The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-11-21

and it was cold. The body was
dead"
Q-"What did you DO with the
body?"
A-"Taken saddle blanket off
Mr.. Rusow's horse and covered the
body"
Mr.. Snyder said that he left the
scene of the tragedy "in the neigh
borhood of o'clock and went
back to camp"
Q-"When were you there again."
A-"Next morning about six
o'clock. To see that everything
was all right"
Q-"When were you back again 2"
A-"About noon; and then l
went to look after Mr.. Yragui's
sheep. Found them about two miles
away and drove them back in the
neighborhood."
Mr.. Snyder testified that he was
there again, about dark. He was
on his way over to see if the body
was all right, when he met up with
Charles Rusow who was coming
after him, and with Rusow he went
on over to where the body of Bono
facio Yragui was; and at that time
DIR. Kennedy, of Cedarville; Tom
Etulain, Joe Yragui's partner and a
man named Martin, were there. The
party lifted the body of the dead
man to a horse, Mr.. Snyder said,
and they took the corpse to the
Stanley house. Before leaving,
marker of stone was placed at each
of the two points where the head
and feet of the corpse had lain,
but he saw no other monuments"
put up at that time. He saw two
empty shells lying on the ground
about 25 or 80 steps from the body
of the dead man.
Cross-examination by counsel for
the defense, which was conducted
| by Attorney J. A. Langwith,
ELECTED the information that men
standing in the relative positions
that Newton Stanley and Bonofacio
Yragui occupied, according to evi-
dence submitted, could see one an
other from about the waist up. In
answer to Attorney Langwith's
query regarding the height of the
sagebrush in the immediate vicinity,
Mr.. Snyder replied, "It was larger
than the average sagebrush there
couldn't say how high it was
wouldn't want to say how high it
was" Counsel for both sides took
time about in endeavoring to get
Mr.. Snyder to commit himself more
definitely about what he could and
could not see, but they had to con-
tent themselves with the indefinite
replies of the witness, and he was
finally dismissed, the legal combat
ants having gained no marked ad-
vantage, one over the other, as the
result of their oral bout with the
witness.
Frank O'Leary, the surveyor, who
had previously testified in the case
was again called to the stand by
the state and engaged the attention
of counsel for both sides, for
about half-hour; and he, too, con-
cluded his testimony without lend
ing anything in the way of in
formation that would justify one
in arriving at any conclusion rela-
tive to what caused Newton Stanley
to take the life of Bonofacio Yar-
gui. 1t was made perfectly clear,
however, that if the government
map which he utilized in making a
diagram, supplemented with a sur
vey of the scene that he made, can
be absolutely relied upon, there can
be no doubt in the minds of the
jurors that the tragedy occurred in
Humboldt county, consequently this
court has full jurisdiction vested in
it to try the case.
The next witness called was Joe
Yragui, brother of the man killed,
and for the death of whom New
ton Stanley is now on trial, charged
with murder.
Attorney Powell conducted for
the state the direct examination of
Joe Yragui and, as the result of
the questions propounded by At
torney Powell, the witness stated
that his age is 33 and that he is
engaged in raising sheep; that Bono
faco Yragui, the man slain, was
his brother, who was not quite 81
years old at the time of his death,
weighed about 160 pounds and "my
idea is he was not over five feet,
one inch tall. am five feet ten