Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-11
THE END
OF the Testimony for The
POsecutiOn
IN THE wOOLsTEEN CASE.
The Defendants Attorneys Will
Occupy The Court
To-day.


dence of the Los Angeles City Direct
ory for lss6-7-s by the District At
torne. Collected to, and objection
gustaiued.)
The first witness called by the pro-
secution was Mrs. N. Shook, who
testified: l reside in Los Angeles, and
am acquainted with Miss Hattie
Woolsteen. / met her first some time
in June last. / knew Mrs. Barley in
her lifetime. was present at the
time of her death, August 8, 1887.
Miss Woclsteen was present also.
Her death occurred at Dillon's lodg.
ing-house on Fort street, this city.
Miss Hattie was lodging in the same
house.
Police Officer Jeffries was recalled,
the District Attorney stating that he
desired to ask ore question which it
was evident the witness did not un-
derstand on Monday. He had held a
conversation after session with wit
ness, and found he was misunder-
stood. Collected to. Overruled.)
Odd Miss Hattie Woolsteen
state to you the condition in which
she left the buggy curtain?
A.-She said it was cut.
HENRY GRIFFITH
Testified: | reside at IA Ingrahafi
street. Our residence is five or six
hundred feet from Jones' gum tree
grove. remember having heard OF
the burning OF the Barley barn. and
of the story connected with it. In
company with Willie Burns, Murrey
and another boy, l went TO the grove
on Saturday. We found tin can and
q piece of cloth. We found hole
near tree, about six inches by three,
and not very deep. The tree was an
eucalyptus, and was about ten feet
from a barbed wire fence. The
branches of the tree hung very near
the ground. The hole in the earth
was on the north side of the tree.
(Can referred to exhibited to witness
and identifed.) The rag was tied to
q branch on the tree about three feet
above the hole. The rag was tied i,
three knots. 7 tex tex the rag down,
.~.o .6 into four pieces, and gave each
of the boys a piece. The piece l
took home, and afterwards sealed in
an envelope and gave to the District
Attorney. (Cloth identified.)
Cross Examination:
Odd you boys have doll in the
grove?
A.-No sir. It is not part of q
dolls clothing. We went over be-
cause we noticed in the papers that
Chief Darcy and Mr.. Hart, Of the
Examiner had discovered DR.. Harlan's
watch. l did not take the rag to the
District Attorney. He sent for me by
one of the neighbors' boys and then
went over and took the rag. | do moi
think the grove is favorite resort fol
children to play in. The boys otter
go there to shoot birds but do no
think it pleasant place to play. Th'
rag was long strip and tied around {
limb in two or three knots. l testified
in the Preliminary examination tha
we visited the grove on the goth bu
after referring to calendar | find il
was on the 2Sth instead. noticed
several gopher holes about the place
where we found the can but they
were not so large. 1t did not look as
if it had been dug by a gopher Or {
squirrel.
MASTER WILLIE BURNS
Testified: / live at the corner Q
Williams and Ingraham streets.
know where Jones' grove used to be
It is cut down now. Some time afte
the report of the Harlan murder
went with several of the boys to SCI
if could find the hole where it wa
reported the things were buried. w,
found hole under gum tree and
tin can near it. Just above the hol'
was a white cloth tied to limb
[Rag identified
DISCRIMINATION: We went, t.
the grove about 10 O'Clock on Satur
day morning. The piece of rag yol
have does not look like dolls bon
net. l tore it from strip of cloth
1t looked like the border of a hand
kerchief. l took it home with n,
and put it in cyclopedia. Abou
two days afterward Judge DuPu.
came to our house and wanted me t,
let him see the piece OF cloth. l CAV
it to him. first sealing it in an envel
ope and writing my name on it. Cal
introduced That don't look like tn
can. l thought it had more hole
in it.
DIR. CHAS. w. BRYSON
Testified: reside in Los Angeles ant
am a practicing physician. l wa
called to see Miss Hattie Woolsteel
October the 18th, at the police sta
ton. She was in comatose condi
ton, apparently suffering from the ef
fects, as l supposed, of chloroform
The symptoms were the same as thos,
brought on by chloroform poisoning
She was unconscious. fused electric
ity and hypodermic injections. / at
tended her from 5 to 7 P. NJ, anC
afterward from 8 till 10 P. NJ. ! alst
called next day and found her con
valescent.
Cross examination: In cases of ar
senic poisoning convulsions generally
follow. Morphine acts similar t.
chloroform. When l found Mis-,
Woolsieen l considered she was in {
very critical condition. She was ".
ing on couch in Chief Darcy's pri
vate aparatment. Miss Minnie Wool
steen was in the room, but was in
duced to leave by Chief Darcy. | de
not know what he said to her. The
first thing l did was to lower her heat
and elevate her feet and apply elec
tricity to her chest. We used by
podermic injections and artificia
respiration also. Her clothing wa.
only partially removed. Her cloth
ing was removed from her chest
There were blankets on the sofa ant
they were thrown over her. / do moi
know that she had female attend
ant. don't remember whether ]
recommended one or not. OF course
she should have had attendance.
do not know whether she had pro
per attention or not. could not sa,