Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-25
STONES SHOW
LITTLE ANXIETY
ACCUSED APPEAR SMILING AT
MURDER TRIAL
EXAMINATION BARREN OF SEM
sATIoNAL TESTIMONY
No Damaging Evidence Introduced
Against Couple Charged with Mur-
der of Railway Employe at
San Gabriel Home

Unconcerned and, smiling George A.
Stone and his wife Clara appeared
for a continuation of their preliminary
hearing on a charge of numbering Nor
gan Shively at San Gabriel on the
morning of January 2. The hearing
was conducted before Justice William
M Northup at Alhambra.
With the court room and every COR
ridor packed with curious spectators
and the yard filled with an eager
throng, the prosecution began rigid
examination of several witnesses. Oc-
casionally lie Compile Davis, attorney
for the defendants, questioned the wit
nesses. although the examination was
almost barren of sensational revela-
lions.
After all persons under IS years of
age had been excluded from the court
room, the testimony of Sheriff Hammel
was taken. Hammel testified that Mrs.
Stone had told him that Shively paid
the rent and all the grocery bills. and
that she considered him as a brother.
"She also said that he sometimes slept
upstairs and sometimes down. de-
clared the sheriff.
"Stone always denied killing Shively,
however, and made no other state
ment," concluded Hammel MRS. Stone
never varied in her story, either. Mrs
Stone made no explanation as to why
Shively should pay the bills or why
he was sleeping downstairs instead of
up on the night of the murder"
Conduct Not Suspicious
Joseph Ford, deputy district attorney,
who conducted the prosecution, called
as his first witness William Justice of
East San Gabriel. Justices testimony
bore largely on the condition of the
stone residence on the morning of the
murder. Justice also stated that he
lived near the Stones for some time
and never had observed anything sus
picious in either their conduct or that
of Shively.
Justice testified that after having
seen Mrs. Stone early on the morning
of January 2, he visited the Stone resi-
dence.
'Had you seen MR Stone by that
time?" questioned Ford.
'I had not was Justices reply.
did you enter the kitchen?"
Eyes"
Justice testified that he found the
kitchen window shattered and a streak
of blood extending half way around the
room. He also described the condition
Of the house and said he saw number
of articles on the ground outside the
window Justice could not identify
several articles which were introduced
into court, but said mirror and a
wash basin appeared to be similar to
those he had seen on the ground.
LIE Compile Davis brought out the fact
that although he had seen both Stone
and his wife on the morning of Shive-
ly's death, he had observed no blood
on the clothes or person of either, and
that they did not appear as though
they had recently engaged in a
Blood on Floor
cat the home you saw blood and
broken glass on the floor, didn't you,
and great disorder" asked Davis.
"I saw blood, but not much glass
on the floor. The north window is a
kind of half window. 1t opens inward,
and looked as if some one had plunged
through it and not shut it right" testi-
fed the witness.
w. P. Woods, a deputy sheriff living
in Los Angeles, was the next witness
called. Woods testimony followed the
same lines as that given by Justice, al
though he created something of a SEN
sation by telling of a pair of shoes
found beneath the carpet in the dining
room of the Stone house. Woods de-
clared one of the shoes contained pieces
of broken glass, and that Mrs. Stone
said they were her shoes, but could
not account for the glass.
Court was adjourned until $3.50
o'clock this morning.