Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-14

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corridors. The rush to see Hauser on
trial was so great that the Judge was
compelled TO order the doors closed
shortly after court resumed session.
Evidence for Defense To-day.
Attorneys Richard Horton. ]. i. Bed
mar and Edward f. Rooney OF Topeka,
| representing Hauser. refused last night
to say what witnesses will be intro
duced in his behalf today. 1t is known,
however that Mrs. May Hauser wife of
the defendant, who came from wichita
to attempt to save him from the electric
chair. will try to prove an alibi for him.
The state completed its case by intro
| ducing three witnesses yesterday after
noon. These were Watson A. Hitchcock,
| 9O3 South Twenty-fourth street; c. ID.
Crozier. 2117 Webster. and Steve Maloney,
captain OF Omaha detectives
Hitchcock corroborated testimony OF
| Nels Gunderson street railway conductor,
| that Hauser boarded a westbound Far
nam car at 1880 o'clock the night of the
| murder, October 16. He remembered
Hauser, he said, on account of his agi-
tated manner He testified, as did all
the other witnesses who saw the man on
that night, that he wore a dark suit
without any overcoat and q dark soft
J hat
Tells where Hauser Lived.
| Crizier is proprietor of a rooming
house, where Hauser and his wife and
3-year-old daughter, Ida, lived from Oc-
tober ! to q. Attorneys for the defense
admitted that Hauser was in Omaha
during this period and objected to the
testimony, but it was received. Crozier
said Hauser stayed at home in the day
time and went out at night Objections
TO further testimony concerning his per-
sonal habits were sustained.
Captain Maloney told of theidentifica-
ton ofHauser by Miss Grace Slater, eye
witness of the murder. at Wichita, after
the man had been brought from Indianap-
oils. where he was arrested.
The detective chief was anxious to tell
number of circumstances concerning
Hauser, to which objections of the de-
Tense were sustained. He provoked hur-
ried protests ny Hausers attorneys and
Judge English when he intimated that
the defendant had confessed the holdup
of the w. T. Hause home week before
the date of the Smith murder,
Maloney identified huge, wicked look
ing blue-steel revolver as a gun which
Chief OF Police John Hays OF Wichita
had received from Hauser and given to
him. Hauser admitted the gun was his
the captain testified.
Judge Asks 10 Il IL Loaded.
A. the ewapon was handed to Maloney
by the county attorney its muZzle pointed
ominously at Judge English. The court
inquired in a dignified manner:
Are there any bullets in that cyin-
der?"
mo. SIR" said Mr., Msgney ut ID
empty"
The judge held that the gun should moi
be received in evidence, owing to lack
OF evidence connecting IL with the muir
der OF Mr.. Smith. DR.. s. McClenaghan
coroner's physician, had testified that hC
believed Mr. Smiths wound was in
flicted by .ss-caliber gun, but said III
could not be positive.
wife Tries 10 save Bandit.
Mrs. May Hauser, a-year-old wife o
Arthur Hauser. who. according TO polio
reports, furnished information which re
> suited in his arrest arrived from Wichit
to attempt by her testimony TO save hir
from the electric chair.
With her were the S-year-old daughte
OF the bandit. who resembles him TO
remarkable degree, and HauseTs age
mother. The trio came from Wichits
; Kan, which is their home.
The wife declared she will testify tina
: Hauser was with her the night OF IN
murder, October i6, thus providing a
alibi and n possible escape from the ne
! OF evidence which the state already ha
drawn tightly about the alleged muT
derer OF W. II. Smith, Woodmen of tn
World cashier.
The two women exhibited intense at
lection and devotion for the bandit VIII
IS charged with committing many terrbl
crimes.
: Mrs. Mary Hauser the mother 90 year
old, rushed into the court room, threw
her arms about her son and kissed hin
. repeatedly. While District Judge Ensiisl