The age-herald., 1900-05-12
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS Will Probably Go Over Into Next
 Week. MAY COMPLETE EVIDENCE TODAY Only Few More Witnesses to Examine Effort Made to Show That the Missing" Man Did the.
 Shooting
MAY COMPLETE EVIDENCE TODAY

The state has rested in the case of John Manning, alias Frank Miller, and Frank Duncan, on trial in the criminal court charged with the murder of Police Officers J. H Adams and G. w. Kirkley.
 The states case was closed with the ex- animation of two witnesses yesterday Frank Brown, who had charge of the rooms in Twentieth street rented by Miller and his associates the day of the night on which the killing occurred, and Mack Rit- tenberry, night warden at the city jail, where the wounded officers were taken inn mediately after the shooting.
 In the afternoon witnesses for the de- fense went on the stand, by whom 1t was sought to prove that Miller and four or five other men had been together a night or two before the tragedy and on one or two other occasions and that man not now in custody wore the light oVercoat said to have been worn by the man Who shot the officers. The defense, also, sought to break down the testimony of some or the witnesses for the prosecution who identified Miller and Duncan at the county jail.
 MT Montgomery stated to an Age-Heralo reported after court adjourned yesteIoay afternoon that the defense only had four or five more witnesses to evamlne' anu that he expected to get through soihe time today. ,.,,,,onts
 There were no new oeVeiopie'' brought out during the day.
 Court was called to order at 9:5o CHUCK yesterday morning, and Judge Greene ar nounced that after looking into the aues- tion he was going to confine the tesliiiionS to the subject matter and that Epsteii 5 conversation relating only to the pistol found in Chattanooga, and the conversation in which he told where 1t could be found would be allowed. Other conversations had with Epstein about other matters WHICH had been repeated by witness Dlsheroon III court would be excluded. Epstein is the man known as "Sheeney Bugs" mentioned by Detective Disheroon Thursday
 The First Witness
 Frank Brown, colored, was the first wit ness called. He said: T remember the day the police officers were shot. l LOOK aIter |. lodging rooms in Twentieth street. l nave seen the defendants. The first time l ever saw them was on Tuesday morning about March 27 or 2S The police officers were shot that night. They came up to the rooms. One young fellow in the crowd had been sleeping there about week. There were five in the crowd They said they wanted rooms, and asked what l would charge for room with two beds In it. They went away before renting the room and one of them came back Tn about five minutes and said they would take it. The defendants came back after the room was rented. I saw the defendants come out of the room about o'clock and they spoke to me. They were together. I then went to get my supper and came back r saI~ aI- @f room then and stood on the stairs before going away. The rooms are in Twentieth streetvbetween First and Second avenues"
 MT. Montgomery moved to exclude all evidence with reference to renting the rooms and what occurred around the rooms. The motion was overruled and an exception reserved. The objection to the statement that witness was going to supper was sustained
 Witness-"I was standing in the street in front of Gelder's restaurant when the shots were fired, and saw the flashes It seemed to me that there were eight or ten shots The rooms were rented for week, but I never saw the defendants again. I was up till about o'clock. Captain Weir and I went in the room about o'clock, and a. young manawas in it: The defend ants were not there"
 Cross-"It was between and 10 o'clock when they came to rent the room. I said there were five men in the party, but I didn't say Duncan was one of them I think he was. My best recollection is that he was there that morning. He had on some dark clothes and black hat. All of them talked. don't know any of their names. One of them was called John nie."" One man came back in about five minutes and gave me the money, and said the gentlemen would take the room.
 "Johnnie' Was in Bed
 "One of the men found in bed at o'clock that morning had been there some time. The men with him were smooth faced and short and stumpy. They called him Johnnie" He is now in jail 1 saw them come upstairs two three times. They never all came together, but they came up one and two at time, and would go in the room and lock the door, saw Duncan. They were all coming and going all day. saw them come downstairs about dark. They stood on the sidewalk awhile and then went away went in the room with man who took some beer in. The young man was in there then, but there were no others. The man took several bot ties of beer in the room. didn't see any body go up the stairs just before the shooting, and never heard any one say, come up. and get us drink The young man gave me the beer the next morning.
 T didn't see two men pass my place soon after the shooting and didn't hear any one say, Hello, old man, what's the matter up there?' One of the men in the room had sandy hair. never drank with them. They didn't ask me. If they had asked me would have drunk with them. think the man they called Johnnie" had