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DAY'S DOINGS AT THE COUNTY SEATWAS WE6LEY SHAFFER INSANE WHEN HE MURDERED WIFE?DEFENSE HAS MUCH TESTIMONY ALONG THIS LINE.Shitfer tht Youngtit ©| ■ Family of Fevrttefl—One of HI# Br«thera Died While Irwane.Wts Wesley Shaffer. who choked bis wife iiml I /he lay limp on ihe-door of Ihe bedroom and then finishrd kLllldg her wfth a hamrupr, hopeless!/ Jr.52.ne when ihe crime was commlL-rd*This Is Ibc question which Is likely to to ihe principal problem for Iho Jury when Ihe case la Gcalfy iubnjlt-(ed.Attorneys Barnes and Chamberlain for Ihe defenso will probably admit that the crime was cnmrMUtd Is ihe lerriMc ami reroklng manner (old by Ihe witnesses for ibc dlaie. There Is uu alajrile as lo [his,Tht* stare will probably admit tba.1 LLo de/cnrlani had been a man of weak vlll nod reason and den?e l£-rontce Jrum his youth up.The question at Jssuo is whether this dementia. IP dementia It may be caned, man sufficiently pronounced to saiy ShalTcr from the gallows. That fs (he point which the Jury will bar© to determine, Judging from the Lwtl-moay witch. Iho dcren-e introduced FfMerfojr,Many witnesses testified that the defendant was a man of peculiar actions Sad ol inLeoEft and violent temper. When he waE aroused, often over trivial matters, ho could not or did cot check his passion.It *bj nlso brought-oaL In the testimony yesterday Ibal SbalTer was lhlt;* youngest child cf -a family of fourteen children. Thai hfa ncs( older broiXer went Insane and was taken to Independence. He could noL be cared [here and was afterwards taken, back. lo Ihe Jones county poor fare, where to died.Other wiinesses testified that Shat for had brooded much orcr Lhc marriage of his daughter, to which he much, opposed, lie believed that Iho young roan 1a whoa she Was rcar-rie* was not worthy of her. Ills wife favored the marriage and fhi? wm Ihe muss ol many qnorrola between, then. After Ihe young people were married, witnesses leslilied. the young husband was out or work much of Ihe time, and Mrs. Shaffer us«|| Lo take them food from her hnme. This also was Ihe cause of much grief oa Shaller's i»*rl -and he used lo.filt and brood and cry over it:Dr, A. D- Conner of this dly testified that Shaffer is suffering from x rnlsformatioa pf the head. • At the place where tho bone* of a bibr'a bead usually. grow together, Shaffer's had Jailed to do ^o, but these edges h*J turned Inwards, leafing z deprcE.-s: ofl,A flumber of expert wi(r«ses oa Icraorij are lo ho examined today and it U probates (hat Iho evidence for Ihe defease will cot be all In earlier than noon. Then there will he f.ame evidence in rebuttal. Therefore it li cot probable that the case will EO fo the jury before Monday,
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Cedar Rapids Republican
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 08, 1906
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