The herald., 1897-09-04
tually discovered in his room after Nc

| Coy Pyle had been killed.
In the first instance, Lineberger, who
on Thursday had testified that he had
received the Information regarding the
robbery from McCamish himself, and
also list of the goods stolen, conceded
upon being pressed by Mr.. Davis, that
all of his information came from Pyle.
Only once did McCamish mention any
of the alleged stolen property to the
witness, and that was at the stock corral
! on the Monday after Pyle's funeral, and
| on the day of his arrest, when he re-
marked how sorry he was they had got
ten away with the good knife Grimes
gave him.
The witness repeated that the first he
knew of the matter was when Pyle
wakened him up in the early morning
and told him that Ed (McCamish) had
been drugged and robbed; and that he
had been beaten about the head and was
bloody; and that he had detected the
odor of chloroform in his room. In pro-
ceeding to detail the several steps taken
10 unravel the mystery of the alleged
robbery and assault, witness spoke of
w. Elkirs. Pyle and the defendants go
ing to examine McCamish's cabin as he
Davis probed the witness on the point,
and it developed that witness didl't
know whether Elkins had gone or not.
AS he said: 81 may have seen Elkins so
in or might not. but anyway he told me
he had gone in." Being merely hearsay
the assertion of Elkins' presence was ex-
plunged from the record, and the gentle
man allowed to speak for himself.
About this time the witness mind was
ilumined by flash of memory, and he
/ stated that he did remember being pres
ent when McCamsh specifically men
/ toned various articles alleged to have
been stolen to Sheriff Charlebois of Ven-
! tura county.
In relating again the conversation he
had with the defendant regarding Pyle's
murder at Castaic switch, at the scene
of the crime, the witness said that the
defendant represented the robbers as
passing the station about six feet in
front of the door of the house in which
Pyle and McCamish were concealed. This
assertion cortradicted his statement of
the day previous and also that made at
the preliminary examination, that they
passed about ten feet in front, that be-
| ing the distance of the switch lire from
the door of the house. When the men
were held up, the defendan. stated, ac-
cording to witness, that Pyle stood about
four feet from his man., and when he
was shot and fell to the ground he fell
close to the edge of the door AS Nc
Camish snapped the second handcuff on
his man he heard the shot, and. turning
saw Pyle in the act Of falling. The rob-
ber then fired two shots at McCanSh,
and the latter grabbed pistol and re-
turned the fire." and fired again as the
robbers ran down the track. He fired
four shots, one of which provoked the
outcry from one man that he had been
hit
These statements, related by Lineber-
ger as having been made by McCamish
at Castaic station, were made in the
presence of Deputy Sheriff Snodgrass.
Witness confessed that he hadn't taken
much stock in the story for the reason
that Pyle was a quick man with a gun,
and he couldn't believe he had been shot
in the manner described. In answer to
a specific question whether he did not
know that Pyle had once before been
shot at in a precisely similar manner,
when out after cattle thieves with Dep
uty Pardee, the witness said he never
knew of such an incident.
Lineberger went on to tell how Sheriff
Charlebois sent McCamish off on a job
so that opportunity might be afforded
for an examination of his room. Then
the sheriff and witness went up and
first opened defendants trunk. 1t was
unlocked and the first things seen were
four knives. Later witness corrected
this, however. and said there were only
three knives, the fourth being upon the
defendant when he was arrested. Wit
ness proceeded and again went over all
the details of the several searches made
for the several articles, and then another
line of examination was followed.
AN URGENT BROTHER
You had talk with your sister, had
you not?" inquired Mr.. Davis.
'I saw her before took the train for
Castaic," answered the witness.
'You stated to her before the arrest
of defendant on the day of the funeral
that you knew who killed Mccoy Pyle.
did you not?"
mot in that way; said I suspicioned
the man.
You have taken a great interest in
this case and done everything you could
to aid the prosecution, haven't you?"
Eyes; everything that was true and
straight. I told them 1 thought the de-
fendant had done the killing"
did you tell Mrs. Pyle that this man
had been in love with her, and that he
had dates with her, and when she said
No didn't you say that this man had
killed her hus'band?"
Il said I thought So"
''And when she denied his having made
a proposition to her, didn't she, after
thinking over it, say that he did think
a good deal of her?"
II wanted to find out if there was any
thing between them. and for that reason
[ insisted. I wanted to get to the bottom
of the natter
''And for that reason you told her you
knew the man that had killed her hus-
| band?"
| 81 told her I suspected it,
"And this was the evening of the day
of the funeral?"
Eyes, think it was about noon"
| Turning to the witness testimony at
the preliminary examina ton counsel
read his then evidence, wherein he stated
that he spoke to her the Sunday after the
funeral, and he told that he knew the
man that killed Mac; and she, after
! hir1l, ,i,1cr co;J hot