The daily sentinel., 1906-06-05
THE HORSE POISONING CASE,
i"' hoskins-laynes Case at PaIisade
heSterday-Great Crowd WAS
There in Attendance

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The Hoskius-Jaynes suit wbict b.,
travelled all over the countv to "a .
place Of hearing, was flnali,. friad IN .
"1yiVe M bancroft S court yesterday.
ne olilee of Justice Bancroft was
nileu 10 overlooking yesterday when
ny ny 'ose was called at ten O'Clock
ne crowd increased so thar il wos
ieeessarE .s 10 secure the big school
rooh 10 accommodate the crowds that
ease. ss' III 'He
81, me hearing was not concluded un-
III nearly midnight last night and at
I az Illhes there was intense interest
SSllplted ,,,,ld by the big crowd gathered
Ihsre We're some quite dramatic
/ timony.
There was a mass of testimony. but
the very interesting portion resolved
ItseIt ABOUT the statement of Hos
hlns when on the witness stand.
Hoskins was placed on the stand
hrst and testified that on the night
OF May eighth, with another party
had secreted themselves on the roof
oil MS house and had heard the fol
] low conversation between a man Wat
son, man supposed to to have been
a detective and who had secured the
confidence of Jaynes and Jaynes him
sen. Ihe conversation was as fol
l lows as ELECTED from Hoskins:
Q.-What did you hear said at that
ume by the defendant or the party
with him?
Al heard the party that was
with MIN say: "Jaynes where did you
put that poison that night you pois-
oned Hoskins' horses, did YOU put il
IN the manger or in a box?" Jaynes
said: Didn't ] ever tell you?" he
said, Il put it in the oats" Did you
see them eat it, ''No but by God they
ate it,"
In rebuttal OF this testimony of
Hoskins, Jaynes. his wife and his
hired man, Garske. testified that he
lJaynes) was at home on the night
that Hoskins says that he overheard
the alleged conversation from the top
OF his house. that occurred between
Jaynes and the man Watson, the de-
tectiye.
The prosecution failed to produce
the man Watson as a witness.
The testimony of DR.. Drew. the
well known veterinarian and S. T.
Sturtevant, was purely technical. DR..
Drew testified to the fact that he had
been called in a professional capac-
ity and had found upon an eXamin-
alton of the stomach of one of the
horses that. there We're evidences of
II having been poisoned by the dead
ly drug cyanide of potassium.
Mr.. Sturteyant testified to the eff
feet of cyanide of potassium upon
animals. The length of time it took
to kill, etc. etc.
The defense called Geo. W. Cham
berlain. as an expert, but he would
not be accepted as an. expert and his
testimony was not taken as such He
stated on the witness stand that had
the horses have been poisoned with
the deadly poison. cyanide of potas-
stun, that they could not have lived
to have exceeded five to ten minutes
Or they would not have died at all
and would have recovered.
The cross examination of the wit
nesses as well as the direct eXamina-
ton for the prosecution and the de-
tense, was at all times spirited.
Almost the last witness placed on
the stand for the prosecution was DR..
r. r. Smith, whose ranch Is very
close to that of Mr.. Jaynes on Fruit
Ridge IT was $3.50 O'Clock when he
was called. 1t developed during the
trial that he had not been subpoened,
but was volunteer witness for the
prosecution. He was made to testi-
IS. though unwillingly that he had a
grudge against Jaynes. Asked for
the reason of this feeling against
the defendant Jaynes he said some
one in the neighborhood had inform
ed him that. he (Jaynes) had it In
for him. This testimony caused a
sensation in the court.
Messrs. Coles and Carnahan were
for the prosecution in the case and
Messrs. Logan and Wheeler for the
defense.
After hearing all the testimony un-
til almost midnight and hearing the
respective arguments, Justice Ban
croft took the matter under consider
alton and will render his decision in
the matter on Wednesday morning.