The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-23
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 time of the investigation of the dis. appearance ot William Wimbish vas deputy marshal assigned 10 tho ease. then took the stand on be half of the prosecution. MT. Gun ningham related in detail his work on the case. He told of sending Alec Summerville To the places where Cooper had been cutting wood and of the latters return with the information about the bones He re cited the finding of the first wood pile which was burned on one end for space Of about five feet eight and one.half inches in length. and of the discovery among the ashes there of the bones that were then on exhibition in the court roonr of shoe eyelets and other things belonging to a man, such as sus- bender buttons and buckles. The prosecution introduced plat of the territory around the scene of the alleged crime which had been drawn by the witness. who testified that he was a mining engineer The attorney for the defense objected 10 its introduction. but the court, af ter several ensures had been made admitted it. Mir Cunningham ident- flied the several exhibits that the government had offered as evidence as portions of the bones and other articles found on the scence of eith. CT one or the other of the two fires which the government contended the accused had built to dispose of the remains Of William Wimbish All the exhibits so far admitted were allowed under protest. the attorneys for the defense holding that their in troduction was incompetent. irrelevanl and immaterial. and that sufficient grounds had not been laid for their introduction as evidence.
 OTHER WITNESSES TESTIFY.
 At 4:15 on Wednesday afternoon, Alec Summerville took the stand. He Corroborated the testimony of the preceding witness. and further told of his discovery of the first wood pile at which the bones were found Cliff O'Brien was next sworn as a witness for the government He told of hauling T winters supply of food stuffs to the cabin of Wimbsh and Cooper and of seeing, later in the year probably around the last of November or the first of December. 1910. fire on the hill side. There was about six or eight inches of snow on the ground at the time. He was returning home when he noticed the blaze. which was at least two and half miles away from him He testified that it was a good sized fire, and that he had noticed it burning for fifteen or twenty min utcs before he left the road from which it was visible. Mir. O'Brien was followed by Tom O'Connor, who added nothing to the testimony Of the preceding witness. but simply cOrroborated it.
 THE TESTIMONY OF A QUARREL.
 The next witness of the prosecu, ton was J. w. Gamble He knew both the missing man and the de fendant rather we'll It was on Gam ble's recommendation that Wimbish staked the ground that they arrested Cooper on. He was a witness for Wimhish of the stalking and testi fled that Wimbish and Cooper had worked it together Cooper told Gam blc that Wimbish had gone to the Chandar with two Germans The witness then told the story of a quarrel that had taken place between Cooper and Wimbish The latter called Cooper all sorts of vile names, but Cooper. beyond a warning quiet ly given, refrained from any action whatsoever. The witness testified lHdl llt hHt" " llllDlSl wore SldSStS and smoked, but could not identify either of the plaintiffs exhibits as to these things Gamble also testified that Wimbish had two front teeth missing but could not tell whether they were missing from the upper or lower jaw According to the testi- mony of the witness, Cooper told him that Wimbish had gone away, and that he (Cooper) was now own CT of the property Wimbsh having given him a deed for it. He also told Gamble that Wimbish had four hundred dollars when he went away, and accounted for the dog owned by Wimbish by saying that the missing man owed him ten dollars and that he had kept the dog on that ac- count.
 ABOUT THE RAZOR.
 At ten minutes after nine on Wed nesday, George Smith, a colored man, took the stand at the request of the attorney for the government He told of working with Mir Cooper for some time in March until the 29th day of May, 1911. He said that about the first of May, Cooper found