The record-union., 1893-12-07
STILL HEARING TESTIMONY.
General Hart Complains About the
Jefferis-Fonte Letter.
What Special Officer May saw-A Wit
ness Who says He is Reporter
and a Gambler.


On the contrary, it was one of the Iiven-
sst days of the trial. 1t is probable, how
ever. that the testimony will all be in by
noon to-day.
At the opening of court Judge Prewett
Dverruled the objection by the defense
10 the proposed testimony OF Special ON
GER Nav. and the latter then swore lhat at
about O'Clock on the morning OF the
Brighton fire he saw Jet1eris enter the
Orleans clearinghouse on Second street,
having come from the direction OF u
street. He said he knew Jeiterls well
and could not be mistaken.
The witness also testified that Redman.
the man who called Jefferls that morn
ing, told him that Jefleris acted like
man who had not been asleep.
George c. McMullen was next called
by the prosecution. He testified that he
had known Miss Ayres about two years,
while she was the telegraph operator at
Brighton, the station where he received
his mail. During the present year he had
been most of the time in Chicago as man
ager of the Sacramento County exhibit at
the Worlds Fair.
One evening while driving past the
Brighton station Miss Ayres came out
and asked him to carry a letter to Jeilerls
in the city. He thought it was about the
18th of September, 1892. She told him
Jefferis was an engineer and would be
found on the incoming train from San
Francisco. He delivered the letter, and
nothing was said between himself and
Jefferis. Witness left for home about 3
O'Clock.
Miss Ayres did not ride in with him
that evening. Witness has a neighDor
named Howard. AS the witness was
going to GIllis stable for his horse and
buggy he saw Jefferis and Miss Ayres on
Eighth street going in the direction OF h.
He went to the Windsor Hotel to get
cigar, and a little later he saw them IN
front of the stable talking. Miss AyreS
rode out TO Brighton with him, and IN
passing the brewery at Twenty-elghth
and NJ streets they saw man standing
near tree, and both himself and Miss
Ayres took him to be Jefferis.
Mr. McMullen said he never had any
money transactions with Miss Ayres, nor
had he been her legal adviser. In ref
erence TO the condition OF the lock OF her
door, found in the ruins OF the station,
the witness said the bolt was turned back.
Mr.. McMullen was not permitted To
testify in regard TO any conversations
Miss Ayres had with him in November
or Decembe 1892, and as the defense had
no questions to ask Of him he was eX
cused.
Mr.. Fonte was called and testified that
on the evening Mr.. Hart made his open
ing statement in the case he saw Dan
O'Hern in front of the Western Hotel.
He and his wife visited the witness and
his wife in the hotel.
MIR. Hunt, a reporter for the ErdDliter,
testified to having seen O'Hern in front
OF the hotel about o'clock that evening.
Fonte was present at the time.
Detective Ben True, who has cut quite
an important figure in the case from the
start. was the next witness called. Mr..
Jones asked him if he held the converse
ton with Miss Ayres one evening at the
depot as related by Jefferis, and he re-
piled that he never had any conversation
with her in the depot at any time, nor
near it. The ring that had been offered
in evidence had never been out of his
possession since. 1t was lent to him by
the hotel landlord at LatrObe.
The witness was asked if he had gone
over the ground alleged TO have been
travelled by JefferiS on the 9TH of July,
1872. when it is claimed he went to san
Francisco to procure a marriage license.
the witness consulted memoranda, and
said he went over the ground on the 10Th
of last month. He lett Sacramento in the
morning and arrived at Oakland Pier at
l0:45 A. N. Some time was lost in ind
ing the Master Mechanic. He went to
Jefferis' house from the rOundhOuse aud
got back TO Oakland Pier at l;43 =. 81.
Beyond this he was not permitted to tes-
tify. on the ground that il would not be
rebuttal testimony.
A. Burns of Oakland was called and
asked if he overheard a conversation i'll
Moore's cigar store there, after Jetferis'
arrest, in which Enos, the caller, said
that when Jefferis was notified to take
out trial engine from Oakland, on the
9TH of July, he (Jefferis) remarked that he
had TO 90 TO San francisco, and asked
Enos to tell them at the roundhouse to
have the engine ready for him on his re-
turn at P. NJ.
General Hart objected to the testimony,
on the ground that it was not rebuttal
and the objection was sustained,
T. Warder, barber in this city, testi-
fed that he had known O'Hern for two
wears, and that his reputation for peace
opportunities for making inquiries of
men were unusually good.
Mrs. O'Heru, wife OF the much-diS-
cussed witness and another sister Of JEFF
ferris, was next called. The prosecution
offered to prove by her that her husband
went to San Francisco with Jefleris on
the 7th of July, 1872; that they did not re-
morning, the Sth, she called on Mrs. JEFF
ferris to learn why her husband (0'Hern)
had not returned.
The defense objected, and the first half
of the question was stricken out.
Mrs. O'Hern then testified that Mrs.
Jefferis said 10 her To mind her own busi-
ness-that the men were on business, and
knew what they were about. On the
evening OF the eth, the witness testified,
Mrs. Curtis was not at Mrs. Jetferis'
house.
on cross-examination Mrs. O'Hern de-
MED that she hated her brother, the de-
fendant, or that she had been keeping
company with Mrs. Fonte. She admit
ted that Jefleris had on two occasions
given her small sums of money.
She was asked if few months ago she
did not call on her brother at the Oakland
roundhouse and tell him that Messrs.
Ryan and Jones had given her $50, and
she could get more.
She denied that such was the case, and
said that the conversation about money
was in this city.
She denied having told Jefferis that she
was going To appear against him, and de-
MED that either Mr.. Ryan or Mr. Jones,
or anyone else, had given her 500 Her
husband had received some money, but
from what source she could not say.
A man named kean had tried to get her
TO talk ABOUT the case not long ago at
Benicia, where she was boarding, bur she
had declined TO talk with him. He cid
the talking, aud she was satisfied he had
been sent there as spy
An alleged statement by Neeley was
read to the witness, and she emphatically
denied having said any OF the things at
tributed to her by the said Neeley.
Mrs. O'Hern denied having told Mrs.
Bradwell last May that she could not fix
rJ,a date on which her husband and Tof
ferris staid out ali night.
At the afternoon session Mrs O'Hern
testified that nobody connected with the
,nrnsecntion had offered her any mnnev-