The herald., 1893-05-06

ue uOCtOI tebtlueu buht tue bbhlub on
the hammer might have been caused by
orange or lemon juice, logwood or coch-
meal. II q stain was two days old the
witness said a person could not deter
mine with the naked eye or small
magnifying glass the difference between
stains caused by lemon Juice or the other
substances mentioned from those caused
by blood. He believed the stains he ex-
amined we're human blood, but could
not swear positively to that fact. He
had not had sufficient quantity of mat.
ter from the hammer from which TO
make satisfactory test
The next witness was Ernest Macken-
zie, who drove out with Miller in
buggy the afternoon before the murder.
They went to the City Gardens about
$3.50 o'clock and returned to the Carlton
saloon about O'Clock. Miller was
pretty drunk that afternoon.
The witness thought Miller had a
watch on his person that afternoon.
Mackenzie stated that he was in the ga
loon that night until 10 80 O'Clock. He
saw Miller give Miles some money, and
then go back to the room where he was
found murdered.
Upon CROSS examination the witness
said he first saw Miller that day talking
to a. man named Nelson, and talking
very volubly. Miller was treating
everybody in the saloon. Miles was In
his shirt sleeves that evening and had
on white apron. There was large
crowd in the saloon during the day, and
considerable business was done. The
witness saw Miles 90 back to the rear
rooms twice during the evening with
drinks. but did not see him leave the
bar between $50 and 10: 80. He no.
ticed nothing singular in Miles manner
during the evening.
W. G. Miller, reporter on the Times
at the time of the murder, testified to
going TO the Carlton saloon that night
with some police officers and Mr.. E. L.
Jones, then Of the HERALD. When he
entered the saloon he saw Miles and
some one else behind the bar. He went
back to room No. with the rest of the
party, and after the key was obtained
from the bar went into the room. Miller
was lying on lounge, dead. Officer
Mcguire searched the clothing OF the
dead man and found nothing. Miles
stated that the doors between rooms
Nos. and were nailed up, but the
door was easily pushed open, and the
witness found hole where q nail might
have been. He looked for the nail, but
did not find any. He then returned to
the police station, after saying few
words to Miles. The latter appeared
cool, and looked surprised when the
doors between the rooms were pushed
open.
DR.. W. A. Weldon, who was county
coroner at the time of the murder, was
the next witness, and his examination
was protracted one. He testified that
he saw Miller lying on the lounge in the
Carlton saloon, dead, the night of MAY
Is, 1891, between IL and O'Clock. The
body was warm. The eyes were closed
and the pupils were distended. He
thought Miller had been dead about four
hours. The body was not stiff. He
found wounds on the back of the head
from which he thought person would
die Immediately.
The body he had removed to Orr &
Sutch's undertaking parlors. and he
made post norton examination
There we're two wounds, which had
been inflicted, evidently, by some blunt
instrument, and had been inflicted with
great force. The witness stated that he
tried several hammers in the larger
wound and one OF them, the one In EVIL
dence, which was found behind the
saloon bar, fit it exactly. That hammer
had stalns on the steel head and the
handle. He examined them and be-
lieved those on the handle to be blood
stains. 1t seemed to him as if blood
had spurted on the handle because the
stain WAS long and narrow.
Miles attitude during the examine
ton of the witness was study. He
kept his hand to his left ear in his char
acteristic position and hardly moved
muscle. The bleached out color which
be has acquired in his confinement rend.
cred him conspicuous. His appearance
Is that OF man who is suffering men
tally, and upon whose physique the strain
IL beginning to tell perceptibly.. III
DR.. Weldon's cross-examination in the
afternoon WAS interesting. It consisted
Of the introduction of the skull of the
murdered man. The body was exhumed
some time ago by the doctor and be re-
moved the skull. The CHASTITY object
was not perfectly odorless, and the grue-
some object was handled very gingerly
oy Mr.. Shinn, of counsel for the defense,
although DR.. Weldon picked it up with
professional indifference.
The skull showed hole in the right
tide, into which the hammer fitted loose
y. The doctor, in the course OF his ex-
animation, stated that it fitted exactly
chen applied shortly after the murder,