Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-28
STATE BRINGS
OUT NO FACTS
JURORS SNIFF AT BUTTON
TESTIMONY
But Little Evidence Is Brought Out
Against Negro Charged With
Murder on Raymond Golf
Links at Pasadena

Aside from proving that James Il.
Logan, a young mulatto, had been
stabbed and beaten to death on the Ray
mond golf links on May 49, and that
his alleged slayer, j. G. G. JaXon, an
other negro was living i'm Pasadena at
the time, the prosecution In the case
failed to establish any material facts
yesterday.
Jaxon is defended by Attorney Earl
Rogers and former Senator Ben Ham
of Pasadena. He showed but little in
terest i'm the trial yesterday, and aside
from an occasional suggestion to his
attorneys he maintained silence.
During the day the prosecution eX-
pended its greatest effort in trying to
establish a favorable comparison be-
tween three coat buttons found near
the dead body and three others found
on JaXon's coat on the day of his ar
rest.
The buttons bore a great resem-
blance, but the jury seemed to take but
small stock in that phase of the argu-
ment, for there are many buttons in
Pasadena, and because the officers We're
unable to find the other similar but
tons did not prove non-eXistence.
When the pocket knife which was
used as one of the weapons in the
murder was produced it was attempted
to prove that JaXon had bought the
knife from a Pasadena firm some
weeks before the killing, but the iden
tification of the knife as the one sold
to the negro fell fiat. The hardware
dealer testified he had sold a knife
out of a certain line of stock to JaXon,
but he did not remember what the knife
looked like, and he did not remember
at what time he had made the sale. de
admitted that there might be hundreds
of the same patterned knives in eXis-
tence, as they were sold in all parts
of the United States. A salesman for
the hardware house testified that there
were thousands of the same pattern in
existence, and the Identification proved
a failure.
Tells of Conversation
Yesterday Oscar S. Kunzman of Pas
adena created a small sensation in
court by testifying to a conversation
between himself and JaXUm.
"JaXon sent for me on business
shortly after his preliminary examina-
ton in which he was held to answer in
the superior court on a charge of muir
dering Logan" testified Kunzman.
He said he wanted me to do some
detective work for him. and he told me
that he knew who had committed the
murder and that he was not the guilty
party. He mentioned LoganS alleged
intimacy with white women, and he
said that a woman on East Colorado
street, a white woman, had hired men
to kill Logan because he had threat
ened to tell certain things he knew
about her. JaXon further told me that
this woman had paid Pasadena officers
to throw the blame on him because he
and Logan had some difficulty.
After JaXon told me that he said he
would not divulge any names at thai
time but that later when he had been
cleared in the superior court he would
tell all he knew about the crime and
would give all the information he had
to the officers. He wanted me to do
some detective work for him, such us
listening to conversations, but he was
so vague and indefinite and seemed SO
nervous that 1 did not take his offer
seriously and never paid any attention
to it,"
At the close of the session yesterday
more than a dozen witnesses for the
prosecution had been examined, and it
is thought the entire session today will
be taken up with witnesses for the
state. Circumstantial evidence is the
only kind being given and twenty ex-
hibits have already been filed in the
case.