Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-03-19
DISTRICT COURT.
HoN. r. B. B1GE1ow, Judge.
March 10.

remaining jnrymen discharged fer the
term. On motion of J. w. Dorsey
Esq, counsel for defend. Mt, the Court
ordered that the trial be conducted with
closed doors, and the court room was
cleared of all except these directly
interested in the trial.
The District Attorney opened by
merely stating to the jury the nature of
case after which the examination of
witnesses for the prosecution began.
R. M. Dorsey was called to prove
that the mother of Maud Streeter and
Ida Streeter, (now Ida Gardner), was
the wife of the defendant.
Maud S5reeter was then placed on
ike witness stand and her evidence was
clear and straightforward Us to the guilt
of the defendent. She testified that she
il now in the 18th year of her age; that
she became q mother in San Francisco
Oh or about the 26th day of October,
1858; that her child was Ia ken from her
within twenty-:our hours after it was
born, and that she has not seen it
since
The trial opened this morning nth
the cross examination of Mand Streeter.
who testified that she was 16 years old
last November. An affidavit dated Oct.
8, 1888, signed by the witness, witnessed
by Mr.. Spencer, Ida Gardner and
others and duly attested by a Notary
Public in which the witness exonerates
her father from all blame in the matter,
and also ststes that the letter she had
written to her sister accusing him was
false. Another affidavit, in the form of
letter, dated Oct. Is, 1888, was in
troduced in which the witness swears
most solemnly that her father is in:
nocent.
Redirect: Witness testified that she
was told by Mr.. Spencer that her father
would be sent to the Penitentiary unless
she signed the afidavits; that Mr..
Spencer composed the second affidavit,
or letter, and that she wrote it; that she
was in poor health at the time, it being
shortly before the birth of her child,
which event occurred Oct. 26, 1888; that
at MIR. Spencer's suggestion she wrote
to her sister stating that her father was
Innocent; thai Mr.. Spencer told her b g
would take her East. That Mr.. Baker
told her a day or two since, that if
she could truthfully accuse any man
Hnder the sun and txonerate her father
from the cha rye, TO do so.
Ar TEnNooN SESSION.
William Dakin testified that he stayed
one night at Streeter's river ranch
whom Maud and her father stayed
there; that there was but one bed in tn Q
house, and that he (Dskin) slept on the
floor; that he does not know that the
present Mrs. Streeter is tho wife of the
defendant.
Mrs. George Elmore testified that she
knew the former Mrs. Strester, the
mother OF Maud; that she was reputed
to be the wife Of the defendant; that
she saw Maud nursing at her mothers
breast when about one month old; that
she knew the Streeter family both ia
Amador, CAL, and in this country;
that after Streeter's return from Cali.
fornia, when no took Maud down there,
she was at Streeter's house; did not
hear defendant say when he left Maud
doss not know of her ovn knowledge
whether defendant was ever legally
married to his present wife.
Ida Gardner testified that she Ia the
sister of Maud Streeter; that the de.
PENDANT is her father; that her father
kept stock on his river ranch during the
months Of December, 1887, and Janu-
ary, 1888; that he went down there two
or three times week to feed them and
stayed oil night; that sometimes he took
Maud with him and sometimes he took
her, (Ida); that there was only one bed
in the house; that she was in San Fran
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