Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-21


hand, and the witness heard him say to
| Bradfeld: "I'll kill you-you Cd
id g. of b-!" The witness then
ran away very much frightened. Dye
was nearest to the witness as she opened
the door. Bradfeld was trying to get
away.
On cross-examination the district
attorney asked the witness If she had
not seen Dyes spirit since his death.
She replied Indignantly: "Sir, am an
orthodox woman, and belong to the
Congregational church, and don't be-
lieve in spirits" Before this reply she
turned to the court and begged his par.
don for what she was about to say, all
OF which greatly amused the audience.
Mr.. McLachlan also asked the witness
If she had not been in the asylum, but
she refused to answer, and was upheld
by the court.
Mr.. G. M. Baker, the coroner
and public administrator of Ventura
county, was called. He had known Dye
since 1889. Dyes reputation as quar-
relsome, bloodthirsty, fighting man was
bad.
Charles G. Compton was recalled, and
testified to being told by Ed L. Baker
that Dye had told Baker that Bradfeld's
days were numbered; that he would
kill him on sight. Compton then took
pains to seek an interview with Brad
field and tell him what Dye had said: :.
Mrs. Emma Laughton was then called.
She had lived at Fillmore ten years and
knew Joe Dye, having attended his wife
at the birth of their youngest child.
The witness was asked if che had had a
conversation with Dye the night before q
verdict was reached in his second trial
for the murder of Haines, and what Dye
had said.
| The district attorney objected to the
with regard to questions about char
acter.
Judge Carpenter thereupon made a
long speech in which he said that he in
tended to show by the witness that Dye
was maniac on the subject of human
slaughter; that he told Mrs. Laughton
that If the jury convicted him he would
kill the judge, all of the jury, and a
man named Sheppard who had assisted
| the prosecution. The defense would
attempt to prove that Dye thought him
self deputized from on high to kill every
man against whom he had spite, and
that he would have accomplished his
threat about killing the jury and Judge
| If he had not been restrained.
| The objection was sustained and the
witness was withdrawn.
| John Thompson, an oil-well driller
who lives at the Sespe, then took the
stand. Thompson is employed at the
California Oil company's works. One
day Dye came to the engine room and
asked the witness "Where is that s.
of b. Bradfield?" Thompson said he
didn't know, and Dye replied that if he
found him he would fill him full of lead.
Dye then went away and the witaess
afterward told Bradfield about the oc-
currence.
j. f. Stone, who has lived at Fillmore,
Ventura county, 2l years, was called.
He had known Joe Dye since
1860. In March or April of this
year Dye had q conversation with the
witness. in which he said: 'Bradfield
shall dance to my music, or I'll blow off
afterward told Bradfeld what Dye had
said. Dyes reputation as quarrelsome,
| fighting, blood-thirsty man, was bad.
Dye was also an expert with revolver,
and had shown the witness tricks with
a revolver which he didn't know, and
he had been practising fifty years. The
defense was not allowed, however, to
show what those tricks were.
J. T. Laughton was called. He was q
resident of Fillmore and had known Dye
since 1878. In April last he had a con-
versatlon with Dye at the Fillmore
depot, in which the latter said IT will
kill Mason Bradfeld, the white-livered
s. of b-h?" On motion of the dis
trict attorney the testimony of the wit
ness was stricken out because it could
not be shown that the threat ever
reached Bradfeld.
An adjournment was then taken till 8
O'Clock this a. m.