Weekly journal-miner., 1920-05-05
STORY OF TIE SAGE CASE IS REPEATED BY MRS. SCHENDEL
(From Thursdays DaiIy.)

Compared with the trial of Clar- euce Sage, that of Fred Weeds. which opened in Superior court yesterday morning, Judge A. C. Lockwood of Cochise county presiding, made rapid progress. The first day saw the states case well on its way to com pletion. with the prosecuting witness in the hands of the defense for cross examination.
 This was made possible to ascer- tain eXten- by the fact that the law issues arising in course of the first trial were all settled, sc that the in trC duCtiOn of testimony was more or less cut and dried. Moreover, it had been stipulated by counsel for Woods and for the state that testimony of certain witnesses might be read into the record of this case from the offi- cial records of the Sage case.
 When Alverada Florence Schendel took the stand about 2:30 yesterday afternoon, the large and masculine audience that had attended the Sage trial was present only in part. In theatrical pa-lance. it was a bum house" No one was present except men, however, a fact that made this trial similar to that of Sage.
 The same story, told in much the same way, fell from the lips of the pretty prosecutriX. She related how she had left home in Utah, spent some time in the state industrial school and later had married Marion Schendel at Goldfield. They later made their home in Jerome, whence they went to California. In Califor- mia, Schendel and his wife parted, and she thinks, Schendel has gone to South America. It was while she was waiting for a settlement of the community property involved in their Jerome house that Mrs. Schendel spent her unlucky night in the Sulli- van hotel.
 The witness retold the story of the entry of the two policemen, Giles and Floyd. and of her later delivery by them to Fred Woods and Clarence Sage. Woods and Sage, she said, took her to the apartment of the latter. forced liquor on her, and when she was helpless, took advantage of her condition 10 misreat her
 The cross examination by r. L. Haworth searchingly- probed the al leged confessions of ! Mrs. Schendel that she had been similarly mis- treated, once by a relative of her husbands in Goldfield few days after her marriage, and once at Ash Fork on the occasion of trip she had made from Jerome to Williams.
 The preliminary testimony of the state was elicited from Jim Sullivan, night clerk of the Sullivan hotel; Joseph Seidel, who was in the lobby when Mrs Schendel was led out by the officers; Raymond K. Evans and Lawrence Hickey. who had passed Mrs. Schendel and her alleged be- trayers on the street just prior to the alleged offense.
 Early in the testimony. the state introduced a photograph purporting to show Main street, Jerome. from the vicinity of the Sullivan hotel to the Bank of Jerome. It IS thought this picture is intended to Controvert a stand of the Sage defense that q hump in the street prevented one standing in front of the hotel from seeing anyone standing in front of the bank.
 The case will be resumed at 9:3O this morning. Counsel are confident of an early termination of the trial. The cases against Floyd and Giles, 1t was announced yesterday. have again been severed. so that Fred Woods IS on trial all alone