Arizona daily citizen., 1901-10-30
EVIDENCE
TN THE
STASSFORTH
TRIAL.
Free and Easy Man
ners Aired in Court
The EdmundsA
is on Trial.

The Stassforth case did not prove a
disappointment go far az the matter OF
sensational evidence was concerned.
After the court took short recess yes
terday afternoon, the prosecution call
ed to the witness stand Mrs. H. A.
Smith of Nogaies. She testified taat
from January to June Of this year she
lived at the Belle View Hotel and In
a room adjoining No. 4 that occupied
by Stassforth and Mrs. Irwin when
they visited Nogales. She had seen
the couple passing I'm and out OF ( q
room hut had never noticed any cx-
hibition of affection between them or
any unseemiy conduct on their part
except that OF q man and woman reg
isterng under different names and oe-
cupying the same room Mt a hotel.
She never knew OF them occupying a
room with O single bed In It,
Mr.. H. A. Smith was called and cor
roborated his wife's testimony. He
testified that the beds In room No.
were In diagonaIly opposite corners
He had never noticed any signs OF In
tImacy between Stassforth and Mrs.
Irwin.
0. X, Franklin of Washington Camp
testified that he had stayed at .ae
Belle View hotel at Nogalea. In the
spring of this year, that he knew
stassforth was interested In the Nina
Mexicana mine and that he had seen
him purchasing supplies In Nogaies
He had gone In room No. 4. one morn
Ing after II had been occupied by Staas-
for,n and Mrs. Irwin, TO see the boy
who was cleaning up. At that time
both beds gave evidence of having
been occupied.
4 L. Burbank, of Los Angeles. was
the next witness and he sprung sur
prise He is a member OF the real es-
tate firm of Durbank and Baker In
Los Angeles and he testified that In
the month of October 1892 atassforth
had desk In their office. One even
ing he hurriediy entered the Office and
found Mrs. Irwin on Stassforth's lap.
lie excused himself saying that he had
Just come for paper. and left i'm
mediately IL was brought out on
,ross- examination that Burbank and
Juan Edison. Mrs. Stassforth' detec-
tive some ,tme ago brought suit
against Mrs. Irwin and her partner j..
Morgan To collect commission ON a
real estate sale and that recovery had
never been had In this case.
bernardo Saiazar of Naeo testified
that he kept road house at Santa
Cruz, Sonora, on the road from No
rlIes 10 Nina Mexicana. He knew de-
fendant and Mrs. Irwin as they had
often stopped there Together Salazar
stated that he entertained his guests
In large room containing eight beds
but often times this was occupied 80
he gave up his own room To Mrs ir-
win, Stassforth, he stated. asked for
another room, but as he did not have
1t defendant stayed In the same room
AS Mrs Irwin. There was only one bed
In this room. Ii was brought out on
cross examination that Juan Ed
soh had secured him to testify In this
case. He had talked with him every
day until yesterday
Salazar was the last witness for the
prosecution and after his cross-exami-
nation, the case was submitted for the
government The defense asked that
Mrs Wolfe and Antonio Ayaia remain
az Witnesses and the other were excus-
ed Mr. Burbank left for Los Angeles
last night
The first witness called was Antonio
Ayala, the servant at the Belle View
hotei IN Nogales, AS the prosecution
objected to nearly all OF the questions
asked. Mr.. Haas, attorney for the de-
Iendant, made a statement OF what he
proposed to show. He said that he
wished to bring out by testimony that
inns case was brough by Mrs. Stass-
forth for the effect 1t would have on a
a'Foree case against her husband
which Is now pending on Los Angeles
II" proposed to show that Juan Ed
"h motive was revenge against the
IRWIN woman and that tne whole af-
.alr was conspiracy to secure de-
l'hdant's property.