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Show TAKING OF EVIDENCE : II OliGISE ENDS Jury May Be Charged Today To-day if Attorneys Conclude Their Argument. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27. Taking of testimony was concluded today in the trial of Frank C. Oxman, an Oregon cattleman, cat-tleman, for alleged subornation of perjury in the Thomas J. Mooncy bomb murder case. The jury probably will bs chargd late tomorrow. Edward A. Cunha. assistant district attorney, at-torney, was the principal witness called by the defense today. He characterized aL- false evidence given for the prosecution prosecu-tion by F. E. Kigali of Grayville, 111. Rigall received letters from Oxman inviting in-viting him to testify against Mooney, and lie. testified that Oxman was aware that he was not in San Francisco on the dav of the bomb explosion in July. 1916. Mr. Cunha, who conducted the prosecution prosecu-tion of Mooney. said that after he had talked with Rigall he "never intended for a moment" to use him as a witness. He said he had suggested to Oxman that he ask in his letters whether Rigall had been here on the day ot the explosion. Oxman had testified that to his first letter let-ter to Rigall he added a postscript advising advis-ing Rigall not to come if he had not been here at the time of the explosion. Mrs. J. E. Rigall, Rigall's mother, was called late today by the prosecution in rebuttal. She testified that she saw Ox-man's Ox-man's first letter soon after her son had opened it and that there was no postscript. |