The herald., 1896-08-12
ARGUMENT BEGINS TODAY
Will Be Star Speeches Be-
fore Judge Shaw
II is RAPIDLY REACHING ITS END
The Yndart- -Cor0nel Case Is Near
Its Close
DON MANUEL ON THE STAND
The Old Gentleman Tells a Straight
Enough Story
He Is, However. Bit Shifty on Cross.
Examination
George D. MIngs Trying Hard to Prove an
DON MANUEL ON THE STAND
The Old Gentleman Tells q Straigh
Enough Story
He Is, However. a Bit Shifty on Cross.
Examination
George D. MIngs Trying Hard to Prove an
AIibi-An Ex-Postal Clerk Who Has
No Use for Religlon-At the
Courthouse

The Yndart- -Coronel will contest, as
It has come to be known, will reach ar-
gument today.
The case will. it is expected. consume
two days in speeches. Senator White
will make the main address for the de-
fendant. jefferson Chandler performing
similar service for the plaintiff. Ar
gument will probably begin this after
noon.
Nearly all of what is left of the best
of the local Spanish American popula-
ton We're on hand when the case was
resumed before Judge Shaw yesterday
morning In the audience We're several
ladies.
The cross examination of Manuel de
Coronel was by Senator White. 1t oc-
cupied the afternoon. The senator
sought to make the old Spanish don adj
nit that he had left the city in a hurry
last November because the grand jury
was in session. ard had returned as soon
as the jury had been discharged. The
old man said that he had made the affi =
davit which is defendants important ex-
hibit in the case, without compulsion
from any source. He identified the pa
per, all excepting what purported to be
his signature in one place, which he
declared to be a forgery. The affidavit
sets forth that the deed of trust to
Yndart was made and executed in re-
ality. The affidavit is witnessed by
Charles Cruz. deceased, and bears the
notarial seal of c. +. Nickery.
The witness said that he signed the
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Antonio's house. The signature of all
of the names to the document were
maze at the same time and place. The
witness had written the trust deed HIM
self at Antonios dictation. because he
was considered a pretty good penman.
The witness in answer to a question
from Jefferson d. Chandler. denied that
he had gone to Tia Juana last November
to escape the grand jury. He had made
one visit to the office of Gage & White.
where he had conVersed with both of
those gentlemen about the genuineness
of the trust deed. He was asked if suc
paper was in existence, and he had
answered atfirmatively. This had oc-
cured some seven or eight months ago
more or less. The lawyers had at the
time infomed him that the document
was false paper. He had replied he
stood ready to let the courts pass up
on that point. He thought that an at
tempt was being made to threaten him.
He was informed that they knew all
Senator r. Il. Del Vale was on hand at
the time to act as an interpreter in the
conversation which was being held
William Ferguson, the pioneer re E.
called. followed Manuel de Coronel upon
the witness stand. He corrected his tes-
timony given in the morning in some
minor particulars as to dates of twenty
five years and more ago Major Horace
Pail tel 10 ire Il H., & ,
resided on what is now Clay street Ma
jor Garfias had come here from Mexico
in 1863. He was related to President
Fortirio Diaz. He had a concession 20
establish colony.
B.A. Lugo told how in July, 1895 he ha d
been approached and had been offered
money to assist in furnishing bogus evi-
dence in the case on trial He stated
under pressure of cross examination
that he was to receive S400 to procure
forged testimony upon behalf of Man
uel de Coronel. For this he received the
$500 note filed by Senator White as an
exhibit.
present and a party to the note trans
action recounted the purported facts
related by the previous witness.
Sanchez was employed by Mrs.
Smiths attorneys to obtain evil
dence in the case. His motive he
said was to assist in the exposure of a
conspiracy. Vicente Lopez was the
third of the party present when some of
the note circumstances are alleged to
have transpired and he corroborated the
evidence of the other two.
Thomas L. Winder, who has acted as
the attorney for Francisco Yndart in a
previous case against A. F. de Coronel
in 1871, was called to testify that in that
instance the case against Coronel was
settled by mutual agreement. the dead
man paying the attorneys fees One
object of this testimony was to prove
that Yndart and Coronel were at the
time the best of friends. The testimony
was not satisfactory to the plaintiff
Major Bell. however, came to the rescue
and gave the evidence desired
A. w. Seaver was due to testify as an
expert on handwriting for the purpose of
passing upon the genuineness of the al
legged forged trust deed all of yesterday.
he had not been found when the hour
of the courts adjournment arrived. at
o'clock.
DON MANUEL'S STORY.
Don Manuel de Coronel looked none
the worse for his nights experience in
the county Jail when he was sworn upon
behalf OF the plaintiff in the case yester-
day morning. He told an apparently
straight story, but tried to shift in the
cross it appeared to an
outsider
My name is Manuel f. de Coronel s.
ne began, and I reside here in this civ.
] have lived in Los Angeles since 1886
L have been county assessor and water
commissioner with Mr.. Toberlnan ard
Mr.. Wolfskill-the time of the American
government 7 am 'Pancho' Yndart,s
uncle, brother to his mother
Look at this" said Mr.. Ward, hand
ing him the celebrated trust document
When did you see it ?''
when Antonio signed it."
"Who wrote Antonio F. Coroneps
name to the document?"
he did. in my presence. the presence
of the deceased, of Guzman and Cruz. "
When did you next see the paper?''
when Mr.. Ward showed it TO me at
the office in May l think"
What year,"
"At his office there Oh, think it was
last year"
What do you mean by deceased?"
Soledad, the mother of Pancho."
DO you know Mrs. Garfias?"
Eyes sir"
,sal9@a pia you meet her at Tia Juana in