El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-19
Ar MOUR'S GUN
AND CLOTHING
|DEN T|FIED BY
WITNESSES TODAY
Brother Shows Mark on
Foot to Prove Victims
Identity
DEFENSE PLANS
STILL UNKNOWN
(From Wednesdays Daily

+ (FrOm wednesdays Da1ly)
&c. u. Moore, forest ranger from
Pecos, this Afternoon went on the wit
ness stand in the Blancett case and
said that the place where the clothing
Of Armour was found could not be
seen from the main road owing to a
growth Of scrub oak. Beverly Bauer
had previously testified that oak
branches were found on the running
board of the Oldsmobile 49,"
John Harrison identified the cloth.
ing supposed to be that OF Armour as
clothing found on January IA near
the arroyo where the skeleton was
found.
Carlos Dreamer. recalled, testified
the main road could not be seen from
the point where the clothing was
found.
District Attorney Crist compared
shells found in the car when 1t was
sold in Albuquerque with the shell In
the shotgun picked up near the cloth
ing. He gave the gun to William
Beacham, a juror, and allowed him to
make the comparison. Becham took
the gun apart, took out the empty
she'll and compared the two.
Miss Agnes Armour, of Sioux City,
sister of the dead man, took the stand
and identified the clothing brought
into the court room as the clothing
worn by Clyde Armour when she last
saw him. She said Clyde did not have
on a khaki suit on this trip so far
as she knew. A witness the other
day said Armour had worn a khaki
suit or leggins. Much importance
seems to be attached by the defense
attorney to the alleged inconsistency
in the stories of Armour's appearance
as far as clothing goes.
Roy Armour was called and identi-
fed the clothing. He said that his
brother Clyde wore nose glasses with
out rims and identified as his the
glasses brought into our He was
handed the shotgun found near the
clothing on January IA, and said:
Eyes, Clyde hunted many times
with this little gun, or one exactly
like it." He said it was five years
ago that Clyde first used the gun on
a hunt.
Then what was perhaps the most
important Identification Of the remains
of Armour took place. The witness
said he had seen the skeleton in the
undertaking establishment and identi-
fled it as that of his brother by the
features of the face and by a mark
on the right foot. He went into con-
siderable detail to explain how this
mark on the right foot was received
with a knife used to cut field corn in
accident "a years ago.
At this point, Mr.. Rising entered
the court room bringing the right
foot Of the deceased, which was placed
before the witness; the latter pointed
out to the jury the marks he testified
to. Roy Armour said he saw the foot
in its present condition on his ar
rival here shortly after the body was
E. w. Blancett today manifested
the same poise and iron nerve that
he has shown throughout the trial,
extending into the sixth day, for
the alleged murder of Clyde Armour.
He said that he felt sorry for his
mother who Is in court each day lis
tening hour after hour to the testi.
mony Of witnesses for the state.
Blancett seemed more concerned
about the worry the trial may be
his mother than about him
self. He talked cheerfully and said
complimentary things about Mr.. Rem
chan, his counsel, and his manner Of
conducting the case. Blancett did
not discuss the crime for which he
on trial. He denied, to a New
Mexican reporter the statement in an
Albuquerque paper that he had brok-
IN down and wept.
VIII the defense in the case Of the
tate VS.. Ebert w. Blancett, on trial
or murder, endeavor to prove that it
vas possible for Clyde d. Armour to
fallen, his head striking a bump
IN the end of a log and that he was
hot to death by his own shotgun, ac-
.identally discharged while carrying
t with the barrel end close to his
lead? BfH
Or viii the defense put Blancett on
he stand and introduce testimony to
how that Armour's death was acct
entail, but due to some other circum-
These were the questions that
uzzled spectators at the trial this
forming. II am convinced that Blan-
cit is going to testify in this trial."
aid a we'll known lawyer as he left
ne court room at noon.
Attorney A. B. Renehan, for the
still kept a veil of mystery
yer his plans, but by the line Of his
u~estioning Of witnesses this morning
he attorney seemed to attach import
nee to the presence of blood on a
near which Armour's clothes and
single barrelled shotgun were
'und on January IA.
Antonio Sandoval y Griego, the ma I
who testified last night that he {
I'D found the skeleton supposed to |
} that Of Armour. was again on the ,