The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-07-04
JURORS IN finn
TRIAL VISIT THE
SCENE OF CRIME
Accompanied on Trip to Ida by
Prisoner, Judge, Attorneys and
Others
DAMAGING TESTIMONY IS
INTRODUCED By STATE
Several Witnesses Tell of Threats
They Heard Prisoner Make
Against Murdered Man

In OrQeT Indt tney might ldHlllldT-
ize themselves with the various To-
cations and places mentioned in the
evidence introduced in the trial of
Patrick Finn, indicted for the MUIR
der of Postmaster Thomas Jones of
Ida in that town on the night Of
March %. now in progress in the dis
trict court, the jurors were taken by
automobile to the scene of the trag-
edy this afternoon. In the party
also were the prisoner, Judge Som
ers, District Attorney M. A. Diskin,
Attorney J.. Emmett Walsh of the
defense, Miss Bird M. Wilson, the
court stenographer; Harry B. Ruhl,
the clerk of the court; Sheriff W. A
ingalls, and Deputy Sheriffs Arm
strong and Bogard, the entire party
occupying four large automobiles.
The party is expected to return to
Goldfield about Z o'clock this eve
ming.
Testimony of a sensational char
acter, strongly supporting the chain
of circumstantial evidence which the
prosecution is endeavoring to
around the accused man, was intro
duced at the session of the court yes
terday afternoon, last night and this
morning. Upon the reconvening of
court yesterday afternoon, Sheriff
ingalls, completed his testimony as
to the tracks he found in the real of
the Jones home and his finding of a
discharged shotgun paper shell a
the woodpile behind which, it is al
legged, Finn raised up and shot
J2noc Tho chariff Testified that hn
had made numerous experiments
with all the shotguns found in Ida
and with various kinds of shells. He
swore that firing pins of none of the
guns tried, other than that of Finn,
marked the shells in a manner SINH
lar to that of the discharged cart
ridge found in the rear of the Jones
home. The witness further testified
hat he, accompanied by Deputy
Sheriff John Shirley, went to the Gen.
tennial mine, about three miles from
Ida, where Finn was working, to
summon him as a witness to testify
at the inquest i've the remains OF
Jones the day following the murder.
They found, according to the witness,
Finn working, with his shotgun, a
sawed-off affair of repeating type,
near at hand. Without saying v e
whose remains the inquest was to be
held, Sheriff ingalls,, according to
his testimony. advised Finn that he
was wanted to testify. Finn, accord
ing to the witness, Immediately in
quired: rs Jones dead?"
Deputy Sheriff John Shirley cor
reiterated the testimony of Sheriff
ingalls, in detail.
Schriber Testifies
When called to the stand James P.
Schriber, a miner, told of Finn COM
ing to his home more than a year
ago and exchanging four buckshot
shells for cartridges containing
smaller shot. Subsequently Finn, ac-
cording to S%chriber, got two of the
four buckshot shells left with the
witness, explaining hal he intended
to go to Tule canyon. Schriber said
that Finn got the two buckshot shells
about a year ago and that the other
two had remained in his (Schriber's)
possession ever since. Upon being
recalled to the stand last night,
Schriber testified that he was IA
miliar with the report caused by the
discharge of Firms sawed-off shot
gun, having heard it fired several
times, and hat its reports were
identical with the two he heard at
the time of the shooting of Jones.
He said the report from the dis
charge of Firms shotgun was a
dead, fiat sound. w. A. Leitchleider,
who first testified Saturday, was also
recalled last night, and gave testi-
mony similar to that of Schriber rel
ative to the reports of Firms gun,
declaring them identical with those
he heard at the time of the shooting
of Jones.
Indian Trailer
John BaccOch, an Indian trailer,
gave interesting and minute testi-
mony last night as to the footprints
he followed from the Centennial
mine, where Finn was working, to
the rea of the Jones home and back
to the mine. He told of the number
of nails in each shoe. Upon being
recalled to the stand this morning,
when the digging boots of Finn and
a box of earth taken from the vi
cinity of the tragedy, with prints of
Firms boots in it, were introduced
in evidence, the Indian declared that
lho pIlIIS were lutUlltdl WIFI luOSt
followed by him from the Centennial
mine to the Jones home and return.
Ed Kitchen, who was recalled to
thu stand last night, swore that, in
his presence and that of A. Ranch,
also a resident of Ida, Finn made
threats against Jones the latter part
of last February.
Nick Parrish succeeded Sheriff In
gals on the stand this morning, fol-
lowing the introduction in evidence
of the shoes of Finn and the box OF
earth showing imprints of the boots
Parrish, who is an aged man and 9
pioneer resident of Ida. testified
that Finn had told him that hi
(Finn) would "get even" with Jones;
that Jones had previously arrested
him (Finn) and wanted to fine hin
$500, but that a drunken jury had
acquitted him. The witness sale
that the threat of Finn against Jone!