Arizona republican., 1920-06-04
SAYS HE WAS ASKED
 ID WATCH THE WIFE
 OF AN ARMY CAPTAIN

Declaring that he had never received any money from Edwin LeBaron or any of his agents. <. Mcleod yesterday testified, in the suit of Mrs. LeBaron against her former husband Edwin NJ. LeBarOn, asking for the custody of her three children and share in an estate of $13,000, that some time in March, 1918, Attorney Cox asked him if he would be willing, during his residence in Los Angeles, to see how the wife of captain in the army who was living in Los Angeles, was acting and report her actions to him. Cox he said, told him he did not want eNl- dence, but only a report.
 Mcleod said that he told Cox he had no objections to doing so. but that his wife might object and that her consent first must be obtained. Cox. he said, told him he did not think there was anything wrong with tffe woman, but that the husband suspected there was. Cox, he said. told him that any expense he was put to in making the investigation would be paid back. Mrs. Mcleod, he said, called on Mir. Cox later and the arrangement wals agreed to.
 Mrs. Mcleod he said, went to Los Angeles about May 1, and he joined her in June. Mcleod denied they had framed up" on Mrs. LeBaron in any manner, and said the officers could 
 they desired. When T.. C. Corbell, a brother of Mrs. LeBaron, went to Ven ice in November, 1919, Cdrbel offered him $2000, Mcleod said, if he would state that Mrs. LeBaron had stayed the two nights prior to her arrest or. July 5 1918, with his wife. The offer. he said, was made only in his presence.
 Mcleod said that he and his wife made an affidavit al the request of Corbell after the latter had told him that Mrs. LeBaron was becoming gray haired and would soon be in an asylum unless she secured the GUS tody ot her children. who had been awarded to the father in the divorce action He said he told CorbeN he was willing to help a sick woman, and the affidavit was drawn up, he said He identified his signature to the doe ument The affidavit, which states that the McLeods were employed to secure evidence and that they we're to receive expenses and salaries for their work, goes on to state that the McLeods got Mrs. LeBaron in com promising position and then informed the police. This affidavit, Mcleod said, was the truth colored for one side of the case, and was secured from him only after he had been advised that it was to be used in bluffing MT. LeBaron's attorneys and not as eVi- dence in a trial Mcleod would not state that the affidavit was false
 Mcleod said that Mrs. LeBaron had borrowed S20 from his wife to bring Boucek from Palo Alto for the Fourth of July in Los Angeles. and said that later Mrs. LeBaron paid the money back Mrs. Mcleod testified that she had met Mrs. LeBaron in Los Angeles She said before leaving Phoenix for Los Angeles in April, 1918. she had agreed to watch the wife of an army captain, whose name she did not know | at a certain address in Los Angeles and report to MT. Cox. She said thai l nothing was said about expenses or l salary when she agreed to make the i investigation. She identified her sig nature on the affidavit and substan- l tiated McLeod's statement as to why 1 thev had made the affidavit
 The case will be continued this l morning.