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nignxy coiomcaaeu wert ua iuuut*s.E. E. Begley, H. D. Miller, Mrs. Pearl Harper, L. J. Hiatt, F. Jantzen, Mts. Lulu Landon and Alfred Husby of Centralia; Geo. W. Young of route 4, Chehalis; S. Thorp of Dryad; John Steinbrink of Doty; Mrs. Mary Ealer of Chehalis, and W. J. Crawford of Ethel.Judge H. E. McKenney of Cowlitz county presided during the trial. The case was ably prosecuted for the state by Wm. H. Grimm, county attorney, and R. L. Ponder, his assistant. G. L. Thacker, who has had long experience in defending criminal cases, defended Bailey in an able way. but the jury was not inclined to accept his theory that the killing of Mrs. Skinner was accidental. Instead, It decided unmistakably that Bailey wai guilty as charged and that tfie crdme. was of such a character hb to mertt. the infliction of the death penalty. •'Another highly interesting phase of the verdict rendered against Bailey is the fact that his is the second conviction in the history oT Lewis county where the jury called for the death penalty. In the other case, however, that of Frank Bridgham, ^who killed his wife near Napavlne some years ago. sentence was finally commuted to life imprisonment and the noose escaped. Too much liquor was the cause of that tragedy.A summary of the evidence In the Bailey case will interest many of our readers. By way of introduction, although this was not brought out dl-rfiptlv in trial tha K a tt a r\t Mroto bis bedroom.In the dining room were three men ! who were greeted with Good-morn- \ ing, boys.” by Bailey, as he stalked I through the room. The men were John Ferrell, who is an edgerman in a mill; Lester Conner, who is a drayman; and Lucius Brenaman, an employee in the cement pipe factory at Centralia. They had gone to Mrs. Skinner’s house shortly after midnight the morning of January 30 to buy some beer. Not to exceed four bottles of home brew were drunk by them, according to their story, and each had two high-balls, made of half moonshine and.half soda. The drinks had been tuken leisurely from their arrival to 3 o'clock when the trouble occurred.• After Bailey had gone to his room the click of a gun was heard, then again. A shot rang out which startled the four seated in the dining room, Ferrell, Connor, Mrs. Skinner and Brenaman. This first shot, which no doubt, was fired accidentally, hit the ceiling down the • hall from where Bailey stood. Ferrell, Connor and Brenaman said that -while yet In the hallway they heard Bailey repeat twice: “Does anybody want to start something here?’” Mrs. Skinner, it was testified by the men, grew suddenly pale following the report of the gun and started to leave the room through the kitchen door. Meantime Bailey, rushed through tlie hall and j entered the dining room.Ferrell and Connor, who faced di-rpr.tlv tnwurrl him nwnro lhat Railpv i
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Chehalis Bee Nugget
Chehalis, Washington, US
Fri, Mar 18, 1927
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