The Coconino sun., 1921-08-19

off the end of the Utah license plate | soon ofter he got to Hillsdale from Spalding, Nebr.
 Nash was turned over to the state for cross-examination shortly after 3 o'clock Wednesday. But before the state began, defense asked permission to call Captain J. B. Wright, county engineer, to the stand, so that the lat ter might get away to important work. Capain Wright was asked by MT. Wilson, for the defense, if it was poss- ible in April, last year, for an auto mobile to get from the highway east of Flagstaff to the highway west of Flagstaff without coming through Flagstaff and crossing the Santa Fe | railroad on one or the other of the following street crossings-San Fran cisco, Leroux, Beaver or Sitgreaves. MT. Wright said it was not. MT. Gold cross-examined and asked about the stock-yard crossing, east of town, but MT. Wright said there is deep sewer ravine south of the tracks that was impossible for cars. Both sides asked other questions about the road out around Winona, and Mir. Gold asked the distance from Flagstaff to Can yon Padre, and was informed it was 26 miles.
 Then the decks were considered clear for Nash's ross-examination by the state. Mir. Gold asked for recess until the next morning, and it was granted.
 Nash's replies to the direct exam ination had been readily given. He seemed more at ease on the stand than at any other time up to then.
 His description of tn. way Schwab met his death strongly affected the dead mans brother, down whose face great tears rolled during the recital. THURSDAY
 Judge Jones asked the bailiffs to keep the space at the front of the courtroom, between the chairs and the railing, free from spectators, as some of the jurors had complained that the whispering of spectators made it inn possible for them to hear all the evi- dence.
 Nash again on the stand. This time | for cross-examination. County Attor- ney Gold led him to and fro over his direct testimony of the preceding day, reviewing the first times he had seen Schwab, the trip to Walnut Canyon, and the next days trip out on the road to Winslow where Nash killed Schwab; the loading of the corpse into the car; the return to Flagstaff and stop near the jail, the burial in the old well, and subsequent movements of Nash and his wife.
 Some minor discrepancies appeared between Nash's direct testimony and his answers in cross-examination. He admitted he might have talked to Ben der before the killing, but asserted if he had he didn't know him as Bender. Nash also put some extra words into the statement he made the day before of what Schwab said just before the fatal shots were fired. He told Mir. Gold that in addition to Schwab call ing him "one of them damned COW. boys" and telling him he would not be the first one he'd killed, he also said "I'd as leave kill you as not"
 Knows Little of Trees
 Nash's memory as to the surround ings at the scene of the murder was meagre. Though he was there half an hour, he couldn't be sure whether it was a in forest; thought there were some tall trees around, but didn't know what kind, indicating that he did n't know the difference between a pine and scrub oak.
 Mir. Gold indicated by his queries | he would call in rebuttal witnesses who would swear that instead of never having been on the road west of Flag staff following the burial, Nash and ! his wife actually were in Williams shortly after the killing looking for work; that Nash had been seen by other men still to testify, sitting down inside the Shamrock Taxi office talk ing with Bender.
 Nash denied the statement of R. B Corbett that he had offered him fenc. ing and tanBing work, but that Nash had refused/it.
 About his identification at the jail by Joe Bender, Mir. Gold asked if Sheriff Campbell hadn't come in with Bender, told Nash to get up and then if Bender hadn't quietly said, You've | SOt lIle TlgHt IldIl. lNdSU StuCk U his original account as he gave it the day before.
 Nash still claimed that the killing took place about five miles beyond Canyon Padre bridge. He denied hay ing told E.. B. Raudebaugh, deputy sheriff, at the jail, that on the road to Winslow they had driven under the railroad at one crossing.
 Buried Victim Carefully
 He couldn't tell w,iy he didn't pu, Schwab's grip into the old well with the rest of Schwab's things. Insisted he couldn't remember what he saw in the grip when he afterward took the contents out and burned grip and ali Denied going through dead mans pockets. Claimed first time he noticed Schwab's grip was still in the car after burial of body was when he stopped car couple miles west of lane leading to well to clean car Then was when he spied the second deep hole that fig. ures in the tragedy and burned the grip.