The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-03
CLIFFORD KEPT OFF
STAND BY JEROME
Accused Boy In Jail Tells Re-
portcrs He Was in a Restau-
rant at Time Of Murder.
TIE DID NOT KNOW CUTE
Feel, sure Of Acquittal-De-
fence Closes and Case May
TO to Jury To-day.
he DID NOT KNOW CLUTI

.Nau,>l, July without putting Mai
colin clifford. Jr., on the stand to tell
vii re hr was the night Frank J. Clute
vas murdered. the attorneys for the de-
= nee rested this afternoon and court was
5iJourncd until tomorrow morning. when
tho summing up will begin. 1t Is cx-
pccted that the jury will get the case to-
morrow night
Chords counsel said that In the face
~ the assertions OF five witnesses who
saw Clute driving his automobile out Of
Albany on the fatal trip his fare was not
Malcolm clifford, Jr., there was no neces-
s.,y Of placing him on the stand. The
boy himself appeared to be ovcranxious
10 submit, to the questions OF the District
Attorney.
clifford broke the silence he has main
ia.n,d since his arrest and tonight told
IN ja.l where he was on the night of the
murder.
clifford Tell. Of Movements.
after leaving the boys at the Board.
man House In Troy" said young clifford.
Il Went TO Stoll's restaurant In Troy. |
had dinner there.
at any time during my trial | was
willing 20 testify, but counsel deemed II
unnecessary.
Il have nothing to shield. I never knew
Frank Clute or any one of the Clute fam
ily. never hired an automobile at
state street or at Keller's In Albany"
The boys confidence OF acquittal was
apparent when ne remarked: II hope to
be home with the folks for the Fourth
Giffords absence from Troy on the
night OF the murder, his failure to take
the witness stand and account for tn,
several hours he was away from his
companions and the discovery of the Clute
pocketbook under the caves OF the Board
man home in Troy are the three strong
81 points made by the District Attorney.
Stories that clifford Is shielding a
woman and taking his chances with the
Jury were revived tonight after he said
that he uas AT Stoll's on the night of
the murder. II was brought out at the
rial that one Of Giftord's companions
tent him $50 Just before he left them
that night A table d'hote dinner at
Stolrs costs about 81
WomRn's story IL mistaken.
Mrs. Samuel u. Gibson. wife OF the
Troy Street Superintendent, who was the
star witness for the defence yesterday
vas called hy Jerome to-day. She said
that She was With her husband on the
night Clute was murdered and that while
Walking along the Albany-Troy road she
came upon Clutc cranking his car
Mr. Gibson said that she got a good
l"ot AT the passenger and that IL was
not Malcolm clifford. whom she knew
Tie District Attorney failed TO shake her
story.
Three witnesses were called by he Dis
irict Attorney to-day In an effort TO dis
c-'dit the testimony of Samuel n. Gibson,
which was substantially the same as that
given by his WIFE
Mrs. Julia Benjamin. from whom Gibson
h.'"d house on the Alhany-Troy road
George Bevilc and Ernest @. Lock, rail-
ioad workers. 'cst!tied that only recently
Gibson had made inquiries from them
snout whether or not tho Troy Science
tady cars, by which the Gibsons said they
had reached tho scene Of the murder, were
running on the day Clute was killed. The
District Attorney made an effort to inn
nress upon tho jury the conviction that
me stor! Of tho Gibsons was an invention
Leslie Allen, a civil engineer. testified
mat the distance between tho home OF
'ror James Crap. a good witness for the
nrosocu'ion. and the place whcrc Clute
vas murdered was G15 feet Craw testi-
Yea that he heard tho shots which caused
Olnto's death about 10 o'clock on the night
~ April /. 1918.
An automatic revolver. Attorney Jerome
"ssertcd, could not h" heard that distance
especially Since ID" wind on that nigh.
was blowing from tho professors house
Found Cha uH-ur's Body,
'raN found the body of CHUTE and
ne gloves, which tn" State alleges be-
,ons.d To Clifford. These gloves were
MOOD stained, Craw said. when he pIcked
mem up near the scene OF the murder.
'heN were free from blood when sub
lni',ed by District Attorney Alexander as
evidence. chemist could find no blood
stains OH them.
Malcolm Giffords parents werc more
nopetul OF acquittsl tonight than at any
nm. during the trial. Counsel for Clifford
were also confident that the youth would
NJ acquitted
LAWYERS u no have been Mt the trial
ea'n day believe that the jury viii dis
agree.