East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-01-28

That mysterious third person sill.
houletted against the sky line so often
and persistently in the murder case
now on trial in the local court has at
last been Identified. He Is Paul Lew
ls- Somebody saw him here. some
BODY there. but the defendant him.
self saw him and was with him in
Pendleton and In Echo. The defense
seems to move this Paul Lewis in a
mysterious way there wonders to per-
form.
The defendant Arnold testified that
Paul Lewis was in Pendleton on the
morning they went down to Echo,
that Is when he and Rbail went to
Echo. Paul Lewis was at the depot
when the local train left carving
Arnold and Ribail. Lewis did not
go down on that train, the defendant
says so himself, but that afternoon.
some time In the afternoon, the de-
fendant met this Paul Lewis in Echo.
and the defendant said there was no
train in at that time. The defendant
and Ribail and Paul Lewis went to
s''''Ni NpoNA''I anu II WIS not vel
dark. 1t was daylight. and then some
body went to the hotel probably Ar
mold and Rlbail. He didn't know
where Lewis went. The defendant
and Ribail stayed around the hotel
that afternoon, then they went to
supper. And then they went back to
the hotel and stayed there all night
What room did you occupy that
night at the Echo hotel7" MT. Phelps
asked the defendant.
Ribail occupied room Is with the
defendant. the defendant said.
Then Mr.. Phelps asked the defend
ant If he wrote mis- name on the reg
lister that night. The defendant ad-
mitted he did. Mr. Phelps asked him
II hN saw the man write the name
Just above him on the register. the
Lewis The defendant did not see that
name Of this mysterious man. Lewis
written. Yet the defendant was posi-
tive that Ribail was the only person
who occupied the room 15 with him
that night. But the register shows
that this man or mystery Paul Lewis
also occupied room Is that night
Huu Nut SEtyS ne anu III
bail occupied that room. The jury
was left 20 draw their own conclu-
6ons
The Cross Examination.
On cross-examination District At
tor-ney Phelps took the defendant
over every inch OF the ground while !
he was in Echo, he walked him back |
and forth from the Echo hotel to the |
depot, and from the depot to the Echo !
hotel and from the Echo hotel to the |
Jap restaurant and from the Jap res
taurant to the Echo hotel, until the |
street commissioner had to put in
new sidewalk. He took him to the
hotel office and registered him on
Sunday and on Monday and on Tues
day, and on Sunday morning and
Sunday night and Monday morning
and Monday night. he registered him
before breakfast and after breakfast,
before dinner and after dinner, be-
fore supper and after supper and for
q while II looked like he was going
to get him up to register again after
he had gone to bed.
And then he began on that horse
Nht NWb Chuuit I
horses that the defendant admits he
secured from the Barker livery sta
BILE on Tuesday afternoon. The de-
fendnnt testified that he and Ribail
and this man Lewis we're at the depot
and Ribail and Lewis said they want
ed TO get a couple of saddle horses
to go out in the country where Ribail
had job on a ranch and the defend
ant said he was acquainted with Mr..
Barker and could get them couple
Of saddle horses and forthwith went
and got the saddle horses, leaving Ri i
bail and Mr.. Mysterious Lewis at the
depot. Then he got on one of the
horses and rode oyer TO the Echo ho-
tel. r.t '.f, r.