Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-16
THE DIAMOND ROBBERY.
Further Testimony Given mt tn
Examination.

PENDANTS, was resumed at O'Clock yes
terday morning in the Township Court,
before Justice P. E. King. AS on Satur-
day, every available space in the court
room was occupied, and the spectators
seemed to take great interest in the pro-
ceedings.
The proceedings commenced with the
recalling OF Mrs. Miller, the complaining
witness. The witness stated that about
O'Clock on Monday evening last Mrs.
Harris knocked at her door and asked
her to come over to her room. She did
80, and on entering found Harris
stretched out at full length on the bed,
chewing toothpick in the most noncha-
liant manner. He had taken off his coat
and shoes. She walked up to him and
asked him to use his influence with his
wife, but he coarsely replied, 81 can't do
thing with her." Mrs. Harris then
said that she wanted the matter of the
$2,5 800 fixed up right away.
On cross.examination the defense tried
to induce the witness to admit that she
met Harris on Monday afternoon on the
corner of Fourth and Spring streets, and
invited him to meet her at her room in
the evening to fix things up, but to no
purpose. Failing in this the execution
OF both notes introduced on Saturday
was gone into again. Mrs. Harris attor-
ney then stated that he intended to prove
absolutely that the witness was perjuring
herself and deliberately testifying to a
tissue OF falsehoods. The Court, how
ever, sustained the objsction raised by
the prosecuting attorney, and the de-
fepse announced its intention of making
Mrs. Miller witness for the defense
when the proper time arrived.
She was then asked why, if che was in
peril of her life at the time Mrs. Harris
opened the window and threatened to
call the police, she did not allow her to
do so; but she replied that she thought
that the matter could be fixed up some-
how without publicity. The witness was
then permitted to leave the stand, and
Officers M. T. Bowler and G. S. Jennings
were called upon to testify as to the ar
rest of the defendants, and their meeting
with their respective prisoners on Spring
street, near Third, when Harris, at his
own request, was allowed to speak
privately to his wife in the presence, but
not in the hearing, of both officers.
Neither of the witnesses was cross-ex-
amined.
w. T. Scholey, clerk at the Ramona,
was examined as to renting the rooms,
Nos 81 and so, to Harris, between s and
o'clock on the morning of the 9th, for
which he paid 81 in advances. No cross
examination.
Col. G. w. Miller, the husband of the
complaining witness, was questioned as
to her condition on the date of the rob.
berry, and he stated that she was unwell
physically and mentally. The defense
allowed the witness to pass unques-
toned.
A recess of five minutes was ordered
by the Court at this juncture, while
an attachment was issued for Ed B.
Rives, material witness for the people.
In the meantime the attorneys for the
prosecution, accompanied by DR.. Tur-
pin and Colonel Miller, adjourned to
the ante room, and Mrs. Miller was
submitted to brief medical examina-
tion. On resuming at the end of the re-
cess, the physician was placed upon the
stand.
He testified that Mrs. Miller was evil
IDENTIFY suffering from malaise, and was,
consequently, not so strong mentally and
physically as usual. The doctor was
not cross.examined and as the default
ing witness had not yet been brought in,
the attorneys for the defense
made a motion for a continuance,
one of them being peremptorily called to
San Francisco for at least two days, and
the other to San Diego for two weeks.
After lengthy consultation between the
attorneys, the prosecuting attorney an
nounced that Mr.. and Mrs. Miller were
going away to the mountains for thirty
days Immediately after the examination,
and, therefore, he must insist in going
on with the case for the rest of the day at
any rate. At this point the court
ordered a recess until p. m.
On resuming the case, Ed. B. Rives, a
druggist doing business at 56 North
Main street, was called to the witness
stand, His testimony was to the effect
that he had known the defendant, Belle
Harris, about five years or so. On or
about the Sd day of this month she
| came to his store and had converse
ton with him about Mrs. Miller. AS it
lasted about twenty minutes, he was
unable to remember everything that
transpired; but he distinctly recollected
that Mrs Harris had told him that Mrs.
Miller said that if her husband did not
stop drinking she would buy some medi.
cine and make him sick, and she didn't
care how sick it made him. Mrs. Harris
further said that if old Miller did get
sick, she was going to make Mrs. Miller
give up some money by threatening to
tell the old man about the scheme to be
put up on him.
Upon cross-examination, Rives was
unable to remember whether Mrs. Harris
told him that if he didn't look out, Mrs
Miller would get him into trouble, and
the defense having no further questions
to put, the prosecution rested its case.
The attorneys for the defendants then
moved the Court for the dismissal OF
their respective lients, and the testi-
mony was reviewed at length with the
view of showing Mrs. Miller to be an
unreliable W itness; and, further, to show
that no such crime as that charged had
been committed. These arguments were
| followed by very strong one for the
prosecution. A few minutes before 3
o'clock the arguments were brought to a
close, and a recess of thirty minutes ord
cred by the Court to allow the at.
torneys for the defense to file affidavits
in support of their motion. The Court
took the matter under advisement, and
continued the matter until the 3lst inst,
at 8 80 a. m.
Before leaving the courtroom, the pros
ecuting attorney asked the Court to place
the defendants in custody of an officer