The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-20
MANY WITNESSES TESTIFY.
Most of the Evidence Was Bad
for Defendant,
WHO WAS SEEN AT THE TREsTLE
Telegraph Line Repairer on the
Stand Who Heard the Two
Explosions.

WOODLAND. Dec. 19.-Rapid progress
was made in the Appelman case to-day.
although but one new witness was intro
duced by the prosecution. a number who
have not been on the witness-stand in any
of the cases will testify tomorrow.
Mrs. Newton, the new witness. is the
wife of the yardmaster, and lives in
Washington. On the 18th of July, be-
tween and 5 o'clock. she was talking to
Mr.. and Mrs. Moss at their gate and in tie
presence of Lulu Conrad AppelmaD.
whom she knew as Texas" came along
with another man. Miss Conrad accosted
him with Hello, Tex, where have you
been? ?"
sob. up here swimming" replied the
defendant.
Witness answered: "Well. Tex, you
have lost your grip to go in swimming dur
ing all this excitement; you got COMPOUNDED
dirty coming down from Rocky Point"
On cross-examination the witness adj
mitted that she was prejudiced against the
strikers.
The prosecution was permitted to prove
the existence of a conspiracy by Martin
Haloran, who testified that on the Sd day
of July he saw WOrden and the defendant
together twice-0nce when the witness
was taking dead engines from The track
and once in the DEPOT with the crowd that
was uncoupling the cars and running the
Pulman back. He identified Appelman
positively as a man he saw helping to
move the cars, and said he appeared to be
prominent among the strikers.
On ross-eXamiDation witness admitted
the depot at the time.
General Hart tried 10 induce the witness
to admit that in such large crowd he
could not be positive in his Identification,
but Halloran said he could not be mis-
taken.
James Doris, farmland, was next
called. On the 11th Of July he was work
ing for George Bright, about half a mile
east of the trestle. His testimony cor
roborated that gwen by Archie Conagbie
on Tuesday. Cross-examination did not
shake him.
j. D. Graham, the Western Union Tele.
graph Company's line repairer, testified
that Oh the nth of July he started from
Washington on railroad velocipede At
the first crossing east of the trestle he was
stopped by two MEN, one of whom had
gun. He Identified the defendant Appel
man as the man who carried the gun.
They took his tool sack and threw it into
the tule and ordered him to run the. veloci-
pede off the track, which he did. Immedi-
aely afterward Appelman shouted to some
one at the trestle, whom he designated as
doc" Come down here, you
The train is coming and we will have
to fight like - to get out of here" The
witness saw the men go down and get in
the wagon and drive away. La a few
minutes he saw the train come out
and run off the trestle. On cross
examination he admitted that the present
appearance of the defendant was not ex-
acily as he had described it at the prelim-
mary examination. AT that he stated that
Appelmdn had mustache and V-shaped
cut ON his upper lip which exposed his
teeth. He also said that he identified Kill
liam as one of the men he saw at the
wreck, and he was as positive in the den-
tification OF one as the other. 1t will be
remembered that Killian was arrested and
discharged after the preliminary examina-
ton.
Conductor Newton testified that he saw
Appelman in Washington on the 18th of
July standing in front of Buckingham's
store. He had package under his arm
w hich he appeared to be holding carefully.
NJ. NJ. Drew. John Feeny and wife, Fred
Wilger and wife and A. j. Wilson also tes-
tilted. but none of them knew the defend
ant or connected him with the derailment
of the train.