The herald., 1896-06-03
Result of Mings Brothers Sec.
Ond Examination
NEW TESTIMONY INTRODUCED
A Significant Remark of One OF the BOYS
Overheard
CID John Nolan Convicted OF Simple Assault.
A Suit 0rowiny Out Of the Ou.faii
Sewer-0eneraI Coz urt News

The second examination of the Mings
brothers, on the charge of numbering
John Hayes, the Puente postmaster, In
April last, was concluded before Town
ship Justice Young yesterday afternoon,
and they were again held to answer to
the charge without bail.
The attorneys for the defense con-
cluded the examination of old Bill
Bryant yesterday morning, and before
they got through succeeded in mixing
up the old man pretty well in his testi-
mony. The next witness was billy"
Rowland and his examination was very
short. He merely testified to seeing one
of the brothers wearing two hats on the
same day. Nelson D. Williams, a young
man who works in a grocery store at
Azusa, was the closing witness for the
state, and gave the only new testimony
so far developed in the examination.
Williams testified that on the day after
the murder he drove over to Puente
from Azusa with an undertaken named
Jenner. When he arrived at Puente he
saw group of men talking together, and
as they divided and two of the men
walked off, he heard one man, whom he
recognized as George Mings, say to an
other man whom he did not know, that
they're on to everything; it is all up
yith us now" The two men who walked
off he afterwards learned were officers.
Young Williams said that he did not at
tach much Importance to the remark at
the time, and did not repeat the remark
for sometime afterwards. in fact until
the Mings brothers were arrested. This
testimony was the most important of
any introduced, with the exception of
that of Johnny Dietzel and old "Bill'
Bryant and the attorneys for the de-
fense questioned the witness very
George Mlngs, the man he positively
identified as the one who made the re-
mark. The witness. however. went
through the ordeal very creditably.
At the conclusion of Williams testi-
mony, Mr.. Rush, of counsel for the de-
Tense, moved that the charge be dis
missed and the defendants discharged
He ridiculed the testimony offered by
the prosecution, and said that the peo-
pie had utterly failed to connect the de-
PENDANTS with the crime. He insisted
that there were discrepancies between
the testimony of Johnny DietZel and Bill
Bryant. which utterly discredited both,
and it was not right to hold the men on
the very slim showing that had been
made
Justice Young thought differently, and
was proceeding to give his reasons for
denying the motion. when he was inter-
rupted by Mr.. Davis, who remarked
that all they wanted was a ruling and
Justice Young promptly denied the mo-
ton
After some delay the defense called
Sheriff Burr, who appeared, bringing
with him the pistols about which so
much was said earlier in the examina-
tion and the bullet taken from the body
OF the murdered man, and also the one
taken from the window casing in the
store The pistols and the bullets after
being identified, We're then marked and
introduced in evidence. The two bullets
were apparently of 38-calibre. One of
the pistols is a 3S-calibre revolver found
in the house of George Mings, and the
other is larger weapon found near the
railroad track a short distance from
Mtngs' residence. These weapons are
expected to cut quite a prominent part
in the trial
After some further talk, and the in =
PRODUCTION by stipulation of. the testi-
mony of several witnesses taken at.the
coroner's inquest and the previous ex-
animation, the matter was submitted.
and the Mings brothers were held as
above stated.