The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-04-09
Testimony OF Defendant contrad'ots
Declarations Made BY witnesses
For the state

f1Dld den, April e.-Resuming his tes'
Iony, which was interrupted by the
" ,ournment Of court last Friday, ].
w Martin. accused Of shooting De-
'X ,,,ve Dave Edwards, on the morn
. NJ November 9, this morning told
q, h,s relations with number of
,rsons who have figured in the trial
bo,uding several witnesses for the
tate. and recounted his knowledge
lack of knowledge Of events which
ove been associated with the shoot
O. and subsequent developments.
,artin did not take the stand until
ter II o'clock as the first part OF
he session of court was devoted TO
Probate matters and the setting of
asses.
Under direct examination Martin
estified that the first time he had
over seen DR.. Henry Lee was ut po-
ice headquarters after his arrest. His
Recount of that meeting differed in
many respects from the account Civ.
pn by DR.. Lee when he was testify
Ing for the state. Martin declared
that he had never seen DR.. Lee in
Morgan and had never been treated
by him. He related that when ne
and Lee had been together the FIST
time in the presence of police of'ic-
ers. he had been asked to remove the
clothing from his leg and to let DR..
Lee examine that member. He said
that. placing his finger on a small
sore on Martins ankle DR.. Lee had
said to the officers, believe that's
il. The sore is alleged to have been
q wound received from Detective Id
wards gun in the shooting ARRAY on
Seventeenth street. Martin declared
that when DR.. Lee had said to the
officers, believe that's it, he, Mar
did not know. what the 1oator
/ had meant.
Asked as to whether he had ever
met D. J. Geary, another OF the
states witnesses and the man at
whose home in Morgan 1t was alleg'
ed Martin asked for a nights locg
ing, the defendant declared that he
had never seen Geary before he met
him at the county Jail after his ar
rest. His account of this meeting DIT
fered in some respects from Geaty
account of It. Martin denied ever
having seen Geary in Morgan and
also that he was in Morgan at the
time testified by the states witness
es. He declared that while he was ID
Jail a number Of persons supposed te
be from Morgan and who have mol
been called to the witness stand, were
brought to the jail in an effort tt
identify him as the man seen II
Morgan on the night following the
shooting of Edwards. y
Martin denied also that he had
ever conversed with Leroy Eccles, ei
Their directly or by telephone 'priol
to the time of his arrest. To MI
knowledge, he said. he had not seer
Mr.. Eccles before the night he wal
arrested. The witness was asked al
to his knowledge Of telephone wires
and explosives. He answered INA
ne knew praCticdiiy ho@o
phone wires and had never hand'e'
explosives except to help Tanspor
them when he worked as a raiiso"'
hand. He denied ever having nee'
near the Eccles home and sara III
knew nothing of its dynamiting'
Identifies Handwriting
At the request OF counsel ne iue'
titled the handwriting in certain ao'
>uments which he said were dictate
o him at the police station AFTER Ill
arrest by Chief of Police Norton Ii
roy Eccles, Ralph Smith and Geors
Wardlaw.
Martin testified that before n
had been accused of connection "'t
Matchmaking he knew that he IA
been Swallowed by detectives TOT Il
teen days. He said that two suppo'