The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-09-04
O'DONNELL CASE TO
BE ARGUED TUESDAY

Taking Of testimony in the . Doa-
nell hearing was concluded in Justice
Dunn 5 court at the noon adjournment,
when an adjournment was taken until
Tuesday, when arguments will be sub
mitted by District Attorney Powell, for
the state, and J. M. Frame and G. r.
Robins, Of the firm Of Salter, Robins
Frame, for defendant.
Yesterday afternoon Doris Johnson,
who proved 10 be the State s principal
witness. took the stand and testified
IN substance as follows:
~ went to work in the Combination
saloon about July 10th and left July
2sth. Mrs Forquer introduced me u
James O'Donnell few days after |
went there. ] was with O'Donnell
three or four nights and every after
noon. Nearly every day he talked %
re about the Forquer murder The
first time he brought up the subject he
said the man who killed F0rquer was
brave and people would have to hand
it to him He told me the man role
right up TO the barn on the main road
about sun-up and went back the same
way. He told me that after Forquer
hsd been killed his (Forquer - bull
dog ran about half way up the steps
leading to the loft and locked up at
Red as If he knew what had happen
"a TO mis- master O'DonneI told me
that after Red was shot he looked up
and said, Oh, JIM Another day
0'Donnell was showing me the way
Red was killed. He said he knew pos
itively who the man was who killed
Forquer, but he was n thousand miles
away and he % 'DonnelD would have
las neck strung up before he would
tell.
"ODonnell spent about 800 in the
Combination during the time he was
with me. The second night he took me
10 lodging house. He was to give me
800. hut wanted me 70 wait until next
morning and ] wanted the money then.
We got into an argument and he said,
sTf You don = look ont I viii DO You
the same way I did Red Forque-.
Earlier in the evening he handed me a
s1G piece and said, There goes some
more Of my reward money ] supposed
he meant the reward money was for
killing Red Forquer. Before we went
to the lodging house O'Dounell said he
would have to 60 and get some money
Mrs. Forouer had in the safe. He call
ca her away and was talking 20 her,
told him T did not want to leave the
house as Mrs Forauer might not like
Is. and he said. 'Never mind. / We got
something on 10 (Mrs. Forquerl; she y
not oaen her mouth; she'll do as }
say
Cross Examination
Af
searching cross-examination by defend.
arts attorneys. She admitted that
when she first became acquainted with
the Chinaman who caused her arrest
for embezzling diamond ring, that he
gave her "a watch Afterwards he gave
her diamond ring. worth about 500,
and that after securing same she left
for Salt Lake City. telling her ac
duaintances that she was going -
Tonopah. Witness further stated that
she was arrested IN Salt Lake City nv
Detective Ward Reis, placed in iail
fer "a hours, when she was brought 10
Winuemucen and turned loose. Pressed
forther she said that while IN iail she
was visited hv Refs who talked the
ease over with her and then went and
had preuared n tvpewritten statement
fF hHF tfftfN NNffF WNtfN We fNtfE Nft'
from Jail 20 the Office Of a notary pub
le whore she subscribed and aeknowl
edoed The settlement
At the conclusion of the Johnson wn-
man 3 testimony this morning the state
rested.
Evidence introduced by Defense
The defense called Dete tive Ward
Rcis, who made rather a reluctant wit
ness, but finally corroborated the tes
timonv Of the Johnson woman so for
as il related 10 her Salt Lake trim.
Attorney J.. O. Hawkins tasti6e
the same as at the hearing Of Mrs. For
quer. He was fishing in the Humboldt
river, a short distance below the baru
where ForQuer's 5 body was found, on
he evening of July 4, and at about
7,s5 O'Clock heard four shots, evident
ly fred from q rife, at a point close
TO the barn.
y a. k'rwin testified that he took
supper with Forquer at The Bud
cafe on the evening Of July 4, enl
that they fnishea their meal and LEFT
the place at $40 O'Clock.