| Show BENBROOK OK CASE IS RESET RESETA RESET RESETA A Sensational Charge Made by Attorney L L R Rogers in Cur Court ses Sent M Jackson l As on soon as Judge Nor 1 O opened nc court thie morning Hon L J oe one o of th the for the defense In the he Denbrook murder O case claimed his hone boa honer ors r attention and permission to present a 11 moton motion for tor continuance senator Athur Arthur Brown ono one ot of the attorneys for the pr was rad ready for the motion to be taen taken Up and MI Mt Rogers then read n a Ion long ThIs sets ts out that two witnesses In the thecae cae case Nall Nana Witbeck eck amI Emma Mathe Matheson athe son eon were from the State and without them the der defendant could not fatel safely go on oh trial The defendant e expected ted to prove proe by thee these gIrls that Morris made an upon Denbrok Benbrook just the the killing and that they hean hoard the defendant call for a 11 to protect him from the nul that they woo were eye eo wi wit and the only ones to this whole That John Witbeck father or of one or of orth th the girls girI gave them th the mony money with which to o for the 1010 olo purpose of oC preventing them Ulem from testifying In the tho ca case A SEROUS CHARGE CHARGE That one of the witnesses s for the State hed the tho money gIven to the tho girls for tor their eX expense nl In leaving the Stale That th the defense di did not know ot of any other witnesses lne who could testify to the same tact facts os as the these girls That the motion was riot not made mad for do de dela dolay la lay but because thes these witnesses were er necessary to the der no and It wa was bled believed tha that their attendance or tie I le positions could W be secured soul should 1 an 1 b be grante granted C M 1 SON WA WANTED TJ Mr Ir Hagel then read an ot of F L n a brother ot of the de In I it Is st net out that tie de deIn In nt 1 bellee that I it Cn can b be proven by C M Jackson that Immediately after th the shooting an additional gun was found in the rm room where the truble trouble oc occurred o Mr Jackson It Is 18 Is isnow now nOI In Washington ashIngton a witness before the Senate committee on elections that hI lie Intends to remain away Ime some time and that the facts regarding the addi tonal other pistol cannot 0 be proven by ln any Is the second gund ground upon whIch a continuance was ase asked JUDGE POWERS Net Next was a presente presented nn an of at Dr Bower rotting out that on Sunday last he made an examination of the physical condition or of Judge Powers Ioel and found him from rm ald and from being a wel well inn man Unless the jud tok absolute rest Dr was 4 or of the opInion that he would break down don ThIs was ni the thIrd ground upon whIch 8 a continuance was 1 asked Mr Rogers Roson stated that the defense rele relied alm almost t exclusively Judge In the of the case and aud andeen len een It if the wl sel Were vore here lie ht f red that to go Into the cao case might reo re sui In hIs collapse This said Mr Ir IrR R sers Wil was the lint favor the defense asked and the they asked te the lne both I as a favor foor and a matter or of tight ht SENATOR BROWN OPPOSES Arthur Drown was opposed to The two girls had iii al alil il ready c testified a at the preliminary and tb the nature of at their testimony wa was un und Understood d Besides there had not been tb the slightest diligence exerted to se as sec c the witnesses to Jackson Mr rr had stat stated stated ed that ll he had heard Jackson would le lea be bea a witness I It wa was perfectly wel eli knowli was going at I It had be abroad Ind and yit t not the tho efort effort had ben been made to have hl him d or obtain his hop The defense had calmly wallo waited Jackson ler left and then conic como In wt with tr thi this remarkable statement 48 to what the girls would testify to there thero WIS was to indicate that the they would state what Mr Rogers had In indicated dl They had testified 1 under oath nn anil professed to give ni alt that they k know I ROGERS SERIOUS ChARGE Mi Rogers insisted on hi his moton motion and andst st further that the gIrls had been te furnished actual wih with money for 1 b by 8 a wines witness for the Un Drown Brown said If any winess witness ha done that then lie he had committed n a crime It t II Is a crime a as I understand It continued for to top top the senator I a man p ti tUp p money to fet get a witness out of th ThIs court wurt certainly ought tob Informed who the guilty man Is In that he ma be delt wih with Ai to Judge Power Powers witness Mr Dt Br wm did not think ther there wal was nn any t evidence ur of that that le lie was now con condu conducting du ducting an important case wih with marked ability and showed no signs or of collapse saId th the senator jokingly It la IndIcate that he Is on the tho ver verge ot of spine sort or of emotional insanity Mi t Putnam alo also objected to nn any con can continuance ance tn Mr Mi the other sIde desires th hame ot of the man who gave gae the themon mon money that sent these witnesses ala alaI away I am willing to tell teU them privately ut at any time but bul I thInk they do know it CASE CO CONTINUED Norrell said Id that the mater matters ref referred red to were now new and the testimony to would b be vcr very important I if bro out On thIs ground the court Fetra and 81 all the jurors juron were excused |
