The Coconino sun., 1921-08-26
NASH TRIAL FOR KILLING
 OF SCHWAB NEARING END
Continued From Page One)
FRIDAY


 torney George w. Harben was com pleted Friday morning. She had re- sumed the stand after the direct ex animation the day before wearing an attractively defiant attitude. Her re- plies to the questions were staccato. She Tipped them out, in peruliar sing-song manner of speaking. At first, as she seemed to thing she had scored one on her interlocutor, a sus- picion of malicious grin quirked at the corners of her mouth.
 Mrs. Nash Contradicts Herself.
 But after a few moments that was all changed, fer she soon became in- volved in numerous contradictions, ire quently admitted her previous un- truthfulness and, all in all, certainly did not help her husbands cause, if she did not, indeed, damage it.
 She said that the night of the kill ing, April 15, last, when she returned home to the Gleason rooming house from her work as waitress at the Con- mercial cafe, her husband, just home from killing Martin Schwab, acted no differently than usual. Nor did he the next day. Though wanted work and had told her that morning he was go- ing to Winslow to look for work, he didn't say, and she didn't ask, whether he had been in Winslow that day or whether he had succeeded in finding work. She asked him no questions. He said he was sick. She didn't offer to help him.
 Didn't Ask About Car
 First saw Chandler car her husband had taken from the dead man on the evening of April 17th, 1920, second day after the shooting. He told her he had bought it. Didn't tell her from whom, nor how much he had paid, and she didn't ask.
 Witness was vague on many import ant dates; specific about others. Press ed for the reason, she said she had a little derry" she referred to occasion ally. It is now in Los Angeles. Said she expected" she had referred to derry" about date she first rode in dead mans car, but expected" she hadn't about date she and her hus- band left Flagstaff for the east.
 First say famous 32 Colt auto matic her husband claims Schwab threatened him with day after she saw car. Didn't know tthen nor until after her husbands arrest where it came from except her husband told her "it had come with the car"
 She could remember exactly where the "Schwab" gun was kept, but not where her husbands other two guns were kept. Though very positive about the "S" scratched on the rib of the "Schwab" gun handle, couldn't remem- Der that her husbands cattle brand was cut into the handle of the 3S special which he had had much longer and with which he killed Schwab.
 After "Schwab" gun was traded to Hobo" in Golden, N. M., though she carried the other Colt 32 automatic in her grip several months and later let her brother-in-law trade it off, never noticed that it wasn't the gun marked "S"; thought all the time it was.
 Admits Untruthfulness With Fox
 She was asked if she didn't tell Dep- uty Sheriff Fox after her husbands arrest by the latter in Los Angeles that her husband never had gun with him in Arizona at all. She didn't remember it. Harben dropped that phase and went on to others. Later he came back to what she had told Fox about her husband having a gun while here. Then she admitted that she did tell Fox her husband had no gun while in this state. The transcript of her interview with Fox shows that Fox had asked: "If he had a gun you would have known it?" "I certainly would" she replied.
 This was read to her by Harben. She admitted that Fox had questioned her and she had answered as shown in the transcript. She explained that when Fox was questioning her she didn't remember the 38 special and the A that her husband had with him here but that she did remember the "Schwab" gun.
 "Do you remember telling Fox that car was driven by Clayton Robbins ?" Harben asked, land do you remember replying to Fox: I seen it right there in Flagstaff, day in and day out ?"
 She admitted she had told Fox that. Then explained that facts are clearer now" than then because she had had time to think about it."
 Told Fox Car Cost 1925
 Do you remember" Harben pur- sued, "that Fox asked you what your husband paid for the car and you told him $925?" She admitted that Fox had asked her that and that that was her answer. She said she didn't know whether she was telling Fox the truth didn't know whether it was true or not-but that that was the way she had it." Expected she just made it up and told him; couldn't tell why.
 Said she didn't know why she told Fox her husband had worked at odd jobs here <and then had told on the stand that he hadn't worked.
 In telling Fox the towns she and her husband had passed through when they left here in the dead mans car she left out Golden, where she and her husband claim the "Schwab" gun was sold to Hobo" Witness said she found out next day after her statement to Fox that Golden was Important" Then she soon changed it by saying that she didn't find out