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Show I VETERINARY SURGEON LEE WHO DRESSED J. I, MARTIN'S WOUNDS On the Witness Stand He Relates How He Cut One of the Buckshot From Injured Man's Leg and Applied an Ointment Oint-ment to Bleeding Wounds Farmer Francis of Morgan Mor-gan Allowed Martin lo Sleep in His Barn on the Night of November 9 Other Wit- nesses From Morgan Identify t the Accused. 5fi L,ln 11)8 loDe drawn out trial of J. I' H. Martin this forenoon, the oxaminn- If tion was confined entirely to wimees- h es who clajm to have Been Martin y at Morgan on the evening or Novcm- ber 9. The case Is reaching the last 5 stages of the state's side. There Is i a probablbility that the testimonv for ft the state will he in by Thursday eve- $ nlng or Friday morning, ft The attorney for the defendant & says that he will hlave fifteen or twen- ty witnesses on his aide but that, ' comparatively speaking, they will be I short witnesses unless the attorney j for tjie state enters Jnto a long cross i examination. At any rate, he says, I it will require three or four davs I time. The court room was again filled with people this morning, most of the spectators arriving early enough to I hear the bailiff cry the opening of . coun. a good many were on hand 5 I before the court room doors were 5 opened. The witnesses for tho morning session spoke in rather low 5 J voice and It was necessary for the I i court to admonish the spectators to I 3 make as little noise as possible In order that the Jury might hear all J? J the witnesses had to say. J 4- The first witness was Joseph B S Francis, a farmer of Morgan, and he related in rather a narrative form the 'A visit of a stranger at his home No-' : veinber 9, Sunday evening. He recognized rec-ognized the prisoner at the bar as the man. I The witness said that Martin knock- ed at his door that evening at about : 7:30 and, upon being admitted to the : ; kitchen, requested the privilege of sleeping in the barn. Mr. Francis ; hesitated for a moment, but finally I : said he guessed he could accommo-I accommo-I I : date him. Martin stood in the glare k of the fiO-watt electric light and could J ' f be plainly seen by the witness and I : hlB wife. Mr. Francis said that ! Martin told him he did not smoke St and that he wrd not particular about ft the accommodations. He told him ML that he was beating his way to Ev-K. Ev-K. anston on a train hut was put off1 at1 JH' the Morgan station. At The witness said that he lighted ' the lantern and led the way to the barn, Martin walking a few feet in the rear. He secured a roll of bedding bed-ding and arranged a bed for Mar tin on the hay, facing the stalls where the horses were always i fed. The man retired, he said, and he did ; not see him again until about 6 o'clock "the next morning when he fed the horses. Martin was In bed at that time and told Mr. Francis that he had rested well during the night. He was at the barn again in the course of 30 minutes aud intended to Invite the stranger to take breakfast, but when he approached the bed he discovered dis-covered that the man had departed. On cross examination, Mr. Francis said that he hnd read something or the case and talked It over briefly at his home. He also said that he had seen a halftone cut or Martin In the Standard a few days after Martin was at his nlaee. or within two weeks. was at his place, or within two weeks, at least. He also said that -he came to Ogdcn in November to see Martin and that he then identified him as the man. The picture, he thought, was not a very good one of Martin, but that he could see that it was a photograph of the man who remained re-mained in hla barn the night of November No-vember 9. On his way to Ogden to see Martin, Francis said he told the officers of the picture In the paper and that he was certain he would know the man were he to see him again. At the police station he wa3 taken into Martin's presence and immediately im-mediately reco'gnized him. He could not recall, however, whether there were any other strangers in the room at the time. He named all that he remembered having been in the room and he was more or less acquainted with a)l but Martin. He said he had heard that there was a reward offered of-fered for the blackmailer, but that he had, not figured on getting any part of it. In describing Martin's clothes when the witness claimed he was at his home, he said that he wore a rather light-colored suit and a brown hat, and "he thought he wore a soft shirt, but he did not observe that he wore a muffler about his neck. The wit- ness also said that he did not observe ob-serve anything peculiar about Martin's Mar-tin's walk. He olaimed that he was not in a position to see him walk to any great extent as Martin walked behind be-hind him on the way to the barn. In connection with the picture which the witness claimed he saw In the Standard shortly after Martin was In hi8 barn, or within two or three weeks after, It might be said that Martin was not arrested until December 4 .and that his photograph was not printed In any paper until after bis arrest. He was not known to the public in connection with the blackmail cases until aftor his arrest. ar-rest. Veterinary Surgeon Testifies. -Henry Lee, the Morgan veterinary surgeon, stated that on the night of November 9, at about 8:30 o'-clock, he had occasion to doctor a horse-for horse-for Mr. Francis in his barn and that while he was doing so a stranger, who was sitting beside a bed in the hp.y mow, told him that he had been accidentally shot by a friend while hunting ducks and geese and he requested re-quested the veterinarian to look at the wounds. Dr. Lee said he told the man that he would look at his legs nnd do all that he could to relieve the smarting, smart-ing, of which the stranger principally complained. He said that the man. whom he pointed out to be Martin, came into the stall where he was working with the horse and took a, seat on a box. The witness said that ho rolled up the clothing and examined exam-ined both of Martin's legs, finding a gunshot wound in the ankle or the right leg and one In the front of the lert Jeg just below the knee. He said that the wounds were both fresh and were bleeding a little. The witness said that he found a buck6hot Just under the skin on the ankle and that, with a sharp knife, he cut it out. He explained that In bis mind the shot had gone, through the ankle. It was nqt diflicult to extract The witness said he did not keep the shot, but when . Attorney Leatherwood showed a shot supposed to have been taken from shells the same as were used in Edward's shotgun, shot-gun, he said the one he took from Martin's leg was similar and about the same sire. The wounds had no bandages on them, Lee said, and the only treatment treat-ment he gave them was to apply an ointment he had prepared for sores and cuts, which, he told the stranger, would relieve the smarting. Afternoon Crowd. Before the court room doors were opened for the trial this afternoon, many people were in the corridor and when the doors were opened the room was filled In a few minutes. Every available space in the auditorium of the court was takn and the isle was filled and the door entrance crowded, with people craning their necks from outside to get a glimpse of the prisoner pris-oner and to hear, if possible, some of the evidence as it came from the lips of the witnesses. Dr. Leo was a slow witness on crosB examination which was begun after the noon recess. He hesitated in forming his answers to questions, but appeared to be certain of his ground all the time. He related that he was a graduate of a veterinary correspondence corre-spondence school in Detroit. Michigan, Michi-gan, and had practiced at Morgan for four years. In all, he had practiced his profession about 20 years. He 6aid, in answer to a question propounded by Attorney Christenfien as to whether he had not said at some other time and place that there were five wounds in Martin's legs, that he had. He then stated that he thinks there were five wounds in the prisoner's legs but he cbuld not remember re-member just where they were. He made one wound, he said, in opening tho flesh to remove the buckshot, ! which with the five others, would make six scars on Martin's legs at fhlc fimo Tfp u-fls pprtain thnt therp. would be a scar where he made the Incision to take out the bullet. To test the accuracy of the witness wit-ness on jthls point. Attorney Christen-sen Christen-sen had' Martin remove his shoe and stocking from the right foot for an examination. Dr. Lee examined the ankle and pointed to the place where he claims' to have taken out the bullet, bul-let, but there was no sear visible. Thu witness said that It Is possible that the knife cut would not make a scar. The scars from the wound of the bullet bul-let that passed through the leg were plainly seen and no other scars could be discovered. Dr. Lee said that he identified Mar tin as the man he saw in the barn at Morgan at the police station a few days after his arrest and at that time be looked at his legs but he said he could not remember whether he saw more than the two wounds at that time. He said that in examining examin-ing the wounds in the Francis barn he used a "bullseye" lantern and that he placed considerable of his medicine on the wounds and also gave Martin a bottle to take with him. He salu that Martin told him that he was going to Park City. 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