The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-17

ing on trial for having attempted to kill
Lucky Baldwin in Judge Stacks court
room IN the closing days of the trial of her
sisters case against Baldwin.
Lillian Ashley, the plaintiff in the other
case, sat with her. Both sisters have
spruced up considerably since their ap-
pearance in the Police Court. The old
white straw hat has been discarded, and
in its place sits a rather tasty bit of mil
hnery, characterized by bright flower
and sprightly feather. Both were dressed
in the customary black, and Emma wore
a bunch Of yellow marguerites at her
breast.
Emma sat through the days proceed
ings with the dazed uninterested express
sion that has characterized her since the
shooting. Only once the sisters spoke to
each other. and that was while the Jurors
were examining the bullet which went so
close to its mark, and was afterward dug
out OF the plaster in the wall back of the
court reporters table. Then they wins.
pered few words and Emma smiled
Some difficulty had been experienced in
securing a Jury, only nine men having
been secured as a result of Tuesday s
effort The talesmen instead of being
found to be prejudiced against the de-
PENDANT were Objectionable to the prose
cution because of leaning the other
way. Some of them said they could not
but feel sympathy for woman in such
case, and Others always Expected some
thing of the kind would happen to Bald
win."
The jurors finally impaneled were: A.
s. Perley. N. Davidson, J. @. Burke. i.
Krugen, d. Curry, D. w. Pringle. t. G.
Flanagan. W. L. Groat, c. Meier, J. M.
Willard, K. Rosenberg, NJ. Gately.
niofr.ot
conducted the case for the people and
General Robert A. Friedrichs defended the
accused. The jury by order of the conrt
went to Judge Slack's courtroom. the
scene OF the shooting, and inspected the
hole in the wall where the bullet lodged
and which has been carefully pasted over
with piece OF paper since the incident
Judge Slack afterward took the witness.
stand and told the story as he saw it. and
substantially as he told II in the Police
Court. He said he thought the defendant
was not OF sound mind at the time of the
shooting.
A. I. Barnett, an attorney, was in Judge
Stacks court room at the time of the
shooting. He stood near the clerks desk
and saw Miss Emma Ashley sitting near
her sister at the counsel table He saw
her rise and take seat on the bench ont
side the railing, and afterward move AGAIN
to chair near the railing and within a
lev lOCb VI OdAQNlu. one sat there S0me
lew minutes and then rose to her feet
drew revolver, and fred it toward Bald,
win. She had great difficulty in firing the
revolver and had to apply both her hands
to il.
ii. A. Unruh, Baldwin's business mama
ger, told the story over again of how he was
attracted to the young lady by the firing
Of the pistol and how he sprang un and
wrested the gun from her hands. LAWN Q
taken the revolver he allowed her to 90
and did not notice her again until she
room.
James R. McElroy, clerk in Judee
Stacks court. corroborated Judge Slack.
Charles a Lee, reporter of the Report.
interviewed the defendant in jail immedi,
ately after her being booked there and
found her apparently quite calm. She
said to him that it was Gods will that she
had not succeeded in her attempt.
Other witnesses gave zorro boratiye tes-
hmony identical with that given in the
Police Court. Mr.. Highton is the only re-