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Show TUE OLSOX'CASE. The Dsrendint Held Ana ffiftl Dt-hied-. Our report of tho caiiunlion of Mua Amanda Olson clos-d yestcr-ila' yestcr-ila' While the cxamlniiion-in-chier oi Jtrs. Anu'llart was in progress. The prosecution elicited nothing new from her orany Importance. Under croe.sxamIuatIon by JuJge Powers tire witness teftUtiei that ue had mrf ,lere lt?htcJ.n vts and wa-a widow, herhnsbanJliav-ins herhnsbanJliav-ins died foar jeara apj. For two Jeara prior to hi, death, Sir. Hall jiudUUtwoUilldren boarJed with her. Recently the oUon had awved around the corner ! Btxfl, Stnu, but prcvlojr to Ujat thei had lived tjle .t fn)m hcr The defeu.Hrn and Mr. Hill U.. ne acquaia'ej aboat tro jeara ago. throagh the wilr.-. Mail Mtet in N,rea&lMr Ut, and Cvc rnths ago rilt, we, t IUi the children. They ill ruurnej to it,,, cily alid went to the wltntj' liu bj JiTtf. Tho irltnos continued: On the evening of thekilllurf,jir. Hall and midf lat the houw at ntiut atiutrttr'aiti-li;; we walked along the fldewaik, clinttlus o, wo walked; we were ualklnj lUrelr: aahortdUaaee Iwbra wB reached the corner of First an J C streets we melalvJy uaT.ed J!b Kenneti; ( m nootiirrlidx.tril f Mn- Mi-I Olson. JaJe Ttf-MMS riuubtioajj ilx. l-mw l-mw minutely as to tthtro Mt.. ONinstoo.1 and the rilativcimi-Uonsof rilativcimi-Uonsof the treo near which rhe stood, the witness -md HalU The witness kM that Miss OLou too.i lariug east, aoout two feU ttortt. of n ires which M nesr Ihcfoutheift corner of the block bounded l Firtt andOitretts; wltnea audilall were waUim; wuUi, wltnees nest A. i V,n' an1 as witne-aud witne-aud UaU rohs-d Ml- TJlcon ntAs wasbettiven turand Hail. J-sa OUin -aU somcUiicg which wilne did not hear, but witness noticed a Urange, develfth look in the face of the defendant, V!tnts did not call HallV attention to tlie ijok, and continued her convention conven-tion ii ith him jbout a laudmatUr; wliutta and Hall walked ciRht or ten feet jat.t MI-sOou, hon the thot was fired; did not iee Hall turn his head nor look at definJaut; defendant de-fendant stood ti!! about a n-cun.l liter firing thef-hottnd Uicn nalked avan defendant ointed the p!-tol at me; I never stated to any one that she IlreJ at mt; I UlScI to a policeman tho evening of the shooting; shoot-ing; dont know his liamti made no lrtl -uUr statement oftlie shpollng; I did not furnish Hall with $10d0 when hu ttLiit cs-L A question as to whether she fur-nish-ii liim any nionej was oijected to anil the oljection was su-ltiuvd. Judire Pnuenz mf mi li4 conversation witli Mls Ol-ou about Mr. Hall srattlme before the sioot-Jns? sioot-Jns? O jectcd to by the prosecution. The ccurt a-W tho purpoc of the question, aud Jujge Powiro replied tlist he wanted to how thit wfea was fcarlul that Hall was beooning too intimate with Mi Olon. Judge Powers When Amanda Olson was coming to your hou-,dlU you no not request her toctti-ed-jln; w, and intimi'e that you were Jealous Jeal-ous of her? Witness So, sir. Jiidpe Powers Have yt.u not, Unce this occurrence turn slicd Mr. Hall'), son with a p!-.tl, ar.d told him to uc it on the woman w ho killed his father? Objetted to. O'ljection argjed. Jmigo Powtrs claimed l.e merely deired to thow tlie state of feeling of the uitueeA. The qun-tiou wa ruled out. A few more uiiiniport-ant uiiiniport-ant questions wire a'kud about the relative tltIoiis of w Itnet, defend mt ami Hall whn the shot was fired, aud the. witness was ixcued. Dr. Meadtam te-titied I first siw the liod Monday LVeulug in the patrol vagon, arid next morn-Inc morn-Inc made an ix ml nation. Tlie witnesH here described In ditall the wound whicli caused dlh. Tlie unll entcrtd tlie loft side of tlie tiedd about three iuihes above and in a vertical ltne'wilh theauJitoo opening, and iaved in a gTjijjht Hue through the lelt half of the itraln, graziug the top of the right half; h-ftlh was due to hemorrhage cau4dby the wound. To JuJse 1'owtrt The wound wn dln-ctly klove the ear, tliree ineliesa'xive the openln?; the fce was clightly i jtiJi r buried. To M&af .Ichnor Hall was about 3f.it 10 inchts tall. To the Court Had seen Hall in hi-, life time, but did not know him; think it wis his body, lut do not know positively. W. a. btanton next testified: On Monday evening I was on Iulue In tire Twentieth Ward, saw something some-thing of tins tragedy; saw pip'c running L the s;ir.t where the man was laying; I went thire; four cr five you ngneu weie there; ftltof hw iul9; it was si)I tieatiug; I -tarted for Dr. Hamilton nul came back villi him in a'out light minutes: ho siM tlie mau was dead; liefuru starting I asked eorae on- to telephone for 'ha ,atrol wagon. Mrs. Hart seemed to have most to si,and I tolJCapLiln Lang to take her name and ajdress, defendant's de-fendant's father came up and asked whit was the mailer. Witness started to rrj-eat w hat Mr. Hart said In reply, but his answering answer-ing was otjected to. Tln-courtiuled the evidence improjier. Witness testified further I did not hearthe shot tired; should jujge I was on the ground aloui two minutes after tlie shooting; Mr. Hart sjH to Mr. Olson: "Your daughter shot him; she stood rlcht behind tint tree there," Mrs. Hart stood holding Hall's hat. Ofllcer McCunly te-iine.!. I MaJ fiharge of the poli v ofllte lost Monday Mon-day ivcnln?; at abou 6 15 defendant defend-ant canio Into the ofllte, a-oini ponied tiy n yjung man, an 1 vhM she wanted W gKo lurcru; she handed me a ils'oi and a letter, which I iianded to Marshal Young; am not Jiosltive as to tlie u onls she used, but Jie sai J she hid shot some om; in the private olllce she made a statement part of which I hosni. To Judge Powers Dj not know tlie name nor the Iwinos of thu young man wliocime with defrnu-aut; defrnu-aut; know hlai bv sight. Witness described him. He said that defendant de-fendant ha.r come up t him and a"sed him t' accompany lit r to the City Hall; d'd not lake his name, nor address do not know where he went; uptK.ed he wtnt away wl.li the patrol wagon. Mr. KIcliaor liere remarked tha tho prosecution had tried very hard to find that jouug man, but had fa"lshal Young tetlfied-l liave know n Amanda Olwin sHcc she was aHttlegir On Monday night she came into the !llce sUUon, gave a gt.u to Odlcer McCurdy and a letter lb Judee taney and said: 1 ?v-s?il ?v-s?il my ti er.'' She was tfcen taken Into my offlce, W' walked the fiojr man agiUted man- "ofllcer Ling testined to the same dTho pm-cciiUcn had no further te-tlruiuy an J Ju Jge Powers stated that Uie defend would oUVr no e l- Mr. j:ichnor then britfly reviewed re-viewed the evidence, claiming thai itshowed that a murder had been committed by the defendant, and he asked that she be.htid to await the action of tho gran J Jury without 'judge Powers said that as the crsnd Jury would return an lndltt-meut lndltt-meut this morning, he tvould not oppose the motion, aud the order was accordingly made. I Contrary to expectation the etmi Jury di 1 not report nu iuduUneut or Mih )on to Jay, and asUiedlt-Itr. asUiedlt-Itr. cturla-ljournea until 10 a.ui Mondaj-, thehs will bo no opportu nltytodoso till then. It is surmised sur-mised that there has been a prolonged pro-longed dcbitc in tlie grand jury room on the question of finding an indictment, though lawyers hold . that Hut lwdy has no alternative. Itliastlio right, however to determine deter-mine the degree in which the offense of-fense shall bo cliargeJ, and it is hlu'ed that it is Uon this point thu inquisitors are dlvMed. AH t Lis Is mere turmlrc, howevtr. |