Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-06
Testimony for the Defense
in the Castac Case.
The Missing Witness Turns Up
i'm the Court.
Citizens Meet and Discuss the Water
System Question.
A Rumor that the Raymond Hotel was
Burning Proves False Other
Interesting Items.

On the resumption of the Castac trial
in department l of the superior court
yesterday morning, the prosecution an
nounced that its missing witness, Juan
Burola, had been found, and Judge
Cheney was requested to grant the state
leave to introduce his testimony. The
court stated that it would allow Burola
to take the stand, but that no other wit
ness would be permitted to do so at this
stage of the proceedings. Burola was
then called, and testified in effect as
follows: Was at Juan Lieba's house on
the morning OF the shooting, and about
O'Clock saw three men with Chormicle
there, but did not know them. At the
time of the shooting, however, there was
no one at the house but himself and a
boy. One of the three men remained
with Chormicle. He was at this iunc-
ture asked to look around the
court room and say whether or not he
recognized the man; but after looking
in every direction he stated that he
could not see the man. Did not see the
shooting done, as no one was in front of
the house at The time, and the persons
who did the shooting were on the in
side. Saw the wagon loaded with lum-
Der driven up, Cook following in a buggy.
At the time of the shooting there was no
one on the wagon, as the two men who
had been on it got down. After Cook
and Walton fell, Dime ran away, leading
the mare attached to Cooks buggy.
After the shooting Chormicle and his
fr.n Il.
being on foot and the other man on
buckskin mare. Saw quarrel in the
morning, when Chormicle and man.
who jumped down from wagon, ,clinched
and wrestled together. Another man
came out OF the cabin and presented
rifle at Chormicle's opponent. Chor-
micle dropped his pistol during the
fight, but afterwards picked it up.
On cross-examination the witness
stated that he was nearly 100 wears OF
age, and that he was slightly deaf and
could not see very well. He was sitting
on chicken coop at the side of the
house at the time of the shooting, and
while there bullet passed close by him.
He could not see the window of the
house from where he was, nor could the
boy who was with him. He created
somewhat OF a sensation towards the
close OF his testimony by stating that
W. W. jenkins had been to see him in
the county Jail, and had promised to
give him present if he testified GER
tain way He was asked point blank
whether or not at the house of Juan
Lieba, on the Sunday after the killing,
he told Mrs. Lieba that he could not see
any of the shooting, as he was on the
wrong side of the house, and replied
that he had done SO. He then admitted
that he had not seen any of the shoot
ing, and was excused.
On reconvening after the noon recess,
j. A. Pooler was called for the defense,
and testified that he resided on the cor
ner of st. Elmo and Alamo streets, in
this city. Had known w. w. jenkins
for three years past, and met Walton
last July for the first time. Jenkins
called upon him at the end of last wear
(the witness was then an employment
agent) ,and asked him to find man who
wanted to take up some land in the
Castac canon. The prosecution objected
to this, but when the defense in
formed the court that they intended
to show that Walton, Cook, Dime and
others had conspired to wrest the land
from Chronicles possession, Judge
Cheney overruled the objection. The
witness said that he arranged with Wal
ton to go up to the Castac cafion at the
request of w. w. Jenkins, who wanted
him to take up some land. Shortly
after Walton returned and said that he
did not want anything to do with the
land; that it belonged to other parties,
and that if he tried to take it he would
get in a fight and either get killed or
would have the pleasure of wearing
striped clothes. He stopped atJenkinss,
where he sent him. He subsequently,
met the witness and he had taken up
the land in partnership with Jenkins.
He afterwards admitted that he ex-
pected trouble, but said that he had
been through the mill and could hold
his own.
The witness was not subjected to
lengthy cross-examination, and nothing
new was extracted from him.
Max Pyle testified that he was on the
scene of the shooting the day after the
affair and picked up couple of shells.
One was that of a A Winchester cart
ridge and the other of AZ Martin cart
ridge. They were both outside the
house. The witness identified Martin
rifle shown as one he had sold to Choir
micle.
MIS- Illud IL. MaTIlHeZ, WHO llNeu III
the Castac canon, on the section adjoin-
ing that upon which the shooting took
place, was the next witness called She
testified that she saw the whole affair
from point on her land which COM
manded view of the cabin, which had
been erected on section % by Choir
micle. She then repeated the story of
the first quarrel and the shooting, which
was done by two men who stood in front
OF the house, who subsequently rode and
walked up the cafion.
Several witnesses were then examined
with reference to some photographs
which had been taken by Fortune at the
request of the defense, of the scene of
the shooting; and the court then ad-
journed until this morning.
THE WATER SYSTEM.