Show DEI TRIAL Til IS 08 ON N Jury Secured l and arni Testimony Pest L Begun in n Pro e Case Gase KING 1 MAKES IA KES t A ARBAK 4 to WITNESS MEYERS STOR fl IN j jj 5 j t ct Jr I 4 j Ij With twelve jurors at last encored the prosecution in the Pro Prows mUre afternoon lt began b ga draw drawIng Ing out the tire th of which when woven together wy ay b be strong enough ou h to drag dras two m men to the scaffold I The Tue principal incidents I of toe the days clays proceedings a spectacular paint of view were A a rather nuber ther bad bed br air by Robert L King KIRs on of or the lie rs R d the of It Att ney r wm tam lain Meyers an important im l tt for foe the I Meyers a young yeung man lINin claiming years of nf age ase hart had formerly been employed in a clothing store at a 1 East r tnt UIt 1 flU uth th He Bp testified that t on the evening ev a pre preceding ed eding ing the moraine th raid was made mude on the Sheep Ranch a mill man m IIA j 1 identified att as King Kine purchased frees i bin the satchel ratchet and handkerchiefs which I had beg been left behind by the tae h I men mien when two of th tb m m aab b their escape from the gambling buea bl One point in his hiM J of f King Kins I which w km the young younK YtM c cin an ft laid isid stress on CM w 5 that he had noticed the lYth ness and d s fJ jf f th t Attorn ft Wane got ant s ne te to explain how hoti he ha hal 1 been able to study his u hands ao Hove hose ly lit and Meyers how b w while he wu iva standing How ne to KIBE Ki tiie latter t er took a handful of ef f c feces Cram his hk packet with his hta left hand haa hiding it k with the lh thumb thum toward the ao so theE that he cook see ee the hand quite die dis distinctly I Did you vou ou notice any other oth r peculiar peculiarity ity It about the hand banal except its per and asked the at That w was all sir was the Ule answer Mr Ir KIng Kin eaSed ralle l Mr step Bt ts up here bere and aM your hands up His Thumb was Missing Kin King stepped directly in hi front of the jury box and raised ra his hand above his head bead The thumb of the left lf t hand was IHS missing A long scar car showed sheered I where it had been cut off clone cioe to the I hand I Kings blunder had he happened earlier In the examination of this same me wit witness ness When asked who had bad visited his store on the night R ht of Sept 10 1 the wit witness witness witness ness said That man and pointed i toward where King Ki was seated As there were several others seated in the same locality QUe of the jurors suggested that the man who was in inthe the store stand up Kin King beard the suggestion and immediately y started to torise torise 1 rise from rom his chair When about half I straightened up he hf suddenly realized what his act set implied and resumed his hist seat at t looking lookin very uncomfortable while a hushed titter passed round the court courtroom courtroom room rear The preliminaries of securing twelve good men and true and ad reading to lo them the informal tor haying having ha been con eluded County Attorney Graham in straightforward businesslike fashion without oratorical flourish outlined the theas case as the prosecution would attempt to tt prove it He began n by telling how 1 witnesses would be brought to prove that King Ring had visited a clothing store un on the evening of Sept 1 II purchasing a small imitation leather satchel and three Blue mue and white cotton r Plans of Gambling Rouse House HouseIn In front of or the jury hanging from trout an easel was wag a of Ute tire Sheep Ranch gambling house and aided by this Mr MI Ir Putnam pointed out how hew early In the morning of or the of Septem September ber her three men with handkerchiefs ha tied around the lower part of ot their faces I and revolvers in their hands bands had enter eater entered entered ed eti the gambling house and began the shooting affray which resulted in the i death of Colonel Godfrey and andI I the wounding of Ernest and ami the I prisoner James Lynch i I He Tie further explained how ho an em employee emI of the Vienna a Cafe are had bad heard I I the noise and stepping g into the th alley back of or the Sheep Ranch had d seen two to tomen men rush ru h past him first one and then j I the other ether putting his hand to his face as if removing a bandage He e would I testify te tl the attorney attn y said d to having got a better view vie of the taller of or the I two men as he halted under the light over the rear tire tice to saloon mIen had hd followed and gone into the 1 I saloon and a d there recognised ree the man nine he had laid seen under antler the light This man manthe manthe i the witness would 00 be he prepared to toJ I J identify as King Kingi KingIn i In concluding Mr Ir Putnam said that I I while It would be proved that Lynch fired the shot killel the law lawi Ia i i held hekl l that where two or more miss men con oon conspired to do an unlawful art act in the perpetration of murder was com corn committed committed etch each and all aU were w n equally guil guS guilty guSty ty Air Mr Ir Wanless objected ted streit strenuously to this but Judge Booth declined to rule that the statement le be stricken out The First Witness The heat witness called by Mr Put Putnam asia nam was wad s Edward Kisses Nissen NI llen of the county surveyors office who had made the plan of ot the th Sheep Ranch huh club rooms The plan was wa explained in detail by Mr Nissan It showed the rooms to be situated on the second floor accessible by two stairways one leading from the lbs saloon below and the other by which the bandits came reached by a nar ear narrow narrow row passage along alonS the lire south side of the building and opening both on Com Corn Commercial Comme inertial mercial me lal street and into the alley aney in the rear through which the two senile made their be stain main in gambling Ambling room NO in the front trout in is which the shoot hoot shooting hooting ing tag occurred is te shown s wn In detail the location of every e ry piece of furniture gambling paraphernalia and arid tray stray bul bui bullet bullet let being marked N Next came young Myers Use the clothing store clerk who iff said to beer bear the nickname of Six Shooter r Willie In answer to t questions joni from the pro prosecution ecu lion tion Myers yens King Kin anti and told how he had visited the clothing store a d purchased three and anda d da a satchel and had bad the latter wrapped up in paper Mr Putnam had bad two handkerchiefs one ODe of which bad been b n taken from trues the face flee of at Lynch as he lay Jay wounded on the Sony floor of the gambling house boWIe b me and the tb other found In Is a rear waite mom of oC saloon oon said time these were the one ond he be had bad sold Identified the Satchel atchel A at satchel wrapped rapped ft R a paper bad had been found at the tha foot Ot f of ot the stairs to the Sh S Sp p Ranch Meyers rs rile not only identified Ute toe th satchel but swore ore that the paper which was band hand handed banded ed eel him for critical Investigation on was wa the same that he be had used On 0 Mr Wanless put several blowholes in the young oung mops mans S testimony te ny among other things br 01 otic o t that Meyers ers had told the he w fe da d diy 3 of or t hooting g tint t the rhe sign man who visited vt h r hud had a 8 bisick moustache mou while Kings J is of ot the light fight lightest est t blonde blo de variety After Arter Meyers left I Ct the stand Nissen h addi additional wa wi b recalled to establish some mH ments Then the prose prosecution cution called John Johp a middle head who no aged get m man mHP n th t a high said he sered ed drinks drink in the lh Sheep Ranch Raeh He g gave e a description r of u how the bandits bandit had hail appeared ared on the ther acetic r ba backing king Paul Johnson another et into the room r uni aU ad oj o them t em how hoit had hait rushed forward rd and fired fi at Colonel and how while white the fusillade was wan waxing fast and fu fit furious rious Johnson and the th witness ducked into shelter behind the crap table Ra Ba Ragle Ragle Basic gle sic was tail still on the stand when ad adjournment was vas taken until 1 10 Uris t ta moro ng The three thre accepted yesterday thus completing the panel were Al At Allen AlIen Atlea len lea T Dorsey cigar store 48 43 West rest See Sec south South Emer Salt Lake Laite Cleaning com company any West Vest South S uth Temple H S Driver 23 22 J South Sec See Second otiS oDd East I |