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Show INLOW JURY WILL LEARN OFATTEMPT Prisoner's Effort to Escape Will Be Told of by the District Attorney. ; i . 1 1 1 ; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i 1 1 1 1 4 TO INFORM JTTBT OF ATTEMPT. 1 4 District Attorney f.. O. I.ealhjrwood said this morning 4- that the effort of Inlow to ee- 4 cape from the county Jail would be brought to the attention of 4 the jury during the course of 4- the trial, but that he had not determined at what stage of 4- the trial to introduce that phase 4 ef the ease. - , T t-1 I 1 I I I 1 I I I ' I ' I H I I I I I H4t The statement which Caleb A. Inlow wrote out for the chief of police, while the accused slayer of Thomas "Eddie" White was in the custody of the po lice department in the city jail, and which Inlow recovered and tore to many minute pieces, was submitted this morning to the jury that is trying Inlow. The fragments had been reassembled, and. with a copy made by IV 8- Spoon-er, Spoon-er, secretary to the chief of police, were admitted as exhibits in the case. Mrs. Lillian Snyder admitteJ under cross examination this morning that she could not say of her own knowledge knowl-edge that Inlow and his wife returned to her house at I o'clock on the night of the murder, but fixed the time at that hour because Inlow had said it was 1 o'clock and that within a few moments she heard a clock strike one. Mrs. Suvder said that the house clock that she beard struck the half hours as well aa the hours, aud that she could not sav of her own knowledge that it was 11:30 o'clock. 1 o'clock, 1:3H o'clock, or at any other half hour during dur-ing the night. Loaned Coat and Veil. Mr Lillian Snyder. Mrs. Inlow's friend, was recalled for cross examination exami-nation this morning concerning her testimony testi-mony given last Monday, pertaining to Mrs. Inlow's visit to the Snyder home on the night cf October Mrs Inlow went to the Snyder horns about s o'clock that nlcht and borrowed Mrs. sevder 'a coat and a light pink scarf. She remained until about SI" o'clock, leaving without the child who had accompanied her to the house. Mr. Snyder end Mrs. Inlow put the child to bed In the Snyder home. Mrs Inlow left shout fifteen minutes later. Mrs. Inlow aaid when ahe left that shs was going uptown to meet Inlow. If they couldn't gel a suitable room, she would return. e An argument between counsel of the opposing sides, relative to the ad mis -senility of certain testimony occurrsd, which continued for nearly a half hour. Ths defense examined Mrs. Snyder concerning the time of Mrs. Inlow's visit snd departure. The state objected to her repeating s long conversation with Mrs. Inlow. The defense referred to her testimony testi-mony et the preliminary hearing, relating relat-ing to time. TWe are wllllnr to accept ell of her testimony at the preliminary hearing as to time, and we will stand on It to ths supreme court," said P. T. Farneworth for the state. As the question concerning Mrs. Snyder's Sny-der's testimony arose. District Attorney Ceatherwood was reading the transcript Attorney Wlllard Hanson took It from his hand without apology and handed It to the court. Judge Ritchie later asked Mr. Leather-wood Leather-wood If he waa following the testimony In the preliminary transcript. "No your honor, I haven't the opportunity oppor-tunity " Inlowi Returned to Home. Mr. and Mrs. Inlow returned to the house at 1 o'clock In the morning. Mrs. Snyder said they rapped on the window, end she unlocked the door. Mrs. Snyder asked Inlow about what time It was. Inlow said "About 1 o'clock." Immediately after that Mrs Snyder heard the clock strike one. The Inlow's got up about 7 o'clock or a little earlier. Mrs. Snyder observed nothing out of the ordinary when they came downstairs. Mr. Psrnsworth naked If Mre. Snyder had a clear recollection of Snyder asking the time, and bow long she had held that recollection. "Bver since that night." she said. Mrs. Snyder said she bad hesrd the house clock strike one. Mr. Farneworth asked If It struck on the half hour. It did. she sold. She did not look st the dock and Judged that It waa 1 o'clock from what Inlow had said. She had no means of knowing whether the clock had struck ir:M. 1 or 1:0 o'clock, or on any other half hour In the night save from what Inlow had said. Put Together Torn Statement Police Captain J. J- Roberts leatmed thst hie key lo the evidence room st police po-lice headquarter hed never been out of his possession. Fred f. Bosh, abstracter In the count v sssessor's office, to whom was alyen the (Continued on peg 8.) ', re-read It and had then tried to destroy It. chief Ornnt produced a typewritten copy of the statement, which was made by his secretary during ths short lime It waa in the chief's possession. The chief will be cross examined later In relation to this after an expert has en-deavored en-deavored to repair the torn paper ao It will he decipherable. Admins Registering raise Nam. Former Sheriff Joseph C. Sharp, who was In office at the time Inlow waa arrested, ar-rested, said he had called attention to the rooming house register. Jn which he had written a name when lie engaged the room at 7 Easr Second South street on the night of October 4. Ths nunc had been nibbed out. but he tried to revive It by various processes. He had dampened a place of clean blotting paper pa-per and had put It over the page, and placed It In the letter press. He was then ante to decipher the name, but could not recall It at that moment. Sharp said hs asked Inlow how he cams to use an assumed name when hs took the room. Inlow. he aaid, had told him that he had tried every other place In town and could not gat a room except ex-cept there, and that hs did not want any of his friends to know that hs had taken tils wlfs to such a placs. Inlow's attorneys turned to htm and 'here was an earnest conference for ' a few momenta. One of counsel for the defendant turned to Sharp and aaked If the name was not "Harrv Stone and wife " Sharp then recalled that It waa The defenss admitted that the falas entry en-try had bean mads In the regtstsr. Inlow's In-low's bloodless face waa furrowed with dsep lines end hs looked more nesrly haggard than ha lias looked at anr time sines the trial began. The former sheriff said that hs saw the coat at the sama time and aaked Inlaw If he knew that the chief of police po-lice had secured an analysis or the dark stains and that they proved to be human hu-man blood. Inlow. he said, replied: "When the proper time comes we will explain that." harp also aaw the revolver and talked with Inlow about It-Had It-Had Ho Automatic Revolver "I told Inlow I had been to his houss In Rlnaham searching for an automatlc accuaed In her manner and In her testimony. tes-timony. She said ahe was present when the police searched her houae on October ." "What. If any, property did they take?" aaked Mr. Karnsworth. "My coat. The police went through all the rooms. I nsver saw the crip before be-fore and did not see the policemen take It," ahe said In answer to a series of questions. She eatd that Mr. and Mrs. Inlow and the little girl were In the houss when she cot tin st :30 o'clock or a little later that morning. She said that the crip was not her property, nor of any member of her family. She said ahe did not know when the crip was taken to or from bar house. When saked about the man's coat, she declared that ahe had never seen Ihe coat In her life, nor any similar '""If that coat was found bv the officers of-ficers in one of the upstairs rooms or vour house, can vou give snv Information Infor-mation aa to when or how It got 'h"I cannot." she said almoet Inaudible. She said on croae examination that the Inlows occupied a bedroom on the upper up-per Boor of her house on the morning of October 6. and when Mrs. lnlow borrowed bor-rowed her coat that night. October 4, It was ruining INLOW JURY frpntinued from iege I.") fragments of Inlow's statement which In-low In-low wrote for the chief of police at the time of his arrest, relent to Ms purported pur-ported movements on the night of the murder, was the next wit nes lie told of the process he had followed In patching patch-ing the torn shreds of ths paper. The etatement was originally written on three email pieces of toilet tlasue. One fragment contained figure, auch ae time and amount, but In no consecutive consecu-tive order. He was unable to patch them up in such a way that they could be deciphered. Counael Exchange Compliments Mr. Famsworth asked If ths defenee would con. ede that Mr. leather wood had taken th fragments properly to Mr. Bueh. ' There is one of counsel for the etate we would trust anywhere." eald Hanson. "Thank you." said Fmrnsworth. "There probably la one of counsel for the defence de-fence who can be trusted." Han eon had no reply for this. Attorneys for both sides examined the reassembled fragments with the aid of a reading glass, snd discussed the de-tali de-tali of Bush's work. Chief of Police B. F. Orant was put on the stand again. He aaid the defendant gave him the statement Bush had lust repaired, on the night of October S at police headquartera. Inlow told the chief when he lis tided htm the statement that he had started to write out his whereabouts that night, but he lied not completed it. Inlow delivered the etatement. and on the following morning asked to be allowed al-lowed to meet the chief In his own office Inlow went Into the office and said tie thought he had made a mistake In giving that orlgtnnl statement. U the chief wdhTii let him have It he would Tike to keep It an.1 write a complete statement. The chief gave It back to him and Inlow lor u up as quick as he could end threw It In a cuapteVr. Th chief Ashed all of the fragmenta out that ha could "And this Is the result," he concluded, pointing to the patchwork. Ad riaad Inlow Not to Talk. The chief hsd s copy of the etatement made, ho wave r. befo re I nlo w tore 1 1 to fragments. Ths chief snd his secretary checked the cony over and had found It a true copy. After Inlow had given the chief the paper, Inlow' Iswyer told him to say nothing. "To keep his mouth shut." "Didn't Mr. Irvfhe say. over the tale-phone, tale-phone, while you llatened on the extension, exten-sion, to Inlow. 'Keep your damned mouth shut?'" asked counsel for the defenee. "Tee; he eald that." answered the chief, "and 1 think he said something even stronger than that." said Chief Orant The spectators laughed and Judge Ritchie autluned them that any repetition of the offense would be the signal for clearing clear-ing the courtroom. Inlow. the chief said, violated the Injunction In-junction to "keep still" at least three time, end perhaps other times, when be talked quite freely. P. S. Rpuoner. secretary to the chief of police, told of making the copy and of? the comparison of the copy with the original. II swore that the copy was a true and correct copy of the original. Chemist Continues Testimony Htste Chemist Herman Harms waa recalled re-called and took up the thread of bis testimony tes-timony started yesterday. The objection of the defenee as to the edmlsstblitty of th further testimony relating re-lating to th coat was overruled. Judge I Ritchie commenting that the ownership and possession of the coat was a matter for the Jury to decide. Harm said that he found a very prominent promi-nent epot. or smear, which was not evident evi-dent upon any other part of the coat. When washed with distilled water, the amear showed th characteristic color of blood. Three separate methods were used to test the tains. tach can abundantly determine de-termine If blood be present. Kech showed t hat blood was presen t. Proved to Be Human Blood. The mlcroacopU- examination that followed fol-lowed showed that th blood was of m-malltan m-malltan rigtn. The dtetlm Mou between mamalHat: and I i o titer blood, uch as that from fowl, neh i or reptiles, t marked. Aa an expert he could aay that the blood I was of matnaillan origin, hut he had a ' personal opinion based on his experience 1 and teets going further Into the matter The defense fought to keep the teetl- 1 gejHU out of Hie record, but was unsuc- 1 ' cagajvi, ! He would not wish to state positively that they were human Mood stains be-.cause be-.cause they had been subjected to light j sir a-tMl other Influences, but every In -dliatlon pointed to the rct that they 1 were human blood stain. Harm said that the blood had been provn to b- o niamaillan origin bond any uuextion 0f doubt by scientific means an.1 not ..ii-.jec' to variation or change Th court shortly before I o'clock or-sn or-sn adioiiinment until to o'clock iMvuda: iiiumlng, when Mr. Harms' ex-lamination ex-lamination will h resumed). Inlow Tore Up Statement I That Caleb A. Inlow mad written 1 tatenint of his movements on the 1 SMS Jj tuber t. gav that statement tu Chief of I-olic B. F. Orant, recalled It for further elimination and then tore It to tiny fragments, which were recovered recov-ered by the police, was an Important development of th trial yeetei-dey afternoon aft-ernoon Th tiny fragment of paper ware tn-iroduced tn-iroduced In evidence and an expert waa ?ae5f!L,t ?U tnem lerether so that If peewibl they can be read. The defenee oble- ted to snv statement tending that they had not been notified that he would b a wttnsee. The objection objec-tion waa overruled and the usual -exception was taken. The defense has taken hundreds of exception in the case and wilt base Ita hope for a new trial upon a possible appeal to the uprerae court In the event of - conttctkm, upon these exceptions. The chief of police Identified the register reg-ister taken from the ro mln boos at T Cast Second South street aae) then handed to the dlstrl-t sttornev a written writ-ten statement, which he said Inlow hai in pared w hi Up (n t he custody W the police, purporting t- show hi movements move-ments on the night of O tober 1 Inl-.w. he said, nnd recalled the etatement to 1 pistol."' Sharp aaid, and for aom gripe and some other stuff. He eald: 'You didn't fled en automatic run. did vou? There wasn't any.' Inlow explained to me that the revolver waa an old one that had been lying- about the place and he did not know why he had put it In his grin." Bhsrp ssld he had searched the house at Bingham, but had not round an automatic gun. nor snv othei pistol or revolver. "Didn't inlow ay that th landladv at the rooming houss asked him If the woman was his wife his 'sure enough Ood wife'?" asked counsel for the defenee de-fenee "And didn't he aev that ahe sue-(rested sue-(rested that If she was hla 'sure enous-h wife." that aha might not want it known that ehs had stopped at such a place?" "Tee." Sharp answered. "Inlow ssld that he had been looking all over town for a room and could not get one elsewhere, else-where, and he didn't want It known M hla friend that ha had taken hla wife to such a place." Police Inspector Carlson was recalled for a moment to give additional teetl -mony relating- to the transfer of the coo t from police headquarters to the office of the etate chemist. The chief of police waa a loo recalled to sav thai he had told Seager and Cleveland to take the coat to the tat chmlst. Detective Oeorge E. Cleveland testified that he went with Seager when the latter lat-ter took the coat to the office of Herman Her-man Harms for analysts of the dark spots He also identified the register he had taken from the rooming house at 78 East Second South street. Cleveland Cleve-land said later that on the right aide of the coat near the breaet were a number num-ber of dark spots, and the coat appeared to have been ponged off at thoee point The goods looked fresher and freer from dust then other parte of the fabric State Chemist TestlfleB. Herman Harms, state chemist. was called to the stand and testified that at X 40 o'clock on the afternoon of October t, 1911, Detective Seager, who was accompanied ac-companied by Detective Cleveland, iisuded him a coat which he Identified as the one Introduced by the ijate as inlow's coot. The defense objected to the continuation continua-tion f th atat chemist's testimony on the ground that the ststs has at nu time connected Inlow with ownership or loiisesaton of the coat. The matter was taken under advisement and the chemist chem-ist was excueed until 10 o'clock tls mMr"lJ11Ien Snyder, a friend of the Inlows. who had been rtoeelv eesnct-eted eesnct-eted with them for yearn, was examined exam-ined She was moat friendly to the |