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during the past two .years he had never made4an arrestvor iled;an affi-davit and that during his fourteen.. . . . . *••. •. . «• . •. *,years as an officer he had never filed more than a halftdozen affidavits in arrests. Officer Clayton answered by stating that he left the filing of affidavits for the day officer. .The defendant appeared in court with her aged mother and stepfather,“ , '* *r • •' .together with her three small chil-1 * * » % . . ' . • - • * % i * *dren, the two youngest being quite pretty babes of about five and seven years. Miss Opal, around whom thee » • * f »case is wound, had not been produced« * ' •• * 'by the defense and it is also believed that Mrs. Hunter will , note take/:the.i * cistand in her? owh--dhfensO.^justxao:The ca'se fs/!beih^ 0Vigoroufely^ bpn-.r tested # the att6rhfeys,rdn c7fcth?^sideS:'witttlng: ^Mrs7°Hfihte^-in:Jhb' -lightr?{df a1 p66r‘ • witiow •!wbrhafi;iJbein^ persecuted;by Jh4f r-neigtbdi1S’1 !and5Ci*eeelVihfe - the* genbral * cfendgrdfihtldfi^ 6ir- public* iumjustly. -1 The1; eyiSfence ^ presented' by-the ^dtfeihs^ bears 'out the fact they wis^f to1’ eStabli^ht ^ The state - can only-ho^e to gain' a conviction oncirdunietaritial ^evidence and the gen-eral ^belief among uninterested parties attending the trial up to this time is that the state has failed to make] a case against the woman.The odd fact about the defense's'* . *testimony is that of : thirteen witnesses examined none have ever seen Rosa Swartzel or Mary Platt, whom the state charges made their homes intermittently with the Hunters. Today the defense called JakeHoover, who testified that he had fre-' * * .quently passed the Hunter home andp %seen family washings on the line contrary to the testimony of the. t • •neighbors that no washings otherthan the Hunter family's was ever. - »on the line.A. J. Barrett was called by the defense and emphatically denied ever calling at the Hunter home, although he admitted that he had possibly passed the Hunter home on one or more occasions while looking after his property interests.■ A1 Hunter, Guy Hunter, Fred Hunter, Mrs. George Mitchell, the Craigs, who are neighbors, Dick Stein and Charles Momingstar and others were called, all of whom testified that theyhad visited the Hunter home but had found no one present except the family and that they had witnessed no irregularities.Charles Morningstar made a good witness for the defense and admitted calling at the Hunter home to keep company with Miss Opai, hut had never found other persons present except Dick Stein who had his washing done' by Mrs. Hunter. On the-- • - •• •• •stand Stein admitted calling at * the Hunter home on nine or ten occasionsbut declared that each time it was» -for the purpose of delivering or collecting his washing. The state then attacked Stein's reputation. I
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Rochester Weekly Republican
Rochester, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 07, 1915
Page 5
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