Show on I 1 TRIAL aruthor onea district t court AUG U ST answering An swerin to the charge of killing miser buchanan co court business I 1 i artmoo f J court resumed session ata charles stagg a boy ten years of age testified to finding a gold watch in cooks barabo bam ho gaye gave it to george another boy to kiv a to mrs cook he watch was wag duety george aid tommy allen alien corroborated ro this testimony the prosecution rested defendant brodie testified fleit that he be had bad seen oscar wilkins at knight hta saloon on the night in ia question he went to the tha door with wilkins and ad him to go home witness did not go home with wilkins z he knew nothing about the robbery until informed of it by alex wilkins he admit teed having kept his horses in the cook barn but be did not lease that part of the barn in which the watch was waa found jeweler jensen jansen testified that the watch was waa not worth more than 30 joseph smith adward vincent I 1 john jacobson and charles vince vincent t testified that the character of dele celend u ant for honesty was good the case was submitted to the jury W without argument after bein being out a few jury returned a verdict of not guilty the next case called was that of t the he people vs august Nei laen murder the defendant is ia charged with killing benjamin buchanan Bu in emery county on july 16 for the purpose of robbery mr zane prosecuted and chris warner and edwards defended the em paneling of a jury was waa proceeded C with court until saturday morn ing ig SATURDAY FORENOON the tha jury panel in the aukrust neilson murder case is is as an follows thomas osborne C E crandall ceorge rawlings H W dayis davis john joha ford john forre ferre J 1 I hollia H K ebert henry Fairbank asah sA thomas joseph ace wan mr zane opened the case for the pro wa cution sc ution tm prosecution will show that benjamin bachanan a miserly old bachelor resided on his farm in em eit ry county he WIB wab W IB known to be phaes e j 1 of considerable money received for thea bale aale of his bia farm la in 19 spanish fork on oa july 1891 the defendant iud another man came to Bucha buchanana Bac hanana uana alaci ace it t is known was arwed armed on oa jul july y these two men man were aei ge it on the road a short distance stanca di from frombach B ach at ians with a wagon and a knori as team cone cono sistine of a well known sorrel mara and a roan at stallion branded 50 the men were seen been at various places along the road until they reached aruil fruita ta in colorado where they exhibited considerable money at montrose Mont roae colorado they sold gold the wagon and team making the statement that they were from oregon and then they disappeared the tha attention of tle the of bachanan were attracted by a strong search was made and the body of bachanan was found in a shallow grave with his three doas thrown in on top of him on top of the graye grave wait wag thrown saga bagg bush bash neilson was found at rico rica colorado and arrested he ha was identified by twenty men as tho tha man who had sold the team but he steadily denied nis his identity claiming cla thethis name was lundstorm Lunda torm and ft that at he had never been of montrose Mont roae where he was in jail the defendants defend anta career as a forger was also referred to he had obtained a suit of clothes from schwab of this city on a forged check A ceph assion made by bv defendant defenda defend art at to mr ballinger was reid read the objection of the defense defence being ove overruled ruled the confession admits dt the poe possession session of the team and wagon by his partner parker alias larson and defendant and their sale at montrose colorado but denies that the defendant was ever on Bucha buchanann Bac hanana nans farm or within several miles of it mr edwards made mada the opening speech for the defense dg de tense the defendant and his bis partner had bad made the trip as aa stated sated in the confession defendants I 1 partner represented that tho the team belonged to him the two had parted company in emery county and the partner i went alter the team according to arr arrangement angeman L they met at the tha R G W water tank at the partner had it d the team they travelled on to colorado do by night because it was waa cooler and 19 because cause they wanted to got gat out of the country as the sherill was after them for forgery C H formerly justice of the peace in emery county testified to holding an inquest in A august ot of 1891 over the body of bucharan Buchac cn there was a small lound found hole in the side aide of tho the face i apparently made by a 44 calibre bull bullet t the ot two dogs were it in the grave the body wa was server rd with sagebrush and it is ig about five miles from buchanann Bucha nans cabin to lo powells ranch on price river the nearest house to buchanann Bucha nans cabin was wardens wardena there was a rifle in cha chalana chanana ch anana nans house did not re res member if there was a cartridge in it i lavi simmons who resides about three miles from the buchanan cabin testified that buchanan chanan En was age aged d about sixt si ats and that he be was unmarried buchanan was a man i of inis erIv habits babits Wit witness neis was present when the body we faan he last I 1 saw buchanan alive anut juav loth or tho th j body when found was much de decayed caved witness had become su licious as to Bucha bachanan nans a whereabouts as stock were running ov over er his fial william billiam i illiam J warren stated that he lived about two miles below buchanann Bucha nans place his te testimony S fi emony W ws mainly corroborative or I 1 lie 1 e had tried a bullet in the hole on the lett leit cheek bone of the body and it fit exactly the hol could have bare been made by a ball from the 45 calibre gun gan in the house there was an empty shell in the me gun witness SST sav sa v no i stains of blood aro arotine tind I 1 awilliam william chase chaee of price testified ht i he had bad seen defendant at powells ranch on sund sunday av july wits hm was a small dark daik complexioned acan had bad a revolver they came UP op through the abo orchard from th tha direction ot of ther the biyer ver they asked where they could cross the river rifer to gorden creek mr grange told them they could cross by Bal ballingers BaIlin lingers Rera place they started down the road ajob the track in tb the dir direction cli told them witness had seen them on the other side sida of the river it was about three miles from where witness saw them to Bucha buchanann nans PI place 8 on garden arden creek they were walking alk irig when last he saw them |