The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-05
WHITE To DENY
HIS GUILT. To
JURORS, TODAY
MAN ACCUSED OF ASSAULT ON
YOUNG GIRLS ON TRIAL IN
CRIMINAL COURT
Highly Sensational Evidence Attracts
Crowds OF Curious Spectators
To Court.

With the resumption OF criminal
court at $40 o'clock this morning, the
! defense will resume the taking OF les-
| timony in the case of State VS.. JOS
! eph White, who went ON trial yester'
day on charge Of feloniously assault
! ing Annie Jane Waters, l6-year-oid
| Triadelphia district girl.
! The forenoon session OF court yes
terday was taken up with the selec-
| ton Of a jury TO try White anu the
presentation Of the case to the jury
| by counsel for the state and defend
ant. White Is under two indictments
one charging him with assauung
Anna Jane Waters; Nhe other with as
Suuiting her IA year old sister, wan
da. The trial now in progress IS on
the Indictment alleging assault upon
Anna Jane Waters.
Anna Jane Waters was the first
witness placed on the stand yesterday
afternoon by the state. She tesu-
j fled that twice In his homo near
Greggsville,. where she was working,
! once last January and once the latter
part Of March, this year, White went
| to her room and forced her to submit
TO him, and that as a result OF their
/ relations on the second occasion she
! Is in delicate condition. On cross
examination, the prosecuting witness
admitted that she had lied at pre-
iliminary examination held before
Squire J. J. Gompers In the county
Jail, but on redirect examination sR9
! said that by admitting she lied she
meant she was mistaken or did not
! understand questions, with the result
that she dio not tell the truth. On
cross-examination she declared that
she had told Mrs. White OF Joseph
Whites action Toward her and de-
clared that Mrs. White told her that
! she pitied him and did not care She
at other places since the alleged
events at The White home, but insist
ed she had never had Illicit relations
with any other man.
DR.. E. B. Plant, county physician,
! testified regarding his examination CT
/ the girl about the time Of the arrest
| Of White and Of the condition which
he found her to be in.
Tie younger sister was placed on
the stand and asked regarding reia-
lions which the defendant had with
her, but was excused without the
question being answered.
The defense opened its testimony
| by reading TO the jury the evidence
! Of Anna Jane Waters at the prelinA-
nary hearing, much Of which conflict
ed with her testimony yesterday.
! The evidence to be submitted today
will include the testimony Of the &C.
PENDANT, who will make q sweeping
denial OF the charge placed against
| him.
| The state is being represented in
| the trial by Prosecuting Attorney D..
a. Mckee and Assistant Prosecutor
| Frank A. OBrien. Attorneys Fred l..
Maury and John b. Wilson, the lat
| ter United States White Slavery CON-
j missioner for this district, are con-
Quoting the defense. The jury is
composed Of A. Wagner, Harry J.
/ Lutz, Robert McLain, John J. Rent
schler. Thomas ]. Ball. Adam VIII.
helm W. A. Ward, A. U. Wilson, Sgd
! ney R. Lake, Thomas II. Barnes and
Fred Faethe,
yesterday that they will not ask yer
dict carrying with it the death penal.
~ for the alleged assault upon Anna
charging White with similar Of
tense against Wanda Waters a YER
dict carrying with il the capital pen
atty will be demanded.
| Because Of the highly sensational
nature Of the testimony Introduced
the case attracted big crowd to tho
court room yesterday. Much of tn"
evidence is Of a revolving nature.
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