Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-20

room, between the living room and the
| kitchen and the stains on the Kitchen
| side of the door between the bedroom
and the kitchen"
was McComas in the kitchen with
you?" Carey was asked.
Saw Cup on Stove
81 don't remember" was the reply. II
saw a cup on the kitchen stove. 1t had
no handle The kitchen side of the door
was covered with acid. There was a
newspaper pinned to the door. Tnls
had acid on 1t and was burned. One
corner fell down while was looking at
! it and | took the whole paper down
and took it in and laid 1t down on the
bed in the next ROOM"
! At this point the noon hour had ar
| rived and the court took recess until
o'clock.
While the morning audience had been
freely sprinkled with women, all of
| them we'll dressed and many of them
young and pretty, there was stu
larger proportion of femininity on hand
when the afternoon session was called
to order on the appearance OF Judge
James. Long before 2 o'clock the cor
ridors leading to department were
| crowded with would-be spectators, but
| a willy bailiff was acting as watch
dog and no one not having business in
| the courtroom was allowed to enter
after the seats in the small court
chamber were filled.
Spectators Laugh
In the course of the afternoon ses-
sion, at sallies on cross examination py
Attorney Rogers, there was unbridleu
laughter on the part of the spectators,
until finally Prosecuting Attorney
I'M. I'D Mt
that the court room be cleared unless
! the levity was discontinued at once.
| Carey took the stand at the opening
of the afternoon session. In answer 70
the first question put to him as to ACID
| stains he had noticed in addition 10
those on the kitchen side of the bed
room door he replied that there were
stains of acid on the mating in the
bedroom.
did you notice the foot of the bed?"
asked Fleming.
YES" replied the witness, there
was quilt folded on the bed In tN-
angular shape and on top of 1t were
some stains"
did you go to the bathroom"
Eyes. There were stains as you go
into the bathroom from the bedroom.
The stains were on the floor.
Where was McComas while you
were making the examinations"
II don't remember. There was no
one else there at first"
who came later?"
"A policeman-Officer Wyatt"
No Evidence of Life
Then Carey told of feeling of the
wrists and neck of the woman lying
on the floor, but added that there was
no evidence Of life, although there was
mo stiffness In the body.
Nayf No fold of the arrival of PO-
liceman Wyatt ten or fifteen minutes
after his own arrival 81 saw him at
the turn of the stairs FIRST" said the
witness. II saw his hat first"
did the defendant have any con-
versation with Officer Wyatt?" queried
the prosecuting attorney.
II can't state the exact words re-
piled the witness. THE officer asked
McComas for his gun, which he de-
livered. I had not had any converse
ton about the gun except what he said
about the one she had. When Wyatt
got the gun he faced it toward the
telephone at the head Of the stairs and
opened the cylinders. The gun had
six chambers. The minute Mr.. Wyatt
opened. the cylinder l saw that there
were two exploded shells and four good
ones. The shell under the hammer
had been exploded. Then there were
two good ones. Then there was an
exploded shell exactly opposite the
hammer in the cylinder and two good
ones on the other side. There were
no hicks on the good shells. There did
seem to be marks of acid on the gun,
and the gun itself was one like the
police carry, with cylinder revolving
from right to left instead of the other
way"
Carey declared that he noticed an
overcoat belonging to McComas folded
Itxxss. .t. ahafr In
living room. In the dining room he
found a desk on top of which, under
a book, was paper with many figures
on II, and beside the bottle of olive
oil In the dining room there were books
and papers on the table.
Files Grewsome Relics
Then Deputy District Attorney F'lem-
ing proceeded to file as exhibits some
of the greWsome relics of that wild
night on Little street, the true details
of which are locked within the breast
of the man now on trial for his life
First he offered the gun in evidence.
1t was one Of the latest pattern, and
looked ugly enough with its blued
barrel and cylinder, as 1t was handed
to the witness,
Next came the gray coat of Nc
Comas. worn on the night of the trag-
edy. Great holes had been eaten out
of the left shoulder of the coat, clear
to the elbow. and there were streaks
like the pathway of a horde of moths
along the collar and on the right side
of the front of the garment. The vest.
next introduced, showed signs of a
corrosive.
gnawed 1t, the collar was next placed In
evidence. 1t was of the "stand-up"
variety and the points were eaten away
clean. half way down to the band at
the bottom.
Then came the comforter that had
lain at the end Of the bed Of the dead
woman in her room next to the living