Show MANY MAN WItNESSES DECLARE REPORTER i N INNOCENt OF MURO MURDER ER ERt t I Minneapolis Minn Feb 14 HIn In the I trial of Frank Prank H Hamilton for the i murder ef el e Leonard Day Charles R H i Francis city editor of the th Times who I for three weeks week prior to the homicide roomed with Hamilton and Canfield I testified that it was waS Hamiltons custom I Ion Ion on retiring to take e everything ev ry n but of i his pockets before hanging up his clothing Francis Fra nc had never seen such sucha 1 a knife as that In tons possession se po although he would certainly have Wen deu such a knife k if Hamilton had had one The witness admitted that as soon as he saw w Ham Hamilton ilton after ater the stabbing st he told him to keep his mouth shut shuf and he would stand by py I He added I was with Hamilton and Rooney half an hour at the hotel and heard no confession of any kind Hamilton was wa I paralyzed zed and Said aid nothing but com corn complained of his hrs sore head He had a I Ilum lump lum on his head half hal as big as a an egg I had hada a great deal of curiosity as asto asto I Ito to how the affair occurred There was I much talk among the bystanders to i ithe Ithe the effect that at least three men must I have been in the row and that theory i seemed to be the true gme a ne As a friend of Hamilton Hamilto I at once sum summoned i moped Robert Penney Penne his attorney I Mr Francis on admitted that he was an intimate I friend of the defendant He said saidI I endeavored to have some of the newspaper men stay with him when hen I could not because he was In an irre Irresponsible irresponsible I condition and I did not want any sweatbox swe proceedings He might have words put in his mouth month and be I quoted d as saying sa Ying things t he did not say sey 5 I Barbee Denies Demes Hamiltons Guilt The defense then threw a into the states camp by presenting Pf enting A AM M 11 Barbee the traveling man whom the state had failed to produce Barbee told his story in a quiet dispassionate 1 way waw He described the affray in fn the j i billiard room much as the other witnesses wit witnesses it nesses did up tip to the point where the I fatal scuffle took place I He declared that Hamilton was not in the scuffle but was coming toward I the from the corridor whither he had been led by Canfield While he was approaching Day staggered sta ered out of the crowd mortally wounded There Th re wasa was a general scrimmage a all aU he said in which six or more per persons persons perSons sons were engaged With this import important ant exception testimony did not pot differ from that of the states i witnesses He could not be Q shaken In Inthe inthe I the Girl Says it Was Days Knife May McIntosh a tall tail handsome e young ng woman was wa called and ques questioned qu tiered concerning any knife that Day OJ ay might have carried She was wa an Inti Intimate i mate n te friend of the tho thoe e young yeung man an and it I Iwas Iras was ras known that she shared many sa na crets with him f Miss h did you ever see sO S in tn inthe inthe the possession of Leonard Day the thO th knife on exhibition in this court or a knife similar to It asked one of the attorneys for the defense I did replied Please state the circumstances said one of the attorneys The woman hesitated turned pale and began to tp cry She was privately questioned by the court who an announced that sh she was not compelled to make disclosures of the kind asked Gus S Canfield the th reporter who was in the Hamilton party told his story of the occurrences on the night of the tragedy He testified that to his knowledge Hamilton had never owned such a knife as the one in evidence His description of at the affray and what led up to did not differ except in minor details from the stories of ot o the other eye witnesses I deny positively he said that I Isaid Isaid said sald to the arresting officer Arrest that man I first wired to Colorado Color o Springs Hamilton is under arrest charged with murder Later I wired There is no proof is guilty |