The herald., 1897-09-15

did you say, as Stanley Routledge
has stated, that you intended to hand
cuff one man and tie the other with a
rope?"
mo, sir; we had two pairs of hand
cuffs, and had no use for a rope"
Did you show Mr.. Wilson two pairs
Of handcuffs?"
Eyes. sir; and explained that this pair
worked on a double swivel"
THE NEGATIVES CONTINUE
did you make that alleged confession
while in the Ventura Jail to the prisoner
Madison?"
mo, sir; never did,"
did you ever state that you killed
Mccoy Pile?"
mo, sir, did not"
"Or that Mrs Pyle was 'tickled to
death upon hearing that her husband
had been killed."
mo, sir''
"And that she intended to poison her
husband six months before?
mo, SIR
did you say anything at all to any,
one in the Jail as alleged in the state
ment of Madison?"
mo, sir.'
You were taken to the Ventura Jail
on the Monday night and left on the
Wednesday for Los Angeles, did you
not?"
"Yes, SIR"
"And on your arrival at Los Angeles
to Sheriff Burr you denied the killing, as
you had up to that time to all others?'
Yes, SIR"
"Now, Mr.. McCamish, did you, on
April oath, kill or shoot at the deceased,
Mccoy PiIe?''
mo, SIR"
THE DEFENDANT ON THE RACK
That ended the statement of the de-
fendant. Mr.. Williams then took the
witness in hand, and beginning at the
time of the alleged robbery, he went
over not only the facts of the defend
ants own testimony, but these facts in
the light of the testimony as put for
ward by witnesses for the prosecution.
Questions ambiguously framed and cal
culated to betray the witness into con-
tradiction were put by counsel, and
every effort made to induce the defend
ant to explain the assertions of the
prosecution. Counsel was anxious TO
know if witness had bought cholorform
at Fillmore, Ventura, Springville, Los
Angeles or New Jerusalem or Santa Bar
bara during the past twelve months, but
witness replied that he had never bought
any of the drug in his life.
Mr. Williams, in pushing his invest-
cation regarding the choloform, init
mated to the court that the prosecution
took the STAND that the defendant had
cholorformed his room on the night of
the alleged robbery and drugged his
room and the minister's tent on the
Sunday morning. That defendant men,
toned to Virgil Americus at the switch
that the minister's tent had been clllor-
formed by the robbers, knowing what he
intended doing and that the minister
would corroborate him regarding the
drug and thus afford presumptive testi-
mony of the truth of the statement
The court refused to allow the prosecu-
tion to go into this, sustaining the OBJ
lection of the defense that it was not
cross-examination and belonged to the
prosecutions case in chief.
Mr.. Williams examined the defend
ant on almost every point from the night
of the alleged robbery to the time he
was landed in the Los Angeles Jail.
trict Attorney Willis and Guy Wood
ward each successfully went upon the
stand and testified that they had gone
to the Castaic switch in the early morn
ing, about the time the shooting is sup
posed to have been done by the robbers,
and out of six or seven shots fired only
three or four were heard at the corral
Of the Newhall ranch.
That closed the case for the defense.
REBUTTAL TESTIMONY
Rasmullen was put forward in rebut-
tai by the prosecution, as an expert jew
eler, to testify with regard to the ring
put in evidence. The witness stated
that the private mark in the ring had
been destroyed in the process of making
the ring larger. He had made that den-
tical ring larger, or one just like it, Wit
ness couldn't say who had brought the
ring to be altered. The defendant stood
up to let witness have a good look at
him, but witness said he could only say
he thought he had seen him before He
said it was about year and half ago
when the ring he spoke of had been en-
larged.
This testimony went in over repeat
ed objections of the defense. The coNrt
admitted it, however albeit acknowi-
edging that it was not rebuttal, on. the
representatio of the prosecution that
the witness could not have been pro-
duced earlier in the trial.
John Arnott, the Newhall ranch man
ager, testified as to the dimensions of
the Castaic platform.
Dallison Lineberger then went upon
the stand to contradict an assertion of
defendants. The latter never told him
while coming down to Los Angeles that
he had clothing boxed up in his room,
nor had defendant at any other time