The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-07-23
THE ROVER TRIAL.
Third Day--The Prosecution Rests
Waiting for Wftnesses-A Short
SpRsfura.


first witness called. 1t transpired
during his examination that an arrange.
ment had obtained between the witness
and McWorthy to watch the defendant,
and by which he (the defendant) was
to board in the house of the witness.
The espionage was expected to serve in
forestaling the witness in the event of
any attempt on his part to obstruct
McWorthy's effort to obtain sole pos
session of the mine. The agreement
on the par. of Osborn was merely i'm
piled. Speaking about the actions and
demeanor of the prisoner after the ar
rival of Sharp, in detailing a CONVEX
sation between himself and the
defendant. witness swore that the pris-
oner said to him 1T looks as if these
fellows were going to throw me off, but
veil see how that will come out" The
cross examination elected nothing new,
the witness knowing nothing of what
transpired at the scene of the murder,
except from hearsay.
Job Dauis, Justice Of the Peace of
Unioe Township, testified: j. w. Rover
had an examination before me.
Judge Leonard, on the part of the
State, here offered the certificate of the
witness, attached to the statement of
the defendant, and the statement it.
self, in evidence. The statement and
certificate were admitted by the Court,
and subsequently read to the jury. 1t
was offered simply as the statement of
defendant, and has heretofore appeared
in these columns. The witness was
not cross examined.
~ Oppenheim s,corn: Am Coroner;
| held an inquest on the body of I. n.
Sharp in April last at the sulphur mine
belonging to McWorthy; took $S5
which found hidden away in the dom
icile at the camp.
At this point witness was excused
until counsel for the defense and one
Of the counsel on the part of the State
had opportunity to examine the trunk
of Sharp, now in the baggage-room of
the Winnemucca depot.
Darid Vdn Lennep, County Surveyor,
s,oOrn: Surveyed the McWorthy NINE.
Cross-erdnined by Mr. Boanifieid: /
know the sulphur mine is in Humboldt
! county.
Charles S. Wright s,cora: Live at
Humboldt House; six months ago had
ranch on the Humboldt river; the
ranch is about % miles from the sui
phur mine.
The diagram Of the sulphur mine
country was shown to the witness, and
the camp. and the point from where
Rover said he saw the man discharge
the gun. were pointed ont to him, when
he said that from the place designated
a man could see a man in the camp if
the man looked at was standing in the
doorway of the excavation. The wit
ness thought that the body of a man
standing in this position would be visi-
BILE from the waist up.
Cross-eramiaed: From the top of the
ridge you could see man very plainly
in the camp; man looking from the
ridge might be able to see man sitting
in the camp; examined the ground
particularly, and tried views in all po-
sitions.
On his redirect examination, the
witness testified that from the ridge
man could not see another man sitting
upon box a few feet from and directly
in front of the camp. In answer to a
question by Mr.. Bonnifeld, the witness
said that in the optical tests made by
himself and another, neither of them
sat upon the box as an object for the
others view from the top of the ridge.
He put Lox in the doorway. stepped
off about 225 steps. looked in the di-
rection OF the camp, and could not see
the object.
c. H. Bogman, surgeon and physl-
clan, testified that after preparing the
skull for examination, subsequent to
an examination made at The grave, he
found indubitable evidences OF gun
shot wound in the skull.
1t was extensively fractured by the
gun-shot wound, and two shots were
found Just above the ear. The skull