The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-04
He Seems to Have a Most Re-
markabIe Memory.
STATES THINGS POSITIVELY.
According to His Story He Was in
Sacramento All Day on July
the Eleventh.


in troduce some sensational evidence at
iracted a crowd, to the courtroom to-day.
Frank Filand. son of a woman who keeps
a grocery-stoGe at the corner of Third and
20 streets, in Sacramento. testifled that
.Appelman came into his mothers store
few. minutes before y opJuly IL.
: Edward Sweeney, Superior Judge of
Shasta C0unty;*testified that he had-knOwn-
Radcliffe, witn4ssforth prosecution. for
thirteen We sand that his reputation for
truth and honesty Is good. Radcliffe Is the
witness:who. claims that App4lBan made
ad missions 10 him concerning the wreck
ing Of the train. =. HIS reputation has: been
savagely attacked, blythe defense. Judge
Sweeney: admitted that Radcliffe was one
of*his politicaTIriends.. S.: T. Prim, a Red
ding attorney, and A, j. Drynan, County
Clerk of Shas a, also testified as to: Rad
c]Lffe's good reputation, -.
Tile defeudan Appelman. was then
called 10 the stand, He was self-Dossessed,
tai ked fuen1ly and related bis story with
:gleat~ particula II cation and minu teness of
detail: He began with the hour of rising
and ..reIated every incident. of the day.
naming all tae places he visited, the streets
on which he: travelled. the names OF" per-
s0nsyhe. met and giving the time with absO-
lutte positiyeness., .: He corroborated the
story or the various, witnesses who. :testi-
fed:for the defense as to his whereabouts
on JFly=1f::.& II denied that ne was 0ut: OF
~SacrameD to on tlratday, except to go.wlth a
crowd to bathing place aboVe Washing
ton. He. stoIped in Washington a few
minutes on his return*fFom the bath 10
the afternoon. = -. -
=. Defendant desert bed in detail his journey
OH horse back from Sacramento. He left
Sacramento for fear he would be arrested
for. o bsttuctng the. train. He contra
dcted all. the witnesses for the. prosecu-
lion concerning admissions alleged to have
been made. by him to. various persons
whom he met on that trip. -:
;. AT the afternoon session the defendant
resumed his: story. He was very tedious
in reciping ail+tae circumstances con nected
with his arrival at Modoc County and
Hiring out to Farmer Renner for 81 % per
day: ::.*: :. -. i -: -:
" General fart Interrupted him TO say
there was no necessity for such minuteness
in: detail and admonished the witness to
hurry along with his story and omit all
unn ecessary detail.
!, he'verbpsity of. the witness+seem med to
annoy General Hart and he again inter
rupted MIN TO say that lot Of his talk
was rambling aud wholly unnecessary and
that. ME. must sconfine his testimony" to.
material facts: T.
=. General Hart finally concluded to pro-
pound questions Instead Of permitting
the defendant to fell his story In mis- own
rambling way: Witness said that Renner
went with him to Alturas and while there
got very drunk. They there met
drummer. who: knew witness aud called
him ::Texas." lie. gave the witness
paper containing Johnny Sherburn's
testimony 10 the preliminary examination.
He read II aloud 10 Renner and told him
he was the man referred to in the tes-
timony as Tex.
Appelman then proceeded TO tell about
: his trip to- Fort Bidwell, where he was
arrested.
General Hart again interrupted him to
say, Get through as quick as you can
life~is short"
: Witness said be was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Anderson. who ordered him to
throw',up his hands in a way that made
him believe that the officers were highway
men and tryingto hold him up. He said
that Sheriff; Parker brought him to- the
Woodland Jail and treated him very
nicely. He bought good deal of whisky
CD the way down and wanted the de-
PENDANT to drink but he would not He
did not know the motive of the Sheriff's
generosity. Witness denied that he was
In. the wagon at the caboose ON the 18th OF
July He was in Gait and on tie way
backto Sacramento on the Sd of July, and
therefore was not with Worden. He was
notwlth him on the 18th of July and did
not see Melvin Hatch on that day. Wit
ness said when he went down to Gait be
was Instructed 10 look out for ell bridges
and where a Waterman was necessary to
leave one He was not in the
employ of the railroad company at
the. time of the strike. He left to
escape the possibility of arrest by the
soldiers and not on account of any fear of
being connected with the wreck. Wit
ness spoke boastfully Of his accomplish
ments as a rider and shot. He was
counted as one of the best riders in Texas.
and can sill doves on the wing with a
rife: He contradieted Bertha Pepperdene
about the conversation in relation to the
manner. in which the scar on his lip was
made.
The jury was invited to inspect Appel
man upper lip and be convinced that he
could. not sprout nous ache, but only
two of:them acee pied the invitation.
Appelman- did not see Conductor New
ton on the 18th of July, but he did see him
once when the company discharged him
for stealing. He never saw Graham until
disappearance on the witness-stand. He
knew Sherburn. but did not see him on the
1rlh fully. -:
II now lacked only ten minutes of 4,
ana Appelman's direct examination had
occupied nearly the entire day. The
court ordered an adjournment until to-
morrow morning.. The cross-examination
is likely TO, be lengthy and severe. The
defense has one more witness. The argu-
ment Will not begin until next week.