| Show EVERY EFFORT BEIG NUDE Alleged Murderers of the Meeks Family Are Now on Trial VERY MYSTERIOUS BLAZE May Yet Prove to Be An Important j ant Incident Cora Smith of Oma3m Confesses That She Assisted in the 3Iurder of Her Father and SaY She i Willing and Anxious to Pay the Penalty Leading Insurance Man Killed tinker jPejcuOiar Circumstances Circum-stances Carrollton Mo March 29Tho prosecution prose-cution of the Taylor brothers charged with the murder of Gus Meeks wife and two children rested last night and this morning the defense began Up to the nbon recess three witnesses were examined The testimony of the first two witnesses was immaterial while I that of tho third on direct examination j tended to destroy the states case against the prisoners On crossexamination ho broke down completely and contradicted the Direct testimony I I After the noon recess Charles Taylor I a young brother of the man on trial and James C Taylor were the principal witnesses nesses for the defense defense Charles swore on the day following the murder he searched for blood stains on tho wagon which it is charged had contained the bodies of the iieekb but failed to df any Ho was crossexamined at great length James C Taylor father of the prison ers told how his son George came to his farm on the evening of May 1 and bor rowed his team and wagon to go to Browning The wagon ana team wero returned at sunrise the next morning lie saw no evidences that the team had tea been driven hard before and there were no signs I of blood on I tere Jlr Taylor was asked to explain how the wagon bed became burned after hoW discovery of the murder and said his grandchildren used it for a play hi and some straw in it might have been set on fire with matches I is expected hat both William and VIlam George Taylor and their wives will be put on tho stand at tomorrows session stnd Murdered Her Father Omaha March 2GCorn Smith former ly of Des Moines who has lived In this city since last ci September was arrested here and taken to Des Moines arested morn ing She confessed having mor murdering her father Before the suc cessful attempt to kill him by poison an attempt was made by shooting The a shootng passed through his head just back of bal eyes and he was blinded Soon afterward poison in small doses was administered from the effects of which he died last May His wife was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment After her mother was sent to the penitentiary Cora began to write to her penientar letter told how she assisted in poisoning her father and implicated her aunt Mrs Ellen Leader She said she was willing Mr to pay the penalty The thought that her mother was suffering for a cnme that she had not committed almost crazed her T u < Mysterious Murder xju mgiun jxy uarcn zy anurew J Campbell secretary of the chamber of commerce and a leading fire Insurance man was killed under mysterious circum stances at daybreak today His 13year old boy heard a struggle on the rear I porch Rushing out he found his father with a gaping wound in the cheek from which he soon died I is supposed that I Campbell hearing someone on the porch went out to investigate the prowler Three br ckbats crashed through the glass door Campbell fired a man grappled with him and in the struggle Campbell was shot in the face with his own pistol |
