The morning call., 1893-09-26

began 10 sink into the soft mnd. The boa
appeared TO get further from his reach
and he finally leaned against the bank tC
take on his shoes. He put his foot up on
/ MS knee as he removed each shoe, and III
this way he got this mud on his pantaloOns
linen without his shoes he waded out in
the water and secured the boat. lie then
wandered back to the town and it was
growing late. He was wet. lonesome and
| dlscoDsolate and cut of work. On the
Sausalito wharf he met a friend who
recognized him. He saw the condition
ne was in and tried 10 prevail on Matheny
to return with him. This the defendant
stuooornly refused to do, and the boat left
without him. the friend bidding him good
by as ne left him standing on the wharf
Ihls was the last boat 10 the city, and
Matneny returned to a saloon and had
more drink, after which he went to bed al
the same place as he had the night before,
In another room"
Mr.. Cook dwelt particularly on this
night. as it was the night of the robbery,
when Matheny was supposed to have been
In kuhnle's saloon.
Matheny slept late the next morning and
returned to San Francisco in q sadly drab-
bled condition.
he drank more. and finally more friends
got hold OF him and took him to Coleman S
room. where he was found by the police.
these friends. or one of them, went to
. ONu IOUUl lOG MS ClUlucSt dUu
IN gathering them up picked up lot OF
stuh belonging TO TOuhill, among other
things the old white hat which Mr.. Cook
SAID Iouhlll was accountable for, and lie
had probably got it at the racetraek at
some time in one of his many visits there.
The hat was dry when found, said Mr..
COOK, else II would not have been marked
as it was by a pencil as Off Ger Seymour
had marked it without the marking ruu-
ming.
This finished Mr.. Cooks statement and
the court adjourned for the noon hour. In
the afternoon the defense put on its first
witness, Howard W. Fordham, who ex-
nlDlted cigar boxes containing dirt from
knhnle's back yard and the racetrack.
This witness was followed by DR.. Will
liam johnson. a chemist connected with
the Cooper Medical College. who was
called to analyZe the clothes and state
whether the mud on them was salt mud or
fresn water mud. Cook wanted the chem
lst TO be allowed TO take the clothes to San
Francisco and examine them. but the pros
ecution objected. as they feared it would
spoil the evidence. DR.. Johnson will be
recalled to-day
The next witness called, and very i'm
portant one for the defense. was Ira
Thompson, the West Oakland painter,
who says he rode down to Seventh and
Peralta streets on the Forming of the rob-
berry. the time that Toedt Gays he took
down Matheny. Thompson told a very
straight story and was not shaken on
croSS-eXaminatiOn.
On his redirect examination the witness
says he told Toedt once that he, and not
Matheny, was the man he drove down.
"Toedt says. You ought to make good
deal of mOnev out of this
Il says, Money be hanged; then went
home"
The last witness for the day was W. j.
Peal, president of the Gurney Cab Com
pany. He had his books with him, but
had not his reports properly made up to
correspond with them, and was excused
till today. He will state that no other cab
went to Seventh and Peralta streets on the
night in question.