The San Francisco call., 1899-07-12
CLARK CHANGES
HIS TESTIMONY
Cannot Positively Iden-
tify Corcoran.
TELLS ABOUT WARDNER RIOT
MURDER TRIAL.
It Is the Attempt of One of the
Owners of the Standard Mine
to Compel the Witness to
Stick to His First Story.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

WALLACE, Idaho, July lin the
trial of Paul Corcoran for the killing of
James Cheyne the prosecution this
morning called John Clark as a wit
ness. Clark testified that he had been
recording secretary of the Burke union,
but had not attended the two meetings
prior to the day of the riot. On that
day he was at Mace, where the Stan
dard mine is located, and when the
train bearing the men from Burke
came along he boarded it and went to
Wardner. He went up into the town of
Wardner and did not witness the law
less acts perpetrated on that day, but
returned to Burke on the train which
bore the returning rioters.
Witness said that when the train was
nearing Wallace on the return trip he
believed he saw the defendant sitting
on tor of d bOXcar. AT the time the
witness testified before the Coroner S
Jury he swore positively to the identity
of the defendant, but since that time he
had come to believe that he might be
mistaken, and could not now identify
Corcoran as being the man he saw on
the car, although he had been ac-
quainted with the defendant for more
than three years.
cupied with the examination of Clark.
In the afternoon the same witness told
of his whereabouts since the day Of the
riot He had been arrested and con-
fined in a barn then used as a prison
until after he had testified before the
inquest after which he was released,
but was rearrested three weeks ago
and was now held in custody by order
of the representatives of the Govern
ment.
Somewhat of a sensation was Gre
ated by the witness stating that he had
been taken into private room lmme-
diately after being brought to Wallace
from the bull pen yesterday and there
interrogated by Mace Campbell of the
firm of Finch 6, Campbell, owners Of
the Standard mine, who told him that
he had better stick to the story he told
before the Coroner's inquest and posi-
lively identify the defendant. Clark
said that he had not been approached
by any one in the interest of the de-
fendant, but now he doubted that he
had seen the defendant on the day of
the riot because of the facts which had
come to his knowledge since that time.
Manager Burbidge of the Bunker Hill
Company testified to the troubles be-
tween that company and it's employees,
as did Superintendent Burch, who was
under cross examination when court
adjourned.
That the State authorities have not
ceased prosecuting men Is shown by the
fact that Commissioners Simmons and
Boyle were confined all night In the
Jail, preparatory to being removed to
the bull pen, from which they were
saved for the present by a subpoena
from the defense. Simmons had not
been arrested prior to yesterday, and
there is no charge against him.
Governor Steunenberg to-day ap>
pointed ]. E. Clyde of Wardner Scott
Anderson of Wallace and Fynis Cor
don of Delta County Commissioners to
fill the places of the deposed members.
Gordon is a rancher, Anderson a mer>
chant and clyde the local attorney for
the Bunker Hill Company.