The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-25
GRAND JURY RECESSES
 WITHOUT ANY ACTION
 REGARDING PREACHER
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E. c. Harris for the defense. The
 witness told the court she had talked to many customers at Loveman's where she worked who were Catho- lies and that when she joined the church Miss Llene Croner was her god-mother.
 Mrs. Gussman admitted getting off the train at Texarkana, Tex, and go ing to Catholic hospital where po- lice officers found her.
 Would Send Her Away The witness admitted that her father had offered to send her to any school to buy her anything he could afford and to send her on any trip 1 If she would not join the Catholic church
 | When her parents had her locked up at home from May 13 to 16 she promised them she would not join the Catholic church, the witness told the court. This however was after she had joined, she said, but her parents i did not consider she was a member ! Of that church ETu
 She admitted that Ms. Gussman l never paid social call on her as home but had proposed to her when she was IS years old. She said she | had not seen him for several months when she wrote him a letter in July telling him she would marry him ana few days later Gussman came to l her house to do some work He gave l Der letter, she stated, telling her
 he had received hers and they made their plans to get married while he was working there. She denied that anyone forced her to write. accepting Gussmap. se Snw Him Many Times From the time he nronoceA fn lo~
 first. she stated, she had seen him
 innumerabie times and met him occa-
 sicnally. coming from and going to work She admitted going to a pie ture show with him once or twice and | on these occasions she would meet
 him in town. She always called him | over the phone and arranged these
 meetings, she. testified. and he all ways gave her the number to call.
 but she did not know what place she | called.
 She denied she had criticized her | inother Tor talking to Mfr. Gussman when ne came to the house to work
 and had called him .wop.,
 The witness stated that MT. Guss-
 man came to the store the day they were married and they arranged to
 go to Bessemer and get marriage
 license. When asked if Mr. quss- | -%-N'A' "oo hVt d fOTLC Blcan, MTS. Gussman replied. He is a Spaniard.
 She admitted he was of very dark
 complexion and spoke English brol<- enly, and that she had never told
 her parents that she went with him. 1 When 14 years of age, she told the
 court, she was baptized in the Bap- tist church.
 + State Rested
 1 At that point the state rested it's case as did the defense, and Judge
 Abernethy announced he would like
 to know if the grand jury, which was
 in session, had completed it's case
 Assistant Solicitor John Mccoy went
 to learn what action the grand jury
 had taken and returned stating that they had a number of witnesses yet
 to hear and probably would not get to the case before it's next session.
 At that point the court announced he
 would hold the defendant without bond.
 W. ". Otto, 400 rwenty-flrst
 street north, was the first witness
 called yesterday morning for the
 state when the second day of the
 hearing opened. He told the court that he was across the street when
 the shooting occurred and heard
 three shots. He then went over to the house where he saw Father Coyle lying on the floor about one foot I from the swing. He testified he did not see MT. Stephenson, but he saw
 a man walking towards the court
 house. According to his statement
 to the court he heard no noise or scuffling before the shooting. He
 stated he did not see any weapon in
 the hand or near the priest. and
 when he got there Father Coyle was l Vi doo ac ha woe
 ing blue as they put him in the am
 bulance He testified he knew Mir. Stephenson by sight.
 i Heard Shots
 On cross examination the witness stated that when he heard the shots he was sitting in front of the City Supply company, 2117 Third avenue, ana he Immediately looked towards Twenty first street, thinking the Shooting was in that direction. Inn
 mediateiy after the shooting he said he heard women screaming and mo- ticed man walking from the di- rection of the rectory towards the
 courthouse. There were a number of people on the porch when he got there, the witness stated. MT. Otto l said he saw the traffic policeman 1 jump over the courthouse fence, and | he also saw a little, short officer ap- proach from Twenty-second street, and he had his hand on his pistol.
 Harry Hammett ambulance driver
 for I4ige Loy, was the next witness called and he testified he carried | Father Coyle to St. Vincents hospital.
 He told the court he saw MT. Steph-' enson pass the undertaking establish I ment about five minutes before he heard the shots fired. He immedi- l ately Jumped into the ambulance, | after he heard the shots, and went | to the rectory,. he stated, and when
 he reached tho porch there were three men there. He testified he didn't see Mir. Stephenson there. He
 ana three other men placed the priest on the cot and took him to the hos- l pital, he said.
 In response to questions of Cramp- ton Harris. conducting the defense, MT. HAmmett stated that after he saw Mir. Stephenson pass he had rone next door to the Matthews & Lively Furniture store, then went out and sat in the ambulance and later went into Loy's establishment for a drink of water and came out on the sidewalk when he heard the shots. Describes WouHd
 When he first reached the rectary he told the court he did not examine the wound, but later when the body was at the morgue he saw where lhullet had entered the right temple
 and had come out near the center al the back of the head.
 T. C. Mcclellan. 2a3f Third avenue, testified he was at Third avenue and twenty -second street when Father lCoyle was shot. He walked down to the rectory. he said, and when he got