Evening journal., 1893-04-08
FORGING THE CHAIN.
Important Testimony at the
Evans Trial
FASTENING GUILT ON W. E, EVANS

Evidence That the Accused Polsoner Con-
templated Putting the Rossers Out OF
the way-The Defense Endeavors to
Prove an AlibL
Special Dispatch to the Evening Journal.
GEoAGErowN, April s-The defense
examined six witnesses this morning TO
prove the reputation and oath Of George
II. Collins, who testified for the state
yesterday that he was at his home near
Concord Camp in the afternoon Of Thurs-
day, August A. and that Evans was at
his house about the middle of the after.
noon and took tea with him.
The witnesses also swore that NJ.
Collins was at the camp all day on
Thursday. Several other witnesses
were examined for the defense to prove
the locality Of the roads around Oak
Grove.
Court is still in session at this writ.
ing p. m.
1t is thought that the defense will be
through examining its witnesses by
o'clock this afternoon and the arguments
will be postponed until Monday next
Special Correspondence Evening Journal
GEORGETOWN, April s-Yesterday
morning the attorney general began his
effort to fasten the guilt Of murder
upon William r Evans He traced him,
step by step from Tacony on August 4,
almost TO the brink Of the fatal well. aud
back again to Taconey and up TO the
time of his arrest on August 10
The defense attempted to have the
case quashed by raising the point that
the state iailed TO prove the venue, but
was overruled by the court
In his opening address TO the jury,
Mr.. Richards said he would prove that
when the well had been poisoned Mrs
Catharine Rosser. the mother Of John
Rosser, was accused Of the crime, q
sufficient provocation for such an act on
her part being violent quarrel be
= tween her and her daughter in-law, Mrs
e John Rosser, on the morning Of August
d 4
= The most important witness called
a by the state WAS Mrs Nellie R0sser
,. wife of Benjamin Rosser, who testified
a TO having heard Evans say that h,
y would poison John AM Isaac Rnssei
= AID " be could not do that be woul,
q shoot them # 10 took ten or twenty year
TO 90 10
"a Charles T Toy, fellow workman g
n Evans, at Tseony said the latter hal
- told him after his return last Angus
" that he had been down to see m
Is folks, and George II Collins testihe
, that he saw the accused on his old farm
b near Concord, on the memorial Angus
I. On the night Of the same day Farme
IS Frank Allen met man in his lane, VIII
q ''resembled Evans, and the deughier
who overheard the talk between he
II father aud the man, said the latter
u voice seemed like Evans.
n John Mari of Tacony, with WHOM
Evans boarded, his wife aud John Green
halge. his room mate, all testified tina
"A Evans had been absent on August
returning the following evening, an
II that he had asked them TO tell reporter
n and detectives that he had not bee
v away.
= The first witness called for the de
a fence was William E. Cotter a rea
, estate broker, NO. ~ NorJh Jupte
N street. Philadelphia, who was trying I
"a sell Evans farm, in Maryland, Il
- said that Evans had been TO see him OF
4 August 4, 1892, in reference to tn
n matter, and that he had left between
81 and . o'clock in the afternoon, too lat
"a to make it possible to get into Marylan
"A at the time the other witnesses sal
"a they saw him there Mr.. Cooper ac
n mitted that his memory was littl
N faulty at times, and that he fixed hi
IN dates by means of business letters an
a memoranda.