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Show GIRL TELLS OF NEGRO All minors were ordered lo leave the auditorium of, the Police court chamber when the case against Julius Dickcrsou, the uegrp v chauffeur, charged with a statutory ofTense, was called. An effort to have all spectators spec-tators excluded from the hearing of the case was made by the county attorney, at-torney, but was merru'edkbv .Itidirn .1. D. "'Murphy. Babcona Smith, the accuser of the colored autoni'ile driver, was tho first witness to he cabled to the stand and she told the stWy "of her relations rela-tions with the negro Tn the most brazen bra-zen manner. She staled that she is 17 years of ago but would be IS years old on the twenty-second of this 1 month. She said that' her parents resided re-sided in Salem, Utah, and that she I was married July 19, 1910, In Pi-ovo to J. D. Smith, who Is employed as a cook on a dining car. They lied happily together for nearly two months, but have sirice been somewhat some-what estranged. She told of meeting Diclccrson and of having ridden with him in an automobile. She said ho had promised that he would purchase her some fine clothing nnd that ho would supply her with money to re- ' turn to her home in Salem. On Jan- uary 20, she testified, Dickerson had 1 pushed his wav into her room at the ' Banquet rooming house and,, because . of his promises, she said thai his ' presence was not altogether objectionable objection-able to iter. 1 Bessie Smith, her companion, also told of the meetings with Dickerson. I She gave her age as 19 years and stat- . ed that her home was in Newbridge, Oregon. Dickersou was not called to the stand, but DotectiVc- James Pender told of tho colored man's arrest and of his confession. He also stated that Dickerson had admitted that he was I a married man. Judge Murphy did not pass upon ' the case, but stated that he wbuld take it inder advisement and glvo his decision later. |