Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-11-28

there He stated that he decided in
the summer of 1928 that Taylor was
not right mentally.
Norman Dawson, hotel clerk at
the Mountain Home Hotel, was the
next witness and he related how
Taylor would come through the ho-
tel at all hours of the night and
would go to his law Office and try
the doors.
Frank Hendricks, butcher, next
took the stand and he said that at
one time he happened to be standing
in front of Taylors Office and the
defendant came out, locked the door,
walked up the street for short dis
lance, turned around and went back
and tried the door. He stated that
Taylor repeated this for six different
times, during the course of ten min
utes.
e. ]. Colthorp, city water super
intendent, told of talking with the
defendant and he also related many
supposed plots in which it was hoped
! TO entrap Taylor, according to the
beliefs of the defendant
Attorney A. A. Sessions denied
many statements that were contained
in the letters wherein he was mem
! toned
County Commissioner J. D. Whit
son told of the peculiar actions OF
the defendant and he also stated that
he had reached the conclusion that
he was mentally unbalanced.
Rev. j. l.. Taylor, of the Baptist
Church, related the story of where
Taylor was expected to speak at a
reception The defendant did not put
in an appearance at the appointed
hour and he was sent for. He came
and delivered the talk and later ex-
planned his hardness to the pastor
by saying that there had been man
in his house and that he did not feel /
it safe to leave until he had chased
him away. In a conversation with
the defendant at time when Tay-
lor was telling him of the supposed
conspiracy Taylor said; Some day,
III have to take my gat and get
some of these people. The minis
ter tried to dissuade him and tell
him the seriousness of such an Of
tense. He stated that he thought !
that Taylor was "a little off.
C. M. Selix, Western Union opera
tor told the jury of the nightly
prowlings of the defendant.
o. e. Cannon, cashier of the First |
National Bank, next took the stand
and he denied the instance related in
the defendants letters to his father,
wherein Taylor states that McLaugh-
lin had attempted to get some papers
out of his lock box at the local bank.
The witness stated that he was not
in nor had heard of any conspiracy
to injure the defendant in any man
ner.
o. E. Norell was recalled and he
related an incident which occurred in
the fall of last year. He said that
one time when he was passing the
residence that Taylor
was up on a ladder endeavoring to
get into an up stairs window. The
next day Taylor told him about the
alleged planting of the watch and
that the door to the room was locked
so he had to get in at the window in
order to make the desired search.
w. d. Stafford, who is an attor-
ney for the defense took the stand
and also identified some letters which
Taylor had written to him.
George R. Jones, merchant of
Bruneau told of the Savage or En-
erson case, wherein Mrs Emerson
stated that she had been deprived of
some notes that belonged to her. The
witness stated that the entire matter
had been satisfactorily adjusted in
the office of Justice of the Peace Ut {
ter and that Mrs. Emerson had left
satisfied.
Apparently collected and evidenc- !
do /
fendant himself took the stand for a
three hour grilling on the part of
MS attorneys He talked through !
)ut the time with little sign of emo s
ion and his memory of the various
plots which were supposed to have
been inaugurated against him was I
good Taylor identi- s
led some notes he had sent to w.
D. Stafford of Gooding, defense '
counsel, relating to conversation be- |
ween persons he believed were con- a
piring against him. Stafford him t
elf told of these notes on the stand
his morning. r
Taylor testified that he overheard t
conversation between L. B. Green l
mother local attorney, and Nc
1aughlin while standing near win n
ow to the latter's office. This con- n
-ersation, he said, had to do with t
isbarment proceedings. The first b
ime he ever got an inkling of the t
LEGGED conspiracy, Taylor said, was e
n May, 1923, when someone told ]
i'm that Green and Mclaughlin
we're comforting after he had tried to s.
et a decree set aside in the Jones Y
ivorce case. This conspiracy against "
i'm, he said, involved getting girl tt
mixed up" with him and several fl
ines after that he said he was APP Il
reached by women. He understood e.