East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-10


penitentiary seated In the witness
chair and telling with apparent cam
dor of how he and another engaged
in a brutal holdup. was given at the
court house this forenoon. 1t was In
the trial of Robert Weddle, and the
chief witness against him is Lewis
a self-confessed participant in the
crime, who declares that Weddle
helped him do the work.
y 1t was cold-blooded story that
was told the jury this morning, and
1t is a story such as Is seldom heard,
even in a criminal trial
Lewis is hig fellow, nnd with his
closely cropped hair, his thin cruel
lips and his beaked nose he looked
the part ne represented himself to
have played
On the stand Lewis told with COM
placency OF how ne and Weddle held
up two men at Echo last winter and
after beating them half to death rob-
bed them OF 500 or more. Accord
ing TO the convict he was asked to
help in the. robbery by Weddle. and
he said that when the deed was done
weddel took. the lead and struck the
men down. However. he admfrUcd
having struck one of them. Ryan.
twice himself After the crime the
two men separated.
According to Lewis, he was not in
fluenced to testify against his former
pal by an offer OF clemency from any
of the officers.
The trial OF Weddle commenced at
Q o'clock thiS morning and when the
prisoner took his seat inside the court
room, his mother, who is mere
from Idaho, took a chair by his side.
The prisoner is being defended by II.
f. Collier, who Is assisted by his part
nor. j. p. Winter, while District At
torncy Phelps is conducting the case
for the state.
1t required but a short time to Sc
cure a Jury for the case. and the L.
men are S. White, Walter McCorm-
mach. David Still, $. I. Lisle, p. T.
Harbour, John Bahr, Chris Nelson
Lewis Bolus, 4. ID. Sloan, w. w. Veg
ner, Alex Malcolm and Ikey Winn. In
selecting the jury, only two, c. f.
Carr and ]. F. Harvey, were excused,
and both of them were objected to by
the defense.
After Lewis had finished his tes-
timony this morning Sheriff Taylor
was called to the stand and told of
the first arrest of Weddle In Idaho
and of how the latter came to be inn
plicated in the crime through Lewis
confession. Also he told of the pris-
oner's recent escape from Jail and of
his subsequent recapture in Spokane
He said Weddle had told him that
the saws used I'm cutting out of Jail
had heen furnished him by a friend.
AS attorney for the defense, Mr.
Winter objected to the testimony re-
garding the Jail break. but 1t was ad-
mitted by Judge Bean.
Yonng Pleaded Guilty.
Guy Young this afternoon changed
his plea from not guilty to that of
guilty. and Judge Bean set tomorrow
morning as the date for passing sem
tcnce upon the young man.
1t was learned recently by District
Attorney Phelps that Young is a pa
role from the reform school and con-
scquently he may be sent back to
that institution. II IL possible that
Judge Bean may impose a peniten-
tiary sentence upon Young, but sus-
pend execution of the same, while he
is returned to the reform school.
other witnesses who were examin-
ed this forenoon were A. Frazier and
John Ryan, the two men who were
held up. This afternoon Ross New
port and Charles Kelsey were called
10 the stand for the state, after which