Weekly journal-miner., 1919-03-05
STAR WITNESS TAKES LEAF
 FROM LAWYERS BOOK.
(From Sundays Daily)

(From Sundays Daily)
 Taking the lead of counsel on both sides, Nellie Campbell, the young negress, who has been the chief wit ness for the prosecution in the trial for murder of Privates Juan Apodaca and Felix Griego, yesterday objected to question during cross-examina ton by Attorney Howard Cornick for the defense.
 "Is 1t not true that you were con- victed of the crime of disorderly con, duct and running a disorderly house, in the court of Judge McLane, a jus tice of the peace in Yavapai county?' asked MT. Cornick.
 T object to that question" stated the witness in her usual positive manner.
 She said she would explain. The court, the prosecution and the de fense made out to inform her that she might explain, provided sne answered ives" or mo" first. Witness had just reluctantly testified that she had been before the city magistrate on a sim liar charge, and she allowed the court and all her hearers to know that she seriously objected to further qucs- tioning along the line proposed by the defense.
 There was an awkward pause. Gently, E. s. Clark, assisting the prosecution, told the witness she waA constrained to reply either in the af- 6rmative or in the negative. He also intimated that possibly the official records of the justice court, which 1 were readily available, would have constituted the best testimony on this i question. The pause continued, then Nellie exploded;
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 Her dislike at having her misfor- tunes talked about in public was sc evident that everyone smiled at her reply.
 Three Chief Lines.
 In cross-examination of the Camp bell woman Gin whose house Manuel Gonzales was alleged to nave beeh beaten to death by Griego and Apo, daca on the night of December 18th the defense worked along three main lines. It was first attempted to show that Gonzales was a bootlegger and a petty thief The question was ob- jectionable to the prosecution, and after.a short argument with the jury absent, as to the admissability of data on the deceased's character, the court sustained the objection, and the de fense started on another track.
 Without objection, it was then shown that however well the witness had marshalled her other facts, she was no expert on time of day. She was caught up a dozen times on tes- -imony she had given during the fore noon, which did not gibe with what sine had said at the corOner's inquest about January 4, and the preliminary nearing, January r. She had the de endants and the deceased arriving a; Ter place all the way from noon to |:3O p. m. and the killing was spread over half the night
 It was in pursuit of their third idea hat of showing Nellie did not enjoy i he best reputation in the world, that . he attorneys for the defense had ( heir mode of interrgatory objected 2 o by the witness. The defense was ( permitted to show that Nellie had C ,een taken official notice of for vio- ( ating the ordinances regarding S ouses of i'll fame. |
 Sgt. Collins On Stand.
 Court recessed for Is minutes after he Campbell testimony, for Sgt 1st V lass Pat Collins, provost sergeant, S o remove a lethal weapon. Acting nder military orders, which pre- cribe a certain uniform for a man n his duty, the sergeant took the F fitness stair with a Colt automatic a trapped to his thigh His honor Il alled on the county attorney, whose . fitness Collins was, to put the wit f ess in order-ie., to get rid of his V gat." The sergeant was rather un- n ecided, knowing his army regula- S ons as he did, but was told by Capt.
 B. Van Horn, who happened to be S l court, that the uniform regulations 9 ould be dispensed with out of regard fl