Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-07-15
.HENW00D ACCUSES
TRIAL JUDGE Of
PREJUDICE
CONVICTED MURDERER
DEMANDS NEW TRIAL
Petition Sets Forth Ninety-0ne
Reasons Why It Should Be
Granted Declares Jury Was
Coerced.
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| tby morning JOuruHt spectd- Lthseu WheI
/ Denver. July 4.--Ninoty-one rea-
sons. including charges OF bias against
| Judge Greeley w. Whitford and the
claim that new witnesses have been
| found In Kansas CITY and California
We're filed in court today upon which
attorneys ask new trial for Harold
| f. Henwood. convicted of second de-
gree murder for the killing Of George
| l.. Copeland in hotel bar the night
of May "a, while shooting at ~ L.
Won Phul, the st. Louis balloonist
Charges are made against practic-
ally every member of the court Off
cial staff, the district attorneys Of
flee and the attorney for John w.
Springer, whose former wife took the
stand in the trial of Henwood that
ii Is his belief that the purpose Of
the action on the part of those so
charged was to prevent HenWood be-
ing given fair trial.
The motion sets forth that the de-
fendant believed that the presiding
judge. by means of his bias and pre-
judce, not alone against this defend
ant personally but against all per-
sons. generally speaking, who may be
charged with and tried for crime in
his said court could not and did not
give the defendant fair trial"
1t is claimed that Judge Whtford
in another case dismissed jury
with a rebuke for bringing in a YER
dict displeasing to him." and that
this fact. known to the Henwood jury
caused them to agree to a verdict not
in keeping with the evidence.
Among the new witnesses is Will
liam +. Webster, who knew Won
Phul in st. Louis and was at the
hotel the night of the shooting. II is
claimed Webster will testify that late
in the afternoon Won Phul showed
him revolver and later remarked
That he would make good use of it,"
letter from the manager Of a
Kansas city detective agency says that
he will testify that Won Phul while In
Kansas city at the aviation meet re-
marked that he (Von PhuD was go
ing to Denver and kill a -"
A United States army officer be-
lleved to be Captain George Thomas,
at the bar during the shooting viii
testify that he saw Won Phul reach
for his revolver.
Another witness is a member of
theatrical company, who, it is claim
ed, will testify that he took several
articles from Won Phuls pocket and
that among them was a revolver.
Attorneys for Henwood tonight Sc
cured the affidavit Of John T. Carver,
an employe of a moving and storage
concern here, to the effect that on
the night of the Henwood shooting
ARRAY. while he was standing outside
the Broadway entrance to the Brown
Palace hotel bar, where the shooting
took place he heard one man say to
another with whom he was in con-
Versation, Il would have killed the
-------------- In my room, but he didn't
have gun and | didn't dare. But
I'll get him yet" The other man, Gar
yer declares, warned the speaker to
be careful, receiving the reply, "I'vl
got Influence enough to put it over. =
Carver says he followed the men
into the bar and asked who the two
men were. He says he was told that
the man who had made the threat
was Tony Won Phul The other
man. he says. was unknown to his
informer
To newspaper men tonight Carver
declared that he had talked of the
matter with friends at the time of
Henwood's trial, but had not notified
Henwood's attorneys because he
thought Henwood would be acquitted
and that he would keep out Of the
case.