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Show JURORCAUSES A SENSATION Says Innocent Men Are Serving a Prison Sentence for the Kill-' Kill-' ing of Fred McCabc P. G. Butler Saw the Murderers vthe Night of the Tragedy. young at that time and the officers Old not place much credence in his version of the affair. Parley G. Butler of this city, one ! cf the jurors of the regular panel for the November term of the district court, created quite a sensation In court this morning when he stated that i'o knew William Reese rnd Harvej Bass, now in the state penitential), j are not the men who killed Fred i McCabe on Twelfth street, November Novem-ber 28, 1902. "I know the officers made a mistake mis-take In that case and that the wrong men were arrested. I did not testify In the case because they would not let me." This statement was made In answer to a question by the attorney for the defense In the case r the State vs. Trank Bell and Bell Rlo, charged with robbery, before the court for trial trday. The question was whether Mr. Butler had ever been connected with a "holdup" and if the fact that officers had arrested a man or . men on the charge of robbery would Influence his mind either for or against the accused ac-cused and would render him unfit to sit as a trial juror in the caso. Mr. Butler said that it would not. because ' be knew that the ofl leers might make p. mistake, citing tho McCabe murder mur-der case as an Instance. It will be remembered that Fred McCabe was shot to death by two highway men on Twelfth street. November Novem-ber 28, 1W2. immediately after a dance. William Reese and Harvey Bass were arrc-sted and accused of t?ie crime. They were put on trial and convicted, the sentence for Reese I eing 10 years and that for Bass being be-ing 30 years in prison The men were convicted principally on circumstantial circumstan-tial evidence. Recently Reese and Basj petitioned the sta'e board of pardons, for their release, they still protesting their in-nocense in-nocense and claiming they are not the parties who did the killing. Among those who think Reese anil Bass innocent inno-cent is Mr. Butler, who made the statement that a mistake had been iade. Mr. Butler was accepted as a trial juror in the robbery case belore the court today, alter stating to the attorneys for the state and the defendant defend-ant that be could give tho men a fair nnd Impartial trial ana that his mind is not biased against the state's side because of the Reese-Bass affair Mr. Butler stntts that on the night of the killing of Fred McCabe he accompanied ac-companied two young ladbs In a buggy bug-gy not more than two minutes ahead of Fred McCabe and a companion, and that he saw the men who shot McCabe. They wre concealed in the weeds along Twelfth street and when be and bis ladies approached they arose from their hiding place, with the evident Intention of bidding him u f. and robbing him of his money. But, Mr. Butler says, he thinks they changed their minds when they saw he had two ladies with him, and be was permitted to pass unmolested, lie says he drove nar the men and pot a good view of them. Ho stated further that he had seen the same men at about six o'clock of the same evening, tlu-lr particular build and countenances being strongh Impressed Impress-ed upon his mind and that he knows fieesc and Bass are not the men. The petition for pardon has not y. t been finally passed upon bi the board of pardons, but it is anticipated that It will be within a shoit lime. Mr Butler clivs he has appeared belore (he board and lonl Ms story, with the lope that the men may be released. Mr. Butler says he to'.d (he officers offi-cers at the time of the. 'arrest oi Reese and Bass that they were not the light men, but l.e says he was rather |