The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-23
COOPER FOUND GUILTY
 OF MURDERING WIMBISH

Wimbish would never return At the same time Cooper said that Wimbish had staked the Gilmore creek ground. but that as he had not done the as sessment work on it Henry Baatz had jumped the claim. The witness was not cross-examined by the law | yers for the defense.
 | Allan Cunningham was then re called to identify several photos which he and Dr Cassels had made of the two piles of bones and other exhibits found at the scene of the two fires. The witness testified that he had been an amateur photo. grapher for two years. The photos that he had taken were admitted as evidence in spite of the protest Of the lawyers for the defense.
 1 Mrs. Anna Anderson then testified that she had given Cooper letter addressed to Wimbish She was un- | able to identify the coat that the prosecution had introduced as the one worn by the missing man. Abe Stein then testified that he had sold the fur coat and identified the one introduced by the governments attorneys as the one he had sold | ly admitted over the objection of the defendants attorneys Fred | Holmberg told of having seen fire, the blaze of which was about ten feet high He testified that Cooper had told him that Wimbish was forced to leave the country be- | cause of crime alleged to have | been committed on the Outside. and that the authorities were after him for that reason.
 THE TESTIMONY OF EXPERTS.
 At four minutes after II o'clock ! Thursday morning Dr. w. G. Cassels was sworn as a witness in the case l on behalf of the government From
 
 cupied the stand He occupied it at the opening of the afternoon ses- | sion until fourteen minutes after two, when the government called pr McCallum to the stand He. in turn was followed after one hour and sixteen minutes of examination and cross examination. by Dr. Suther- | land, who was on the stand for i twenty-three minutes. The experts agreed in all the main points of l Identification. All of the experts claimed that the bones were those of human being. None were willing to testify whether or not they were the l bones of a white man or of col ored man. or whether they were of male or a female skeleton. As no duplicates of the bones found in the first pile were found in the see. ond pile of ashes, the experts were of the opinion that they were the bones of the same person in both cases. Dr. McCallum testified that the cheek bones of the first pile was the right cheek bone of human and the one in the second pile was the left cheek bone of q human being He further stated that in his opin- ion they were the bones of the | n t;S,, the defendants attorneys tried to bring out the fact that the bones of the skull of negro were thicker than that of white person, that his hands were longer and that his his hands were longer and that his foot was bigger than that of Cau- casian. The arguments as to the size of the foot were admitted by the experts, but they claimed that a thick skulled white man would have a cranium as thick as that of a thin skulled negro
 THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON was given over to the examination of Henry BaatZ and Tom Gilmore Baatz testified that he was intimate ly acquainted with the missing ne gro. He said that he had seen the fire in the fall of 1910, and that he had investigated it as he had wood near by. When he discovered that his wood was not in danger he discontinued his investigation. He testified that Wimbish had always carried a quartz glass. He identified the glass offered by the government as plaintiffs Exhibit A. This the court admitted as evidence over the objections of MT. Roth, one of the attorneys for the defense. He also stated that Wimbish wore glasses which he carried in case AS he could not identify the one introduce ed by the government positively, Mr. Roth's objection to their introduc- tion as evidence was sustained. Cooper told the witness, according to his testimony, that Wimbish had gone down the river on a hunting trip. The defendant also said that he had heard of his name being mentioned in connection with the disappearance of his former partner, and that he was going to Fairbanks