Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-06
TRIES TO |NPEACH
GIRLS TESTIMONY
Endeavor Made BY Prosecution
To Show Miss Spencer is Tell
ing Different Story.
WIFE TAKES WITNESS STAND.
Tells What Did Happen nj the Ber-
toch Home When Her Husband
Visited There.

The preliminary examination of SUM
ueI G. Spencer was resumed this morn
ing at 10 o'clock. before Judge c. b.
Diehl, in. the criminal division OF the
city court. The feature OF the session
was an endeavor made by the prosecu-
ton to impeach Louie Spencer the IL
year-old daughter of the defendant.
With that end in view she was subject
ed to a rigid oross-exaInitation by Asst.
County Atty. Aaron Meyer.
The first witness called TO the stand
this morning was Iva Spencer. daugh-
ter of Samuel G. Spencer. She gave
her age AS 10 years. She testified that
Iva Wallace resided with the Spencer
family from the spring OF 1907 until
August of that year, During tho great
"a part of the time during the last six
weeks, ending Aug. &c, the Wallace girl
had slept at 264, where Louie and Iva
Spencer resided. and had occupied the
same bed with the two sisters. Never
at any time had the defendant slept in
the same bed with either OF the girls,
testified the witness, or even in the
same room, excepting that on the night
of Aug. 20 witness had slept with her
aunt Maria b. spencer, and that de-
iciudul ndu OtCupltQ HIOlneT ped III
the same room. Every allegation made
by Iva Wallacerof unbeconing conduct
on the part of defendant towards her
self and his own daughters was denied
by the witness, and on crosse xamina-
ton her direct testimony was adhered
to.
GENERAL DENIAL.
Louie Spencer was on the stand the
greater portion of an hour She denied
that her father had ever occupied the
same bed or slept In the same room
with Iva Wallace, neither with his
daughters during any of the time that
MISS Wallace stayed in the household.
Heferring to trip made to Saltair last
summer. on which occasion Iva WAL
iace testified that Mr.. Spencer came
INTO the room while she and Louie
spencer were undresSed, the witness
said that the girls were already dressed
ana We're arranging their hair when.
rearing that they would miss the train.
she tine witness) had asked her father
20 come IN and wrap up her bathing
SUIT which was private one. No liber-
YES she said, We're attempted with
either or them by defendant
DISCRIMINATION,
On cross-examination the witness
said that on the night of Aug %
1soI, she was at the home of the Wal.
luce IN Granger. having been in
vited there on visit At nearly mid
night she was called by Miss Annie
wallace. who said that two men wish
ed to see her Going into the dining
room she met the men. whom she next
day learned were the sheriff and his
deputy From having been awaken
cd, from the indellcate questions ask
cd her and from the looks of the
sheriff. she was nervous and embar-
rassed. She did not afterwards re-
member all that she had said, but she
was positive that she had not said
nor had intended to say. anything re-
flecting upon the conduct of her
father
There was lively tilt between OPP
posing counsel upon some OF the ques-
tons asked by the prosecution. the
court sustaining for the most part
the objections of the defense. The
impeachment of the witness was given