Show i I I j 1 I j TYLER MURDER i iJ A J 1 I Statement of the th Prosecution a at atI I 3 Beginning of Steve I j J Adams Trial 1 p J I FIRST STAND STANDI STANDI U r JI i j I ALLEGED CONFESSION TO BE I f 4 i t PUT IN EVIDENCE I Wallace Ida Feb 16 11 Today Toda Steve Ste Stevea a 1 I fl dams Adams Is Ig facing the completed juryj Jury 1 L 1 j I which will decide r he sUII i in n f or innocent of 01 0 the murder ot I 4 Ty Tyler r rj j I 1 1 4 I ler l r the timber bel settler The state st t e out outlined outI I j 1 I lined Ine IU Its case this thiB morning and the ac actual C J II I I j i Ii I of testimony began but buti c i j two t lve Ks k or o more nure mo re may elapse ela Ce a ai 4 Ii I I i J 4 i verdict erUct Is 1 tendered The state has I I about eighteen n witnesses to present pr s t ev evidence e 1 i the th defense Is la known to 10 l r 1 1 J have allt Who some ome I IJ J of ot the latter l Will b be Is L not known wn the I J defense having demanded the privilege I t I 1 or of summoning ln a IL number r without djs die I r I closing their thIr th lr names s tG tho state The prosecutions s witnesses 8 will present I oi mainly circumstantial evidence backed I 1 1 i by Adams 8 alleged confession of the I I i murder While the defense has hns refused 0 I 1 to f outline lt U ItS case further than to make makeI 1 I q gen general ral denial it Is expected to resist I 1 the Introduction of this confession with withal If I I j all al Its power owe claiming Sheriff Suther Sutherland 1 i 1 Ii land used Improper I means mean s to obtain It Itt t 1 3 t and that If it Adams mado any confession I 1 to Detective D McP Jt was made 1 I 1 I under dea d was untrue j Adams Is I Cheerful j I t t tI I dams Adams m the prisoner sits in court j I 1 with WI th his wife by hU h Bide aide day da Y after day dayI I listening closely to the arguments now I t i and aDd then en conferring with his F but Apparently not worried over his I I i fate tate Confinement in jail does not seem to have affected him and he Is In a aIt 1 It 1 1 mood to laugh heartily when anything r 1 amusing occurs in court Even Evon should I I the verdict go 0 against him It is as assumed assume asI I JI sume d the tho fight light would Uld be only begun 4 o j AS AI tt the defense in if I already shaping its grounds on which to appeal or demand demanda dem nd I a 0 new trial Ono One nb of ot the tte notable exceptions already I 1 taken t k m is la to Judge Woods ruling that a n 1 1 member of ot the Western Vestern Federation of ot Miners could be e excluded from the tile jury t b 11 1 on challenge for cause The defense la III contended that thal It would be as reason reasonable reasonable reasonable able to exclude a man because ne he was wa wasI I i an Elk I Statement of Prosecution The state outlined its theory of ot tha th i J J murder of ot Fred Tyler at this mornings I I session of ot court Attorney Knight for forthe F 1 l the e state told how Tyler we went nt into the 1 i J new country eo O near the St Joseph oseph river I 1 it i In the spring of ot 1904 19 1 and took up a 4 b I 1 timber claim how strife over the tim timber 4 F ber her lands had arisen among the set settler ct I it 1 tiers some of who whom had them themselves j a J selves elves together to gain certain ends j ii 1 how at least lead one settler had bum been b en L i warned to t get out of the country county About Aug 10 the state alleges ge Ty Tyler T 1 1 I 1 j I ler br went fishing and on his way hi hime me It I ei stopped sl at the home borne of a neighbor J J named Phillips that after atter supper he h heI I J started to his cabin and was never seen en o f again till tin his body bod was found in iii the 1 timber by surveyors a bullet holt In Inthe Ini L I 44 I the back of ot his skull showing the cause i I j I of nf death deatha J Alleged Alleg d Confession a fj 11 I The state proposes to show that Ad Adams bC fJ I I ams was In that region until a few fw I I r the hOM Id anU To Intro Introduce 1 f i duce dure evidence of a confession cured J I from Adams on different occasions 1 Iho t the tle use of o force This Th confes confession conf 1 f sion Fion R that on his way home from fr fromI nn il I 1 1 1 Phillips houfe houpe Tyler met Adams Ad ms and two other armed men mets that they tiey took him to toa a cabin and kept him him there over night urging him to leave the tho country that In the he h was given no breakfast but b t was as taken to the top of a hill bill and anti told to wane on ahead and as al he ho walked away awa Adams raised his rifle and shot him dead dei d Mrs Thomas mother of ot f the tha murdered man was called as the first witness ls When the examination of Mix Un Annie Thomas was wa ii It became apparent that every inch of the ground would be contested cont by b both sides on the part of the defense was conducted v with a view to toward toward toward ward disputing that the remains found on Marble creek were those of Fred Ty Tyler Tyler Tyler ler It was brought bro out that when Mrs Irs Thomas last saw Tyler Ier he was carrying a small gun Run which he was as never neer known to do before Recognized the thc Body I IJ John J hn TL n Thomas testified that he was 1 among to view the body bod on dis discovery discovery covery coel He recognized it by the hair hall calloused call used feet t fe t and ana baseball finger The overalls hat undershirt handkerchief sox 50 bottle containing salve to tobacco tobacco tobacco bacco box and hair hall that fell from the skull when lifted were produced and all Identified by Thomas as an those token taken from the body b d discovered and antT worn by bv Fred Fr d Tyler All AH the articles were ere badly decomposed The box boi containing the tho bones of Tyler was as also brought into court but left unopened Had Copy of Former Testimony A J scene was va created when tien Thomas an announced announced that he had bad in his possession a I copy of his evidence at the preliminary trial It was not explained how it came Into his possession but he had read it lost last week Thomas was examined with special reference to his evidence at the preliminary trial and counsel came to hl n words more than once Exceptions and objections were lodged unon upon question after atter question when hen Darrow tried to get the witness s to admit a reason for chang changing changIng changing ing his description of the hat from a low crowned as at the preliminary trial to toa toa toa a medium low crown at the present cross examination Not Quite So Certain The hair was handed to the witness for lor examination and this the t le questioning qU in this connection was very vel severe Thomas did not appear no IsO positive about abo t the hair hIt as ashad ashad ashad had been indicated by b the prosecution saying that fIe ie thought it looked locked a little different in color col This part of Thomas examination was as the last before court adjourned until Monday Mrs Irs Thomas Tylers mother sat all through the he hearing and wept bitterly as the gruesome articles were produced prod need |