The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-16
4 SENSATION IN
 JOHNSTON TRIAL
GOV 5uLAs cLINcHEs CASE FOB STATE AND THEN DISPUTES
 EVIDENCE OFFERED.
Forces Prosecutors Witt and wbi. tington to Stand to Deny Part of the Evidence he Has Given
 the State.

Sensational surprises were offered thick and fast at yesterday mornings session of the trial of George Johr ston, on trial for his life in circuit court when Coy Bulas put the nrose. cution in possession of evidence that seemed to clinch it's case against Johnston, and then before the evi. dence was before the jury causaa Prosecuting Attorney Witt and Deputy Wilmington both to make af. fidayits as to his impeachment on certain points.
 Bulas is a young fellow. ahon+ 10 years of age, and has worked at var. lous places about the vicinity of Hot Springs. His credlbility was in tba balance with the jury last night. And ms evidence i'll a brief two hours of the hearing yesterday first eomplata. y upset the defense, and next sent the prosecution high in the air Where the effect of that conflict of testimony will finally rest will only be determined when the jury brings in It's verdict.
 Deputy Prosecutor Wilmington only came into possession of the sen | tion that Hulas was to offer for inc state on Tuesday night. Bulas had been found" through an accident Ills brother had been a member of the coroners jury which had passed on the death of Carol sherman whose murder Johnston is charged with. This Juror Buas had been summoned, and Coy Bulas had ans wered.
 The state had been lacking in q sufficient motive for the crime John. ston and Shepman, who he was charg. ed with killing, had been friends. and while there was a little financial diff. ference between the two yet it was hardly sufficient to be taken as q motive for murder.
 Bulas took the prosecuting attor. ney's office off its feet when. in an ante-room of the court house Tues. day night he told that on the Wed nesday afternoon before Shepman was last seen Wednesday night. he had been at Johnstons house, and that Shepman was there. He told that in the room occupied by these three, Johnston had spoken to Sbep- man about Shepman paying his board and Shepman had gotten up. gone to his coat hanging on a nail looked ID me inside pocket taken out large ron of bills, and laid them out on the table.
 The bills were about five inches around, so many of them were there when they were rolled and tied with string. Bulas was positive. He saw the bills laid out, and when Shep- man did not have change, he agreed to settle the board question later, and Shepman rolled the bills back together, tied them. and stuck them pack in the pocket of his coat hang. ing on the naiI
 Certainly that was the most sen. sational testimony offered so far in the case. and looked like the case of the state was complete.
 After all the ordinary evidence was ln' and just before adjournment for the morning session, Coy Bulas was called. Deputy Wilmington asked ms name, age, and other preliminary questions.
 Do you know Johnston?p
 "Yes."'
 Did you know shepman?"
 Yes"
 Are you and Johnston friends ?'
 Yes, We have visited each other often"
 Were you at his house on Wednes. uay afternoon, just before Carrol Snepman was said to be missing?"
 was there Thursday afternoon.
 Refresh your memory. Wasn't il Wednesday?"
 No. 1t was Thursday"
 Are you certain of that?"
 Yes. l know it was Thursday"
 There came a halt in the question. ing. The bomb that the prosecution was to have thrown into the case ol lhe defense was at fault. Under the theory of the state, and under t.e evidence, Shepman was last seen ailVe Wednesday evening or night p0A ne lett Johnstons cabin. ii 9hepman was lured to the woods and n'uraered where the dead body was louhd' 1t must have been on Wednes uay night. And the sensational tes t.mony Bulas was to offer was rela- we to one day after Shepman was supposed to have been murdered. The prosecution was non-plussed for the moment, just as the defense was later.
 into an ante-room the court and iawyers repaired, when Deputy Whit ungton told the court that he was 9ppiprised at the evidence thus far
 ne then related the evidence that tuias stated the night before, and even that morning. he would swear un the stand, and Wilmington had