The herald., 1897-09-08
EVIDENCE NOW CUMULATIVE
INTERVENTION SUIT IN THE MT.
WILSON ROAD
Che Mary Brady Libel Suit Against
the "Times'' in Court Again.
Federal Jury Drawn

UTcS yesterday. IL was iAiSA~A'
tive, and with few scrappy facts that
were both new and important, dovetailed
into the general testimony.
The prosecution opened the day by
recalling Mr.. Arnott. superintendent of
the Newhall ranch, who stated that when
he reached the Castaic station house on
the morning of the oath of April he found
O. double-barreled shotgun just around
the angle of the house. The gun belonged
10 Stanley Routledge. Witness asked
NcCamish where the cartridges were.
and the latter went and took them from
the dead mans pocket.
Andrew L. Brown. living at the New
hall ranch as a laborer at the time Of
Pyle's killing, testified to seeing the body
of Pyle. and corroborated the testimony
of previous witnesses as to the position,
ETC.. of the body On the seat lay dou-
ble-barreled shotgun, which witness
saw later standing against the wall OF
the house A few minutes after Mecca
mish arrived he sat upon the grass and
pulled out a white handled pistol. He
remarked that he had just shot hog,
and threw out a cartridge from each
chamber and cleaned the weapon. Wit
ness saw only three cartridges
loaded, and could not tell whether
the others were loaded or mere
;y shells. In conversation Nc
Camish said that on the previous Thurs
day some one had drugged and sand
bagged him, and had taken lot Of stuff
from his place. On the Friday night
he said they had gone up to Saugus and
returned to the switch, He then told
the story Of the killing Of Pyle, as testi-
fed to by previous witnesses. The de-
fendant told witness where Pyle had
fallen outside the door, and the latter
looked abuot the spot for blood marks.
He saw a mark there on the Saturday
that he thought was blood, but when
he examined it on Monday again he
found this spot unchanged, despite the
fact that rain had well saturated the
ground in the interval Between the
track and the switch witness saw foot
tracks of two men going in the direc-
tion Of Saugus.
On cross examin ton witness said that
only one arm Of Pyle's was lying across
his breast, the left arm being down by
his side. Witness stated that McCamish
stated that when Pyle was shot he fell
partially inside the door and he dragged
him further inside. Inasmuch as the
soil Is gravelly, there would not neces-
sarily have been any mark made by the
body In being thus dragged that would
have been apparent to the witness, par
ticularly after SO many people had been
around.
Before being retired witness, with Dep
uty Guy Woodward as a model, showed
just how Pyle was lying in the station
house, with his hat under his right
shoulder blade.
Charles Mccall, the cook Of the New
hall ranch testified to having gone over
to the switch with Leidy and others
and described the situation in much the
same way as the other witnesses Af-
ter the inquest the body was taken ITO
the ranch and McCamish also went
there. Witness set about getting dinner
ready. and while doing so the defendant
chatted with witness for nearly an hour
and told again the story Of the robbery
and the killing Defendant remarked
it as curious fact that neither of Pyle's
pistols went off when he tried to shoot
Abiding to the handouts, McCamish
told witness that they were not the old
kind and that the one pair were carried
of by the robber upon whose wrists he
had snapped them, adding that the man
would have to smash them in order to
release himself
On cross-examination witness was
made to traverse his entire testimony
again but more in detail. In some re-
spects the witness either contradicted
or enlarged upon the testimony he gave
at the preliminary examination, and Mr..
Davis was kept busy referring to the
transcript to detect and point out these
discrepancies. He credited the defend
ant with having told him that when the
robber shot Pyle he must have had a
small derringer in his hand, for he did
not lower his hands in such a way as, to
make it possible that he could have
drawn a gun.
M. A. Wilson, the section boss on the
Castaic section, testified that Mechanism
told him that tramps had several
times threatened to kill Pyle. The wit
ness described the hunt made for the
mythical robbers and the impossibility
Of getting an adequate description. He
saw boot tracks up the road where it
appeared as If some people had stopped.
1t was in the morning and Leidy and an
other man were ahead of witness and
might probably have been responsible
for these footprints
On cross-examinati tion witness said he
paid attention to what the defendant
said to him, but he didn't know himself
where he lived and consequently he was
not certain whether he said he had been
robbed at Fillmore or Santa Paula. Wit
ness said he cleaned up the blood about
the Caetaic depot and swept it out.
On redirect witness explained, the big
spot outside the depot which several wit
nesses had mistaken for blood as having
been caused by a fire which he and his
men had made on snowy day last win
ter. He saw no blood stains outside and
cleaned inside Of all the discolorations
He proceeded to tell about Mccoy Pvle's
having borrowed the grain sacks Sub
mftted In evidence) and having taken
them from the Newhall ranch ware
house, which stood about seyentv-five
feet away from the station house.
LIE Compte Davis of counsel for the
defense had, while handling one Of the
pairs OF handouts in evidence taken the
key and opened them. This was NOT
pleasing to Assistant District Httornev
Williams, who called Mr.. Davis to tho
stand and asked him to explain to the
jury just what he had done. for he re-
Garded It - material whether the hand