Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-02-19
shEED DEFENSE
NEARLY COMPLETE
CASE MAY co TO THE JURY
BY SATURDAY AT
NOON
INTEREST STILL TENSE
FULL DETAILS OF THIS FAMOUS
DOMETIC NTRAGEM AGAIN
RECITED' ON THE W.T.
NESS STAND
special 10 Daily Newr

VERNON. Tex, Feb. Is. -- The
first testimony offered this morn
ing by the defense In the j. u.
sneed case was that of +. Mcdonald
the negro porter on the Pullman the
night Al Boyce and Mrs. Sneed lei,
Fort Worth. lie stated that Al
Boyce and Mrs. Sneed had occu-
MED the same berth. Mrs. Sneed
not arising until about 4 o'clock the
next day: that some time before
witness went to bed he passed their
berth and heard Mrs. Sneed numb
ling and crying.
Ed Farwell, assistant cashier oi
the Midway Bank 4 Trust Co, oil
Dalhart. bank controlley by the
Boyces. testi led that on the tth OF
November he met AL Boyce In Fort
Worth and on the following day ne
went with him TO the First Nation
al bank, where check for Sl'oVV
was cashed by Boyce, that some
time during the afternoon OF the SIN
Mrs. need and the nurse, Miss Lillie
Flowers. got OIL the Arlington
Heights car near the metropolitan
hotel and that he later saw them at
the Union station just prior to the
departure OF the Frisco train, that
witness mad therefore purchased
TWO tickets and two sleeper reser-
vations al the request OF Boyce, one
of the tickets 10 81. Louis ana the
other to Springfield. Mo. That at
the train that night Al Boyce gave
the nurse a check Tor $500. II was
attempted to be proven by the state
that Mrs. Sneed told Boyce not TO
give the nurse a check as she Mrs.
Sneed) had, already paid her for
getting her away from the sanitar-
ium. This testimony was objected
10 by the defendant, and the court
sustained the objection,
Assistant Postmaster Mckee ana
three messenger boys working IA
the special delivery letter depart
ment. testified to the receipt aud
delivery OF several special delivery
letters to l.. b. Moss al the Hotel
Dixie from about the cath TO the
30th OF July. 1912. Two OF the
messenger boys, on being shown a
small picture OF Al Boyce. Identified
II as being the likeness OF the man
10 whom they delivered such let
ters.
W. J. Simpson, now clerk at the
Majestic hotel. but during last sum
mer night clerk at the Dixie hotel,
testified that a man calling himself
AL Boyce registered at the Dixie
hotel on the 18th OF July and was
assigned TO room a.; that he re-
NAMED there for some two weeks
leaving the LIST Of August. that on
the gath Boyce changed rooms and
was assigned 10 rooms and 10
on the second floor.
W. Blair. a Fort Worth real
estate man. formerly in the sam,
business at Dalhart. testified he had
known Al Boyce for ten years thal
during last July, about the latter
part of the month he had seen
Boyce several times in Fort Worth
in witnesses office. which was be
tween Sth and tn streets on Throck
morton Questioned by defendant
were asked with reference to di
rect route between the Dixie hote
and the Johnson sanitarium. wher'
Mrs. Sneed was supposed TO be con
fined. witness said that would b'
about as near a route as one could
go but net iy any means more direc
thaa Others. On cross examination
he said Boyce appeared as he al
ways did when witness had know
him previously; that he was in hi
office nearly every day during hi
stay in Fort Worth; that one one oc
casion he saw Boyce change clothe
by buying a new suit. and that a
that time he was not armed.
Billie Steele. OF Dallas. distantl.
related TO sneed. testified that h
first saw Mrs. Sneed after her re
turn from Canada at the time sh'
instituted a writ OF habeas corpu
and was released from Fort Wort.
sanltarium; that after that proceed
ing vas had. Mrs Sneed went to hi
home In Dallas and remained will
himself and sister for a day or two
going on to Plano TO see her chill
dren; that later on Mrs. sneef an,
a sister Of the witness. Miss Nell
Steele. made q trip TO California
remaining away for some weeks
and witness saw Mrs Sneed In tn
Johnson sanitarium In Fort Worth
that on June 2ist he got telephon
messaee from Miss Bridges. hea