Show j I i GIRLS fits MAY m RETURN EH I I Misses Witbeck Vit eek anti Mathieson v s Said Sam to Be Coming Coining Comingo o HAVE HATE H YE SO FAR DECLINED i C JOHN WITBECK MAKES A A I STATEMENT i Declares That His ills Daughter Will Come Corns Back to Testify in the Ben BenI Benbrook I brook Case if He Ne Commands Her Ncr Herto Herto to Do So but hut He Written Her Ner as Yet I There is a possibility that the two young youns women Miss 1153 Nana Nasa Witbeck rUbeck and Dei Miss lUas Emma n will return her herto here herf hereto to testify in the Benbrook case cue Ex Senator Brown who is leading counsel in the case e for the state said last night that he wanted them and they must come Whan When John Witbeck the father of one or of the young ladies was inform informed informed ed of this he said bald that they would be he here If Attorney Brown wanted them badly But ho did not n t know that they were coming and he had not sent for his daughter commanding her to come home He did not say sa that he would do this At the present time the two young women are supposed to be in Joplin Mo Io Miss Witbeck wrote home on Feb 16 from rota Kansas CIty CRy saying that they would visit her sister at et Jop Un At the time it was announced that Colonel Theodore Bruback had been n subpoenaed as a 2 witness Itne in Ute Use Ben brook case caseS a letter was written to the two girls asking them to come home I and Miss Misa t Witbeck wrote that she would not come under any circumstances circumstance to i I testIfy I In the ease case But Mr Witbeck r v any doubt that If he or ers her to come home she will ill come Thinks They Should Come Conie ComeI I 1 think that thet it would be much better if they cause came home and gave their tes tea testimony testimony said he They know nothing more about the ease case than they the told at atthe atthe I the preliminary examination e The Tbt affi fil affidavit davit tiled by Attorney Rogers Roger when be he asked for wr a continuance of the that the girls saw sawa aw A a light between Mor Morris MorrI ris rI and Benbrook is not true and they will not testify to such a thing My daughter lass has explained to me time and again just juet what she did see and she tell tells just what she told on the prelim prelimInary inary mary examination I 1 think that the only time she ever heard a pistol shot I was wan when we lived near the Hamilton 1 residence at the time of the shooting sheeting there So when the three shots were fired in the restaurant she had bad not Rot suf knowledge of such things thi gs to judge what they were in Tn ft thAt man tull j I man tull view clew many man y per persons sons cone think the girls are trying to hide something it would wo ld be better for tor them to come comeback back and testify again though it would be humiliating to them They would thus show that they have hid j I The money for their return tickets is on deposit at the Rio Ri Grande Western I office now and they can secure tickets whenever they the want to But they are I not coming back to save eave me from eon con conviction in the complaint which has hae been Keen I tiled flied I 1 commit any crime and I cant be convicted of or anything The I trouble tr does not worry me meL L Wont Quash Complaints County Attorney Putnam Mid said last evening that there was no arrangement with Colonel Bruback and John Wit Witbeck Witbeck Witbeck beck to quash the charges against agaJ them if It the young young women returned He would not cay aay what he intended to do about the case But th there re is 16 a very vel general belief that the return of oC the women will mean mean that the cases against the colonel and Mr lIr Witbeck will be dropped J JI I dont know anything about it It for forIm forIm forIm Im not the county attorney said ex en Senator Brown rown last night But nut I dont think that the cases cues should be pushed pu bed If the women women come back I IThe The Benbrook trial win proceed at at I II 16 this morning m Judge Powers attorney for Benbrook is 18 inclined to think that a full jury win will not he be ne os cured until Monday |