Show FLOY CHAPMANS CASE II Proceedings in Court Yesterday Were Somewhat Sensational THE LINE OF THE DEFENSE ATfTEDlTT T SHOW THUD AX UNDUE UN-DUE IXTCIACV EXISTED Attorney Strnup For Miss Chapman I Allesres That Atwood i the I Father of Her Illegitimate Child I His Testimony The ICishins Incident In-cident Gone Over Austin Checks I Claimed to Be Forced Introduced I The hearing of Floy Chapman the prey danseuse and living picture artist on the charge of forging the name of W H Atwood f jf > Murray to divers checks for divers amounts brought out a very pretty sensation in I the police court yesterday LINE OF DEFENSE The true inwardness of this latest sensation did not come out in detail at yesterdays trial While young Atwood was on the stand Attorney Straup tried by a series of legal flank movements II move-ments to bring from him a confession of undue intimacy with Miss Chapman t at the time Miss Chapman was a hired I servant in the Atwood house several years ago Mr Eichnor kept putting I a quietus on this kind of testiranjny by claiming that it was Irrelevant to a case of forgery The court ruled I against the admission of the testimony and finally forced Attorney Straup was fnaBy in order to show why he wished to introduce the evidence to spring the sensation which he had reserved for i later in the trial I Miss Chapman herself was not put on the witness stand a the hour for the I adjournment of court had arrived when the last witness for the prosecution had been examined The decision of I the justice will therefore hang fire until un-til today County Attorney Whlttemore and Attorney Eichnor prosecuted the case I and Attorney Straup appeared for the defendant The court room was crowded when the case was called up and packed before be-fore i was half over ATWOOD TESTIFIES W H Atwood was the first one to I take the witness stand for the prosecution prosecu-tion He was extremely hard to handle I han-dle especially for the defense and the court had to call him to order for indulging in-dulging in some jibes and for using I dulgng He informed the prosecutor If several times that hed be damned I he knew and ended some of his emphatic em-phatic utterances with a fine flourish by saying thats straight goods that 18 THE 150 CHECK He was first shown the 150 check which Miss Chapman is accused of forging ani immediately he was racked with doubts He began by saying it was not his writing and then readjusted his spectacles across his broad feature and found that he did not know whether he had written it or not Attorney Straup kept bringing bring-ing on different checks and then the old gentlemans trials were many Its a powerful good imitation he remarked finally in a puzzled way And if any one else wrote i she made a mighty good job of it He ha no recollection he said of signing a check t C B Atwood In regard to Miss Chapmans presence in regd his sons office he said she used to be but remarked later there frequency rmrked latl that she could not be left lon alone as one of his men was through every ten minute HOW SH CASHED THE CHECK Manager Brink of Joslln Park testified tes-tified to the passing of the check by Miss Chapman The check was made Atwood and that payable to Jennie Atwo ad tat was the name Miss Chapman endorsed on the back She had informed Mr Brink that she had only expected 75 but that Mr Atwood had given her 150 as a wedding present After the check was rejected by the bank he had Miss Chapman arrested in the drugstore drug-store under the Cllft house When asked ask-ed by Sergeant Wire She had confessed con-fessed that the check he showed her was the one she endorsed ATWOOD FILS Henry C Atwood who gave Miss Chapman the check according to her story was then brought forward by the prosecution Pallor was upon his I face and excitement gleamed in his 5 = mall blue eyes The leading points I brought out by the prosecution were that he wrote all his fathers checks but never signed them and that Miss Chapman was frequently left alone in the office Attorney Straup then put him through a cross fire Did Miss Chapman ever work at your fathers house a a servant girl he asked Yes she did several years ag at home at that Were you living tat time timeI I a Were you married then and did you keep company with this girl No sir no shouted Atwood ex celjEICHNOR EICHNOR OBJECTS Attorney Eichnor objected to the last question n being a collateral and irrelevant ir-relevant issue in a trial for forgery The objection was sustained by Judge Wenger and Straup jumped up and argued heatedly that he ha a legal right to introduce testimony showing intimacy between them The evidence he wished t adduce would simply Indicate a consideration on the part of Atwood for giving her the check SPRINGS HIS SENSATION I want t show continued Straup that this man Atwood i the father of her child and that he gave h the check for this reason Everyone In the court rom craned his neck forward on hearing this sensational sen-sational statement The Judge ha to rap for order Attorney Straup proceeded pro-ceeded with the cross examination Atwood admitted after several attempts at-tempts at a evasive answer that Miss Chapman and himself were frequently together office and had long talks in the ofiiceWas Was anything said about a child 1 asked Mr Straup What child Your child and her child of course We havent any child Atwood who had bee very much excited was then asked if he had renewed the intimacy of a few years ago Attorney Eichnor Interposed inter-posed a objection t this which was sustained by the court The defense them went en some new tactics THE KISSING INCIDENT Didnt you kiss this girl while she was lying on the lounge Yes I did Didnt your wife slap you in the face when she found you doing thIs No sir She thought it was all right for you t kiss another woman I suppose Well she didnt Wel care Did not this girl ask you for some money Only for a quarter Is it not a fact that she asked ou for money to support her child No she never did NOT WRITTEN BY HIM Atwood was how the 150 check J j > i m 1 and said he had noo written it A personal per-sonal check of his for 20 which was also brought out he claimed he had never seen before One of the checks he said was in Jim Kellys writing Martin S Williamson a Murray newspaper man testified to having seen Miss Chapman alone twice ini the Atwood office The final witness was Mrs Henry Atwood who came forward with an infant in her arms She said on direct examination that last Thursday she went on a visit to a neighbors leaving Miss Chapman alone in tttie house from beor 4 oclock until fifteen minutes 6ORDERED ORDERED HER TO LEAVE On crossexaiminaitionv she asserted than she did not sap her husband in the face although she saw him kissing the girl through a open door Was i not then that YOU ordered her out o the house Yes sir Did you not then suspect your husband hus-band of being intimate with this girl In reply t this Mrs Atwood said with tears in her voice that she Had always taken her husband to be a honorable and honest a man a the earth afforded Mrs Atwood claimed that she had not Invited Miss Chapman t stay with her 3 > week She had invited her to st with them akter a ride to Draper for manners sake but after that Miss Chapman had remained uninvited On Tuesday or Wednesday she had complained t Miss Chapman because sftie read books instead of taking oleo ole-o the babies Also she had noc enjoyed en-joyed the way her guest had of getting the hired man to take her out riding Attorney Eichnor suggested that a ic was getting late it would not be advisable visable to call on any more witnesses c wneses The court agreed and continued the case until 2 oclock today As Miss Chapmans claim about the illegitimate child evidence will is be expected aired today som sensational |