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Show PROSECUTION RESTS li SCHMIDT CASE Given Permission, However, to Call Another Wit ness if Desired LOS ANGELES Dec 21 The prosecu tlon rested today in the trial of Mathew A Schmidt charged with the murder of Charles Hagerty one of the twenty per sons ki ed n the e p os on wh ch de stroyed the Los Ange es Times bui ding October 1 1910 At orneys for the de fense waived t elr right to make an open ing statemen to save t me and wll begin tomorrow the introduction of the r tes mony "Wlliam J Burns the detect ve the las witness fo the prosecution to d of a nation wide search he conduc ed fo Schmidt and of one tr p to Europe he made n an effo t o ocate h ra It developed oday hat O af A T e moe of n Franc sco secretary easure of t e state bu d n- trades counc was 1 to be a v; ness for he p ose u on Tve tmoe who as been n almost con Etant at endance at the tr al as a pe sora friend of Schm dt was no n cour today The prosecut on closed its case with a s ipulatlon on the part of he at torneys for the defense that T eitmoes testimony might be admitted ate Accord ng to Thomas Lee "Woo wine d str ct atto ney Tve tmoe wi I be asked about seve al r ps he 8 sad to have made to Los Angeles and t e exped u e of money during the labor un on troub es here in the summer of 1910 It was elated he purpose was to corrobora e n a gene al way the testimony of other i prosecution witnesses along t lis line Isathan C Cogh an ch ef counsel for the defense sa d he would produce less ; than flft witnesses and that the r test! monj probab y would not extend over more than two weeks |