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Show STATE CLOSES IN I Sllil CASE I Mrs. "Tip" Belcher Tells Dam- j aging Story Against At - j ensed Man. ! REPORT THAT GARCIA f IS CAPTURED IN NEVADA Mass of Evidence Is Intro- J ddced to Prove Murder The fate of Joe Sullivan, on trial in -sH the District court for the murder of former Policeman Charles S. Ford, I'ol- tB lowing ihe holdup ol the Albany sa- ,i loon, at Second South anl Fifth West streets, early on the morning of De- 'fU comber lfi, 1907. will rest with the jury of twelve men. before whom the case is being tried, by Friday afternoon. I The case against the ex-convict is completed- Every sea;, of evidence 1 9 the State has to offer is in to prove J '9 that Sullivan was one of the two men w who entered tbo Albany saloon shortly after - 0 clock the morning of De- comber 15, robbed the cash register and 9 as thej ran out the front door, going ! north acioss West Second South street, 1 shot and killed Policeman Ford at B fl j distance of twenty feet. t 3-o0 o'clock 1 Wednesday afternoon District Attor- ( 1 ney LoofooUrow announced to Judge -Armstrong and the jur- that the State rested. i It had been a day of sensations and 1 surprises ('loser and closer had the ' attorneys for the State drawn the net circumstantial evidence around Sulli-I Sulli-I van. He heard his former pal. Owens. jjM the conyiet, swear again to portions nH i of a story that may force SuUlvan to pay with Lis life for the murdet of Of- "jj j Beer Ford. I Sullivan to Take Stand. .JM 1 Thursday may bring stiil further sensations, for Sullivan it to take the "M I stand and ttll his own story in his own way. He will lay himself open for the i , merciless cross-examination of the at- , 1 tornoys for rbe State, and a battle of gH , wits is promised, for the ex-convict is Issw 1 quick brained, 1 levt r, sad knows every H potnl Of 'uis own c.-..s.- and tin; ease of ' fl 1 the State, j?- it has been presented, to ' - Isssl he minutest detail. Bailey ft Viekery, his attorneys; marv ' rM : at the last minute decide that the risk 1 1iH ; of Sullivan's 1. ing tangled up on cross ' H : examination, and his case injured bo I fore the jurv. is too great to run and i refuse to allow him to go on the stand. "H , Late Wednesday night, however, it was j the intention of the defense to col! ' jfl The climax of Cue state's case came .A shmt lv before noon Wednesday. nB Turning in the witness chair, Mr?. wMu 'Tip" Belcher, vifo of the bartender wBm at the Jubilee saloon on Commercial sbLi street, faced the jury and declared 'wLb! ' that shortly pftor S o'clock the mom- fTsBsl ing of December 15, three-quarter f M ran hour or so after Policeman Ford ssss! , was muTderod, Joe Garcia Btood at the raBas! corner of Main and Firs I South streets; ilksBsl onh- a block from police headquarters, tsbw 1 and waited for her to buy a bottle of llssa beer a few doors further cast on First dglsssl ', South street. I'ssa Defendant Excited. The statement came like a thunder- ! EbsbbbI I bolt to Sullivan and his attorneys, 'ihe rLsBs! ex-Cpnvlct straightened in his ciitiir for i an instant, his eyes narrowed and ho sibbbw leaned forward involuntarily to catch evory word of the little blond worn Ul ! an who was doing more than any other ;witness for the State, with the exeep- tion of Owens, lo fasten upon 'him the rMm 1 responsibility for tho murder of Of- peer Ford. 9 "Garcia and Sullivan came back to my room about 3 o'clock the morning -H Of the murder and holdup at the Al Mm bany, Garcia changed his shoes and it vint with me to Mam and First South ' jfl Streets, where he waited till 1 bough' Mu a bottle of beer. Then we returned and found Sullnau .-til) at t'ne room. ' The two men staved in the room, drink- AU ing, eating a little, and talking be Mm tween themBelves until nearly day- ' S light They slipped from the house to- WW gether and I never bsw either again , I till I raced SulJinn in Judge Wlm- aker a courtroom at the preliminary saw bearing, when he was brought back This was her statement ha full, and WWt Sullivan and his attorneys stared blankly blank-ly at her for a moment, for when SuJ- Mmm llvan was given lus preliminary hear nm ing s'-ks ago on the murder ' charge ." PI Mr-.. Belcher swore that Garcia. Suili- van and Owens left her room short!? TMm after midnight, December I I. .-ind thai they had never returned. She had Wm never seeu anvonc of the three after- t jAW ward she saw), until she faced Sulli- ' van and Owens in court. 1- fl Vickery Grills Witness With a few more questions along the ' same line Itstrict Attorney Loofbour L ow turned her over to Attorney Vick- Jib1 ery. for cross-examination. issn vickery pouncod on her testimony at the preliminary hearing and his first question was ' In- did voti sny then that von mW never uiw Sullivan and (jarciti after W midnight, December 1. and you now say they came back about o 0 'clock and stayed until daylight? " ti H Tho woman did not answert "I was told that if I told the truth MM tod&3 it would go easier with 'Tip.' WU came from Iot a moment later. -Tip" is Belcher, her husband, who was j.r- fsssB rested after OwCUS had confessed, lie iH lms been held in the county jail under ,! '.mu n charge of receiving stolen property, mm the police claiming th.it Belcher and 1 bis wife had been acting as a fence" 1 itfB for Garcia and others, receiving and disposing of the things the crooks had '(1 JH She said Sorcn X. f'iirist onsen, it- ' fsssl tomev for her husband, had told her j asl to tefl the truth and it would go easier 4 H with him. She denied that any other ' attorney or officer had told her this. A Later in the day. Attorney Chris tensen denied having told her anything of the E"Vn3, oxcopt to toll tho truth rrhcn sho Her. statement: ntoorl. however,, ami rulHvan 's attorney could not break it . Mrs. Bolclior Broaks Down. ( Mrs. Belohor is smnll and plump. She is a rnthor blonl, anil -was stylishly dressed when she took tlio witness That every word of testimony sho . gave against Sullivnn was jrivon with '-. reBontmont and under mental' strain was apparent. Only once did her oyofi moot bullivan's, nud sho turned them quickly away. Sbo wna under Rroat oxcitomcnt, and once broko .down nud cried with rcsontmont and angor. For j ' woeks sho has been held in the county ;.inil nudcr bonds to insure her nppoar- anco as a witness for the Stale. I ; Hor stateinont capped tho State's chain oC evidence. Buckley, tho bnr- ' tender at tho Albany, says that he is . - mortally sure Sullivnn is one o tho two men vho -held up tho place tho ' morning of December li). Owens, who has conicssed to complicity in tho hold-t hold-t up and is serving twenty ycar6 for it, v declares unqualifiedly that Sullivan and ri Garcia robbed the saloon, and that ouo J of them shot Policeman Ford. 'Thon ,-1hcro is a mass of ovidonce showing' Sullivan's association with Garcia tho day and night before the holdup and ; murder: tho presentation of a revolver to Sullivan by Garcia in "Tip" Bel-- Bel-- cher's room at. tho old Kimball home; of Sullivan leaving there with Owens ' and Garcia at midniphl, and finally - Mrs. Belcher's statement that Garcia ' and Sullivan came back (o her room , after tho hour o tho holdup and mitr- der and stayed thero until daylipht. 1 Sullivan's Rebuttal. J ' Sullivnn will admit on the stand that jjS 1 jm ho was with Owens and Garcia tho day fjV j and night preceding the morninp of -i i December In, and that he left the Kim-Jjf Kim-Jjf 'ball residenco with thorn shortly after c! i j midnight and that they wont west to P . tho Oregon Short Lino yards. TJoro lie will give them tho lie. !j J He will sav that instead of going to '. J the Albany 'bar he walked north to ' i Woods Cross on the Oregon Short Lino si J tracks, and at that point took a train -! ; J .- for Ojzden, and from that place to San W 1 . Francisco. He will then say ho went to itJ ) Portland, whore ho was arrostod Janu- ' ., ' arv -1. 1 - An Oregon Short Liuc brakenian will r bo put on tho stand, tvho will swear ho paw Sullivan at Woods Gross. Throo convicts from tho state prison, Richard Doming, John Munroo and .lames Fury, " will testify that Owens has told them at the prison his story, implicating Sullivan Sul-livan in tho holdup and murdor, is i false. Thev will sav be told it to savo , ' - himself from standing trial for the murder of Ford. Doming may testify t,o sevoml other minor points. The caso will probabo he argued - Friday, and tho 3ury should go out Fridav evening at the latest. t The" report, if true, that Garcia has . been, captured in Nevada will havo no . effect on tho trial of Sullivan. If ho ; should bo brought back horc and would V make any statement that would help to clear Sullivan, in caso the jury finds him guiltv, a new trial would be asked for on tho grounds of the discovery of ; J new evidence. It probably would bo 1 granted. Tho court room was crowded ovcry ' hour of the day Wednesday. Sullivan f paid .no attention ,to the throng, but 1 matched the progress of the case m- I tentlv. making many notes and prompt- ing nis attorneys at overy move they ; made. : t Belcher's Story. ;T ''Tip' Belcher went on the stand ; j ' and told of seeing Sullivau, Garcia and ; .. Owens the night of the murder and if : holdup. He said he had known Garcia 1 right years, and that previous to the ' i holdup he had lived with him for a i ' month. Belcher admitted having been J - arrested sovoral times in other cities. '' ,Tame3 F. Anderson, the Portland po-I po-I Jiceman who arrested Sullivan, testi- 3 tied to that incident, saying that Sul-y Sul-y livan denied oven being in Salt Lake. and that he gave the name of Thomas Hovrard whpn arrested. He declared that ho took a loaded revolver from ' Sulliv.m. This. 'Sullivan admits, is the gun Garcia gave him in Belcher's room, i .Richard D. Millett of Salt Lake City, testified that this revolver, which was i J- handed him as ho sat in the witness chair, was' stolen from his Bngham street home, the night of November 1. - 1907. Previously, he said, he had ; owned it for twenly-five years. His v. house is believed to havo been bur-' bur-' glarized by Garcia the night of No- , j : vemher 1, when man valuables were , i stolen. ' Sullivan intends to mako a strong t fight on the gun incident. He admits - that Garcia gave him the gun, but ' - claims that it was out of order; that J if he (had never been, able to load it, and I that when arrested in Portland, instead - of its being loaded, it was empty and could not be worked and that the bul- lets the Portland officers say they took V from the cylinder of the gun they, i f in reality, took from his vest pocket. ,i W. .T. 'Irvine and H. C. Taggcrt, the guards at tho State penitentiary who Kl'ft'' ' i in'ct Sullivan down town tho (lay ho VlV J . ivas released, and trere introduced to !&' J ' Owens by him. were called. Irvine RK . "-aid Sullivnn took him to ono side and ; asked if $3000 wonld be of any use I'B1' . in getting Abo Majors out of the' pris- H'K i on. - Majors is serving a life sentence for killing Captain Brown of the Og-den Og-den polico force. I Story of tho Warden.- flight hero the curtain can be drawn ' on the trial and tho scene shifted to I tho penitentiary. Warden Pratt was in I court. "Sullivan thinks more of Abo Majors Ma-jors thau any other man in t ho t world and would do anything to get him out of prison," said the warncn during the afternoon. "No ouo has even known it but Irvine Ir-vine and Taggert were sent down town the day Sullivan was released for no other reason than to watch him and several other men whose names I will not give you. "Sullivan would blow us all up to get Majors out of prison, and T feared ne would get some of his pals together and make a desperate attack on us in some way. This fear was so great that I determined to take every vre-caution vre-caution against it." The convicts at tho penitentiary, it has been divulged, have raised $25(3 to holp Sullivan defend himself in the present case. The convicts gave the money to Warden Pratt and told him to pay it to Sullivan's lawyers. This was done a day or two ago. Tho convicts at the penitentiary hate Owens with all the bitterness th'oy tiro capable of. They don't caro whether ho is telling the truth, or not. They hate him because?- ho has gouo into court and "peached" on a "pal." "They would kill him in a minuto if they could get to him," said War-don War-don Pratt, Wednesday. "They mny got him yet. Wo watch his food and everything else, doing all wo cau to keep him from their anger. They have pleaded, threatened and done everything they could to gel him to refuse to tcstifv against Sullivan." The last thing the State did Wednesday Wed-nesday was to bring in evidence showing show-ing Sullivan's attempt to saw his way out of the rotary cell at tho County jail here after lie was brought back irom Portland. |