Show AS INNOCENT AS A Aa NEWBORN a BABE Samuel G Spencer Makes Fervent Denial of Crime Crimes s Against Child RIGID ACCUSED STRONG WITNESS IN HIS OWN DEFENSE Intimating that the sister slater and daugh daughters daughters daughters of ot Samuel G Spencer had been b en listening at the tho door of ot the court room While he ho was giving his testimony As Aa Assistant County Attorney Aaron Meyers rs yesterday Yes erday morning when the hearing was aS resumed formally notified Police Judge Diehl that If IC Mrs Stewart sister of or Spencer or his daughters are placed upon the stand for the defense he will abject to their testimony It has haa come to my knowledge said Mr Meyers that while Spencer was testifying yesterday afternoon his sis sister sister sister I ter and his two daughters stood close to the thedoor door leading from the court room and we e able abl to hear what the wit witness witness ness Dess was saying The assistant county attorneys Words caused a ripple of ot Interest In the court ourt room judge Diehl said he would take up the matter at the proper time Spencer was called to the stand and resumed his testimony To each ques question question question tion as to his guilt of ot the alleged of offense offense offense against Hannah Ivy Wallace he be made a denial of fervent force torce I 1 am as innocent of wrongdoing With that child he exclaimed as God GodIn Godin GodIn In high heaven I am as Innocent as a babe Denies Kneeling Episode He admitted that on the tho night he learned that charges had been made against him he had sent his son ip in a carriage to Granger to bring home his hist t daughter l who was then visiting the Wallace family at Granger This he said was not because he feard that his laughter daughter would be induced to make damaging statements but was for the purpose of taking the child away from the dangerous influences of persons Who he alleged had allowed aliened him to be falsely accused Concerning the statement of Mrs Ann C Bertosh grandmother of the Wallace child that Spencer had fallen fallenI upon his knees and begged her to in intercede intercede I 1 for him Spencer made a flat denial of the kneel aged romans womans testimony I r did not kneel knel to her hp said Several persons were present at the time and saw sawall all that transpired Asked why he lie had sought the con conference ference rence with the Wallace and Bertosh families he said that his purpose was not to implore for a confessed con confessed ESSed offense but to ask for Justice and the withdrawal of oC the charges Did you ou fear that although inno innocent In Innocent no cent ont you would be found guilty he was teas asked Yea Yes said Spencer There Thero havo been many such cass cases c s Stands Fire of Questions Spencer was subjected to a long Ions during which all of the th revolting details of ot the charge against him were gone over oer The ac accused accused accused man stood the fire of oC humiliating questions without flinching He had I evidently prepared himself for the or ordeal ordeal deal and the firmness and exaggerated force of his replies showed although nit hough he endeavored to hide it that thatIs his Jis Is nerves were strung almost to the breaking point In the court room were those who believed be Ived in his innocence and those who believed in his guilt But all were im hn impressed pressed 1 with the mans remarkable alertness and the skill with which he evaded the traps raps set for him by the skillful lawyers of the prosecution When he left reft the stand It was ad admitted admitted admitted that he had been a strong witness wit witness witness ness In his own behalf All through his testimony be he denied dented statements tat of ot fact made by several witnesses but by admitting words which they had re repeated repeated repeated and giving them a new mean meanIng meaning meaning Ing his denial took the form of a cor correction correction n in many Instances rather than thana a refutation As he claims to have witnesses who will corroborate his story the placing of Spencer upon the stand as the first witness of the de defense defense Cense is looked upon as the beginning ol 01 an effort to explain away many things brought out by the prosecution which seemed against him The case was adjourned until Mon Monday Monday Monday day morning |