The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-03
JURORS IN FIELDS CASE
ABLE TO RESUME
WORK AGAIN
STATE CLOSED ITS CASE SAT-
URDAY AFTER INTRODUCE
ING TESTIMONY OF IL
WITNESSES.
Trial Resumed by Defendants Yester-
day-Estill Star Witness for Pro-
secution-Testimony mistaken in
Court-Wife Of Ward an Inter
esting Witness.

Jurors T. G. Dickerson and George
l.. Mccormick have been sick all
week and the trial Of Shad Fields was
necessarily interrupted The sick
men, who are in local hospital. are
slowly recovering under the care of
DR.. 7. S. Farrer, and the trial of the
case was resumed yesterday after
noon. Mr.. Dickerson was taken
sick Sunday and Mr.. Mccormick on
Monday.
The state closed its case against
Shad Fields Saturday evening. The
star witness for the prosecution was
Henry Estill whose testimony the de-
Tense tried to shake several times
without result Estill was an eve
witness of the tragedy in which the
Ward brothers were killed.
The evidence on which the state
seeks to convict Fields of first degree
murder for the killing of Edward
| Ward was put before the jury by II
witnesses. An equal number are to
appear for the state in rebuttal. Seven
of the II witnesses took the stand for
the first time on Saturday. AS both
Henry Estill and Lillian Ward. who
testified on previous days, appeared
briefly in the witness chair Saturday
the court frequently on this day had
the opportunity of seeing the entire
array of states witnesses with the
exception of two people.
Widow a Witness.
Curious interest was evinced in the
appearance of Mrs. Edward Ward as
witness Saturday morning. The
MID oU 81 nuyaH ioOc of tho corrorr oh
has endured, and at times was obliged
to struggle rather bravely to keep
back the tears. This was particularly
true when she was asked to help
arrange County Prosecutor Rhodes on
the floor in the exact position in
which her husband lay when she came
to the scene of the tragedy. In her
answers she was inclined to allow her
voice to drop in diminuendo in ending
the sentences, and it was necessary for
her to make every effort to speak
louder. Mrs. Wards testimony
brought out little new evidence, being
largely corroborative of the facts
testified to by her 12-year-old daugh-
ter, Lillian, on Friday.
Pine Club Exhibit.
portance that may be attached to
states exhibit No. g. a piece of pine
club about an inch and quarter in
| Curiosity over the possible facts
piece of club has been whetted to
keen edge through the fact that every
witness who visited the scene of the
Lii
examined carefully and at length with
with reference to the bodies of the
dead men or the places where they
had lain.
When originally introduced this
stick was claimed by the state to be
mer, the sheepherder, hit Ed Ward
over the head during their alterca-
ton across the fence. When intro
duced,. there was pointed out on the
jagged broken end of the stick a
small spot said to be blood, If this
was blood from a wound on Ed.
Wards head not shred of evidence
to that effect has been produced. DIR.
G. f. Noggle of VanWyck. who was
called to examine the slain men. was
on the stand for the state during the
afternoon. He was questioned about
the condition in which he found the
body of Ed Ward but nothing what
ever was said about bruise or wound
on the top of his head The position
of the stick at the time the bodies
were found has been fixed by two oil
the states witnesses at points rather
widely separated, the defense getting
those points marked on the plat mar
prepared by Witness Warner after The
tragedy
Sheriff's Story.
w. Fl. Hiatt. sheriff OF Boise coun,
ty, took the stand and testified al
some length regarding his search fol-
Fields after the crime. He detailed
his journeys from Boise, where h,
CHANGED to be on the day of thu
shooting, to Weiser and thence into
the Crane Creek country. On obiec
ton by counsel for the defense h,
was not allowed to state what wa
told him at the CLEARWATER ranch il
: that country which he visited an,
searched. His searches in that sec
ton extended over more than TIVE
: days and he was usually accompanie,
) by Sheriff Walker of Washington
: county and one or two of Walker
deputies.
Surrender of Fields.
Sheriff Hiatt brought out in hi
: testimony his version of the surren
| der of Fields in Boise on the evenin
: of Wednesday, September 2. He sal
he saw Fields riding in an AUTOMOBILE
S with Karl Paine, ]. f. Clinton an
|, the latter's driver and turned hi
r own machine, in which he was drivin
and followed them to Mr.. Paine's oil