East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-09
WITNESSES CALL
WILL A FORGERY
SIX ARE BROUGHT FROM
LA GRANDE IN YOUNG CASE
Nearly all Of Them Brought for Pup-
pose OF Impeaching Testimony of
Star Witness for Mrs. Warner
Only Two Witnesses Examined this
Morning-One of Them Pronounced
the VIII a Forgery-Mrs. Watts ON
Stand.

Six witnesses in the Warner-Youne
will case arrived this morning from
Ia Grande are giving their testimony
thls afternoon. They are nearly all
character witnesses being called to i'm
peach the testimony of Mrs. Della Sta
cey, one of the two star witnesses for
Mrs Warner.
! oniy two witnesses were examined
at the morning session of the hearing
they being Dave Lavender. county road
master and Mrs. Norah Watts. who is
chiefly interested in carrying on the
tight against Mrs. Warner for the nos
session OF the Young estate.
In the previous trials, Lavender has
been witness for Mrs. Warner b,t
this time his testimony is being usad
by the other side. Having conducted
Mr.. Young's business for five win.
tiers he was familiar with his business
his habits and his writing and he had
no hesitancy in pronouncing the pres-
ent alleged will rank forgery,
Mrs. Watts was placed on the stand
70 Identify some letters from Young
which were introduced to show the
kindly feeling entertained by Young |
towards Mrs. Watts and the remainder |
OF his relatives who were purported
TO be condemned by him in a letter
introduced by Mrs. Warner, last week
In one of these letters he told Mrs
watts not to let Mrs. Warner and her
mother run in on her as there wouIa
De he'll If they did.
The witnesses who were brought
'Ver from La Grande and who are
estifying this afternoon are I. w
night policeman; DR.. NJ. H
1all, DR.. Hubbard. Frank Phy. for
ner sheriff of Union county. !. II
icLoughlin. of the night police force
nd Sprat Montgomery, a Union coun-
Y rancher.
walden testified concerning a con- !
ersation which he had with Mrs. Sta
ey concerning this case. He declared
lat ohe woman told him she saw her
'tner place his mark in the will be- S
're she went to the Grand Ronde r
iiley and while she was still living s.
ith her father. On the witness stand a
RS. Stacey told a different story n
ling how she came over from La IL
rande to Pendleton and went to W
endieton from Weston. 1t is inti- f%
ated that she changed her story be- Of
use court records were produced d,
owing that she was a witness IN a W
Sc in La Grande, the afternoon of
w. 20, the day before the alleged H
II was dated. s- as
"A slght error was made in yester- oy
US account of the hearing. Neither by
$ stacey nor Knox swore as to the p
ict date on which the will was wit sh
'sed' but the document bears tha hi
te of Nov. 21. do
w. Bailey. attorney for Mrs DIR
'rner declares that instead of inn.
'ching their evidence. the testi. Wa
ny of George Stages corroborates OF,
Stages testified that ne sold the ne
re to Young, the first week in De. an
lber and that Young was in there de,
eral days before, invoicing. BajIev co,
says that though the will bears ch,
date of Nov 21. that they do not ba,
m 1t was signed and witnessed ON
date, In fact they admit that =
ing was in Pendleton that dav and the
the will could not have been of
~ w.. "ilu Witnessed at that time and ME,
nat manner tica