Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1905 — OTHER IMPEACHING EVIDENCE [ARTICLE]

OTHER IMPEACHING EVIDENCE

Mian Love to Make a Deposition— Scrapping at DePuaw—Fatal and Savage Fight. Hertford. Ind., Feb. 2. —8. P. Lowe testified in the Miss Schnfer murder Inquiry that he did not know Browning. and had never seen Evans, the other defendant, until twenty days after the murder. He said he had never paid money to detectives to prevent their runnmg down clues against Evans, that he had never taken a buggy ride with Miss Love, and never hired any one to get any letter from Miss Schafer, and knew Miss Love only slightly. Lowe was not cross-examined. Several witnesses were put on the stand to nttnek the reputation of “Dude” Cook. Evidence Looking toon Alibi. Levi N’augle testified that he walked home with Evans the afternoon of the murder. They saw a woman on the other side of the street walking in the rain. The next morning, when the body was discovered In the shed, the witness and Evans visited the scene together, and Evans said the woman killed was the one they saw the previous evening. Evans was not excited, and talked calmly of the tragedy. Mrs. Josie Tapp, a neighbor of Evans, testified that she saw Evans standing on the veranda of his home and 7:30 the evening of the murder, and Joked with him a!n>ut not being able to go to lodge on account of the rain. Impeache* Rachael Kelly. Mayor J.Hickson Smith testified that no affidavit had been filed against Evans for fighting on the day of the Schafer murder, as had been contended by the state. He also testified that Robert Owens called at his office and told him that George Itiley had proposed that Owens secure a pair of Browning’s trousers and smear blood on them. Attorney Boruflf testified that Owens had related to him a similar story. Charles Tewell and Charles Lawrence testified that they were in the company of Rnchnel Kelly on the night of the murder, at the time she testified she was taking supper with Frank Evans at the Osborn restaurant. Ml»» Love I* to Depo<e. Deputy Prosecutor Fletcher testified that when “Dude” Cook told her story before him during the early investigation of the murder she had said Evans was not with Browning when the crime was committed. Court then adjourned to take the deposition of Miss Eva Love, who is ill.

ANNUAL SCRAP BEGINS EARLY Fr*ihlea and Soph* at DePanw University Are Hot oi Each Other*’ Trail. GrOenoastle, Ind., Feb. 2. The annual scrap between the freshmen and the sophomore classes of DePauw university began tills year three weeks earlier than customary. The initiative was taken by the freshman elass, which, encouraged by its superiority in numbers, began kidnapping the sophomores, and hidingthem inout-of-the-wn.v places. Monday night another attempt was made, but the sophomores organized nnd a fight occurred at midnight between representatives of the different classes which lasted almost an hour. The contest occurred In the middle of the street, and many or the students were cut and bruised by falling over the heavy stones of the street. The scrap was it friendly one. and no serious accident occurred. The faculty is opposed to the early beginning of this scrap, and. will take immediate steps to prevent any more clashes. Slot Hoe Ilia** Are Doomed. Brazil, Ind., Feb. 2.—The police force baa been 1 instructed by the mayor and city council to rid the city of slot machines.