Show NY SENSATIONS IN N TRIAL O Of Montana Ranch Hand Puts Up Good Defense in the WrecKing Train Case BUTTE Mont lont June Junc 15 Sensation Sensation after niter sensation electrified the court today today to to- day in in the trial of Louis Ferris the tho Italian ranch hand for the tho wrecking of the tho eastbound Burlington express here bera hereon hereon on tho the ni night ht of May 1 The defense again arain introduced expert export evidence that there was no dynamite explosion When the case ease opened today considerable consid consid- erable comment was created by the announcement an an- that County Attorney Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray one of the tho men roen in whose whoso presence Ferris is alleged to have havo confessed on promise of belD being given a fino fine position has left the state As this case is the most important criminal matter of many man in the tho middle years Murrays Murray's departure of the trial was considered an indication indication indica indica- tion that tho the state believes its case lo lost t. t It was also announced ed that Jerry Jerr Murphy formerly a detective who wi was instrumental in getting settin Ferns Ferris to sign the repudiated confession had been appointed appointed ap ap- ap pointed within forty eight hours bours a special cial detective for tho Northern Pacific o railway Smelled No Powder George Georgo Snooks Snook who t lives on the tho flat fiat within yards ards of tho the scene of tho the explosion was the first witness called by the tho defense today Ho lie testified that upon arriving arri at the tho wreck he ho found a broken brokon rail at the tho point at which tho the locomotive left tho the track Mrs Snooks his test testified ed to tho the same sarno effect Both declared that there was no smell emell of powder Tony Harris at one time timo northwestern northwest northwest- ern era Cornish style stylo wrestling champion also said that there had bad been no dynamite dynamite dyna dna mite explosion Harris is a miner Ho Homade Homade made mado the big bir sensation of the tho day ny when he be stated d that scarcely a moment after the tho explosion ho met Henry Hoskins Hos los kins a n mail clerk hobbling bobbling bes beside do the wreck Hoskins had been beon badly bruised Harris asked Hoskins what had ha happened and Hoskins said there was a broken rail which had caused the tho boiler of tho second engine to ex ex- Hoskins Missing Too Hoskins told toM Harris that ho he felt the train run on tho the tics several yards before before before be be- fore tho the explosion camo Harris said that Hoskins sued tho the road for 1000 for injuries received ed but that tho suit was compromised compromise within a few days Hoskins resi resigned ned hurrie hurriedly l and left Butte Ho He cannot be found Charles J. J Stevenson formerly a state boiler inspector testified that ho he had requested to bo ho allowed to see seo the tho theother theother other wrecked en engine but that Coroner Stevens Stevena of this county had told him bim the tho road would permit nobody to inspect the tho boiler A testified that certain boiler explosions mako make a a. sound liko that of dynamite At a n. late lato hour the tho defense had not rested |