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Show iiTI!l.ll Fill! HIS LIFE. i The Hatch Murtlrr lax t Colorado Springs Progressing ami the Lines (losing. LIKELY TO BE TROVEN GUILTY. His Mother and Two Brothers in Attendance, Attend-ance, But aq Apparent Cool- new Exists. i Coi.oRAtMi SruiNiis, Colo. April 11 When the distriut court adjourned at (1 o'clock last, cxciiing the prosecution m the Hatch murder trial was still presenting pre-senting its evidence. The night session was held lo conclude that side of the ca.-e. All day long die court room was thronged, despite die fact thai it was the fourth day of the trial. Mr. Patterson Patter-son was absent and Mr. Thomas led the examination of tho witneess. Among the new additions to the group sat the Iwo sons (if Henry Hatch who came on from (ioslien. lnd., last night. His mother sat some distance aw ay from him and but for tho knowledge possessed by a few that they were mother and sou none would hae known, as their actions did not indicate that, they were acquainted w ith each other. The (irsi witness on the stand this morning was Keegan, I he locating agent, who had driven C. W. Hatch out into the country. 11 is cross-examination look up a large part of the morning morn-ing and was largely directed Inward uncovering his past life. Frequent objections ob-jections on the jiarl of the prosecution were made, and care on die part of tho w itness pre cnted the uncovering uncover-ing of anything of importance, and while the substance of the defence was patent it failed. j The next witness was(). II. MacDou-aid MacDou-aid the landlord of Ihe hotel Flagler. The chief point made by him was dial he had not heard Hatch come to the hotel ou Saturday night and he felt sure he would have heard him if he had come. He did not think that Hatch had slept there that night and when 'llio latter paid Ills hill the next dn.v' it was one dollar, which did not include anything but three meals. Hatch had eaten his supper at, llio hotel. Thn next time the witness saw him w as at 5 or B o'clock the next morning, when a noise iu die hotel olllco aroused him, and on going out lie saw Hatch. Frank MaeDonald, a son of thn last last witness, 1!) years old, w as called, but his frequent contradictious look away much of the weight of his testimony. testi-mony. Ho said lie slept In a room with two beds on the Mulul'duy- night men tinned, lie had not noiieml whether the other bed was occupied. Thi is the bed supposed lo have been occupied by Hatch. Mrs. Maedonald was called anil corroborated cor-roborated her husband's testimony. S. H. Hendricks kept the hotel at Selbcrt III which ('. W. Hatch stopped on M lay. The chief point made by him was Ihe con versation in which Hatch had said in talking about laud. 'Incase of deal li of the holder of a claim what becomes of the preeinpdir?" The willies would not say these were die word bill they were something like that. ('. C Siggins. deputy treasurer of Kit ( 'arson county, Evanl'ce, clerk nt die Scibert hotel, and Mis. Henry Hatch leslilied to the facts already staled and the court then adjourned until 7 o'clock. |