The Alaska daily empire., 1916-05-10
JURY WILL
 HAVE CASE
 LATE TODAY

Started last Tuesday and having introduced evidence to weave the net of justice closer around Edward Krause. on the charge of fraudulent use Of the mail, the attorneys for the Goyernment closed their case at ten minutes to eleven o'clock this morn ing. The only defense offered was @ short statement made by Attorney Kazis Krauczunas, and the arguments for tho Government were started by Assistant District Attorney John j.. Reagan at 1:SO o'clock this afternoon. He was followed by the other attor- neys, Krauczunos. for the defense, and James II. Smiser who closed the case for the government The charges win be made by Judge Jennings and the case submitted to the jury late this afternoon.
 The Government in the effort to prove the guilt of the defendant placed 17 different witnesses on the stand, several of them being recalled two or three times. and introduced 52 exhibits. The exhibits range from the alleged forged deed from K. Yam mamoto to George Hartman, to en- veIopes and letters addressed to diff fercnt persons found In the grip of Erause when he was arrested In Se- attle.
 The government has endeayored to make a perfectly connected case. Witnesses were brought from Van couver. Seattle. Petersburg. Skagway and other points
 Edward E. Harvey, of Seattle, man ager of the Olympic Mines company was the first witness and told of the disappearance of Yamamoto. and also identified his hand writing He stated tha. he was familiar with 1t and pro- duced specimens for comparison. He stated that In his opinion the sigma ture on the alleged mortgage was 8 forgery. He was followed by Harri- son Harvey, his son, who coroborat- cd his statements. George H. Whit ney and Martin Kildall were on the stand to Identify specimens of the writing of Krause.
 Paul V Woodhouse and Mrs. J. l.. Manning identified Krause as the man who received mail In his post office box under the name of Hart man and Moe and Krause and also that he bought money orders under those names. S. Howard Ewing identified him as the man who re- ceived a Maxim Silencer for his gun through the express office and signed for it.r He Identified the signature.
 Wnliam D. Kent testified to the arrest of Krauoe. the events leading up to his apprehension and the events following. He testified to the con- tents Of the grip owned by Krause and identified some Of the exhibits in the case as papers which had been taken from the grip.
 Arthur Gordon Smith. of Vancou. ver told of receiving the mortgage from Yamomoto to Hartman for reg istration and stated that the seal on the mortgage as well as the signature of the notary were forgerles R. S. Stultz testified to letters received from Krause. as Hartman, regarding the question Of gorecloeing the mort. gage.
 B. S. Hewitt testified to the type writer as an expert. and identified the letters which had been written on the machine E. P Pond testi- fed to the enlargements of specimens Of handwriting Of Yamomoto, Krause. and also specimens Of work done by the Krauce typewriter
 Ernest Taschek was on the stand all day yesterday testifying as an ex- pert on handwriting aud pointed out the differences in the handwriting of lYamomoto and the alleged forged signature. J. J. Reagan identified the exhibits In the case of the papers which had been taken from the Krause grip by the District Attorney and himself upon It's arrival here. Frank Cook testified that the grip had not been opened from the time 1t was placed in his custody in Seat tie until it was delivered to the Dis trict Attorney in Juneanu charleso Goldstein and James L. Manning were placed on the stand and verified statements made by other witnesses.
 The only defense offered was when Kazis Krauczunas took the stand and testified that several papers in the case had been handed to him by the United States marshal in Seattle for examination when he was defending Krause after his arrest. He was un- able to state whether the papers had been taken from the grip or not