The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-17

iiushed at aN carly uUH ,hi. mgf7 i ine and the opening a.omon sfaiu Ao made perhaps half az hoeBatt court conran,s at o'clock.
 Contention Over Posiforcmert When the couJ esed hc attorney whether they ~cr ready o rrc.,c1 in inc Jonas G proscuu. Al- tornoy ha0.lUh stated tlal ha was rot rcaN l.r 'rial ane d Ird d post- ponCmout H. said that hcre was one NjHc 1Nu Mckay. Nh1 was within tho ae. uU vho.t address he did mot have and aore va mo.n- cr Wituo s, a tUeCb utW. Gc3.4c. in Chicp o who he Wmt,d t0 tr, .a ac. He said these would ue mporlanr witnesses for inc state it they tcs- flied Js he wJs informed 'aay would that Mrs. Jouaa had drawn <. .!staI on her husband twice before and threatened lo shoot hIG, and wien iu tcrorrcd with. said she would .lco' him at some later ime
 Colonel George " Murphy or .he defense stated th1t Mr Jon0s uuted a trial at this ume Hr i'd uo she wa, in Jail, and chat ,he ga. had been sC. two cr three weeks. and that if tho case wa postaoncd Tor a low days Inc would have to le in IiFle
 ,och on business and it would have to go over until Jtler the firs Of the vear or he could not serve in ,ho case. He eait further hut thc moth cr an two sisters Of tho deilmaul were here on expense awaiting thc
 rial one a witness in the case.
 Mr. Rauda,Ih said in reply hal il was no fault or his that he had been in the west part of the county tryms thc smith case when this tra edY Alas new heee ana should have been inycstigated that later he was call ea Co W2shin ton on government ousmess and still later was tied uD Win the ,ral ol the Miller case. He said ha was anxious Co try the case this year tberoro he goes ont Of or fico) but that ne was not ready at this timc.
 Attorney Whttington of counsel for defense urged that tho grounds se, un by the state were not sufficient 10 cauee a postp0ncment He sall tha. .thc Chic3so witness could not be brought here unless willing volun tarily to come and That the state had not given any address or any liAli- hood of finding the Mgs Mckay with in short tlmc He thought that ihc prosecuting attorney would hayc ann pie time as the ease rrcTc sed to discuss the case with he witnesses in tho city
 Judle nogue ead ,g~ t6e pJse- cutins attorney is oP'fworsed uiJ Chat apparently II there were delay granted it would have to ba un,n after the first of the year, ana 0y Chat time d'hu3 prosecuting 4ttorncl would Rc m the olLse, and th-. Per hans MT Randolph was better rtc Dar"d at this time to handle the case
 He etato than his successor wonld bt kho was unfamiliar with i- lc referred Co the fact that the defend ant was woman, and in Jail. and that he believed she should be aiyen as epcedy a trial as possible
 Mr. Randolph then asked time to prepare Wril,cu motion for con tinganco. and that was granted. and he had written and presented hH grounds in full in Uritm for thc postpoucmcnt
 In announcing his decision to grant the defendant trial Judge Hosua said that he woald have liked to favor the state. and al-o would like to f1y- or inc defendant, but that .t was up toI him To decide am issue between them and that he would oyerrule the T. O tion for postponement on the part of the etate.
 q ask this casa be noilc pressed, said Prosecutor Randolph.
 "The motion is overrulad, prompt ly answered the court
 Then the court asked attorneys: Are you ready for trial9'
 The defense is ready" answered Mr. Whiltmton
 The state is not ready but will have to prccced,' answered the prose cuiing attorney
 The case promises to be ono of tho most interesting tried here in a long time The defendant is represented by Colonel George w. Mmphy George P Whttnaton, and Richard Ryan. The state is represented by prosccut- ing Attorney Randolph, who is as viz orous a prosecutor as the district has had in years, and who usually neods no assistance in the presentation of inc cause he may represent enEERAGErEe MAKE nEMNN-