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Show IllO'S LAWYER ALTERS TIE RECORD Attempt Is Made to Give Weight to Self-defense Theory at Trial. i DENVER, June 13. Testimony that Sylvcstor It. Yon Phul did not have a weapon in his pocket on the night Harold Har-old P.. Henwood shot and killed Von Phul and fatally wounded George E. Copeland, a bystander, was introduced by the prosecution in Henwood 'a second sec-ond trial on the charge of murdering Copeland. late today. Paul Whiteman, a musician, testified that ho hunted through Von Phul 'a pockets to find handkerchiefs with which to staunch the flow of blood. Witness said positively no weapon was in Von Phul's clothes. Today's session of the trial was expected ex-pected to develop a sensation in the arrest of one of those most prominently conuoctcd with it, John T. Garver of Sydney, Neb, star witness for tho defense, de-fense, charged by the prosecution with perjury. Tne expected arrest, however, was not made. John T. Bottom, chief of counsel for t!ic defendant, was placed on the witness wit-ness stand by the prosecution and admitted ad-mitted changing the record of the former case so that tho testimony threw woight on the self-defense theor' of tho defense. The court stenographer who took tho record of the former case then testified that the change was incorrect. in-correct. Vanness Hall testified late this afternoon af-ternoon that he was in the hotel bar a short time before the shooting; that ho saw Henwood there and the latter had asked him to "stick around," be cause "there'll be something doing." Ho also said he pointed to Von Phul. ask in it Henwood if he meant him and that Henwood had replied affirmatively. The ' admission of the testimony of Frederick Von Puhl, In a long-forgotlen Missouri murder case, operated today to damage the defense of Henwood, slayer of Sylvester L. Von Phul, son -of the witness wit-ness in the Missouri ca.se of years ago. The admission of the testimony in tho old Missouri case secured the admission of like testimony today. Paul "Whiteman had testified to a conversation con-versation he had with young Von Phul Immediately after the shooting, at which both Von Phul and Copeland wore wounded, wound-ed, when young Von Phul lay dying.- The dciense objected to the testimony as to the conversation being admitted and the court sustained the objection. A hunt for precedents began and continued con-tinued fruitlessly until the case of "The People of the State of Missouri vs. Kaiser," twenty years ago. was found. Here It was found that the supreme court of the state had ruled that Frederick Von Phul. father of one of Kenwood's victims vic-tims of two years ago, was permitted to testify as to a conversation with the victim vic-tim of a shooting affray immediately after af-ter the shooting. |