The herald., 1898-11-16

on his clothes at the time of his arrest, and
professed ignorance of how the hole in
Mr.. Ringalt's building happened to be cut
on the very day of his appearance there,
or how the tracks from the vault happened
to lead out from the space beneath the
floor where the hole had been cut. He ad
mitted, however, that he took to the brush
directly after leaving the water closet, and
how he slept out in the hills one night before
falling in with Begue, one of Hunters
deputy constables, who arrested him near
Monte Vista.
A complete denial was made by the wit
ness of ever having made statement to
Sheriff Burr as to his wanderings or move
ments at the time of the murder. He did
not know why he did not tell the truth; he
ought to have done so, but he had not re-
veaed the actual facts until some time last
week, when he enlightened his father and
his attorneys, finally going with them in
the company of Sheriff Burr to District
Attorney Donnelps Office, where he made
affidavit, charging the crime to Hunter.
Mr.. Jones pinned the witness down to
half dozen statements made on oath at
Clark trial, wherein the latter yesterday
testified that he had previously perjured
himself, and finally Jones said:
"You have lied, sworn to it, and now
come up here to tell the truth. For what
good do you look? Don't you know that
you would have to go to the pententiary
for perjury now anyway, even if you were
to get off on the murder charge?
Clark don't know whether it will ben
eft me or not, but am innocent.
! Under Sheriff Clement testified to going
with other officers to the Hunter prem
ises, but did not vary in the drift of his
evidence from the testimony at Clark 8
trial to any appreciable extent.
NEW EVIDENCE.
Letitia Alice, the paramour of Harry
Clark, testified substantially as at his trial,
but gave some new evidence to the effect
that Joe Hunter came to her home on
jackson street in this city on the evening
after Harry ran away and told her of the
circumstances. She said Joe said that
Clark had killed a Chinaman, but declined
to tell her about it then, saying he would
later. Hunter was very dusty and said
he had been looking for Harry. He came
into the house and the other officers re-
manned seated in the buggy outside.
Miss Alice also told about the Chinaman
having called with bundle of clothes for
Joe Hunter on the preceding Tuesday,
while she was still there. She had told him
he could leave them, but she had no money
for him. The Chinaman had complained
that it was singular that a constable, earn
ing money in his business, could not pay
for his washing.
On cross-examination, the girl said she
had occupied the same room with young
| Clark for some time at Joe Hunters, hav-
ing previously become acquainted with him
in the city. She denied previous illicit re-
lations with Clark, and was much agtated
while confessing the lengths to which in
their imprudence she had been led. She
faced the music bravely, however, and told
| the whole story, bitter as it was.
| She denied that she asked Joe when he
told her about Harry's flight "for Gods
| sake" not to say anything about it in the
house. On the conclusion of her testimony
court was adjourned at 4:2O p. M, the
cause going over till tomorrow at $3.50
a. m, the court and attorneys being unable
to take it up today.
Letitia gave the young man who wouldn't
marry her, but who wanted her to come
back if he could get 500, fresh evidence of
affection as the crowd was filing out of the
courtroom. The kiss brought smile OF
satisfaction to the cheek of Clark, who can
at least comfort himself with the thought
that his girl is truer to him than he had
been to her.