The age-herald., 1902-03-19
F|FE TEST|F|ES
 FOR HIMSELF
Says He Was Asleep When the
 Murder Was Committed
NEW SENSATION SPRUNG
Defense Offers to Prove That Another Man Was Seen Coming From the Richardson Home and Had
 Said He Shot Him.

Savannah, Mo, March 1S.-When the trial of Stewart Fife, on the charge of having murdered William Richardson, was resumed today, two of his sisters sat beside him and the prisoner held his little brother on his lap. The defense today produced a witness who testified that Fife was at the Richardson house the night after the shooting. It had been the theory of the state that Fife was the only employe of Fife, Richardson & Company who did not go to the residence after the murder. Nearly all the fore noon was devoted to evidence relating to the revolver found in a sewer recently belonged to Fife and was the weapon with which Richardson was shot.
 Just before noon the defense sprung sensation by bringing the name of George Crowlay, a prominent young man and former associate of Fife and Richardson into the case. w. K. Cross, who lived a short distance from Richardsons house, was on the stand. The night of the tragedy he said he was standing on the public square and saw a man pass him going from the direction of the Richard son house. An objection was offered by the state and the jury was sent out.
 Another Man Accused.
 Attorney Boyd, for the defense, offered to prove by the witness that he had seen George Crowley on the night of the trag- edy between the time Richardson was killed and the time alarm was given, at the corner of the square walking at fast gait with his hat pulled down and his collar turned up panting as If he had been running; that Cross spoke to him and that Crowley paid no attenion.
 Then" said Prosecutor Booher i've withdraw all objections"
 Judge Burnes, however. was averse to admitting such evidence, and decided af- ter long wrangle that the State would finally object. The defense also offered to present five witnesses to corroborate Cross testimony. By Jerry Howard and others the defense also offered to prove that Crowley had said that he killed Richardson, but one of Flies lawyers ex- plained that the statement was not made seriously by Crowley.
 Fife Testifies.
 J. Stewart Fife took the stand in his own behalf at the night session of court. Fife was asked if he went to Lake Con- trary with Mrs. Richardson. He said he went with his sister. He denied being with Mrs. Richardson In the old Catholic churchyard, and explained his being with her on the old church steps one night as she explained 1t in her testimony.
 Fife denied that he had talked with Ed Norris. the St. Joseph saloonkeeper, or that he had shown Norris revolver. He was asked about his movements on the night of the Richardson murder, and said:
 'I don't remember. was at Kings cor ner, in Mack's saloon, at the pool hall and at the Owl Club.'
 Were you any nearer the Richardson house than Kings corner that night be- fore the death of Richardson?"
 No, I was not"
 Were you asleep in the Owl Club?"
 Yes; don't know how long I slept'
 Were you ever, in the year 19O0 except at the times you have mentioned, at the stone steps with Mrs. Richardson at night 9"
 "No, sir'
 Fife testified that he could not remem- Der anything of his movements around the public square the night of the murder except that he was at Kings at o'clock and went to the Owl Club about 3 o'clock. Tt may have been a quarter of or a quarter after S." he said.
 Fife said he was so drunk he could not remember or what he drank.