The copper era., 1911-02-03
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u4dh . place duu saw ueT at Iue Nll- dow in the Chinaman's room and a little later he saw the Chinaman in the same room.
 Jesse Sims testified that Mrs Chambers had told him that the girl, Myrtle Hicks, was not respectable; that she was sweethearts with a Chinaman. That the Chinaman owed her (Mrs. Chambers) for clothes and that he owed her about one hundred dollars.
 At this point the prosecution rest ed and after the noon recess the first witness for the defense was Stella Hicks, the ten years old sister of the prosecuting witness. The little girl testified that she had been at the house of Mrs. Chambers with her sister Myrtle. ''One time my sister left me at Mrs. Chambers while she went to the postofIice. When she returned my sister went to the China mans restaurant. I went out with her but went on home. Mrs. Cham bers said if I wouldn't tell on Myrtle going down to her place twice a day for two weeks she would give me
 blue dress. She gave me a ring and some ribbons for my hair"
 Harry Carpenter testified that he knew the girl, Myrtle Hicks, when she was cooking at Keppler's ranch about four months ago.
 He is employed at the stamp mill for Keppier. He-knew Mrs. Chambers and her husband. "One day when I was at Mrs. Chambers and the girl was there also, she ordered us away, saying: "I do not want the girl here, she runs around the streets too much. 1" Mrs. Cham bers was of the opinion that the girl was bad, but told me she would give the girl job in her store if she would behave herself She said she was willing to do anything for her she could. I said it would be a sense, or her mother either. I told Mrs. Chambers thought the girl was O. K. and to talk to the girl for her own good. On cross examination the witness said the reason Mrs. Cham bers did not want the girl around her place was her belief the girl was an improper person. He admitted that he had been to the Cham bers house twice since and the girl was there also and that Mrs. Chambers did not order them away then.
 Billy Hamilton, deputy city mar shal, testified that he was with John Garnett, deputy sheriff, when the girl was taken into custody on com- plaint of her mother and that her mother said she couldn't understand her daughter; she never told the truth and would tell her three or four stories about everything that would come up.
 Jack Chambers, the husband of the defendant, said he knew Myrtle Hicks; had seen her often at his wife's place of business. My wife ordered her to stay out of our house on differ ent occasions; my wife told her we did not want her there On last Thursday at noon I told her she must stay away and invented story to scare her away, telling her that m off cer told me that if she continued to come to our house that she would get us into trouble The witness testified that the girls reputation for truth and veracity was bad and that he would not believe her under oath.
 The Chinaman, "Sharkey," testified that he knew Mrs. Chambers, also the girl by sight. That he had never had any relations of any kind with the girl. That he had never talked to Mrs. Chambers about the girl and had never seen the girl at any time or place at the instance of Mrs. Cham bers. On cross examination he testi- fled that he had seen the girl at Mrs. Chambers house, going in and out of her place; that the girl had been in his restaurant for her meals and that she had paid him for them and that he had never had any conversation with Mrs. Chambers at all.
 Bessie Chambers, the daughter of the defendant, testified that her mother had ordered the girl away on several occasions and that when her left the house she told her if Myrtle came there to tell her to go home, which she did. The girl heard | her mother tell Mrs. Hicks that she | did not want her daughter coming l there.
 Mrs. Chambers took the stand to | make a statement. She said she was enganged in the millinery business in | Clifton and knew Myrtle Hicks; that | she had never done anything to con- tribute to the downfall of the girl | and never had any knowledge of any improper relations between the girl | and the Chinaman or anybody else She stated that she had sold the gir goods in her store and that she owed Ter S19 50 at this time. "After she owed me this bill she tried to get me O give her other goods. She wanted