The record-union., 1893-11-14
THOSE TRIPS TO BRIGHTON.
Al Starkey Again Tells About Them
in Court.
Resumption of Testimony In the jeff
eris Murder Case-Slow Pro-
gress Being Made.

Judge Prewett resumed the trial of the
Jefferis murder case yesterday morning,
before the same dense and gaping crowd
that has haunted the courtroom from the
opening day. The attorneys all came up
smiling and fresh-looking after their
three days rest.
The first witness called was Mrs. T. S.
Lucas of Oakland, mother of Jefferis'
first wife, who corroborated her daugh-
ter's testimony concerning an interview
with Jetferis on December II, 1892. This
was the day on which Mrs. Fonte swore
that Jetferis tried to get her to go to
Brighton and secure Miss Ayres' money.
Miss S. Smith. telegraph operator at
Ill Market street, San Francisco, testified
that on the 2Sth of December, 1892, man
entered The telegraph office at about lao
A. NJ. and wrote the following message,
requesting her to telegraph it to the oper-
ator at Brighton:
SAN FRANCISCO, December %. 1892.
q. lures BrightOn California: Got message
of Mr.. Fur5erSon this morning. VIII send
package to-day. FRANK.
Miss Smith described the man as of
medium hight the wearer of slouch hat,
and Il dark mus tache. He reseIn bled the
defendant, except that his face was fatter
G. L. Jones, OF. counsel for the prosecu-
ton, tried TO get Jetferis to stand up and
put on a slouch hat, but General Hart
would not consent to it, insisting that
Jefferis never wore hat of that kind.
l.. Tozer testified that the oil in the
fragments of cloth found at the scene of
the fire was lard oil. 1t might have been
mixed with kerosene, making "signaW
oil, but the kerosene had evaporated.
Howard Stillman, the Southern Pacific
Company's oil expert, gave similar testi-
mony.
The next witness was Al Starkey, the
yard engineer, whose testimony on the
| bigamy trial was almost if not quite as
sensational as that of O'Hern. He re-
| told the story of how he had gone out to
Brighton three or four times for Jefferis
to get some papers from Miss Ayres, the
telegraph operator. but without success.
When they went out there the second
time, Jefferis told him that Miss Ayres
would be in town that night and would
come to his room as she had been in the
habit of doing. When they got out to
Brighton, Jefferis said Miss Cox was in
the station with Miss Ayres, and they
drove back again.
The last visit was made in November,
1892, a few weeks before the station was
| burned. Subsequently Jef1eris tried to
but witness refused. Jefferis told him
the woman was driving him crazy. and
that he would have to get her out of the
country.
He thought it was just before their last
visit to Brighton that Jefferis brought to
his room pistol, overcoat and mask,
saying, You may need that" Starkey
told him that he would not need them
for any purpose, and Jefferis left them in
the room.
Miss Smith, the telegraph operator
from San Francisco, was recalled at this
point by the defense. A man named
Samuel Fulton was brought forward,
wearing slouch hat; another was placed
on Jefferis' head, and the witness was
asked by General Hart which most re-
sembled the man who sent to Miss Ayres
the telegram signed Frank" She said
efferis did.
Mr.. Jones asked the witness if she re-
membered with which hand the man had
written the dispatch, and she replied "the
right hand" 1t was then shown that
Fulton's right hand was an artificial one.
Starkey then resumed his testimony
and was questioned at length regard
ing all the details of those several
| visits to Brighton and his interviews
| with Jetferis subsequent thereto. He
could not say he ever heard Jefferis
declare he would kill Miss Ayres, but
had heard him say he would "do her up"
unless she ceased troubling him.
He saw Jetferis at the depot in this city
after the fire and told him he thought he
had something to do with the murder.
He trembled. and said the first he knew
of it was when his fireman told him
about it at the Oakland pier
Witness denied that he played cards
with Jefferis on the night of the tragedy
or any other night. The examination OF
this witness was long and tedious.