Arizona republican., 1919-02-14
r ALI TO LOCATE. MYSTERY COUPLE. IN HOCTOR CASE
Preliminary Hearing Has No Sensation - People
 Who Saw Hector While
 Still Alive Are Not Found Hold Newman To Trial

After a preliminary hearing notable l inr the absence of the most material illnesses. J D. Newman, charged with | Ge murder of Frank Hector. was held f. answer Co the superior court Jus ice De Souza placed the bond at -u.uO0' and gave Newman until Satur- t.1N to furnish the amount The man and woman Newman claims added him In placing Hector in his ear atd mol appear tn the court room. Their W udcreabouts is not known 10 the state, 10 developed yesterday. when counsel Iur thc defense asked for a continuance uiIl they he located. it was learned that both the state and ' In defense have made a search for fhc mysterious couple who have dropped SO completely from view. Both dcs working on the same clue, be- teNcd the couple tu be Mir. and Mrs. John Hoffman, former Glendale resi- dents who now reside on the coast. They left this county by automobile du the day of tho shooting but their course was in a different direction.
 it stun remains for the state Co find .bc chance passerby who could throw much light on the ease. They were thc only ones who saw Hector before la diCd-the only ones-saVe the de- icudaut who could repeat his dying words Deputy Sheriff Troutman described tho tracks of a womans nigh hceled shoes at the spot on the desert road north of Glendale where ho shooting took place on January i". TrOutm1n was the first officer 10 su to the scene. arriving there a few hours after Newman himself had left Inc spot and viewed the tracks made " automobiles other than the defend ants and those Of people who walked in the vicinity of the shooting.
 Bar Stenosrspher's Testimony
 The state. after proving the corpus icliciu and divulging the findings of Dc autopsy examination conducted by pr. A. B. Nichols county health of- ficcr and gr. IT, r. Mills rested it's easc. The defense called for r. 1 Madden, stenogrspher to the county attorney. who took the statements Tadc by Newman to the state prosecu- tor. Counsel for Newman insisted hat since NeWman's conversation with the sheriff and his deputies was intro dICcd it was only fair to admit the remarks made to County Attorney I. M. Iancy which was held by George Stonemsn and George Purdy Ballard, as a part Of the general con- Nersation.
 Mir Iaucy objected on the ground 'hat it was improper and against pub Nr policy and that it was a. self scrV- Ing declaration The court held with inc state. The defense then offered no further evidence and rested. The r8se was not argued.
 The hearing began promptly at 10 o'clock. Long before that hour the court room was crowded with men and women. among whom were the young widow of Hector, who followed every witness closely. She was dressed in Uuurning her simple black made her .uUeIutnco au tho more youthful Ere - .Hontlv during the testimony she sob N.d quietly and when the seat and ..nyus back of the truck in which her
 husband had been driving were rought Into the court room she almosi .rllapscd
 Brother First Witness
 H. M Hector. brother of the dead nam. was the first witness called. after f" other witnesses had been placed
 .der the rule. He testified that he .ud seen his brothers body at Moore ,ad McIcllan's undertaking parlors
 'o said that Hoctor was &S years old
 the tuc of his death and that Inc weighed approximately 1s5 pounds
 Charles Mitchell. an embalmcr witl Moore and Mcclellan, stated that hs
 .r~t saw the body at the inquest held Acl0rc Coroner Patterson of Glendale t!e said that an examination of tho Hudy was made there and that later am autopsy was held in this city. II,
 'uld give no definite information as 10 the number of the wounds nor tn, .nint Of exit and entrance
 Testfying that only two bullets on. tered the body Dr. J. E. Hill. wh, made the Glendale examination. in.
 tCd that one of the bullets split f.e testified thgt ono bullet entere, tIc back of the loft shoulder and passet through the flcshy part of the shoulde md entered the arm making it's cxi midway between the shoulder and el ow The other bullet, the physician stated entered the body just below th' back of thc left hip and passini through the feshy part of the loi sriit -onc part of tho bullet going il fnc right and the other the left les iie stated that he removed the stec iacket from the second bullet from th middle third uf the left tmgh.
 Doctors Disagree on Wounds
 Dr. Nichols disagreed from Dr. Hin