The Washington times., 1911-08-31
Deenses Witnesses Badly Tangled by the Prosecution Beae Case

at sold it Saturday in the morning be-
"Mr. Wendenburg." said weinstein.
'T don't think an answer like tnat
wrong" said the witness after hair
minutes thought.
81 said: You said II was several MIN, nm,
"No, I didn't"
ibid you not say positively to Mr.
Smith II was before 10 in the MORN
The Court Interferes.
"Eo." =
The court interfered here a minute
thinking that the witness was labqrins
under a ruisapprehensicn. Mr.. Wenden-
hurg had the stenographer read over
the witness previous testimony.
.syvho was the man who bought the
watch that niKht?' '.-
Il don't remember. ..-
''Did the man set the watchF
Yes, he asked me the time.
"It Was a few minutes before 10
"Why did you not tell the jury five
minutes ago that you knew 1t was af'er
Il don't think did." 49,
The stenographer read the record: II
know Il was after 10 o'clock"
Witness Plainly Ratified.
"Nov. what do you say to thatr'
thundered wendenburg.
Il don't know" stammered the wit
ness. II went over to get some meat.
and" Mr.. wendenburg interrupted.
The witness had been very plainly rat.
tied by the way he & was ,nSaas esught' eausn'
Mr. Smith interfered and wanted 90
know about that statement about the
You have made two conflicting state
ments about the time this man SET ms
watch. You said the man set his watch
before 10. and you said he set II after
10. which was right and which was
"He set his watch before TO-"
That was truef And the other state
ment falseT
Doesn't Recall Conversation
Judge Watson intervened to help the
witness. whom he thought did not un-
derstand fully that '-false'' might mean
'rn error" or " 'purposely' untrue"
You remember your conversation
with Mr.. Scherer about the sale OF the
gum"
You remember telling him that you
told the people IN the In1S sfSre tbs tha1 you
Ibid YOU not tell Mr.. scherer that
YOU did not know where the gun was
when Paul came In after it?"
Yes, / told him that.
store was So crowded that you could
not remember the timer ,
mo, I told him it was before III.
"My Word As Good As Paul's.'
at has been tested. Mr.. Weinstein.
in this case, that Paul Beattie was in
Manchester up to 10 o'clock. How then
could you have given him the gun be-
fore 10 O'Clock Are you willing to still
saw IT was before 10 o'clock, 1t being
Paul Beattie, who said this?"
'I guess my word is as good as Paul
Il didn't intend to come here and
make any statement for anybodys
good. I only made mistake"
you remember saying 1t was after
10 o'clock"
"I think 1 remember saying it."
when I asked you before, you said
you did not say 1t:
Yes, SIR"
"Was the store crowded that nighR"
yes"
WON'T venture SutSS.
"How many people did you wait
on?"
"I couldn't tell"
-"As many as 80 or 2o0?"
II would not say"
"Yet you can remember you delivered
the gun before 10?"
"Yea that is a different thing"
This grueling cross-examination con-
tinued about the time Of day the wit
ness sold and delivered eight different
watches that day. Mr.. WendenburS
asked him to name the hour Of delivery
of any watch. The witness made a stab
at one, the rest he would not guess at
the time Of delivery"
Then a new tack was begun.
when Mr.. Wren and Mr.. Wiltshire
came to you, did you not say that
you had known Paul three months?
"Oh, I told them 1 had known him
two or three weeks"
On redirect examination Mr. Smith