Arizona republican., 1905-11-23

that not member of it could remem Der what his wife or sweetheart wore on any day week ago. The weak ening of the testimony of the witnesses of the defense in this matter weakened their whole testimony for all the wit nesses who had testified with regard to the dress had testified also as to the time within which the alleged crime took place
 r. H. Lyman followed MT. Bullard in general review of the whole testi- mony dwelling however for the most part on that of the territory intending to show that it was unreasonable and the facts related by the prosecuting witness were unnatural and the acts described by her were unlikely if not impossible. MT. Lyman avoided so far as possible an attack upon the char acter of the girl
 The case for the defense was closed by Col. Wilson in an address of an hour and a half. He pointed out that
 the testimony of the girl had been dlsproved in so many particulars that the whole was unreliable. She had said that the defendant had called upon
 her in the room where she was at work
 for the Arizona Corporation Charter Guaranty company composed of the defendant and his brother and had told her that he wanted her to do some extra work that evening, that is after five o'clock, the usual
 quitting time. Against this was the testimony of May Pritchard the sten- ographer who swore that she had been
 working in the room with the com blaming witness all afternoon and that defendant in 9
 Miss Power had stated that according to instructions she called at the room in which the defendant was working q little after five o'clock and that soon after the crime was committed. Miss PritchGrd said that she and Miss Pow CT called at this room together and that both of them were on their way home; | that Miss Power had told her to go on down stairs and that she would short ! ly join her. Miss Pritchard went across | the street to see her sister and when
 she came back Miss Power had come l down stairs and they went away to- gether. Miss Power had sworn that sha did not go away with Miss Pritchard and that she had not seen her. A. J. Hansen and other witnesses had testi- fled that they saw the two girls to- gether. All this conflict proved said Col. Wilson that the complaining wit ness was wholly unreliable. In addi .
 tion to the testimony of Miss Pritchard said Col. Wilson there was that of l Charles G. Bowers who had called at
 the office of the Daggs brothers on business shortly after five o'clock. When he arrived the door between
 room No. 8 and No. was partly open | and when he entered he saw both Miss
 Power and tho defendant in the other room. The former was about to go.
 The witness heard her say something
 to the defendant and he heard him
 laughingly bid her good bye. The en- trance of the witness said that this
 agreed with the story of the defendant
 who had said that Miss Power had just
 risen from his lap when MT. Bowers
 came .n.
 Col Wilson addressed himself to the
 dress but did not dwell much on the | color. It was unreasonable to suppose
 said he that the prosecuting witness
 could have worn that dilapidated gar
 ment on the street without attracting attention. Its torn condition was not
 noticed by her mother and sister when
 she reached home. She did not call
 their attention to it and she said noth- ing about the exciting events through
 which she had just passed. The next
 morning she told her sister but all the | time this telltale dress was concealed. | Col. Wilson also laid before the jury | the fact that the prosecuting witness | had raised no outcry while this sap
 posed struggle was going on in a pub | lie room near the head of the stairs of the Monihon building. Nor had she
 directed attention to the wrong which
 had been done her for a week after
 ward-not until she had been refused
 blackmail money for the third time.
 The argument closed by District At
 torney Baker in a scathing speech in