Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18
SAN BERNARDINO.
INVESTIGATION INTO THE MARIA
MARTINEZ MURDER.
Very Little New Testimony Brought Out.
The Witnesses Examined-The
Dead Girls Character
Impugned.

SAN BERNARDINo, Sept. 16.-Great in
terest is being shown in the preliminary
trial of Cahart, Nihell and Langford,
the three men arrested as being con-
nected with the murde case of Maria
Martinez. 1t was intended to try the
case in Justice Marchant's court room,
but before time for it to be called, the
room and hall were packed with peo-
Pile, 90 that the judge wisely adjourned
to department one in the court house:
The defendant. Cahart, has been for
some days under treatment at the coun-
ty hospital, and was brought in from
there.
The testimony was much the same as
given at the coroner's jury, except fuller
in details. The witnesses examined
yesterday were: Mrs. Miguel and
daughter, at whose house the murder
was committed; DR.. w. Thompson,
coroner; Tina Crolic and Mrs. M. Perry,
neighbors, who heard the pistol shots ;
and Mrs. Michaelson, also a neighbor,
who saw man leave the Miguel house
at 5 O'Clock on the morning of the 9TH; |;
also G. A. Wingfeld, conductor, and
George Simpson, engineer, on the High
land railroad, who testified to having
seen Nihell and Cahart on the train
with Maria Martinez on the evening of
the 9Th, the night preceding the MUIR
der, and that Nihell went out from the
city on rhe train the next morning, and
Cahart the next evening. Silas H.
Nihell, brother of the defendant, Nihell !;
J. G. Baldridge, proprietor of Rsbel
springs, which adjoin the Harlem
springs' property on the west Frederick
Gesler, ballOonist, and J. G. Walker, a
resident of that neighborhood, gave tes-
timony which tended to prove the de-
praved character of the murdered
woman.
The principal point brought out in the
early part of the trial was that given by
DR.. Thompson, that the wound on the
right temple was cut two and half
inches long, and that there was bullet
hole through the cut and powder marks
on the interior tissue, though none on
the exterior surface, while the revolver
which lay at her side, partially con-
cealed by her dress, evidently had not
been recently fired.
NOTES.
The business outlook for San Bernar-
dino is unusually good this fall, far ex-
ceeding anything of the past year. The
merchants have bought heavily in the
east and their shelves will not begin to
hold the choice lot of goods they now
have for winter trade. Building is pro-
crossing, not only upon public, but also
private buildings, and street improve
ments will forever quiet the slander Of
this being muddy city.
Children OF school age are enjoying
their last days of vacation, ss school
opens next Monday in most of the dis
tricts.
Yesterday was one of the few warm
days of the season and people seemed to
feel the heat more because of the pre-
vious cool weather. The mercury went
one beyond the 100 mark.
Prominent Democrats of Riverside
visited their brothers of like political
faith in our city yesterday in the inter-
est of the 'slate" business.
The Tmes-Index, (Republican), in
forms the Democracy that Mr.. F. Cooley,
whom they have been expecting to make
sheriff, has no aspirations for that
Office. Another case of going away from
home to learn the news.
This evening the Ladies' Aid society
OF the M. E. church will serve ice cream
and cake at their last social of the con-
ference year. Their pastor, Rev. g. W.
White, has served his flock faithfully
and well, and won friends both among
his own people and other denomina-
tions, who all hope that the request of
the church for his return for another
year may be granted.