The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-04-03
Mrs. A. McLaren Boyle Wal.
lin in Serious Condition
After Giving Testimony
in Martin Case.
IDENTIFIES VOICE
OF THE DEFENDANT
Swears on Cross-examination
That She Could Never For
get 1t; States Case Is
Nearly Finished.
Special to The Tribune,

Special to The Tribune.
OGDEN, April 2.-The most impres.
slVe witness III the states case against
Joseph Henry Martin, on trial for the
shooting of David Edwards, the Pinker-
ton detective, on the early morning of
November last, gave her testimony at
today's session, concluding the prosecu-
tion's chain Of Identification She is
Mrs. A. McLaren Boyle Wallin, one Of
the first victims of the blackmailers,
She positively identified the voice of
the defendant as the one which had
spoken to her in her bedroom when
she was robbed of her diamond ring
and on three other occasions She said,
on cross-examination, she could never
forget it.
After leaving the witness stand, Mrs.
Wallin tainted several times in the
private office of Judge j. A. Howell,
adjacent to the courtroom, and is in
serious condition from the ordeals she
has gone through since she was first
victimiZed by the blackmailcrs.
Tells Story Calmly.
Mrs. Wallin told her story calmly
and with conviction Cross-ezamination
by Attorney Christensen made her tes-
timony stronger, according to the
claims Of the prosecution. She was de-
clared to be the star witness for the
prosecution. Her testimony practically
closed the states case. But for the
absence of Sheriff T. A DeVine in
Salt Lake the prosecution IS case would
have been concluded at today's ses-
sion. 1t will be finished tomorrow
morning in half an hour, Attorney
Christensen will mako his opening ar.
gument for the defense and it is ex.
pected the case will go to the jury next
Wednesday.
Stripped Of the questions which
brought out her testimony, Mrs. Wal
lin told the following story: She was
called to the police station on Decem-
Der 10 Of last year following the arrest
Of Martin. She was IN the office Of
the chief of police, when the door was
opened at a crack so voices Of persons
conversing in small anteroom could
be heard. She heard the voice Of the
defendant talking to Detective Robert
Burk IN the anteroom. She heard a
few remarks and then left. She had
heard enough. 1t was the same voice
that had spoken to her in her bedroom
at 9 'clock in the morning Of October
2S, 1911, when she was robbed OF her
diamond ring while the man stood over
her with a handkerchief over his nose,
q gun in his hand and light flashed
into her eyes,
Tells of Threats.
The robber told her to take the ring
off her finger and be quick about it,
and not try to get out of the house,
like She did on the previous occasion
when he came to rob her. or she would
get hurt. She replied she, could not
easily take the ring from her finger.
The robber replied that she could do
it easily by sticking her frae4g finger sha IN hG5 h5
as was directed. The robber shook
hands with her when he left.
The next time sho heard the voice
was three days later, when she was
called on the telephone at her home
She had received q letter the day be-
fore UlrGctlup neT no" 10 ucllNcl Siuo
and her ring would be returned to her.
The telephone message came in the
evening. The voice asked her If sho
had received the letter. She said sho
had.
1fI want you to be honest with me-"
said the voice, which she says she is
positive was Martin Is, "and l will do
exactly as / say. ] expect you TO do
the same and no harm will come to
you
Following the instructions, she drove
out TO Washington avenue and Twelfth
street about II o CLOCK with her hus-
band. They drove around that neigh.
borhood, as directed, until 9 CLOCK in
the morning. Then they started for
home. Between Fifteenth and Six
tecnth streets on Washington avenue a
tall man about the height of Martin
approached her. He had been walking
north on Washington avenue and had
a companion with him who was an inch
or two taller
Approached by RObber.
The man approached her buggy. AS
he came toward them, he lifted hand
kerchiof winch hung around his neck
to his nose.
fWho's thatf" the same voice she
had heard in her bedroom asked,
mIt's me- replied the witness.
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