| Show CONVICT DEMING IN ROLE ROIl OF ATTORNEY AND DEFENDANT Calls Cals Joe Sullivan Sulivan to Stand Questions Sheriff Sherif Emery Two T-noo Con from the tle state prison were erO the big biz attraction before Judge Judco T. T D. D Lewis in the thc district court this morin morning morning Richard Dt fleming Deming highway noar robber rob rob- her ber trying Irving to show through loci loo Sulli Sullivan I van an a lifer r that th th- th county officials had bribed him to tt help hep get ct them get I Ithe the flayer elayer of Ol Officer er S P. P Ford I Denting who noho i is bin being tried on nn a charge of 1 destroying jail ji property in in an I attempt to tl escape from the tho county bastile bastile bal bas bas- tile tie discharged Jams Jam In n. n appointed appointed ap ap- ap pointed h b by th thA court ourt to defend him yesterday yes yes- t rda afternoon and this morning mornin appeared ap as aR his own attorney Attorney In Ingebretson had warned Doming Deming that t it would do no good oo to in in introduce tl Sullivan ns as af a witness in in the trial to how sho- that Sheriff Emery and Deputy Deput Sheriff Joe JoP Sharp had pl placed ed him bim in the delI cell 1 with Sullivan Suan in an attempt attempt at at- tempt to induce the latter hatter to escape that they mi might ht shoot boot him down Demin Deming with fountain pen and a apiece apiece apiece piece of paper called for both Mr rr Emery Em Em- tr cry ery and Mr Ir Sharp Shar at n the tho open opening in I of court beu Judge Lewis Lewi told him that one witness at a time was nos all that could he be examined He choi chose former Sheriff I Emery who said that be he had had severa several sev era eral pral conversations with noih Sullivan on en trip trips to and arid from the state tato prison durin during dur dur- in jug ing Sullivan Sullivan's 5 trial triAl Did Dill yon on on have han any my conversation with noih rc regards to me met mel a asked ked that prisoner pris oner at the bar acting as his bis own coun coon tel sel el I Xo No 0 said Mr Ir fr Emery EmPY and Deming immediately said that tb that t was all all al and Emt Emery r stepped down from the stand tand Then followed a a. little instruction inthe in the tho law Jw from the court in which At At- Prisoner torney-Prisoner Deming was as told to ask alk his hut witness pointed questions as a to tho the nature tup of tho the conversation Ob Oh I see J said d Deming Demin and Emen Emery Em Em- cry ery ena a was recalled In In your conversations cou with Wih Sullivan SuUvan t did you 01 Mr rr Emery EmerT tell teI Sullivan tbt I had given en you information that Sullivan Sullivan Sul- Sul Sulli Sulli- van sn was trying to get out of jail jai 3 asked laki Denting Deming I ma may mav have hae told him that answered an answered an- an Mr lr Emer Emery after having baving his bit memory refreshed but ho he could not state whether it was ss after or before fleming Deming had bad been called caled as a witness in inthe inthe inthe the Su Sullivan Suan an tr trial aJ Yes I told tol him that tha admitted Toe Joe Sharp former deputy but now sheriff sherif who noho was next called and to whom hom the same fame question wn was put but be he was also aIM unprepared to say at just what hat time the conversation con hall hail occurred Then Joe Toe Sullivan Sul who had bad been sitting sitting sit sit- si- si ting o over r on a bench at t one sid side of the room was ms called caled by his fellow convict conict His lips ever eer curled in in a sneering smile he proved a fluent witness iness and was a spectacular attraction for the crowds that jostled josted each cach other in in the courtroom I never heard of Richard Deming Demin until I came here and some Bome newspaper newspapermen men spoke poke to ine me IH about him at the county jail said aid the witness At At the county county fail viii ini they put ut mo me in inthe inthe inthe the same eel cell Wih with Demina This made me suspicious as I was Ws bin held on a serious charge I T asked why they had bad serous put him in with me nie He HE wouldn't answer noir ans-noir me at firt but butI I kept at him for several Meral hours Ho Ire denied de nied at t tn first t that lie be hI was put in for an any purpose at all al but finally admitted th that t the he be had been promised immunity if he be would find out from It me where Joe Garcia Gar Garcia 00 cia was cn Tells of Alleged Plot Plot I guess ut ss they had got ot him to act as asa asa a general all nI round stool pigeon pion declared de de' ncr ner dared the tho wine witness s in in an offhand man man- The stool pi pigeon part of it seem seemed to hurt A Prisoner Attorney Deming Demin and he hc pa passed sed on to a conversation eon that is supposed d to have nave taken place on the following Monda- Monda January 20 O O 1008 The They took Deming to court in the I morning on Monday and ani when ho he returned returned re re- re turned d r I asked aked him what they th had done dOD him said Su Sullivan Ire He to e told toM mo me that EmerY and S Sharp arp had bad made him another proposition and had promised him that they thy would show him still ti greater reater leniency in in case he should help them The Tb idea was to get et mo moo mixed up in ina a jail jai break brcak I r guess The They The wanted me bumped off of and were taking this method metho meth meth- o od oil of doing oin it it-in it in i-in in other I r was to tobe tobe tobe be shot while attempting to tet et awa away I didn't didot do An any sawing he hc said further on But you vou knew the sawing Ming was going going go so ing on on was nos the Que question ton put to himI himI himI him I refuse to not nl-not answer r that question said aid Sullivan Sul quick quickly queston On what grounds ground questioned District Loofbourow 4 H On On the grounds of self tion he answered ans and was ras as sustained by the court Ho then told of a black jack that was ras in the tho tell cell cel which was noS there when ho ito was locked up He said sai he hadu hadn't barnt t made it i. i but that claimed to have hac ma made e it i as a protection against a prisoner who bad had threatened to knife himI himI hintI him hint I told Deming Demin that it was wal foolish to try ty to get t out an and that t as 8 soon eoon as S they were through with him that they would job joh him too J I Ilie He lie saul aid that both Em Emory Emery ry and Sharp and al o Attorney torny Willard Wiard Hanson Hamon hail had told role him that n fleming Deming ming bad informed n against ain t him H He denied having bad had any cO conversation t with D Deming at tho the It state to prison claiming that he be was in pron confinement there and that any con conversation between them was as an un- un possibility si itHe it- it Ho He Is Cross Cross' Cros Questioned District Attorney torn Loofbourow hero took up the cross cros examination Sulli- Sulli Sul- Sul vau au au stating that hi ho hI was 30 years of age lC and that he had been ti twice e be be- fore foro convicted ol of a felony before being beins convicted eon of murder in in the first degree decree i gen Kven the thc best of us are liable to tomake tomake make mak mistakes said Sullivan when ben benIr Mr Ir Loof Loofbourow showed that he had bad testified at the preliminary examination that the tho th two conversations on s he be had bad with Deming Derning were er hl hold on the thE same amo lay day Sullivan now caim claims that ono one was on Saturday and aud tho the other on Monday following Ye Yes Ve I 1 saw Doming Denting sawing on the bar said aid Sullivan but 1 didn't cure care to watch him hint and aDd went off of to sleep I paid paki no attention to him hiD Its s It-s pretty hard bard to jud judge e time in jail jil continued d Sullivan when uk asked cd how lon long Diming had k kept t up the saw raw ln ing Doming called himself to the stand stanulas as tim the next witness in aD and sitting itin in thc J witness hex box told old his bis tory story tor in detail tai to tho the jury as 3 only a n man can who ho h ha has R brond brooded over r the e events of the thc past while hio confined in a prison Ho Io was wu still talking when the noon loon recess rece s was 1 taken and noon was U on 01 the stand tnt a again ain this thi after after- aCer r. r |
