The herald., 1898-11-18

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hour arrived when -Aguirre was still on th
stand and court was adjourned till 80 p. IN
When court was reconvened j. w. Sum
mertield, the coroner's clerk and stenogra
pher, was called out of order by the prose
cution, counsel for defense consenting, anc
he testified to having been present at tn,
autopsy held on the body of the murdered
Chinaman and to the fact that $3.50 was
| found in the pocket of the overalls on the
dead man. This is one oil the bits of evi
dence relied upon most strongly by the
prosecution to implicate Hunter, the the
ory being that he put the money back into
the Chinaman's pocket after Clark ran
away.
Major Donnell, the district attorney
swore that neither the shot taken from the
dead body nor the clothing of the China
man had been turned over to him after the
inquest.
BLOOD ON LAUNDRY WAGON
Deputy Sheriff Aguirre then took the
stand for further cross-eXamination. He
told about finding the blood under the
house and Clark's explanation that he had
killed a chicken and thrown it under the
house. The blood on the shirt Clark had
said came from the nose-bleed. Witness
had also found blood on spoke of the
Chinaman's wagon and had cut it off with
a knife while Clark was yet with the Off
GERS and just before he ran away at Gar
vanZa.
Aguirre further testified TO going out to
the Hunter house Wednesday night. arriv
ing there shortly after midnight, and swore
that Cleghorn took his team away 20 put
up and that Hunter remained with him
till morning During the night witness had
heard shot and jumped up as Cleghorn
came in saying that he had just seen Clark
and shot at him, but it would he useless
to follow, for Clark was on bicycle and
there was no team with which to run him
down.
Before starting to Garvanza Clark had
told the witness that the Chinaman had
So5 or $50 in sack which he took from
drawer under the seat of the laundry
wagon. The improbability of the China
man having flashed" so much money when
collecting 50 on account had convinced him
that Clark knew more than he told.
ALIBI FOR HUNTER
Aguirre, in response to questions by jus
tice Young, said he took Hunter in the
wagon at or o'clock Wednesday evening,
brought him with Clement to the city, got
a fresh team, took Hunter back to the Hun
ter house and was with him constantly from
6 or o'clock Wednesday night until the
next morning. This was direct alibi for
Hunter at the time that Clark swore he
met him at the forks of the road Wednes-
day night in company with Cleghorn and
asked Hunter for money with which to 60
to San Francisco.
Deputy District Attorney McComas was
called and testified regarding the facts elic
tied at Clark's trial, and he said none of the
clothing was admitted in evil
dence He had not regarded Brighton's ev-
dence as of much consequence and had not
put him on the stand to testify except in
regard to few unimportant matters.
Brighton was then recalled for further
by Mr.. Jones. He testi
led that he went with F. B. Clark, Harry
Tlarl's father, to the Hunter house a few
days ago to get a board said to have been
shot at He was in the employ of Mr..
Clark He had also been out to see a Mrs.
Iolman, in company with Mr.. Clark, having
heard that she knew that Joe Hunter went
nome before dark the day the Chinaman
was murdered. She had told him that she
did not know when Joe came out, but that
Joe once came to her house and knocked
her down for something she had said.
Another incident was drawn out, that of
conversation with Sheriff Burr in which
he sheriff had asked Brighton why he
wanted to dabble in the case, that the right
nan had been convicted and he ought not
o try to implicate Hunter. Witness had
eplied that he knew nothing about it, but
lad a chance to make few dollars and was
,oing with Clark Hunter had been arrested
nd brought to Jail shortly after the trip
With Clark after the board.
SHE DIDN'T SAY so
Mrs Colman had not said CLARK is no
rood Joe Hunter is no good. Clark tapped |
ny till, and | haven't any use for him.
lark had also offered the witness 81 to
,ring Aurelian LIE Page in from Downey,
nd he had done so. Brighton said he had |
oeen acting as turnkey at the jail but he
lenied having tried to get "trdsties' to
ecure an admission from Joe Hunter that |
lie killed the Chinaman.
The first day of the Clark trial Joe Hun |
er had met witness and spoken about I
]leghorn, and Frank Dow had told him |
bout Cleghorn's baggage. Some hint was
brown out that Hunter mas afraid Cleg- |
lorn would turn against him if a witness |
n the case and wanted Brighton to hire
lin to leave town. This matter will prob |
'bly be probed deeper.
All these admissions were wrung from |
Brighton with much difficulty, as was also |
he fact that he had been repeatedly to |
'hinn's office to collect money due on ac-
cunt from Clark and that he had met Har-
'ey Branscombe and an Arizona man there. |
By this line of questioning Mr.. Jones sought |
o show that Brighton had sold out to |
lark, and thus to weaken his testimony.
j. w. Penland told of loaning four shells |
o Clark, seeing the Chinaman's wagon IN
he front yard of Hunters premises, hear
ng two shots at about ? p. IN. and one or
wo again at or 6 p m, all in the direction
# Hunters house. His testimony was sub.
the same as given at Clark's
rial
Al Barrel the saloon keeper, testified to
aving seen Hunter at about 10 a. m. on
hat memorable Tuesday, and again at G: 80
II p. m. Of the same day. He had seen
he cuffs with blood on them and had told |
Wong Fong they were Joe Hunters, but |
,eing in doubt about it had asked Cleg-
lorn and he had said they were his. Cleg-
lorn had explained the blood on one of |
hem by saying he had scratch on his |
wrist, and witness saw the scratch. This |
ettled the controversy over the cuffs, it |
,eing apparent that they did not belong to |
Zoe Hunter or to Clark, and that the blood |
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