The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-11-28
ABE LoGAN'S TRIAL.

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Strong Evidence for Him-Tried t
Save U. S. Grant.
The trial of Abe Logan. one o
the indians accused of killing In
dian Or; n. .on the Siletz few
weeks ago, was taken in the U. S
court in Portland Tuesday. Ths
prosecution called many of ths
same witnesses who testified fol
or against Martin, who was con
victed of manslaughter as his part
in the killing, Martins de-
Tense tended to place the entire
blame upon Logan and the same
testimony came in handy for the
prosecution of Logan.
In the trial of Logan strong evl
dence in favor of the innocence O
the accused Indian was brought
out. Testimony was introduced to
the effect that a consultation be
tween Mrs. Albert Martin, wife Of
the convicted Indian, and her two
sons, in which she is alleged to
have told them that they would
have to fasten the crime on Logan
to save Martin from paying the
penalty. Other witnesses testified
that they heard the quarrel be-
tween the drunken Indians at the
river and heard Logan pleading
with Martin { not to kill Grant.
This is the strongest testimony
that has been brought out on the
witness stand. Logan said in part:
s'Grant brought the bottles of
whiskey from Toledo. We didn't
want any one to get more than an
other, 50 we marked off on the
thcttle with oi,r thumbs the place to
where we should empty it at each
drink, Grant passed his bottle
around, then I passed mine and
Martin passed his. Then we talk
ed some and took another drink
all round. We talked some more
and drank another round. Grant
began to feel kind of good and to
rock back and forth on his horse.
Then Martin said to him. 'You ac-f
cnsed me of intimacy with your
wife, and we better have it out right
now saw that trouble was brew
ing and tried to preventit. Martin
kept after Grant to settle the mat
ter and he tried to get off his horse.
The animal got frightened and
threw him, I picked him up and
Martin began to fight.
/ tried to stop them and told Mar
tin not to hurt Grant. but they
wouldn't listen to me. I saw there
was going to be trouble and hid my
bottle in the bushes, because
I didn' want to get arrested. Grant
and Martin were beating each
other. and was too. full to stopI
them, i so I started toward
The agency to get help. couldn't
find the place to crawl
through the wire fence for long
lime, and when I did / fell in the
mud. Then I had another fence TO
climb, and / was so full I could
hardly get over it, Then was in
The road and after while I got :tol
Martins. place. told George New
berry, Martins ,step-son that his
sather was beating Grant. Some
If the boys and myself went back
20 the scene of the trouble. When
We got back one of the boys found
Martin lying on thebank dead drunk
Grant was gone. 7 didn't know
what had become Of Grant, and i
vent back to Martins house with
,he boys. ] was pretty full and I
vent to sleep there. I didn't know
where Grant was until he was found
u the river"
suhstantiation of Logan's story
hat he had tried to separate Grant
md Martin, Tom Mcdonald and
lis wife, two Indians who had
,een down the river and were re-
urning on the opposite side at the
ime the alleged fight was in pro-
.ress, testified that they heard
logan begging Martin not to hurt
Grant.
Then Joe Cook, a patriarch of
.he tribe, took the stand and swore
hat on the day of the inquest over
Grants body, he had heard Mrs.
Martin tell her two boys that theyI
would. inaveqto testify so asto throw
he crime on Logan, to save Martin
The case was argued Wednesday
mt it wassnot given to the jury un
il Friday morning and the result
f their deliberations was not known
vhen the Times went to press