The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-07

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ne vas equally inquisstlve.
-. sais point the noon recess was tatsn.
.1eh III. Horton resumed his test,rnosv
sss called down from the stand ana
sac~n the EXHIBITS introduced in EVIDENCE
IN Justice Caldweii's court. Az Mr.. Miller
unloiisd the bundie OF clothing and held
up .or inspection the old woman's bloody
nlsntsown and nightcap the spectators
e.aned their necks TO ges q view of the
sassssy relics. Many women were nov
present, and even standing in the aisses.
ma sneF interest was very manifest. On
I1e table At Mr.. MilIer's elbow. amid pie
OF vrappings, stood two small yiaI.. the
one found In the cabin and one from thu
Tacoma drug store. Beth might have been
Haas In the same mould. and on the de-
faced iabcl Of the first was the trace of
the same ominous sable border indicating
poison which surrounded the label on the
second.
Alter the coroner had identified the
articles Ar. Conner cross-examined him.
try.nx to make him confess that he identi-
hed shem only on Detective Cudihee's saw
20. Detective Cudihes seemed to have
almost entire charge of the case didn't
neT' asked Mr.. Conner, sarcassieaIiy. re-
ceivine an affirmative answer.
DR.. Horton, Of course. could net swear
that the articles were the ones found in
the cabin, but said that he thought thev
were. and % his testimony could not be
said to have been shaken. Mr.. Conner.
however. objected to the garments and
bottles going in as evidences until further
identified. Judge Humes ovsrrulcd the
objection. and DR.. Horton vas succeeded
by X. ]. Lameroux, Justice Caldwsli's
clerk, who identified the yials positively
A. the ones Esed in the lower court. all the
exhibits having been kept in his desk. He
explained how the bottle found in the
cabin had been accidentally broken while
being sealed at q drug store to save the
chioroform until the trial. Mr.. Near
thur. clerk In Stewart & Holmes drug
store, corroboraied the latter part Of his
story.
Wilcox was unmoved during the wrang-
ling over the bloody relics.
The next witness called was the muir
dersd woman's son. Ernest Fetting, q tall,
gaunt, red-haired, biue-eyed German, with
. long struggling mustsche. but he was
asked to step aside q moment while NJ. g.
Stewart. a fellow-clerk of McArthur's, tes-
tilted that he sealed the bottle on Dec II
ct Mr.. Lameroux's request. Then Fettine
took the stand and told the events of the
fatal day. He told Of going with his
brother-in-iaw. James King (who was
afterward murdered In Tacoma). to see tho
lawyer; Of going to the cemetery; Of visit
ing several saloons; and Of all the events
Of the day. Just a. at the inquest and at
the preliminary examination The room
was fairly packed with people by this
time and the doors were locked. He told
graphically about coming home from the
theaser with King at o'clock on the
morning after the murder and finding his
dead mother gagged and bound in pool
Of blood on the floor; and of finding the
contents Of her trunk scattered around the
room. He said that the amount OF money
in the trunk was $3.50. oil his own. The
way in which be told OF picking the old
woman up and placing her on her cot WAS
very pathetic, but Wilcox was not affected
by IL in any way, as were others In the
room. He made the same statement as at
the coroner's inquest, that he "found my
mothers teeth (she hadn't but ous) on
the floor under the stove" He de-
MED making any change in the room
on that morning with the exception of
laying the old woman on the bed. He
said that Wilcox and King were Just like
two brothers In their relations" He had
one time had some conversation with
them about starting q shingle mill. bu. II
had come To noth0g. He mentioned
making several loans 10 different parties
about town from the 81, 600 be drew from
the bank on July 10.
Cross-examInation by Mr.. Coiner threw
almost no additional light on the case.
He asked the witness several rather harsh
questions regarding the Associated
Charities. but the court held that IL the
old woman aid live hypocrite and take
charity when she did not need IL, Il had no
bearing on the case. Fetting denied TAX
ing any charity himself The attorney In
simulated that he took too many beers"
on the night Of the murder to remember
ANYTHING clearly, aud il is true that there
was an appalling succession of them, but
Fettine said he Was not drunk then. He
tes,i.i I'd that the old woman's hands were
tightly bound together when he put her on
the cot. There was no blood on the Till OF
the trunk. 1t appeared TO him that the
murderer had wiped the blood from his
hands on an old apron hanging near the
trunk before he took the tiIl out.
Detective Gil Philbrick told about his
trip 20 the Festing cabin. There was
nothing new in his testimony. but on
cro.,-exsmin alton he got mixed up with
Mr.. Coiner in splitting OF hairlines. TO
misouote the old saw. Philbrick testified
that the label on the bottle found in the
cabin had around u. edge two hsirlines
and that il was 10 him the same sort Of
label A. that on the Tacoma bottle. Then
ur. Conner handed him the latter bottle
and asked him to count the hairlines.
There were five. The attorney rubbed his
hands in glee and thought be had Phil
brick sure, bat the latter slipped out
neatly By saying that he vas testifying to