Show tomes olmes Threatened to Get Willard Witness Swears r lff IS A NI Is MA MAN f FACES AC U i IN I lAl won l MURDE y t t y Box Quickly Filled and testimony of 4 Persons Faken aken by Noon R Recess cess Iken Bingham Slaying Case gj ll a j jury ry obtained in much less less time than had been an- an ed heating hearing of evidence was in the case ease of Arthur Ir fallard 1 lard charged with with first de- de murder er for the slaying of Cecil ics at Bingham Tune rune une 13 The recess found the fourth wi witness ness nesse he stand he-stand e stand and the defense had hadr r first blow when It obtained Severn evern J. J Grandquist that tEat he had had heard es threaten to get Willard buzz of surprise was heard in Courtroom when the defense del deI de- de l I dao exercise any of its challengeS challengeS' Against the lined tined the previous day The Jury sworn as it sat in the box t I twelve fe men who b by their oaths into their hands the life of ArI ArL ArL Ar- Ar I L If Willard are Fred Wanless Vanless South Main street Henry A. A West Seventh South t W W. L L. L Aylett West Sixth street R. R W. W Glenn Freeman alie ae Bingham Ira M. M Elder 1310 Vernon G G. Chapman Second West street Wil- Wil JA A. A Dunn 1192 Kensington ave- ave ifred T. T Forsell Sixth ave ave- G George orge Elsmore Arapahoe rf Ht t John E. E Lambourne 1120 East r 11 South street Orson A A. Knapp l Montrose street and Robert B. B don on South Tenth East Eastly t Iia ly a brief opening statement deed deed deed de- de ed without color and without att at- at fIto t to portray vividly the killing e jury was made by the assist- assist t attorney OPENING SESSION f was yas Grandquist who furnished of the opening session for aking eking of testimony He was sum- sum d dby by the state His testimony i to tonne the effect that he was in the when he heard sounds of scuffle scuttle between Willard and andes andes es les which took place in the thees es barber shop hop next door He Hed d to see the fight and arrived as the tho men had been separated s s' then he said he-said said he heard VII Wil- make the threat Judge D D. N. N ip p chief chiet counsel for the defense to draw from him an adIon adlon ad- ad lon Ion that between the time of the encounter and the fatal one ho warned Willard Villard against Holmes you tell me and Mr Leath- Leath od od at Bingham Sunday that you rou warned warned Willard i asked Judge ip I denied it Under further e examination he asserted he had talked to nobody about the I specifically declaring that he had II Continued on page e 8 I I WIFE IS ABSENT Continued from page 1 1 not spoken to the district attorney or orto orto orto to his assistant about it It was In the examination of ot Grandquist Grand- Grand quist that there came the first effort eUort of or orthe the defense to attack the character of ot Mrs Willard Villard in Its attempt to save the life UCe of ot her husband The attack was parried by the tho state to the extent that District Attorney Wilson McCarthys McCarthy's objection to the line of questioning at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted was sustained but he did not ask that the tho question and answer be stricken from the record so the question question question ques ques- tion and possibly the answer will wilt stand Grandquist had said laid Mrs Willard was teaching him Spanish Were not Mrs Willard and Holmes together a great deal asked Judge WITNESS ANSWERS YES Yes the witness replied in a low voice Mr MI McCarthy Immediately voiced the objection but whether the reporter heard or put Into the record the answer an arr- of ot the witness could not be learned Merely 1 perfunctory was tho testimony testimony mony many of at Harry A. A Rager View street who was WIlB the first witness called Ho He is a civil engineer and he identified iden Iden- I titled and explained a chart he had hud made to scale showing the point In BIngham canyon where the tho killing occurred Dr Paul S. S Hageman who attended Holmes told the nature of ot the gunshot wound the young oung man suffered at the hands of Willard ard and said it caused his death Mr 11 McCarthy was Interrupted In further examination of the physician by an admission from the defense that the gunshot wound produced death Horace M. M Dennison a barber employed employed em- em at the J. J T T. T Dean barber shop In Bingham was the fourth witness He lIe said he was attracted to the scene of ot th first encounter between Willard Villard and Holmes by the breaking of ot glass In the Bardes Dardes barber shop and arrived In time to assist In separating them ilIe He lie told of ot the cuts and bruises on Villards Wll- Wll lards lard's face following the fight and said he took him to the shop where he is employed and washed tho the blood from his fact tact also shaving him and cutting his hair hall At the session this afternoon he will tell tIll how he saw Holmes pass the door of ot the shop twice while white Willard was In Inthe Inthe inthe the chair and will VIII relate what he knows of ot subsequent Incidents Incident Few spectators were In the court to today today today to- to day and Mrs Willard Villard was not among them but J. J Golden Kimball her father fath fath- er was present The Kimball family has retained counsel to protect the In Interests Interests interests In- In of Mrs Willard Villard District Attorney Attorney Attorney At At- torney McCarthy has signified his Intention in intention intention In- In of ot calling her and with her good name in one side t of at f the tho balance and her husbands husband's life Ufe in the other speculation Is rife rite as to what her testimony testimony testimony tes tes- will be in case she tells her story I |