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Special to toe Capital:Toledo, March 31.—The Reichmaun-v,Hansen case, as it was familiarly call-was closed yesterday by^ a verdict f .of not, guilty.' The jury was out 15 %[hours. ^Johann. Hansen, Frank, JusHus h| *6 Amiel Lapdt were on trial charged.assaulting Rudolph Iteiehmann, ;• ^this place, with intent to commit .*• • ;;flurder. - The case was one of the most ;V: S.crted m the county for years and was ;:,:bptly/ contested. Horn J. W. Willett -:‘dot.Tarda arid A. K.'Hitchcock of Tole-: who was county attorney when theIncase was begun, appeared for the state {rand/Judge J. R. Caldwell of this place .*and R;-P. Fitzgerald of Garwin, for the^defense.* The arguments took - two 5 days' and are said to be the best these§ attorneys ever made.|x Hansen has lived on Rrichmann’s i faVpi fora number o'years and they •have-never-had a settlement. Reich-toknp has had a number of civil suits •-^brought against Hansen and there was r imuch ill feeling between them. Last i 1'sjyecembet he went to his-place near I ^-{Carwin • and had sore e' words with' j ; On the way to Garwin, the] [♦Ajrtirte undertook to prove,* Hansen and hr^the. Landt boys, bis neighbors and y^ftleiJds, met KeichmSnn in the. road their faces blacked and pounded ? X*cd kicked the old man till life feigned atb, when they left him. He walked ^vjomd distance to a neighbor's, and-was ■. [driven to Gar win and came home on. zth* tr^ln claiming his skull was crack-red ano lungs crushed. Hausen proved ii alibi and was dismissed early fn the ttiak As to the other defendants, they re left to the Jury which found them ! jnoii Enilty- One hundred and ode wit- 1 fb^seee were.subpoenaed, 30 of them by: adefetrse and the trial lasted a week «h j half.. One of the most remark-Wei- things is the wide diversity of ipifaloii entertained regarding the case.kffcink the defendants guilty as larged and othera express the opinion injuries the prosecuting wit-iwfliAd were self-inflicted.• . ........
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Daily Iowa Capital
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 31, 1899
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