Weekly journal-miner., 1920-04-14

told uf passing a group of persons or the sidewalk in front of the city hal that night. The group included 1 Woods Sage, Floyd and a woman He said he overheard Woods say : he would go on the woman's bond ] but didn't hear the amount mention. ed He was not cross-eXamned.
 Larry Hickey, a switchman, coming off shit at the mine, was on his way home after his night meal. His testi i mouy added to the mounting belle that i'll town like Jerome where mer ! go on and off shift at all times o night. occurrences on the streets 1T the hours of darkness are subject tc observation.
 He, too, he declared, had passed the group on the city hall steps. He heard Woods say: 'l suppose this will have to go on record" Sage said: Woods, pay me $50"
 The Star Witness
 A capacity crowd, in which there was not single feminine member i had waited all day for the star wit. i ness of the state, Mrs. Schendel, and | interest took an upward swing when she strode down the aisle in charge [ of the jail matron, Mrs. Lowry.
 The witness proved to be a plump young woman with guileless brown 1 eyes and a soft voice. She was at 1 tired in a loosely fitting one-piece 1 dress of an indefinite brown material i and wore a wide-brimmed beaver hat ! A heavy chain of beads with pen 1 dant was her only ornament. ] Her real name was Alberta, but 1 she had given herself" the name oi ! Florence about two years ago. She i had had an unhappy home. Her father was not an agreeable person, and she had voluntarily secured ad- mission to the industrial school of her native state of Utah. She was i l7 years old last November 10, she said
 About a year ago, she had married Marion Schendel of Jerome, rela- tive, she said, of R. E. Tally assist ant general manager of the United l Verde Copper company.
 About five months later, they had gone to California, and Schendel had { left her and she had come back to i Jerome last December after having been three days in a hospital, to dis i pose of her furniture. Her father-in- law had bought it.
 All this was brought out in re- sponse to questions by Mir. Clark. She | said she had been wakened by Giles i whose voice she recognized. He or dered to get dressed and come out and told her she was under arrest or suspicion. She described her dress. ing operations, told of having put or a pair of bloomers, skirt, undervest
 shoes and stockings and coat.
 She was marched" out into the l lobby and up the street, where she was confronted by Woods, and hall block farther on by Sage.
 Giles and Floyd gave me to Woods and Sage she said. She told of being offered a night in the apartment or in the city jail with the inmates thereof, and of hay ing expressed preferance for the 'greasers."
 Arrived in the apartment, she said her captors had locked the door and had taken her into the kitchen where she was shown two milk bottles ol whiskey. She knew it was whiskey because she had been given whiskey when she was i'll of the influenza. Re sistance to offers of a drink did her no good, she said. Her head was held and she was forced to drink "and l drank" The result of the liquor was 1 to make her very dizzy. She said she sank upon the bed, where one of the men began disrobing her
 Whew!
 The story up to this point had pro- gressed without interruption by the prosecutor. Mr. Clark halted the witness with a gesture and then be. gan:
 Now, Mrs. Schendel, going back to the time"
 1 There was a pause, during which i the silence i'll the courtroom was al most Palpable. Then came the sound of the avid audience, sinking back ir its seats and drawing a deep breath I The tension being relaxed, the prose cution went on with questions rela- tive to earlier incidents and again led the witness to the apartment scene 1 She described the alleged events fol 1 lowing her loss of control by reason of the liquor in very brief, simple words, rather hastening over the matter, and then plunged into the re- cital of her return to the hotel her short sleep and her three visits to her attorney the following day when she complained Of her alleged mistreat- ment. Questions by the states at torney, led her back and forth over the story up to the time of her alleged i abduction by the defendants. On the basis of testimony presumed from the rulings to have established the ale gation of a conspiracy, the court per mitted the witness to relate conver- sation with the officers not in the presence of the defendant
 1 CFrom Fridays Dailyl Delicate shades of legal opinion, tiny additions and subtractions from the weight of testimony in its legal sense, rulings, objections, exceptions, repetitions of testimony and a modi- cum of actual cross-eXamination oi Florence Schendel, the prosecuting