The record-union., 1891-11-07

right away, as was going to tell any
how. | make this statement freely and
without any hope of reward or induce
inent whatever"
| THE wRECKER's SWEETHEART.
Miss Mabel Ingersoll. the young lady
with whom Al Roberts was going to
elope, was then called. Attorney Tuttle
gave up his seat to the defendant, Al, so
| that the latter could sit facing the wit
! ness. Roberts bowed to her as she took
| her seat.
| One theory of the prosecution is that
! Al Roberts motive in wrecking the train
was to rob the passengers of enough
money to defray the expenses of this
elopement.
The young lady is 16 years of age and
fairly good looking. She testified that
/ she knew Al Roberts and was engaged to
/ be married TO him, and expected to elope
! with him because she was under age.
! The date for this elopement was to be
| about two weeks after the wreck hap
/ pened. In connection with the matter
! Roberts told her that he had $3.50 in a
| bank in Auburn. She saw him on the
/ evening before the wreck, but did not
{ talk with him. She saw him again the
day after the wreck, but they did not
/ talk about the wreck. He wrote letter
to her in which he said something about
the wreck. She could not remember ex-
I
the effect that he had been accused of
wrecking the train, but was innocent;
and that he and his father went over to
the wreck together to help the passengers.
Mr.. Jones handed the witness letter
and asked her il she recognized the hand
writing.
She said she knew it was Al Roberts
writing. 1t was letter that she had
never received.
| This was dropped temporarily, and the
witness was asked if she had not written
to Roberts after the wreck, telling him
not to talk about the affair. She said she
! had written to him, but did not remem-
Der telling him to keep quiet.
Mr.. Jones had her letter, however, and
after showing it to her she remembered
having written, 'Take my advice and
don't say anything about it - please
! DON'T She also remembered then that
IN his letter TO her he had stated that he
knew something about the wreck. He
did not tell her, though. what he knew.
Mr.. Jones seemed to doubt this, and
asked her what prompted her to advise
him to keep quiet if she had told her
nothing. She could not answer.
CLANDEsTINE MEETINGS.
The attorney then went off on another
| tack and III answer to his questions, Miss
| lngersoll said that she and AL Roberts
were in the habit of meeting clandes-
| tlnely at Mrs. Brees' house. They did
not meet there again after the wreck.
Were Mrs. Brees and Albert
| friendly?' asked Mr.. Jones'
| The defense objected and Mr.. Jones ex-
| planned that he proposed to show that
Mrs. Brees had told the truth when she
said she had no hatred toward Roberts.
! The defense had yesterday endeavored to
show in their cross-eXamination that Mrs.
| Brees was testifying against Roberts be-
cause she did not like him.
The court allowed the question and
! Miss lngersoll said that they were quite
friendly and the meetings were held at
! Mrs. Brees' house constantly.
! On cross-eXamination Miss Ingersoll
said she had heard it noised about the
! town of Colfax that Al Roberts had been
accused before she wrote to him advising
him to keep quiet.
! Sheriff w. &. COnroy testified that he
| arrived at the scene of the wreck at 6
O'Clock on the morning that it happened.
! lie examined the track where the train
went Oft. His description of it was the
same as detailed by the previous wit
nesses. He afterward Joined with other
| persons in searching the brush for the
! tools that the WreclIerS had used. He saw
the bar that was found and was satisfied
that it had been recently thrown there.
| The earth was freshly broken and the
tWlgs were freshly broken.
JEFF KNEW THE BAR.
Shortly after examining the bar jeff
/ Roberts came UP and said to the witness:
! BILLY, / know that bar.n He was ask ed
whose it was, but Detective True inter
fered and said that there was too much of
Il crowd around. Witness and True took
! jeff aside and asked him about the mat
! ter. jeff said that the bar once belonged
| to man named Dawson and later to his
| (Roberts0 father, but it had not been seen
fgN1e 1eCsr,Na Lee IL
! that Al had told him he found clawbar,
and had gone to tell Dyer about it; but
! when he returned the bar was gone
! Al Roberts came along in a wagon
! shortly afterward, continued the witness.
and was questioned by Detective Viii
Smith, while Detective Ben True
made notes of Roberts remarks. Al
| told them that he had found clawbar
| with broken prong. He wanted Dyer
to get it, and left it beneath a manza-
nita bush; but when he returned
for it, it was gone. Being questioned
| further Al said that the bar belonged on
his fathers place. He had last seen it in
Jeff's possession. Al then refused to
talk any more. Later on, however, De-
! tective Smith and the witness took Al
aside and talked to him again. Smith
| told him that he had better tell all he
! knew. Roberts began to cry and said,
My God, have l got to tell on my
| brotherY' Smith said they only wanted
! the truth, and then Al pointed to JEFF
and said, still shedding tears, "Wen,
there is one of them" Witness and
Smith then called out to Constable Over.
who was talking with JEFF, to place the
! latter under arrest. Witness and Smith
! took Al. and the party went to Colfax.
| The Sheriff was crOSS-eXamined at con-
| siderable length regarding the finding of
| the crowbar with which the rail is sun
| posed to have been pried out of place. He
also gave a detailed account of examina-
tions he made at the Roberts dwelling,
and then was questioned all about the in
| terviews again, as well as his methods of
arresting people.
| The Sheriff has not been in office long.
| and is somewhat novice on the Witness
/ stand, and the unrelentneSs manner in
which Attorney chamberlain poured in
| his questions considerably ratified him.
| He breathed a deep sigh of relief when
| the court ordered recess for lunch
| Afternoon Session.
| Sheriff Conroy was recalled by the de-
/ tense for further cross-eXamination when
court reconvened after lunch, He could
not remember in detail all the converse
! tlons he had with the Roberts brothers.
/ nor every time he saw them. The broth
/ ers were arrested on the Saturday follow
| ing the wreck. The witness, Constable
| Dyer and Detectives Smith and True
made the arrest. This was the day that
| Al Roberts broke down and accused JEFF