The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-06

NEWPORT, KY, May Sin thirty
five minutes after the noon recess to-
day the defense rested, just two weeks
having been spent in examining wit
nesses.
Twelve personal witnesses and eight
dispositions were heard today.
The forenoon testimony was monot-
onous; that of the afternoon melodra-
matte. At times judge and jury had to
exert their self control to avoid laugh
ing. The prosecution will now be en-
gagged in rebuttal. 1t will not be sur
prising if one or two cases of perjury
should develop.
The opening Of today's trial was de-
voted to unimportant
ATTACKS ON THE TESTIMONY
of Druggist Foerlmeyer of Bellevue and
John NoSter, who had told of seeing
Jackson and Walling and Pearl Bryan
together in Bellevue on Thursday or
Friday before the murder. Testimony
followed regarding Scott Jackson's
character while at Indianapolis, and
Will Woods reputation at Greencastle
The former was said to be good, be-
yond doubt, and the latter bad, by
four residents OF GreencaStle
After hearing the testimony of the
Newport bridge watchmen that only
three vehicles crossed the bridge be-
tween and o'clock on the night of
Jan 81, and of Brannan, the barber.
who testified that Jackson was shaved
on Friday, Jan. 81, Colonel Crawford
asked the court to adjourn until after
noon, as he had but one more witness
to examine
The prosecution, in the afternoon. did
not bring John Seward, the detective,
into court ITO make his expected con-
fession of inventing the story of Will
liam R. Trusty and coaching him to
swear to it. They laid the foundation
for it, however, by recalling Trusty and
elictting from him a denial that Will
liam Trusty, ST., and Seward were
brothers-in-law.
THE CRISIS MAY COME TOMOR-
ROW.
After Trusty, the defense presented
Ed Mosely, James Smith and John Lee,
all members of the Caldwell guards,
OF which George H. Jackson is captain.
AN had made dispositions that George
II. Jackson, the cOlored cab driver, was
from II o'clock Friday night, Jan. 81,
until 2 a. m. Feb l, engaged in a court
martial, and could not have driven the
cab to the scene of the murder. On
the stand today they all swore that the
drill of the guards was on Friday nighi
and the court martial on Wednesday
night Their squirming on the stand
was very amusing. They were all
three bound in $3.50 each to remain as
and tonight they were lodged
in Newport jail. All three denied
CT rr1i n
the defense to the trouble of break
ing down the credibflity of three wit
nesses which it was the first to intro
duce
William Beasley, of the Caldwell
guards, also
CONTRADICTED A DEPOSITION
which he admitted he signed for the
defense. He said the deposition was
untrue and that it was not read to him.
Eugene Hart and William Robinson.
members of the Caldwell guards, who
had made no deposition, testified that
the drill ended at midnight Friday, !
Jan. 81, in time to allow it's captain,
Jackson, to make that murderous cab
drive with Walling and Pearl Bryan,
that he has described with such detail.
John Seward, alias Soard, and Will !
liam R. Trusty, alias Trustee, are the |
explosive material likely to be touched |
off tomorrow. Both under bond and |
under detectives shadowing.
William McCarty, of Kingsville, |
Casey county, Kentucky, gave testi-
mony extremely damaging to Stewards
and Trusty's characters. The examin- |
alton of the colored men of the Cald-
well guards was a comedy. If the court |
had not enforced quiet, the room would |
have been in an uproar Of laughter, es-
pecially when the three members that |
sleep in Newport Jail tonight were ex-
amined.
One important bit of the latest testi-
nony was that of William Collins, bar
tender at Theobald's saloon on Fifth
street. Collins says Jackson came to |
his saloon at a. m. Feb. 1, the morn
ing of the murder, and paid back 81
hat he had borrowed on the preceding
Wednesday. This conflicts with Jack /
sons own story and that of others.