Bisbee daily review., 1921-01-14
Story Or Broken Romance Aired
 In Court As Butcher Seeks To
 Regain Gifts He Made To Girl
Snappy Testimony Features Preliminary Hearing Of Miss Davenport Attorney For Prodanovch Brands Girl
 As Vampire; Case Taken Under Advisernent

The trial of Miss Hattie (Babe, Davenport. charged by Sam L. Pro danovich. owner of the Depot market with having obtained clothes. jewelry and other articles of value from him cnder false pretenses. or with the nd tandin- thTt she would mar ~ hin took rlace yesterday afterncor n the justice court before an audi e-ce ths, sa~lmed the place to tn i~ors.
 h tfe corclnsiOn Of the talzin If testir7ony Alexander MuTry. attOr ny fer the defendant. moved that the case be dismissed. on the ground that insufficient evidence had been intro drcei To show that the defendant WIS Tu'itv of the charge specifie1 This was resisted b. Frcd SGtter, counsel for the plaintiff, and Justice Craig took the case under advisement until l o'clock today when he will give a decisicn-
 The trial was marked by piquant testimony. sometimes amusing. and sometimes bring out alleged sordid motives of the principals in the case. The audience was composed mostly of men. many of them of the same nationality (Serbian) as the defend ant. and a few women. some with bab-s in their arms.
 The little defendant sat beside her counsel demuTe. pretty. apparently cool and collected, smiling sometimes at the allegations that were made against her. but appearing startled and shocked when Attorney Sutter branded her as a vampire. on the lookout for an easy victim in an ig- rofant foreigner who can hardly talk En~lish."
 Prodanovich, the plaintiff. appear ed to have a hard time understand ing ths questions that were put to him, frequently failed 10 answer. and mumbled incOherently. necessitating constant repetition. He appeared to fe7l injured. but not mortified. at the la1ghter that was frequently directed sgainrt him. and totally at a loss to understand how the search warran' rhPt he had sworn to had brough' ah0''t srch a vast how-to-do.
 The case was opened with Prodsn- ovich on the stand and his coun~e' Fred Sutte-. directing the questions. The niaintiff testified that he ne Miss Davenport about two u,onthr "go- and that they first talked of -~'rr'a~e cn New Years DSv in hi TtH-e He said that they set Januarv IT as the date for the wedding. and hat thev wee to leave overland for C-'is~-r'a p-o1a-n-ich said that heI asked her if there was anvthin~ t-I prevent their getting married and fh@t sh" sid nn and that he in~uire7 a9 -0 whet"sr she had divorce rom he- first husband and that she said th--e was nothing in the way of the -ed@ine.
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 The witness testifird that he saw Niss Davenport the night before at his sfo-e and that he took her tOl surper at the Edelweiss cafe and then took her to the Philadelphia hO- tel
 ProdanOvich identified a number Of -ales tickets from the Fair and the Phelps Dcdge stores and said that they were memorsndums of the goods he had purchased for her. When ask0d where various converse tions and agreements had been made with Miss Davenport. he always said At my store"
 Alexander Murry. counsel for Miss Drvrn1ort. then took the witness Questions by Murrv elicited from Prodanovich. the information that he had given money to Miss Davenport. that she went and purchased the ar ticles referred to. The witness also