| Show LOOKS BAD FOR LYNCH Damaging Evidence Against ft Him in ProwS Murder Case KING IS m I wms VIT S SAYS HE HB SAW sw HOt mx r COMB COME OUT 0 OY OP SOUSE HOUSE 1 I Witness WIthe after witness in Ia the murder trial yesterday gave damaging evidence again James Lynch and near Dear the tIie dose clo t of the afternoon the ue chances chance of o Robert L 1 Kin King the other her prisoner pl were Weft materially toy IT bythe the testimony of an boy hoy y William Wittenberg Paul Johnson an 1 of the Sheep Ranch and one ODe of the prosecutions important wit witnesses nesses o who bad had been subpoenaed and who failed to appear when the tile trial trat wee was w originally called could not be found tou din in the city The court however per permitted permitted the tile testimony which he had bad given at the Ule preliminary hearing to go Into the nl and it was wan read reed to the ury by County Attorney Putnam After a half haIr hours delay owing to the of the train hearing bearing Judge Booth to arrive on time the trial was wee continued yesterday with John Ragle the Sheep Ranch waiter whose direct examination had been completed the day lay before still BUll on 00 the stand He was wee followed by William Barnett another of the gambli house who AJ In fa his bin turn tum succeeded by Ernest eydel the case keeper k per at the Sheep Ranch faro fare layout These three men Jo told laid 14 practically the same mine story atory and their testimony was not greatly shaken haken by b cros cro examination At the time of the raid Ragle Eagle was waa standing near neat the thedoor thedoor thedoor door through which the bandits en entered Bennett Barnett was at zt atthe the roulette wheel wheeland wheeland wheeland and Seydel was at the faro taro layout fac fee facing feeing ing Colonel How Bandits ait Made Raid aid They told how the masked men had Ime me Ime into the room backing Johnson Johnon in front of them Each Kach ch of them said lIe he had seen een Lynch rush across the room and a lid open lire fire on Prow e Ragle Ragie had bail taken refuge behind the crap table Barnett had remained where here he be was hind the ae roulette wheel and Seydel explained how he had received his wound after seeing c Lynch lire fire at rowee and aad return the sire fire almost al almost most in tap y Seydel mid he ht had hurried to get out of at f his hiB hi chair lad ad tad stumbling over a cue cus cusi i Tell fell to his hands and knees As Ashe Ashe he 11 was falling a bullet pierced his ear going into his neck and coming out near his arm a Shots were being flied in rapid succession ton and he could not tell who had shot him He admitted on i Iosa examination that at the time he had saM said he thought shot ahot him himlie himBe himlie lie Be crept on his hla hands bands and knees into a 1 back room and and an remained there until the shooting was over officers and Sheets were tailed to the stand to testify to hay hav having bavIn hayIng ing In served Paul Johnson with a sub subpoena len poena on the of October He lie had hadId told ld Id them he was as going out of town fur lor a short abort art time but ha hal l promised to tov v i ite and give Ive them his address and andl l b present at the trial Nothing had hadl l h ben en heard of him since At the sug sag suggestion ef of the court another attempt attemptS S as made Dade m e to locate him during the noon noona a and this filing falling is hf pre V ious bUS testimony was wee read to the Jurors not without strenuous objections front from Attorney Wanless for tur the defense defence Had Seen Lynch There Before Johnsons testimony in the main was wee similar to that of the other inmates of or the gambling resort In the cross cru examination Johnson J had bad said at t the preliminary hearing that he had seen Lynch in the gambling house boWIe prior to the th attempted holdup with two other men neither of whom he would identify as King He also testified that had wild said id after the shooting was over oer Well I have got one of them but they gut Got me ie This point it is 15 thought will wilt willbe willbe be emphasized by the defense as show showing showing ing ins that did not then accuse e Lynch in particular Night lIght Watchman Oscar O Car Eman and Sergeant Burbidge who were the first to t reach reab the gambling house after atter the shooting were called to the stand re related related related briefly how bow they had bad found things and identified the satchel and handkerchiefs handkerchiefs chiefs Dr who attended Colonel after alter the shooting described the wound to the Jury showing that the bullet entered near the right hip slanting blaming downward as an it passed pas ed through the th body by and ad lodging In in i a a bone b on th left side se George Gorge of California brother of 01 the murdered man m was eec on o the stand sand fur for a few moments to tell t the t jurors that his bi brothers name J wee was wa Godfrey and ad that tbt Colonel Cel George C wee was wasa wua a a nickname acquired in Arizona Arisona Ari At Atthe Atthe Atthe the request of Mr Wal be he visited viste the bank where had ha kept ket an a account alouD and ad found fon it had hd run rn under the name of G C P which he said s was vas the way wa his hl brother brotEr invariably sit led his bi letters Says Sp King X Was W the t Man Xan Th rh last lt witness called cal to the stand was young oung Wittenberg and his aD examination nation naton was wa not completed when an ad a was wa token taken tk He explained in inu inI u I L straightforward way wy how bow he be had bd bern been n in the tl kitchen of ot the th Vienna cafe cae he bl herd the th shooting and an had I run Tun out to a gate opening on the alley aley bark back of 01 the Sheep Sh p Ranch h White While Wil there ther he saw aw two men mn run r by hint him h They Ty mid hart something on their tir fares faces fa he could cul not tell tl what The Th shorter of the two pulled off of his bis mask m as a he ran rn and ad went ent straight into the th back b of the saloon on Known as a Headquarters The Theother Te Theother other stopped stopp at a the t entrance under an m light lIht liht and ad pulled pule off ol his hat ha t and mask meek and ad then went into the The Th boy 0 said s he had h seen sn the tat outlines of the th mans mas face fa noted his moustache pale lale al complexion and the t sort H of o hat bt he be wore wor The Te man ma entered the saloon son by the rear door dr and a the t boy by ran rn round to the front and vent rent Tet in There Ten he recognized recognised boUt both men and identified ke King Kin as the th man m who had ha entered enter last t The shorter man be he had never J hd nver seen again apin There Ther was wa a lengthy lly dispute diute between counsel about abt the t admission of some testimony that Mr r Putnam wanted wante the boy by to give ghe and the te court held beld the matter mater in abeyance until today toay in or der to give K the attorneys an a n 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