible says, 'Suffer little children to
come unto me,' and I said, 'They are coming, Lord.'
"Before I knew what I was doing I started sending
those children somewhere, I did not know, and I had
to do as God told me and slay utterly. And so to obey
God. I used the ax and did not realize where I was
hitting them, only I was trying to do what God wanted
me to do.
"After killing the children, I went into the room
where the parents were, and I don't remember which
of them I struck first, as my head was all wrong, and
I kept on hearing voices. I slaved utterly, by using the
ax, led by this imulse that I did not seem able to
control. '
"I then went downstairs and wanted to lay down
and rest, and saw a room and went in, not knowing
who was there, but found two children in bed, and
God said, 'More work yet' Before I knew what I was
doing, I continued my sacrifices, by killing these two
children with the ax, as I had to offer blood sacrifices.
"To the best of my memory, I left the ax in the
house, and returned to the Ewing home, and . went
back to bed and got up in the morning and caught the
5:19 train for Macedonia, arriving home about 7:30.
"LYN GEORGE J. KELLY."
"Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3st day of
August, 1917. LYNN J. IRWIN,
"Clerk of District Court N
Roumanians Take Part . -
Of Austrian Positions
Petrograd, Sept. 18. Rumanian
forces yesterday occupied a section
of the Austro-German fortified posi
tions in the region of Varnitza, says
the official statement issued today by
the Russian war office. , In the area
of Riga, the statement adds, there
was no change in the situation
DR. AVERY TELLS
HOW UNIVERSITY
HELPS WAR
Chancellor Scores Prussianism
Vahd Paciftstslnis'Coh-
i location Address to
' Students.
; Lincoln, Sept.' 18. (Special.) Dr.
Samuel Avery, chancellor of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, in his convoca
tion to the students today, scores
Prussianism and tells of the splendid
work for the war which is being done
by the university. His subject was
"The University and the War," and he
said in part:
"Since the recognition by the gov
ernment of the United States that a
state of war exists between our peo
ple and the imperial German govern
ment, I take it that no American citi
zen fails to support fully the govern
ment of the United States inNfeeling,
speech and. conduct unless he is af
flicted with one of the following ail
ments, namely, partial foreignism,
partial ' treason or partial idiocy.
"The last term could be more ac
curately expressed in the vernacular,
but students use the vernacular too
freely at all times. Of these three
classes the only one for whom I have
any respect or tolerance are those
who are afflicted with foreignism, and
for those I do have a very definite
sympathy -and often a profound re
spect, much as I deplore that atti
tadj. "Scholarship is one of the most
practical things in the world, because
scholarship molds thought. Scholar
ship may degenerate, to be sure, into
the monastic and the academic, but
scholarship at its best means ultimate
action, because to a large measure it
controls th thoughts of men. Yet
scholarship as a thing by itself is nei
ther good nor bady .
"It can be used as German philoso-
(Continqad on Pace Three, Column Four.)
Urge Federal Guarantee to
. Prevent Live Stock Loss
Washington, Sept. 17. Federal
guarantee . against losses in the live
stock industry was discussed with the
food administration, today by repre
sentatives of western stock raisers as
a means of encouraging increase of
the meat supply for the next year.
Small producers complain that feed
prices are too high now to justify
fattening or raising new animals and
that the guarantee plan would prevent
the slaughter of thousands of lambs
and feeders during the fall and early
winter. , "
Costa Rica Breaks All
. Relations With Germany
San. Jose, Costa Rica, Sept 18.
Diplomatic relations between Costa
Rica and German are considered
severed as a result of steps taken by
the government -today. General
Tinoco, the president, discovered
that German residents here had
joined with, some of the followers of
former President Got zales in con
spiring against the government
Two Bishops Appointed
' By the Apostolic Legation
' Washington, Sept. 18. Appoint
ment of two bishops of the Roman
Catholic church were announced te'
day at the apostolic legation here.
Tbey are: Bishop of Denver, Mt. Rev.
J. Henry Tihen, at present bishop of
Lincoln, Neb., and bishop of Los Art
tries, Rev. John J. Cantwell of San
j-rancisco. . . J.
Edinburgh Honors
Walter Bines Page
' Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept 18.
It was unanimously decided by the
town council here today to confer
the freedom of . the city of Edin
burgh on Walter Hines Page, the
American ambassador to the court
of St James.
This honor was conferred -upon
Ambassador. Page in recognition
ofw his, representative position as a
diplomat, his public services in pro
moting friendship and good feeling
between the people of Great Britain
and the United State and also "in
appreciation of th heroic conduct of
his country in joining Great Britain
and her allies in the great war."
GERMANY DENIES
OFFERING PEACE
TERMSJO U. S.
Foreign Office Refutes State
ments Appearing in Papers
that Kaiser Had Out
lined Terms. ,
Berlin, Monday, Sept. 17. (Via
London, Sept 18.) The' German for
eign office in a statement given to the
Associated Press today denies stories
appearing in Danish and other foreign
newspapers to the effect that the
German government has indirectly
communicated . its peace terms to
Washington or had sought sounding
sentiment in the United States! ' y
The German foreign office further
informed the Associated Press that
the rumors were promptly discred
ited on the strength of the peace
terms ascribed to Germany and fur
ther by the fact that there was no oc
casion for Germany to address the
Washington government in this re
spects ' ' '
The assertion made by Mathias
Erzberger, the clerical leader in the
Reichstag, that Germany's nfMe in re
ply to Pope Benedict's peace propos
als already was on its way to Rome
also was denied in official quarters.
The center leader informed his elec
tors to this effect in the course of two
meetings which he addressed in Wurt
temburg on Sunday.
Denies Insurance Men
; - Oppose Soldiers' Bill
Washington, Sept. 18. Brief hear
ings were held today by a- senate
finance sub-committee on the soldiers'
and sailors' insurance bill which
passed the house unanimously last
week.
George Eide, professor of the Home
Life Insurance company of New York,
denied that insurance companies were
against the bill, but instead urged its
passage.
Kansas City. Pays Record r
Price for Fifty-One Steers
Kansas City, -Sept. 18. Fifty-one
steers selling at $17 a 100 pounds to
day established the highest price ever
paid west of the Mississippi river.
The cattle averaged 1,447 pounds.
$7000,000000 War Bill
Passed by Lower House
Washington, Sepf. 18. The $7,'
000,000,000 war deficiency bill, car
rying huge appropriations for the
army, fortifications and shipping
board, passed the house today by
a unanimous vote.
SPAIN TO OBTAIN
SAFE CONDUCT FOR
GERMAN MINISTER
Argentine Foreign Office Asks
Madrid to Obtain Protec
tion ifrom Allies for
V 1 Von Luxburg. .'
Buenos Aires, Sept. 18. In private
sources it was learned by the Asso
ciated Press today that the Argen
tine government has asked Spain to
take the responsibility of obtaining
from the American and British gov
ernments a safe' conduct for Count
von Luxburg, the German minister
here, who recently was given his
passports, arguing that the count is
to leave Argentine for Spain on a
Spanish vessel. Accordingly, it was
said, the Spanish ambassador has
asked the Madrid government to ini
tiate negotiations to this end.
The course taken by the Argentine
foreign office is not in accordance
with diplomatic usage, but this gov
ernment, it is understoqd, wishes to
escape the necessity of extending to
me expenea uerman minister the
usual courtesies. '
Police in Autos 1 '
Parade Streets to
Prevent Riots
San Francisco, Sept." 18. Ninety au
tomobiles, each manned by two po
licemen, -patrolled lines of the United
Railroads in certain districts today in
a determined effort to prevent a re
currence of widespread rioting which
began yesterday when striking iron
workers and sympathizers, according
to police reports, joined car strikers
in outbreaks of violence.. .
Los Angeles Doctor Arrested
Charged With Bejng a Spy
Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 18. Dr.
Max Kampman, a young physician,
was arrested at his home here to
day, charged with violation of the
espionage law.
Dr. Kampman, according to fed
eral authorities, previously had been
ordered interned, but had eluded the
officers. It was said he came to the
United States shortly before the be
ginning of the European war. He
came to Los Angeles from Salt Lake
City several, months ago. , v
Owen Frank Will Be
Sub Coach at Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb.. Sept. 18.--Owen
Frank, Nebraska' star halfback in
1909-10-11, ; has been appointed as
sistant to CoachJ E. J. Stewart, of the
University of Nebraska, and' started
to work with the team today.
Nineteen men answered the call-to
practice , fpr, the 'varsjty team yester
day. It is expected this number will
be doubled later.
Father and Son to ' .
Serve U. S. in France
Milwaukee, Sept. 18. Benjamin F.
Steinel, for eighteen years a sporting
writer on Milwaukee dailies, is on-his
way to France to drive an ambulance
in the American service. , His 17-year-old
son, Jack, already is in
France, having enlisted in the mar
ines. Both father and son were out
side the age limits of the draft law.
STATE RESTS IN MURDER CASE;
DEFENSE CLAIMS MINISTER
OBSESSED' THATHEISGUILTY
Details of Murder as Told by Accused Man to Jailors at
Logan, Read in Court; Kelly Declares He Does ',
Not Remember Signing Document; Out
line of Course of Defense.
KELLY VICTIM
OF PARANOIA,
DEFENSE PLEA
Treacher's Counsel Attempts to
Show Defendant Suffers From
Mental Disease; Testimony
Bears Out Statement.
BY EDWARD BLOCK.
(Staff Corrpondnt far Th Be.)
Red Oak., Ia., Sept. ; 18. (Special
Telegram.) That Rev. Lyn G. J.
Kelly is a victim of paranoia is the
contention presented by the defense
in the trial of the minister for the
octuple ax murder at Villisca fivs
years ago." Judge W E. Mitchell. Dr.
S. K. Strate of Sutton, Neb., Monday
whether, he believed Kellv durino
time of his residence at Sutton, mani
fested symptoms of the disease,,;
Victims Think They Art Persecuted.
Experts say victims of, paranoia
live under the delusion that they are
being persecuted. The disease is
characterized, by a gradual impairment
of the intellect and usually by manda
tory delusions producing homicidal
tendencies. 1 hey generally show evi
dences of bodily and nervous degen
eration. In another form known as sub
acute hallucinatory paranoia the illu
sions are transitory and the victim
apparently sane except under their
spell. In this form homicidal tend
ency is especially marked.
Much of the testimony indicated
that Kelly told people he met that he
was being followed by detectives; that
he was suspected because he was in
Villisca on the night of the murder,
or that because he sent a stained shirt
to a laundry in Council Bluffs, he was
under espionage. 1
Somebody has advanced the theory
that Kelly may have been afflicted
kwith transitory dementia during the
last five years; that he may have been
living under a dual personality. It
has been observed by the transitory
dementia theorists that in most of his
conversations, which have been many,
relative to the ax murder, he invaria
bly spoke in the third person. i
He told one witness that "the mur
derer" did not intend to steal any
thing, but was going to take a watch
which appealed. . to his fancy, and
dropped the timepiece when some
passersbv alarmed him.
He told another witness that "the
murderer" had difficulty killing one
of the Stillinger girls.
" To another person he said "the
murderer", entered the front door of
the Moore home. Many other details
he attributed to "the murderer."
According to experts, these transitory-dementia
persons ask whether it
could have been possible for one of
Kelly's personalities to have
prompted the confession and the other
personality, to have repudiated it.
Druggists in Convention
At Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, O., . Sept. 18. Nearly,
3,000 delegates, representing drug
gists, are here for the nineteenth con
vention of the National' Association
of Retail Druggists, which opened
yesterday. The convention is ex
pected to ask a place for a pharma
cist on the Council of National De
fense and to demand commissions in
the army and navy for pharmacists.
Infantile" Paralysiis Closes
. . Schools in Northern Iowa
Des Moines, la., eSpt. 18. A num
ber of rural schools have been closed
in this northern, part of Crawford
county, in an effort to prevent an
epidemic of infantile paralysis. Forty
three cases have .been reported to the
board o health thus far in Septem
ber, as against a total of twenty for
August.
Omaha Man .With Canadian
Forces Killed in Action
Ottawa, Sept. 18. The following
American names appear in today's
Canadian casualty list: j
Killed in action: !
A. J..SCHOEMPERLEN, Omaha,
Neb. ' '
. Misssing: ' t
S. Whin,' SanFrancisco. , ' ;'
- By EDWARD BLACK.
(Staff Correiiponrtcnt for The Omaha Boc.)
Red Oak, la., Sept 18. (Special Telgram.) The climax
of an eventful day in the trial of Rev. L G. J Kelly, for the
Villisca ax murders, came this afternoon when Attorney F. F.
Faville read in calm deliberate tones the confession made by
Kelly and offered in evidence by the state. A few minutes lat
ter the prosecution rested its case.
Q DIDN'T SIGN SAYS KELLY.
. A solemn hush hung over the
crowded courtroom while the impres
sive doucument was being read to the
jury. ,
Kelly sat with his head on his hand
and appeared unmoved during the
reading of the incriminating words.
"I have no recollection of signing
that paper. I remember them sweat
ing me from t o'clock in the evening
to seven next morning," were the
words o( the prisoner to Attorney
Sutton.
Kelly's defense, it was. made plain
today for the first time will be that
he has been a victim of paranoia ob
sessed with the belief he was guilty
of the crime of another. ' '
STATE ENDS ABRJJPTLY.
The suddeness with which the pros
ecution brought its case to a conclu
sion, surprised not only the defense,'
but others who believed the state's
testimony would be further prolonged,
as nearly 100 witnesses had been sum
moned. i The only witnesses offered by the
prosecution in. connection with the
confession, were Paul E. Roadifer,
county attorney at Logan, and Lynn
J. Irwin, clerk of the district court
at Logan. Roadifer went into details
to state that .the confession watnade
as a voluntary aet, without promise
of reward or leniency. ( a
The state called foryt-eight wit
nesses in making its case and the
four attorneys on that side are satis
fied they have made a strong case
against the minister.' '
Outline the Defense. ,
.Kelly's defense will - involve his
mental condition after the Villisca
crime, to show that he has been a
victim of paranoia, obsessed with the
belief he .was guilty of the crime of
another. - - -,;
"We expect to make that Issue as
one of our defenses,' said Attorney
Mitchell, during examination of Rev.
W. J. Ewing. -..'f
Rev. Mr. Ewing, now of Deer
Rock, la., was pastor of the Presby
terian church at Villisca at the time
of the ax crime and it was at his
home Kelly' remained during the
night of the murder.i . .') '
This witness was the second called
by the defense this afternoon.' Rev,
Mr. Ewing was being questioned by
attorney Mitchell regarding a vkt
made by him and Kelly .to the moore
home two weeks atfer the murder.
' ."Was there any talk between you
and . Kelly about detectives?" asked
Mitchell. t, ' 7"-"
The prosecution entered an objec
tion on the grounds that it was im
material and hearsay. 1 v . ,
"What is your purpose in offering
this testimony?" inteposed the court.
"To show his mental condition at
that time,", replied Mitchell,'
"I don't undertand why you have
raised that issue," rejoined the judge.
Then Attorney Mitchell announced
taht the defense intended to make it
an issue. , . y
On Monady Attorney Mitchell ask
ed Dr. Strate, of Sutton, Neb
whether he believed Kelly was a vic
tim of paranoia.
"Third Degree" Evidence. N
In his opening statement Attorney
Mitchell charged that during the al
leged "inquisition," or "third degree"
of Kelly whil& at Logan a few weeks
ago, ' Charles Bachelar of Council
Bluffs and R. C. Lahman of Missouri
Valley were garbed as desperate high
waymen, handcuffed and placed in the
cell with Kelly for mental effect. He
referred to these cell mates as "decoy
ducks." ,- ' .
At the opening of ; its case this
afternoon R. C. Lahman, editor f the
Missouri Valley Times was called by
the defense and examined at length,
by Mitchell. , . ' . J
'When, and where, did .you. see
Kelly?" v
"August 30 at Logan jail.' Deputy
' (Continued on Pace Two, Calumn One)
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Norfolk and Madison ;'v
Honor Draft Army
Norfolk; Neb'., 'Sept. 18. (Special.)'
Thirty-two Madison county nation
al army men leave Madison for Fort
Riley, on AVe4nesday morning. A
large number of the men, were ban
quetted in Norfolk Tuesday and Mad
ison ,and Norfolk ..united in giving
thm a big farewell reception at Mad
ison Wednesday morning.' . . ,
. Big plans are under way in Norfolk
to' honor "approximately 500 national
draft ,army .' men, , who will pass
through here on special Northwest
ern trains at noon Sunday, enroute to
the training camp. '.These. men ar
coming' from all points west an!
north, on the Northwestern . lines.
Residents all along the line are pre
paring to welcome . the men when
their train passes through the variqug
towns enroute to Omaha, -w'
