Show f TEllS I Of ALLEGED PLOT TO MURDER SULLiVAN hAs hAsi AS TO SHOT i WHILE ESCAPING Q r r SWEARS d CONViCT s sd it i. i t hard Deming Creates Se Sec s fion 6 x f Trial as He Rises on Witness St nd J 1 K end nd Tells TeUs Startling Starfling story Testifies i By 1 r Gordon Snow note H A A story of a plot in which Joe Sullivan was to be shot wn of after ter been being g gi decoyed into making a break for liberty I Ethe i in m the county jail w was as told today by Richard Derain Doming gr I in the state for rob- rob tf now serving ten years prison k stand in the Sullivan trial this morn morn- g y f on thein the witness t Clad in the prison garb he arose from the witness Vir ii ir r and in terms bristling in the vernacular of prison all the hate generated by years of supposed wrongs o told h hn how that after he had been owing ng g from his eyes ow tight n ht trying to saw through the bars of the county jail le officers of the jail and the sheriff told him to go ahead Id d Q saw through and then let Sullivan who was confined 1 the same cell escape first He said that as soon as Sulli Sulli- n climbed through the window the deputies were vere to be beiting Kiting gm and after the command to halt had been given was to be a shot down in cold blood I e big crow crowd in tho courtroom held beld ruth 2 as the thc gra grae gravest e t charge chargo o ever j this state a against ain t prison of of- tame came from the thc lips ot of the con con- cOb cOb- 0 Lanin forward fOr towards t the lion tion his is t fist clinched in anger anJer i Toko tf tr with emotion ie went on with nis his is story Not 1 NoC NoCI nt I tr u tetrad sound und was heard in In t the e cou court court- r AJ 5 he be charged d Emer Emery net rt Loofbourow andi andin and i in turn of having put ul up a job 1 im m be because ho be had failed faded to enter heir plan co in Lo ho had fini finished l be-l and sank back the witness hot boxy tho time crowd broke iM applause It was several eral e ral lida u l before the crowd was quieted t the be c trial went on J Judge lId e Arm Arm- threatened ed to clear the court court- il if any further demonstration hon was as askea r. r kea hen ti the Sullivan t trill trial ri al was n re- re Ibi this morning Demin Deming was time the otis for Cor the thc defense Tho Thu state td 4 Jt its rate case a yesterday cst rda afternoon f tHo Ho Pleaded ded Guilt Guilty iti MI rat clad dad 1 in to the thc gray prison hu hie head hea shaven Laid jaM In tr er to ns by hy the time defense he m L Lat t St liln and Mm him himself lf had been tJ J ran n the lUc name came cell 1 at tho coun county counts ty and t that mat there he be Deming f t be ding in E shot ot which was wag found B. B ls I. o of Sullivan b by tho the jail W P. P declared that Sullivan Sulli n had m t I g to do with making it H Ifs also f ha t and riU mach madl no attempt to even erca remonstrated with Lt f for lor t imma to saw through the tho laying t that at it would make thin thin thing f one for Q Sullivan An D' D lie He o told am Ud d that thal four taw wa and and 1 broke tw two to of f them m ez ution then took tD the tho witness ss to break brcik hi hid story v Coun Cumin of accused ed the tho perjury and tried s gle e him bun in in ea every C v way D crus 1 cool until blot ator time the 1 u ot of touched upon U Up n own J to robbin ten years for n 0 the gran c a ne negro Cro Crof ro of f 1 0 T Theu charge office against the thc sher sher- 1 Were you guilty Of or the tho crime for YOu a are re DOW time 0 ask asked if I r lr dy ea 10 am not Dot cam came quietly m tr ea it n Why Loof lid did guilty 1 sit d I Was as told tod b by th de e L Wit at t U J I that t man at a I did not o I would woul m l reo re b. b ier er sentence said sail u g to District Attorney K d do 0 but lIl in having t no friends I 1 ha had 1 l' l urn tU t for or a plead guilty ar and l take 1 of ot which c I I aon nt II IID am en I D l il that tI t ht hc et to hirut hila sheriff oft with S. S to It if b he a very c would allow Sulli Sulli- Gran tined on pa DaCo o U 0 I WITNESS TELLS C Continued from pa page 1 vanto a to escape through the bars rind ami be shot down as he ho ran i-an rind and said that when he refused ho had cu bi-cu sentenced to tu years for a crime ho hu hall had never or commit commit- ted lb Ho lIo said that when he had spoken to District Attorney Loofbourow about seeing tIme tho lawyer l the court had bad appointed appoint appoint- ed el to defend 11 him m be he had been laughed at I t. t I When the tIme wild applause of the spec- spec ha had died clid down tho the prosecution proceeded pro with th tb the examination cross asking asking ask ask- in ing Doming Demin what he lie had intended to tb do with tho the sling shot Deming refused refuse to answer on the ground round that he lie might incriminate himself But Tu Judge ludge c Armstrong Armstrong Arm Arm- strong told him ho must t answer fer and ho said mid that he intended led to attack one of tho the deputies es at the jail and esca escape as ns ho was wa hein being taken to the thc court for trial Wh Why did you not use ue it iU asked the pros prosecution cent jon I I suppose I got ot cold feet at t the thelast u last minute answered red the convict Sullivan was placed on tho the stand and told of his movements from the time timo he lie was released from the state prison December December December De De- cember 9 1007 1907 until he was WM taken into the tho courtr courtroom om to stand trial for the murder mur mur- der tIer of Policeman Ford He Ire that on the night of December Decem Decem- I ber 33 13 3 he und and Owens went wont to the Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon on Short Lino Line depot to find out when a 1 atrain atrain train left for the north Learning that nothing left before midnight they went uptown After wandering around Owens said he knew know a bartender at the Albany saloon aloon from front whom they thoy could coull borrow borro some sonic rn m l incy cY They went to the saloon and Owens secured a 3 small amount of money moncy and the they went to the Continental saloon where tho the bartender told toM them that a man celled called Chink otherwise Joe Joo Garcia had inquired inquire for him After waiting aroun around awhile they went to tho the Jubilee saloon aloon on Commercial street where Sullivan Suli asked Tip Tip Belcher Beicher the bartender if Garcia had been there He was told toM that Garcia would woul be waiting wait sait iu jug ing for them ut tit tho the Continental saloon Had to Catch Train They met him there and had a drink Sullivan n ask asking n the tho bartender era to hurry as ho lie had to catch eatch a n atrain atrain train for the time north This part of the testimony was corroborated by era ern yesterday Prom From the Continental saloon they went to Garcia A room in the Belcher home They ha had lunch and nd Garcia gave Sullivan Sullivan Sulli Sulli- van nn the gun pun which was as found iu in his hiB pocket at the time of his attest arrest in Portland Port Port- land testified Sullivan After len leaving n the Belcher DeIcher homo borne Garcia told Sullivan he lie had bad a Mob job on OD and asked him to join in it Ho says he refused an and Garcia Gar Oar cia said that he ha would have to get Owens to help him if Sullivan Sullivaa would not They Ther all aU went t to the Continental saloon again again w ys s 's Sullivan and aud ho left them thorn and went to the tho depot fter After walking Walkin to Woods Cross Cros while waiting for a a. train to como come along ho cau caught ht a slow in moving freight he sn says t and rode into Og Ogden en From Prom O Ogden cn ho he went ent to San Fran Francisco isco and from there thereto to Portland where lie he was wat arrested Ho ITo denied the tho story told by uv Police Officer Anderson who made the the- arrest that his revolver was loaded at tho the time of hi his arrest Ho lIo said that the gun w was s taken from irom his bis hip pocket and the bullets from his vest pocket He also denied ever e in ba having helped Doming Dentin in his attempt to tu escape front from the tuo county count jail At noon Sullivan finished his story and the court adjourned until 2 0 o'clock clock this afternoon when the state be began an to cross examine cross examine Sullivan John Feury and John Munroe convicts convicts con con- from the time state prison were wore tho the most important witnesses for the defense do de this morning They testified that after John Owens had bat been beon taken back to the penitentiary after pleading guilty of complicity in the tilo Albany saloon holdup holdup hold bold up they had several conversations with him bin They asked h him m if he intended to testify against hi his partner Joe Joo Sullivan Suman and Owens replied that Sullivan was not his bis put partner pai ner in that that trick He lie hit the tho road hc before or the robbery was pulled off the convicts say Owens Owena told them They asked him hint why ho he was coin going to go o up to tho the courtroom and rap on Sullivan Owens replied that the police were ere going to hang somebody for the murder and he was as Join going to see that ho did not Dot suffer for it The prosecution was unable to make mako them theiu change their stories Sullivans Sullivan's Arrest The state continued its case clue against Sullivan yesterday afternoon by placing on tho the stand James F. F Anderson the tio Portland officer who arrested Sullivan Anderson fold told tho the story of ot the arrest Ho TIc said that when he first arrested Sullivan Sullivan Sul Sul- livan all the latter latter gave ve his hie name as 38 Thomas Howard and declared ho be had I never nC been in Salt Lake Lako City having n come d directly r from El Paso rex cx Ho declared that he ho took a loaded revolver re I from Sullivan and that the bullets wore shaved down so was as to fit fiL the gun n. n The state connected this evidence with ith tho statement of Police Sergeant John Roberts Rob blob erts that he ho had found foun t lead shavings at atthe atthe atthe the Belcher Beicher home homo on the day Ilay after the time murder The defense defenso made a stron strong effort to break this testimony directly accusing the Portland officer of havin having once said Raid thai he bo had found the tho gun l unloaded and that he lie took the bullets from Sullivans Sullivan's vest But Anderson Anderson An An- derson kept to his story Tho The revolver found on Sullivan was identified b by r Richard D. D Millet as fiS being bein being be be- in ing one stolen from flom his hie residence on South rem Temple pIe street the tho ni night ht of at November No 1 vember 1 I 1907 Sullivan admi admits that this gun cun was wasen given en to him by Garcia G-arcia on the ni night ht that be he claims he hc left tow town to a Some Somo of tho the most damaging testimony against t Sullivan an carce clI-ae from the tho penitentiary peni guards who talker talked with him himin himin himin in in the Continental saloon the night before before be be- fore tho the murder W. W J. J and II H. H C. C Taggart prison guards said that while hile talking with Sullivan that Di night ht he Sullivan had bad taken Irvine ine aside an and asked him if ho thou thought ht WO would do any good towards freeing Abe Abc Majors from the tho tato state prison Majors is is s serving inc a life ife sentence for tho the shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing of Police Captain Brown of the O Ogden Og- Og den police force Irvine Irvino declared that Sullivan said Raid ho would steal the mane money if it would ouM do any lUy good He Likes LUtes Majors Yesterday afternoon Warden Pratt of the state prison was was in court but not noton noton on the tho i witness stand II Sullivan thin thinks s more of Abe Abo Majors than any BUY Other man in the then n world and antI would do anything to free fre him bIm said the warden durin during tho the afternoon Warden War War- den bell Pratt said that he had sent Irvine and la Taggart down town for no other pur purpose so than to watch Sullivan i iI I The The convicts at the I hate J John ohn Owens v with all aIr the bitterness bitter bitter- ness fleas they the are arB capable of and nd would kill I him hilll on tho the spot if they bad tho the chance continued the warden Owens food tood has to be watched to see seeth th that t the tho oth other r convicts con do not tr try to poison polson him They have ha raised among tb then them m. m selves to Lo help Sullivan win the fight tight for fot his life and have ha turned it over to Sul Sul- I livens livan's 05 attorneys fJ i Time The last th thing n- n the prosecution did dil yesterday cst rda was as t to bring in iu evidence e that Sullivan attempted to saw his LIs way my out of if the county jail after ho had boon been brou brought bt back from Port Portland laud All through h the trial for hi his lif life Sul Sul- livan nn sits behind his and supervises supervises su su- su- su t too the o examination cross of th the tho defense His Hig feelings are aro iron bound and aud he hc docs does not allow his features fea tea tures hues to betray betra any aims s sign sigu Ju of emotion as the e evidence of f tho the is heaped up against him Lim His coo cool calculating blue- blue gray ray eyes take in n the minutest detail of the tho actions of the witnesses witnesses' and with witha a notebook in hand ho catches every even weak cak point in iu tho the stories told against ag him |