Gilpin observer., 1908-07-16
DEFENSE TRIES
TO PROVE AL|B|
WITNESSES SWEAR ADAMS WAS
PLAYING CARDS ON NIGHT
OF MURDER.
ARE VERY POSITIVE
TESTIFY IN DETAIL TO EVENTS
ON NIGHT THAT COLLINS
WAS SHOT.

Denver.-A Republican special from
Grand Junction Monday night says:
One witness who had been summoned
by the prosecution, but had not been
used, and eight witnesses called by the
defense in the Steve Adams murder
trial, testified that the defendant
spent all of the evening of November
10, 1902, playing cards in his board
ing house. Though the witnesses eX-
hibited some nervousness on cross
examination, all held to the story that
at the time Arthur Collins was assas-
sinated in his residence at the Snug
gler-Union mine, the man accused of
that crime was playing cards.
Two of the men with whom he is
said to have been playing were brought
| in, the other having died since the
| tragedy. There was also on the stand
a man who claimed to have taken to
Adams the intelligence that the crime
had been committed, and the landlady
of the boarding house, with two girls
who were boarding with her.
Cross-eXamination developed that
each of the witnesses had clear re-
membrance of all the happenings of
that night, though some did not hear
| of the murder until the next morning,
but all were exceedingly dim in their
recollections of other matters that
transpired in the camp during their
residence there. They related many
of the incidents of the happenings OF
November 18th to show how clearly
everything had been impressed upon
them, one girl remembering that a
lamp chimney had broken and caused
her some annoyance. BY these wit
nesses the defense hopes to prove a
clear alibi for Adams.
| The boarding house where Adams
was stopping was kept by Mrs. Ma
honey, who has since remarked and
who testified today as Mrs. Neenan.
She swore that Steve Adams played
cards the night of November 10, 1902,
| from 7:30 until 1000 O'Clock, and that
Walter Hull, boarder, came in about
the latter hour to tell of the assassi-
nation of Collins. Mrs. Neenan is the
witness who had been summoned but
was not called by the prosecution. She
testified further that the occupants of
the house at the time We're A. j.
Triner, Walter Hull. Frank Price, John
Griffin, Miss Theresa Woodford, Kath
crime Cassidy, William Noyes (the
latter since deadD and Steve Adams
That night, she said, Moves, Price, Will
liam Miller and Adams spent the
evening playing cards. She added that
she went to Tonopah to bring back
Theresa Woodford to testify to the
doings of the evening.
Mrs. Steve Adams was called and
stated that she was married to Adams
| November is, 1908, and that she. has
three children. The prosecution did
not cross-examine her.
Theresa Woodford said she remem-
bered the fact that lamp chimney
was broken the night of November
18th, and that she was presented with
a box of candy the same evening. She
and Katherine Cassidy testified that
they had retired before Hull came in
with word of the assassination.
William Miller testified to the card
game, and named those who took part
in it. He also told of the coming of
Hull with news of the murder. He
said he had been brought from Du-
mont by Secretary Mills of the West
ern Federation of Miners, who told
him what he was wanted for and of
fered to pay his expenses in attend
ing the trial.
Walter Hull lives in Englewood. near
Denver. He told of the card game
beginning at 1880. and swore he went
down town and stayed two hours. re-
turning to find the game still running
just as he had left it. He told the men
of the murder.
John Griffin of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners testified that David
Coates, former lieutenant-governor of
Colorado. had told him he was wanted
as a witness in the Adams case and
h,l tN 10
bered viviGly the happenings of the
night of the murder, but was hazy in
his recollections of the happenings
on other days near that time
Andrew J. Triner told of the deport-
ing of men from Telluride, which, he
said, had been engineered by Bulk
eley Wells, and of the labor troubles
in and about Telluride about the time
of the murder. When Attorney Hogg,
for the prosecution, asked Triner the
cause of the labor troubles, Attorney
Hilton. for the defense, furiously ac-
cused the former of trying to make
play" to the jury. The attorneys
have generally disregarded all allu-
sions to the labor troubles in Tellur-
ide preceding and following the mur-
der of Collins.
Frank Price was the last witness.
He swore he was one of the party of
card players and that he had been
notified when in Coin Silver, Idaho,
that he was wanted to testify. His
expenses were being paid, he said.
Henry Van Gundy, the wealthy
ranchman whose mind recently became
affected over the problem of perpetual
motion and who gave Mrs. Steve Ad-
ans and President Meyer of the w +.