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Show A CANDIDATE FOR THE GIBBET. Jam e Dooley's Hearing In Progress at Preseott, Iowa. Pr escott, la.. May 23. A preliminary bear ing in the case of James Dooley who mux lered Mrs. William Coons and her litt! : daughter at Villisca on the 11th inst. Is in progress here today. Dooley is a young1 man about 16 years of age, and does not appeal ap-peal to be over bright. The chief evidence aga; nst him is his own confession, in which he iays his aunt abused him for failing to keej i ihe cattle shut up, and thereupon he deci led to kill her: that he struck her twice upoi l the head with a heavy padlock, and that after she had been rendered unconscious he li red six shots into her brain from a rc-volv rc-volv er. The her little 10-year-old daughter came in crying and he killed her in the sam e manner as he had disposed of her mother. Doolev's statement as to the reason rea-son jof the tragedy, ho ever, is disproved by the declaration of the physicians that the unfur'u late woman had been the victim oFa cria dual assault before she was killed, and this is strengthened by the fact that the bod f was found stretched out upon a bed, the tHtaMb? d and the clothing torn. The euic -bliPi'fi nature of the murderer is evi-den.-edt ; fact that after he had killed i bis NrPU her daughter, he sat down at I the y5 ''in tnc same room and ate his din-! din-! ncrPPone before leaving, with the bodies I strenehed out before him. |