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Show EXAMINATION IN THE MURDER ! C11AKGE. On Wednesday morning the defense : call..-d Thomas Wii.liam.s.wIio testified j that he had lived in this city about twelve yeai; on the liind of October, I SO, he was acting as treasurer of the Salt Lake iheatn, which po.-iik-n lie had held four to five years previously; '' could not recollect whether there was a per fur m a i ice at the the theatre on , the liJud day of October without ro-' ference to the books of the theatre, 1 which contain a record of all the per- ; Ibnnaneos, kept by him.-elf, The ! books were produced iu court and identified iden-tified by witnet-s, ) who after examining them declared positively that there was no performance on the night of Monday, tbe 'JJnd of October; there wm a performance on Saturday, the : 20th of October. The Irwin's performed per-formed on that night and on Tuesday. ; There were performances on Tuesday, 1 Thursday and Saturday of that week. The cash book shows no entries for i the night of tho lind, nor the musi- ' eian's time book. On October IJOtb, ! the Irwin's played the "Marble Heart." j Julia Dean ilayuo played at the thea- I tre on Saturday, June .IOlIi, 'DC, and I did not play after that. On the cross-examination nothing i important was elicited. The witness i said he was scarcely absent a day j during his engagement as treasurer, and had made a record of every per-1 i formancc when the theatre was leased to other parties. There was nothing ; to fix tho date of the L'tM of October upon his memory. The theatre was j never opened without his knowledge. j John C. Graham, present treasurer I of the Salt Lake theatre, has been con-! nectod with the theatre seven years, sineo one year ago last Juno as treas- j ! uror; is the custodian of the books; the 1 I book ol" programmes is in the Eame condition as he received it. John T. Catne Was stage manager of the Salt Liko theatre in October, 1S0C. Kccognized tho bound file of i bills as kept by him. 1 1 was his prac-1 lice to file the bills of every perform- j auce and keep them till tho close of the season, when they wero bound; could j not recollect whether there was a porformaucc on the night of the 22d of October; but on referring to the bills, he found programmes for the plays on the nights of the 20th and the 2od. If there had been a performance per-formance on the 22nd there would have been a bill for that night most certainly. The court took a recess till 2 : o'clock. Afpehnoon Session. Jonathan Pug jure Has lived on Emigration street in this oily since 1S4S, with tho oxcoption of being south a lew years. The fence enclosing the north-cast lot in 1SGG waB of picket, the next an adobe fence, the next two lots were enclosed by picket fence. On cross-examination, witness said there wero some bars or poles at intervals in the fence. George WmrAKEit, residing on the same street, corroborated the last witness as to the fences on Third South street. Knew Alexander Curt in 1800 had worked by hia side some six or seven years; up to that time he never wore any board at all or very little. E. T. Mumpord Who has lived in 1-Jth Ward since ISoO, on Kmigration street, corroborated the other witnesses witness-es in regard to the fences on Emigration Emigra-tion street. There had been no polo fence on the block since 1SGG. Jonah Croxai.l tesfificd as to the fences. John C. Gray testified as to tho fences. Jesse Yv'EST.had known Alexander Burt over 14 years very well. He either wore no beard in 1SGC, or one so light as scarcely to be distinguishable. distinguish-able. Joseph Burton Had known Alexander Alex-ander Burt about fourteen years; knew him in the fall of 1SGG; shaved him ooi oluw u-f.iu wKUin a year or iuu had no beard or very little. Daytd Anderson Had known A. Burt since the summer of '07; knew him in the fall of '66. Ue wore no beard of any consequenco. Georoe Smith Had known Burt twelve or fourteen years; he did not wear a beard in 1SCG. Gibson Condey had known Burt fourteen years; he did not wear any beard of consequence in the fall of 1SGG. Theodore Sjiitii had known Burt well since 1858. Saw liim frequently in 1SG6. He wore no beard then. Dr. J. S. 0 rms by In tho spring of 1S66 attended Brigham Hampton professionally for consumption; one of his brothers and a sister have died of consumption and defendant has the seeds of it in his chest, Tn October, 1SG6, he was very feeble, not half so well as he is now. Don' t believe he was able to j-un half a block at that time. He was without power to do anything; ho quit his business on the doctor's advice. JJid not know when he went on the police force. John Swinson Knew Brigham Hampton in 1S3S; worked in shop with j him in '06, when he was a sickly, consumptive con-sumptive man,' of ten unlit to work. Mr. Fitch asked for a rccoss till this morning to enable a witness to come in. They had only three or 1'our witnesses wit-nesses more to offer, upon anothei branch of the case, after which thoj would close. |