Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-06-27
A GLIMPSE Of
HIGH SOCIETY
Woman's Name Dragged in
Mire by Cross Examina.
ton at Henwood Trial
BAR ROOM MURDER SENSATION
Defendant Declares That He Ia
Now Sorry That Won Phul
Is Dead.

tBy Special Leased Wire to New Mey,c.r,
Denver Colo, June 27.-Frank
Harold Henwood was subjected to a
grilling cross examination by Dis.
trict Attorney Elliott this morning
when Henwood's trial for the murder
OF George L. Copeland was resumed.
The prosecuting attorney dwelt upon
the statements of Henwood on pre-.
vious days that his trouble with Won
Phul was the outgrowth of efforts Of
Henwood to protect the home of John
w. Springer from the threats of Won
fhul. who Henwood stated had an.
nounced his intentions of sending to
Mr.. Springer, certain letters written
by Mrs. Springer to Won Phul.
Prosecutor Elliott took the witness
back to May II, week before the
shooting, the occasion of a visit by
Henwood to the Springer ranch.
Henwood denied vehemently that he
had been discovered with his arms
around Mrs. Springer by the house
keeper at the ranch. or that he had
driven Mrs. Springers maid from
Mrs. Springer's room at 3 o'clock in
the morning and that in the scuffle
Mrs. Springer's nightgown was near.
ly torn off.
He admitted, however, that his
room was one of the suite occupied
by Mrs. Springer and was only sepa.
rated from her own boudoir by
bathroom, to which doors led from
the two rooms.
in all these relations you had in
mind only the one purpose of main
tanning the peace of the Springer
asked the District Attor.
ney. The witness bowed in affirma-
ton. =.
Henwood was asked about the CON
ference with Chief of Police Arm
strong the night before the shooting
in which he appealed for help in Sc.
curing the letters sent by Mrs. Spring.
er to Won Phul. In that conversa-
ton the chief said, according to Hen
wood. that he would try to have Won
Phul come to his Office to talk over
the matter, but he did not succeed.
The next day, continued Henwood, he
armed himself, "for protection"
Henwood identified the revolver
with which the shooting was done but
he could not be induced to admit the
shooting of Copeland
He was asked about the statement
credited to him the night of the shoot
ing to the effect that he had no re-
grets concerning Won Phul but that
he was sorry about Copeland and At.
kinson.
Il stated that I had no regrets
about Won Phul but l am sorry now
that he is dead,' said the witness.
Pending the arrival of Mrs. Spring.
er, who had been sent for by the dis
trict attorney for a brief cross-ex.
animation, Deputy District Attorney
D. c. Bailey was sworn at the request
of Attorney Bottom for the defense.
He stated that twenty or twenty.
i've letters signed Isabelle" were
,ound in Won Phurs room after the
shooting. Isabelle is Mrs. Springer'a
given name.
At 1880 a. m. the defense announc.
ed that it rested.
Henwood was pinned down on cross
examination, compelling him to ad-
nit that he was married man. Hen.
wood, who had been received in the
rapid, high-living social circle of
Denver as single man, admitted
that he had wife and two children
somewhere in New York state" He
believed, he said, one of the children
was in New York city, but that the
other was with the mother in the
Interior of the state.
Mrs. Springer Needs the Alimony.
Denver Colo, June 27.-While Mrs.
lsabdle Patterson Springer, princi-
pal witness in the Henwood murder
trial here was under the cross-exam-
nation in the west side court yes
terday afternoon, her attorneys were
asking District Judge George Allen
to grant her alimony pending the de-
cision of the divorce case brought
BY her husband, John w. Springer. u
According to an affidavit presented
o Judge Allen yesterday, she will not
nave funds with which to contest the
livorce action unless the court awards
Ter money for litigation and personal
Double crosser.
Denver, Colo, June 27-"On q long
chance as he explained it after
court had recessed, Attorney John T.
Bottom for the defense in cross ex-
amining Mrs. John w. Springer, In
reduced letter signed "Mable'' and
addressed to Mrs. Springer in care Of n
Ter maid.
The letter contained sentence Of.
ering the suggestion that a certain
double crosser's" presence was un-
Necessary at the Springer ranch and
hat the writer was coming to Denver
or the purpose Of knocking said
double crosser's block off,
The district attorney objected viz.
'rously to the introduction of the let.
er, especially the reading Of it, on
he ground that he had not had an op-
'ortunity to peruse the missive.
While he was examining the letter
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