The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16

the boy, because I had tattled on my
sister. I had told him that Lillian had
taken the SIS which was rent money and
which was to be used to pay her fare
choke me If I ever tattled on her again.
Then we all hunted for the money. We
searched in the kitchen, the dining room,
the chiffonier, the clothes closet and the
bathroom; and also in Lillian's trunk,
which was in the dining room. We tooR
all the things out Of the trunk and did
not find the money. Then We put the
things back again and papa drew the
trunk downstairs TO Lillian,s room.
When we were hunting in the bathroom
the door kept swinging and it kept bump
ing against father.
This story the boy told in a stralgnt-
forward manner on direct eXamination
District Attorney Allen then took wit
ness in hand and rigidly cross-examined
him. The child denied that he heard ms
sister say on that Tuesday night, "Oh,
Al, please don't; or that his father had
said he would choke her to death.
Lillian pleaded with papa not 70 send
her back to the ranch, because she SAID
her aunt always beat her and made her
could not remember where she put the
money, papa said: she must pc a WllGn
TO hide a thing and not know where she
put it.. I told papa about half an ,fI hour
after we had been hunting that Lillian
told me she had hid the money.
mo. we did not search LiIlian's room,
it might be in there. We took the nd
off and stirred up the ashes, but didn't didn
md money.
and we had dinner about $50.
Juror Seiben here asked the witness
whether the money had ever been found.
Attorney Sawyer, for the defense, VlgoII55 g,3I5
oIsIv objected but before ruling could
be had Milton replied that the S!S mac
been found a day or two peI2re LiIdIat u .
search was in progress Mrs. Godfrey was
in the parlor with his mother ana tnat
at intervals they played the Plano; no;,+ he he
case. only his father had told him to tell
the truth. He steadfastly denied eyer
having had any conyersation with n De- ote-
Deputv Sheriff White, in which ne sald
he "did not know anything OF the trou-
"+Sf Mrs Brandes was not put on the stand
to-day She had been in the court
room in readiness, but was excluded dur
ing the examination OF her son, Milton
which occupied the entire AFTERNOON.
When the trial was resumed this morn
Ing the defense first recalled DIR. A. H.
iP5I9 Pratt. by whom they wished to prove that
the absence of a lgature mark on the
neck in the region of the Adams apple
Is consistent with ante-mortem hanging.
DIR. Crowley had declined to answer this,
put after a considerable wrangie, Or.
Pratt said such fact was found in cases
of ante-mortem hanging, though he
could not explain the reason.
A H. Braunlich also testified this morn
ing. He had known Brandes for eighteen
years. Though in his judgment the ac-
: cused was rough in manner and speech
he always considered him 'big-hearted
On one occasion. said witness; Mrs.
Brandes and Lillian had been searching in
the latters trunk and when the mother
found a bottle she had said: My God
what do you think? Lillian has got bot
tie of poison"
On cross-examination Braunlich said he
first knew Brandes while working in the
baldwin Hotel. On one occasion he visit
ed him at his home on Golden Gate ave-
nue. San Francisco, when Brandes intro
duced him to Mrs Brandes.
Objections to questions as to when
Rrandes married this woman and as to
what name Brandes went by at that time
were sustained. Witness was also asked
whether Brandes had not once been a
witness in his behalf in q divorce suit and
whether he (Braunlich) was not the
former husband of Mrs. May Godfrey, but
Attorney Sawyer's objections to these
questions were sustained.
The trial will be resumed to-Elorrow
morning and again it is given out that
Mrs. Brandes will then testify.