The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-24

bench warrant to bring her into court forth.
with. ioi'A-
captain John Fsrnum. the father OF the last
witness on the stand, testified:
IN 'ne month OF July, 1887, lived OF to the
leit oil the Grant street bridge. about eight rod.
70 the north of the railroad crossing / besrd
Two shots between ana o'cIock iran out
and over TO the bridge
.. A. gutter wss recalled, and testified.
Va the morning after the murder. between
osbnens and Black River Junction, the sheriff
anu saw footprints in the dust We took n
s se'ial suck ana measured the footprints. At
eiaughser, when friedrich was there / suO.
ges'ed that the man in the crowd who had the
largest loot should pay for the cigars. The
measurements OF Friedrichs foot Tailed with
,hose cut on the stick. Friedrich must have
Deen mile away when FIRST saw him coming
up the track
Cross-cxamination: We saw the tracks about
or O'Clock on the morning of the 18th. about
'en mics from town. told Friedrich that /
was representing the Gordon Hardware Com
pany' ana hao not been in Seattle FOR soma time
MS was said to deceive Friedrich
Inc prosecution next offered in evidence
scherorlng's deposition, taken at Providence
HospitaL instantly the attorneys for the de-
iensa were on their feet Directing TO its admis-
sion g. W. Tyler made an argument in which
ne held the deposition inadmissib.e since il did
NOT on Its face purport TO be taken as evidence
an any trial the paper not entitled, After
Drlei argument by Deputy Prosecuting Attor-
hey hebrlde IN favor Of the admission of the
paper, Judge Humes ruled il inadmissible.
Inc prosecuting attorney made the announce
henb tnat he had been unable to procure the
attendance OF two witnesses for the state in the
iorMer trial. One OF them, stephen Rothenbery,
was IN san Francisco, the other, Mrs King was
IN eugene City, Or. He was evidently lust on
the point OF Offering the transcript of their for
mer testimony in evidence, when the defense,
with too great eagerness, objected to its ad.
mission. The states attorney thereupon stated
That he had not yet offered the rranscri nj In eyi.
osnce, and did not know whether or not he
would The matter was thereupon TEN porarily
dropped.
hlss smith was again called but she had still
NOT appeared in court. Prosecuting Attorney
hilier wished continuance until morning but
the court thought that the state should go ahead
with its case. Miller ,hereupon replied that he
mad decided not TO introduce the TRANSCRIPT of
kothenberg's and Mrs. Kings testimony, and as
MISS smith was not in court the state would be
compelled to rest
MI. Tyler said that, although the state did no:
wish 10 introduce Rothenberg's testimony the
defense did. and opened his case by offering the
transcript in evidence. An objection was at
once raised by the prosecution to its admission,
ana alter this had been overruled the prosecute
Ing attorney insisted that the transcript had no.
been Identified as being Official, and, therefore,
could not be accepted correct. A c. Bow
man, the stenographer, who took the testimony
at the hrst trial, was called in from Judge Iich-
tenberg's court room and identified the tran
script
Rothenbergs testimony showed that he was
near the bridge at the time OF the Shooting
Hearing the shot he ran out on the bridge, where
he found Seherbring. He saw no one else on
the bridge. The witness had been recalled by
the defense and testified:
When asked Scherbring who shot him, he
said: 81 don't know-a man coming from town.
He stopped about five yards from me and fired
Then he kneeled down on my breast and fred
the other shot. He ran to the woods, Hewas a
tall man with dark suit OF Clothes
At the conclusion of the reading OF this testi-
mony court adjourned until $50 O'Clock this
morning