Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1908 — SURPRISE IN DAVIS CASE [ARTICLE]

SURPRISE IN DAVIS CASE

Woman Testifies 8h« fiaw Mr*. Rloe On Street After Ruatin’a Death. Omaha, Neb., Dec. The defense had an inning In the trial of Charles Edward Davis, charged with the murder of Dr. Frederick T. Rustln. Mrs. Emily Allen testified to having Been Mrs. Abbie Rice on the street downtown about 4 o’clock in the morning buying a paper, a time at which, according to several’ witnesses for the prosecution, she was In a hotel. "I had been to Lincoln," Mrs. Allen said, "and got back on a Rock Island train Just before 3 o’clock. When 1 reached a point near Sixteenth and Farnam streets, an hour later, I met Mrs. Rice, who bad stopped two news boys to buy a paper. She stopped un der an electric light and eagerly scanned the paper."