The Tombstone., 1885-08-26
TIE EXAMINATION OF W. .H.
 SMITH FOR THE
Roberry of the Safe of Fitz henry & Mansfield in thls
 City some time Since
F. B. Hall Gives some Very Damaging evidence
 against the Prisoner
That Safe Robbery.

That Safe Robbery.
 The case of W. H. Smith. ,he colored man who was arrested ma charge of robbing F,tEh-nry x Mansfield some time since. was called in Justice Cisrk's Court, at 10 o'clock tii, morning. The people were represented by District Attorney Savage, and the defence by Col. Herring.
 The first witness called was 8 colored man named Fred B Hall, and lis evidence was III substance, as follows;
 know W. II. Smith, the defendant in thfs action, and have known him since about the ;.Sth of April. 1885. know something about ;he r.bhery of Fiizhenry & Mansfelds safe. On the evening that Charley Blair was ac. quilted in Judge Ga.ton's Court, the coiored porter at FtEhenry X Mansneld's store and .mi;h and myself went to smiths hOu-e. Henry said 10 Saith, Jack, have you got any tiger in the hoGse," meaning whisky, to which Sm lh answered No, nor uothing to eat either" Smith and Raymond iscr "ent up 10 his room anu .e., .ne to go, but said didn't want to, and Smith and Henry went. After awhile smith came back, and was laying on a cot when Smith said to me. My God the business has worked good, tue impression that On riley Blair took of the locS wa, gooo and lhe key fitted perfectly. iiere i, my divs 0. sl27 30 which just soi from Henry Raymond" and Smith showed re 'he money. smi.h then said he would lay the money aside until the matter was
 et:ed. He sa;d that the key they had til, q f,r the inrer door Of the safe was also success. ssw the key of the ,a:e that they had filed for the inner door Of the safe II, Smiths wardrobe, and aiso in Smiths trunk. The way saw the key in his trunk was that smith used to keep tiger" iu the trunk. They showed me a broken pointed file that
 hey had used iu making the key. heard Henry say that he opened the safe and th-. key was a success. l also heard Henry say
 m Smiths presence that he understood the ,om pina,ion Of the safe.
 CRoss-ExAxISA1Iox.
 Smith and wers partners h business. Henry Raymond was at Smiths hou.e n the Saturday night preceding the robbery, and wanted Smith to go to his room and se'' { new suit of clothes that he had just bought. and tell him how they fitted. 1 don't re- member which room Henry was in vixen he made the statement to Smith. I did not see which door Henry came in. l don't remem Der how long Henry stayed in the house. was in bed when he wen. away. can't say which door he went out Of when he went away. can't say whether he was In his bed room or in the micdle room. Can't gay middle room remained open. Smith slep, in the front room on the east side of the ! house. I can't cay that 1t was the same day of the robbery that l read of reward being offered. It was about ten days since that l communicated to Mir. Fitzhcnry that knew srything about the robbery. Mr. Monaseh | was going to move into the stnre next door 10 Fitxhenry S Mansfield and wanted me to clean the store cut and stepped into the store of Fitzhenry < Mansfield and got talk. ing to Fiszhenry about old times in Chicago, and thrn about the robbery. At that time l Fitzhenry did not talk to me about sui,s commenced against him for the stolen mone,. Before this conversation with F,tz henry ip reference to the robbery, had con- verssd with several persons about 1t but 10 part cnlar person but wiih persons ell ove- town, can't nams any particular person l did speak to colsrsd man named Jenkins about it aud also to Smith. the defendant, sbout t; also to some of the girls Up on ] Allen st:eet. also talked with Mollie Moves . colorrd. womsc that used to Dc here. can't sag how many times talked with Jenkins. I never told Mollie Noyes what knew about the robbery. Ijust said that it wac strange that the safe was broken oDel snd that no trace could be got of the money To the best of ny knowledge never told any one what knew about the robbery until told Mir. FiizhenEy. Yes, I told Mr. Ftshenry that l wanted to leave Tomb stone. Ftzhenry did not tell me that II tsld hin what 1 kpsw about the robbery that he would help me to leave Tombstsae. Yes I do desire to leave
 Tombstone, and expect to leave soon. It is hard to tell where may 20 to. have said that wanted to go to San Francisco. It is not fact that am to receive assist- snce for what have told about the robbery. have stated within the last tsn days that | vban eof A1a nora f eSoaefeA fo s,sve