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Show ROBBERY IS MOTIVE SHOWiJ FOB MURDER, i Tettimony Is Given That J Money Was Taken From Miner Before He Died. Special to The Tribune. OUDLN, Jan. 31. The establishment of a robhiiy motlie for the a lie red murder of I 'at 1 ck QuK'ley was the Important j development of t he preliminary trial of I'ranl, I'hilhrook, rhaiged with the inur- j j der 01 th ar-d miner, whl- h was begun I before .ludge, Oeorge K. Barker in the, I munh Ipa! court today. James O'Brien, principal witnew for the state, not only testified tha t Quigley was robbed of before he died, but that Philbrook was the iijhii who took the money. Iue to the fact that Soren X. Chnsten-eu. Chnsten-eu. I'lillbrook's at torney. could not re-n::nn re-n::nn in tite citv thla afternoon, it was )nipo -1 hie to coin 1 ile te t he preliminary hearing today. After C 'Bi ieu and Mrs. Canine Dawson had t'-stiiie-J for the Mate, th hearing waa contlniud until Wednesday Wednes-day morning at lo:;',o oVio.-k. An audience audi-ence that completely filled the council room of the city build ink' was on hand t his morn in it fot the preliminary heart ng In the murder ease.. County Attorney Joseph jc. FlvariH, assisted by Dlstrb t At torney John O. Davis, conducted the, cafe tor the stale. Mrs Dawson, propi let or of the rooming room-ing house at 3 '2 Twenty-fifth street, w iiere, Qulgley is alleged to have been given "knockout" drops that produced his drain, add--d nothing to her testimony other than that given at the corone.r'H Inquest. She told of renting a room to the ml nei . of t he social ev on 1 rig in her room, a nd testified that Philbrook, O'Brien and IX. M. Powers carried 0'"g-lev 0'"g-lev from her room to the room lie had enpage.i after he had collapsed. The woman tesiir'ied that the miner apparently was unable to help himself, but she could not say what had produced the condition. She said she retired about lu::to o'clock and did not know anything concerning Quiglev's de'h until the next mormnir. Under cross-questioning by At-torm At-torm Christen '-n, Mrs. Dawson said she did not know why Mie had been locked In Jail evcept that it had some thing to do with the miner' death. O lirien's testimony corroborated tht of the woman up 10 the point where Quigi-' , nn- onjeious and utterlv helpless, was i.-irried from the room in winch tn party had been held. As thev ne about to leave he, room after placing Cjuijrley on the bed, t lie wit n ess test ified that Phi'brook searched the miner's pocket", taking a le.ith.er money sack that lie had seen in the man's posf-eswion during the evening. I Yom tl.l sack, according to O'Brien, the drfenoant took four silver dollar and a sold- piece. II cave two of the silver dollars to Powers and offer ed the other two to O'Brien, according to the t--Min.ony. The witness sid he refused to take the money at first, but that I "hi! brook pushed it into his pocket. It was some time later, O'Brien testified. fh.it he was awakened by Philbrook and iisMMnl the defendant in carrying tiie dad body of the miner down the rear Malrway and to the rear of the Senate -afe. where it was found two hours later. ( n cro!-.; -examination, O'Rrien strenuously strenu-ously denied that he had ever served a term in prison. The cross-examination ha-1 not been enmplet r-d when the con- I I n ua n ce was taken until next W ed n ps -day. |
