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Show EMPLOYED BY BOTH SIDES Detective Berry Makes a Startling: Admission in Stratton Case. -ju- - COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 25. The hearing of the famous Stratton will case, in -which I Harry Stratton, only son and heir of W. S. Stratton, is suing for his father's estate,' valued at $15,000,000, left by the father to Colorado Springs for a memorial home for Indigent Indi-gent poor, started In the District court today. Two days ago Harry G. Berry, a detective, filed an affidavit in court alleging al-leging that the attorneys for I. Harry Stratton had tampered with the list of Jurymen who are to hear the case, and today the time, of the court was taken up in hearing the testimony as to the truth of the charge, which, if substantiated, substan-tiated, will mean that a new panel will be called. Berry was on the stand all morning, and was subjected to a fierce cross-examination by Senator Wolcott, who forced him to admit that he was at first employed by a representative of the administrators, ad-ministrators, who are fighting the son, and while so employed went to the attorneys at-torneys of the son and entered their employ, em-ploy, thus obtaining inside information, which he handed over to the administrators. adminis-trators. Berry is a member of the Elks lodge in this city and in order to create an impression that he favored Harry Stratton. introduced the latter Into the lodge. When Berry admitted this under un-der oath it created a decided sensation. |