Arizona republican., 1911-07-06
TURNER TELLS IF BURGLARY PIuDdering Of Freidma|s s
 JeWe|ry Store
 MILLERS EXAM INA TIOh Resulting ill Holding to the Grand Jury for Receiv- ing Stolen Goods Turner Says Job Was Not Start ed but Finished by Him.


 first time. The relator was Jack Turner, who almost from the begin ming had been suspected of the crime and who has more recently been ac- cused of it and held to the grand jury on the charge of burglary.
 IL was the opinion of those who heard his narration that it was not entirely accurate. in that it did not describe the breaking of the heavy plate glass show window, but for the purposes for which it was wanted it met every essential.
 Turner was the star witness at the preliminary examination, before Jus tice JohnstOne, of C. NJ. Miller, charg- ed with receiving stolen goods, know ing them tO have been stolen The testimony of Turner and others was regarded as sufficient to warrant the holding of Miller to the grand jury and his bail was fixed at $500
 The first witness was N Friedman. the proprietor of the plundered store. His testimony related only to the wreck he found when he swas sum- moned early the morning of the burg lary and description of the jeweIry missing from the show window
 The next witness was A. II. Stone, whose disclosures to Night Waterman Harry Gaskin led to the arrest of Miller, charged with receiving stolen goods, and a warrant for burglary against Turner, who was already in custody, having been held for the burglary of the owl drug store
 Stone said that about two weeks after the Friedman job he was in Miller's pool hall when the proprietor asked him if he would dispose of some watch cases and other articles which he had received from Jack Turner Miller. he said, added that they could not be handled" in Phoenix. Stone said that he replied that he did not want the job. He said he did not see the cases and other articles which were in one or two packages behind 2 showcase.
 The next witness was Jack Dona- hue, whose name was brought into the case at the same time as Miller's, and who had admitted in cOnversa- tions with officers that he had bought articles of jewelry from Turner, dis claiming, however, that he knew or suspected that they had been stolen.
 This phase of the matter was not touched upon during the examination of DOnahue. but it was brought in later. Donahue said that some time after the Friedman burglary, he thought about two weeks. he was in the pool hall when Miller asked him if he did not want some watch cases. Donahue said he would look at them and Miller took two packages from near the cash register and they went into the basement of the building, where Miller opened the packages, disclosing the cases. Donahue said that after looking at them casually he told Miller that he did not want them. Asked whether Miller told him that he had received the goods from Turner. he said that he thought he did, but was not sure of that. Miller might have told him so at that time or it might have been after the ar rest of himself and Miller in cOnnec- ton with the affair
 The only article taken from the show window that had ever been found was a watch case in the pos session of Ed Ashley a bartender at the Ford The case had been given to him by Miller It was recovered the morning following the arrest and Miller stated at that time that he had received it from a man named Pat terson. who had since died. Patter- son, Miller said. told him that he had bought it at the pool hall from fellow who was hard up and wanted a dollar for it. It was gold filled case second hand and had the insig- nia of the order of the Eagles, en- graved on the back of the inner case
 Ashley was put on the stand. He said that some time, he could not say whether before or after the burglary, Miller came to the bar and offered to make him a present of the case. which he said belonged to an Eagle. Ash lev took it, thinking it was a watch, and laid it on the back bar. When he examined it at his leisure and found that if was only a case, he left 1t ly- ing there and never saw it afterward, or never touched it. until it was called for the morning following the arrest of Miller.
 He was asked whether Miller told him from whom he had received the case. and he said that Miller told him that it had been given to him by "one of the boys"
 Then came the confession of Fur ner. He said that the night preced- ing the burglary he had been at din her With Jack Donahue and Dick Purcell. After leaving them he went to a restaurant to get some coffee and a sandwich for his wife and then he went to his room in the Steinegger block, over the city demo cratic headquarters, where he was employed assisting in strenuous ef-