The daily sentinel., 1907-03-21

that he was thoroughly familiar with
Hosklns' handwriting, stating that
from time to time in the months past
he had copied on the typewriter let.
ters that Hoskins had written with q
pen or pencil He was shown q
copy of an unsigned letter which
he identified as written by Hoskins
it was the copy of a private business
letter he said. He was then shown
the anonymous letter alleged to have
been written by Hoskins. He at once
declared that that letter was not
written by Hoskins and gave his opin.
ion at length. He then undertook tC
show to the jury the characteristics
of Hoskins' handwriting as they ap-
peared in the business letter ard not
ed the absence of these Characters
tics in the anonymous letter. The
young man was cross examined by
Attorney Logan for the defense. He
admitted that he was not an expert
on hand writing but believed that
he had seen enough of Mr.. Hoskins'
handwriting to be familiar with it.
MIR. Stone Called
Following Mr.. Harper. d. 7. Stone
cashier of the Union Trust and Bank
ing company, was introduced by the
as an authority on hand
writing for the purpose of showing
that the acknowledged business let
ter of Hoskins and the anonymous let
ter were not written by the same
hand even if an effort had been made
to disguise the handwriting in the
letter. Mr.. Stone eX-
planned that he had taught penman-
ship in connection with school work
and had had years of experience in
detecting handwriting as bank
cashier. Mr.. Stone declared that
even when attempting to disguise his
a man could not keep
from allowing some of his peculiar
tiles to creep out, as he saw it none
Of the peculialities of his writing
shown in the business letter were ap-
parent in the anonymous letter Mr..
stone was cross examined at length.
lie said that he did not call himself
an expert. However Mr.. Stone made
a very strong witness for the prosecu-
ton and his testimony in an effort to
that of Mr.. King the eN-
pert introduced by the defense, will
doubtless have much weight.
The admission of this anonymous
letter as detailed by this paper yes
terday. for the defense is very damag-
ing indeed to the prosecution and
particular stress was laid
upon the work of discrediting this
letter.
On cross examination DR.. Bull ad-
mitted he had had no experience with
horses or animals killed by cyanide
poisoning and that he was not an au-
thority on veterinary work. He also
stated that authorities showed it was
possible for animals given this dead
" poison to live some hours of they
had food in their stomach. The prose-
eution believes that the direct testi-
mony of DR.. Bull was considerably
shaken by cross examination.
Most Damaging Evidence
The strongest witness the proseeu-|
tion has yet introduced was Harry L.
Hiatt, the blacksmith, who was call
ed to the stand shortly before eleven
o'clock this morning. The evidence
that he gave was sensational TO the
extreme. In substance his story was
as follows;
On the night of May .11th, 1906
Hiatt went out to the Jaynes ranch
on Fruit ridge in accordance with
an ARRANGEMENT with Detectives Hit
and Watson. He rode his wheel. He
states that he entered the Jaynes
hacking house by the north door and
ouiietlv seated himself in the room
detective Hit was with him. AT this
time Watson, the detective masque-
rading as a hired man. and Ches-
ter e. Jaynes were seated on the moor
of the hacking house porch. the door
to the room in which Hiatt sat was
aiar. so he testified and he had
clear view of the two men. Wat
son was smoking Jaynes was SO
seated on the floor that his face was
directly toward Hiatt.
..By God He Sha'nt stay
Hiatt testified that the two men
we're about ten feet from him. Pres
emily. said Hiatt. Watson asked Jay
mes if he had heard anything about
Hoskins going back on his contract
TO sell his ranch to DeLong and eX-
nected to move back from town TO
'n,e ranch. Witness swears that
Iavnes replied NO, but by God he
.ha'nt stay here if he comes back
watson then asked him. "Well what
will YOU do if he does come back VIII
Won poison some more of his horses
or will you burn him out as you
,a1l,ad about doing the other day?