Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-17
A0''AS FACING
lMPLETE JURY
STATE HAS ABOUT EIGHTEEN
WITNESSES
story of Tragedy RecaIIed-Mother
OF Murdered Man In Court.
Hard Legal Fight
Expected
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WALLACE, Idaho, Feb. 16.-Today
steve ADAMS is facing the competed
i.., which will decide whether he is
guilty ur innocent of the murder OF
vrad TYLER. the timber settler. me
s,a.. ra about eight witnesses to pre-
seu. evidence, while the detense Is
l,rrvu TO have at least twenty-five.
who some of the latter will be is
not lrno,,n, the defense having demand
ed IN. privilege OF summoning a num-
her without disclosing their names 10
tho state. The prosecutions witnesses
win present mainly circumstantial eVl-
dcnca hacked by Adams alleged con-
foss'on Of the murder
While The defense has refused to out
linr its case further than to make gem
erai dental, it is expected to resist the
Introduction of this confession with all
its power on the ground that Sheriff
Sutherland used improper means TO op-
tain 1t and that if Adams maze any
confession to Detective Mcfarland 1t
was maze under duress and was un-
true.
Adams. the prisoner sits in court
with his wife by his side day after day.
listening closely to the arguments, now
and then comforting with his attorneys,
but apparently not worried about MS
fate
have affected him, and he is in mood
to laugh heartily when anything anus
ing occurs in court.
Ready to Appeal
Even should the verdict go against
him it is assumed the fight would be
only begun, as the defense is already
shapine its grounds on which to appeal
or demand a new trial.
one of the notable exceptions all
ready taken is to Judge Woods ruling
that member of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners could be excluded from
the jury on challenge for cause. The
defense contended that it would be as
reasonable to exclude a man because
he was an Elk.
The state outlined its theory of the
murder of Fred Tyler at this morn
ing's session of court. Attorney
Knight, for the state, told how Tyler
went into the new country near the
St. Joseph river in the spring of 1903
and took up a timber; how strife over
the timber lands had arisen among
the settlers, some of whom had banded
themselves together to gain certain
ends; how at last one settler had been
warned to get. out of the country.
Story Of Tragedy
About August 10, the state alleges
Tyler went flShlng and on MS way
home stopped at the home of neigh
Dor named Phillips; after supper he
started to his cabin and was never
seen again till his body was found in
the timbers by surveyors.
A bullet hole in the back of his
skull showed the cause of death. The
state proposed to show that Adams
was in that region until a few days
after the homicide, and to introduce
evidence of a confession secured from
Adams on different occasions without
the use of force. This confession states
that on his way home from Phillips
house Tyler met Adams and two other
armed men.
That they took him to a cabin and
kept him there over night. urging him
to leave the country, that in the morn
ing he was given no breakfast, but
was taken to the top of a hill and
told to walk on ahead and as he
walked away Adams took his rife and
shot him dead.
Mrs. Thomas, mother of the muir
dered man, was called as the first wit
ness. She is expected to testify as to
his taking up the claim and as to the
Identification of his body.