Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-21

response.
Didn't you see this defendant leave
the house with his head bandaged up?'
mo, I did not" and she was allowed
to leave the stand.
Before she could take her departure
juror No. s asked how far it was from
her window to the window in the Noyes
/ fiat. She didn't know, and Attorney
Fleming promised to have the distance
measured.
Then Juror No. wanted to know
whether she saw McComas at Mrs
Noyes' window, through glass OIL
through a screen at her own home.
1.-THE window was open, but there
was q screen there said Miss Vance
ST think that the window in Mrs
Noyes' home was open, too" After
this answer she was excused.
Detective TestIfIes
Detective J. r. Ritch was the nexi
witness cllaed to the stand. He told
the story of his arrival, on the patrol
wagon, at the fiat and Of his finding
Wyatt there and the body of the dead
woman on the floor. He also said that
McComas came out and talked with
him.
IT asked who killed the lady," he
said. Wyatt says to me: This is the
man. pointing to the defendant. Then
I asked McComas why he shot the
lady, and he said he done 1t because
she threw acid in his face. Then
asked him where the bottle of acid
was, and he said he had thrown II
away. asked him then. after had
| examined the woman, who had put
the roll of carpet under the dead
woman's head. He said he did"
al Ind In
asked Fleming.
Ritch replied he had found box OF
| cartridges on the bureau. He found
next day that there were forty-four
cartridges in the box and five more In
a dish. He told Of the acid stains In
| the kitchen and on the foot of the bed
| In the bedroom. He also found acid
on the curtains in the bedroom, on the
| floor of the bathroom and bedroom, on
the floor of the southwest bedroom, on
| the floor of the hallway and on the re-
ceiver of the telephone.
ION the floor near the door between
the bedroom and the living room-how
much acid did you find there?" asked
| Fleming. 1t was close to this door
that the head of the dead woman lay.
"Only a few drops, as though they
had dripped from something" replied
the witness.
Saw Two Cups
| When the question of the two cups
was brought up Ritch said that he saw
| two. One was lying face down on the
| floor of the living room, with no acid
| stains about 1t. The other, with a
brown liquid in it, was on the stove in
the kitchen. He said the womans gun
was found about twelve inches from
the foot of the woman's bed, fully
| Ar1n nd nnd
| No shots had been fired from 1t, APP
parently.
Were there bullet holes found?"
Eyes; there was one through the
F, door leading out on to the porch. II
was almost straight through the door
There was another mark on the win
dow frame and a hole in the wall near
the telephone. took a .38 caliber bull
let, like the ones that fitted McComas
gun, and fitted it into the hole. II
fitted exactly"
When Attorney Rogers began the
cross examination he was merciless il
his questioning. He endeavored tC
show that there were vital discre.
pancies between his evidence at the
coroner's inquest and that in the
courtroom yesterday. He read the
transcript of the coroner's inquest tes-
timony where Ritch had declared that
|
| McComas. Ritch explained this by
saying that he didn't understand the
word conversation" as asked him
then to mean mere question and an
| Swer.
| After this hot bout between attorney
and witness Rogers started in on the
theme that ran through much of the
afternoon. 1t was the question of why,
when he and Schenck were in the
house with Deputy District Attorney
Fleming, Detective Captain Paul
| Roberds, the gun said to have be-
longed to MRS. Noyes was found under
the bedclothes in her bedroom when
he (Rogers) and his associate (Schenck)
were not in the room, and why they
were not told of the find.
| do you remember, when we were all
in the middle bedroom" asked Rogers,
that stepped out into the living room
and sat down at the table to examine
| some figures on a piece of paper?"
| Yes" answered the witness.
| you also remember that Mr..
Schenck was absent for a moment?"
| The witness admitted that 1t might
| have been possible.
| do you remember" said Rogers
tensely, pointing his finger at the wit
ness do you remember that when
oCHeHCk anu were III Tie llNlIlS TOOHi
| the door between the living room and
| the bedroom was closed and that then
1t was-just at that moment-the re-
volver was said to have been found?"
ST don't remember" said the witness.
"Why was 1t that the revolver was
| found only when Mr.. Schenck and Mr..
Rogers were out of the room?"
| Here Prosecuting Attorney Fleming
made startling interruption.
Didn't Intend to Tell Him
1--WE will stipulate." he said. that we
didn't tell you and that we didn't in
tend to tell you.'
Never mind" growled Rogers. well
put you on the stand later on and cross
examine you
st was told not to tell you." said
| Ritch, after a pause II was told TO
take the gun back after you had gone
and not to tell you"
you had known that Mr.. Schenck
and myself were demanding that gun /;
| that we knew 1t was there somewhere
didn't dig 1t up? Didn't your"
II did," said the witness. Capt.
Flammer found it between the coverlet
and the quilt on the bed. was told
not to tell you, and didn't"
Woman Heard Disturbance
Following Ritch as a witness came
Mrs. c. s. Burr, who occupied the nat
at $50 Little street, directly under that
of Mrs. Noyes, the night that the
woman met her death. She told short
and apparently straight story. She
seemed to be in hurry to say what
WAS required of her and to get away
| from the courtroom as soon as possible.
After stating where her residence was