The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-12-14
WILLARD BOYD MURDER TRIAL
NOW ON IN SUPERIOR COURT
jury Secured Tuesday Afternoon, and
Case Began - Large Number of
Witnesses Have Been Subpoenaed.

charge OF murder was commenced IN
the Superior court Monday Afternoon
when the work of getting jury be-
crowd of people. mostly young men,
who mad waited patiently for days. never
missing session of court, in the hope
of hearing some salacious testimony.
The court room was packed from the
railing to the doors, and it was neces-
sary to stretch ropes and employ extra
bailiffs to keep the crowd back out of
the aisles. Signs were posted in prom
inent places stating that no minors
would be allowed in the court room
during the trial, and both the court and
the bailiffs are ready to instantly sup
press any unnecessary noise on the part
of the spectators.
AS was expected, some difficulty was
experienced in getting a jury. After
the regular venire had been exhausted
the twelfth man. The jury finally Sc
lected and now trying the case is COM
posed of Alvin Bair, L. G. Cody, F. c.
Gorton, c. c. Hunt, j. A. Leach, Stephen
Schreiner, r. G. Redfeld, Joseph Rich
ards, Nelson Smith, A. B. Pearson, G. A.
Graham and John Otter. Seventy wit
nesses have been subpoenaed for the two
sides, and among them are included
nearly all the physicians in the city.
The trial began at 2 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. H. J. Snively is the attorney
for the defendant, while Prosecuting
Attorney Parker, assisted by Vestal
Snyder, is conducting the trial for the
state. In all probability the case will
not 60 to the jury until late in the day
Thursday, although it will be tried with
as little delay as possible.
Blanche McCallum, the prosecuting
witness. was put on the stand Tuesday
afternoon. She alleges in the complaint
that Willard Boyd caused her downfall !;
that he is the father of her illicit child
and that on May 25th, 1908, he put it
to death by smothering it, and later
threw the body into the Schanno ditch.
Nothing was brought out at Tuesdays
proceedings additional to that which
is of record in the justices court. and a
synopsis of which was published in The
Herald at the time the preliminary was
held
Mrs. Elizabeth McCallum. mother Of
the prosecuting witness, Peter Mccall
lum. her father, and a number of wit
nesses were put on the stand at the
night session Tuesday by the prosecu-
ton. Their testimony brought out no
facts that were not stated at the pre-
liminary. but in every particular it co.,
roborated the testimony of the prose-
cutting witness. Mr. Snively was una
BILE to shake the testimony of any Of
them in the course of the most rigid
cross examinations that even he has
ever been heard to conduct. Yong Tom,
the Chinese who was proprietor of the
kangaroo" lodging house at the time
the child is alleged to have been born,
gave his testimony in a simple, straight
forward manner, and did not contradict
himself on examination.
w. D. Mulkey testified that on one
occasion Blanche McCallum stayed over
night at his house. the guest of his
daughter. At the time they were eat
ing supper Willard Boyd came up with
bundle and called Blanche out to the
front gate; they talked there for a
while, and in the meantime Mr. Mulkey
finished his supper; he overlook Boyd
as the latter was leaving, and walked
down town with him. Boyd was drunk,
and made threats against the virtue of
the girl to him. He left him at a sa-
loon.
+. NJ. Wit, of the firm of C. f. Grimes
& Co., testified in regard to the grin
left at their store on or before the date
the president visited this city; his DC
scription of the man VINO left t tai
lied with the evidence given by Other
witnesses, who swore that it was taken
to the store by Elmer Smith. The grip
was called for later by young man,
but the witness was unable to describe
him accurately. Witness identified
Blanche McCallum as the young woman
who called at the store, asked for the
valise, opened it, and, as he believed,
took something from it; but she left the
grip at the store, and it was called for
later by young man.
All Mr.. Snively's legal and medical
knowledge were called into play in the
attempt to show by the testimony of
DIR. Frank that the condition of the in
FAINT found in the Senanno ditch during
the latter part of June was such as to
render it impossible for it to have been
the child alleged to have been born TO