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Spridgen Set to Relate Own | Story on StandLorraine Kline Grilled After Providing Alibi.(By Journal Staff Correspondent) Davenport — Attorney* for Louis Spridgen, Muscatine bootlegger, on trial before Judge D V. Jackson In district court here for the murder of Nick Coin, moved today to discredit the testimony of Fred Jess, Davenport resident who identified Spridgen in court last week as the man that be saw in the automobile containing the killers of Coin in th€ morning of May 25.At the name time, the defense •awyers also prepared to put SPridgen on the stand to relate that at 6 a* m. on May 25, while Coin was being shot to death, t!i« defendant was at his Mas*, ratine home rick from the effects of excessive drinking. This story had already been fold before Spridgen was called as a witness by Mrs. Lorraine Kline, who claimed to have been In Spridgm’s company tt the time the shooting took place.Bar Detectives Testimony.In their efforts to cast doubt on th^ testimony of Jess, the state’s star eye witness, Gienn Kelly and H M. Bartlett, Sprid-gen’s attorneys, this morning Subpoenaed William Schwinden and Jack Kinney, Devenport detectives who are alleged to have talked to Jess after Coin was killed. Schwinden was calltd to ths stand this morning to testify that Jess told him the men in the murder car were both in the front seat of the vehicle. When ht testified for the ntate, Jess said he saw Sprdgen in the rear seat Schwinden, however, was not permitted to tell this story in court this morning because Judge Jackson sustained a state objection to his relating anything(Continued On Page 7, Col 1)
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Wed, Nov 23, 1932
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