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Show SENSATION IN ADAMS TRIAL Attorney Offers to Prove That Detective Promised Immunity If Prisoner "Stand by State." WALLACE, Ida., Feb. 22. A sensation was caused in the "Steve" Adams murder mur-der trial yesterday afternoon, when Richardson, Rich-ardson, one of the attorneys for the defense, de-fense, said, addressing the court: "I offer to prove that about March 1, 1308, at a ranch at Haynes, Or., the witness wit-ness (S. G. Thlele, a detective.) said to Mrs. Adams and Willis Lillard each being present, 'Steve will come out all right If he will stand by the State and come through as he has started out to do,' and that he, the witness, had told him (Steve) so. I further offer to prove that he told Mrs. Adams that he wanted her to go to Boise and encourage Steve, and that she would only be gone a short time, for the trial of Moyer, Haywood and Pettlbone was to come off. and that she and Steve could return as soon as It was over." James McPartland, a big, elderly man, who is credited with having broken up the Molly Magulres in Pennsylvania many years ago, was on the stand most of the morning, and underwent a sharp cross-examination cross-examination by Attorney Richardson as to the methods used in obtaining the con- ression or Adams. "Did you repeat to Adams at your second sec-ond visit that you were his friend?" Mc-Parland Mc-Parland was asked. "No." "Did you say you would save him from the gallows?" "No." "Did you tell hlm If he would do as you wished it would be made all right for him" "No." "Did you not tell him he would be hanged because of his part In the assassination assas-sination of Gov. Steunenberg?" "No." "Did you not tell him that if not hanged for this, he would be taken to Colorado and lynched by a mob?" "No." "Did you not get them to change his treatment at the penitentiary after the first confession?" "I did not." "Did you not know he was taken from the solitary cell and placed in the hospital ward with his family?" "I did not." "Is It not a fact that this confession was made practically from your diotp.tlon and practically in your own language?" "It is not." "Was It taken in the form of questions and answers?" "It was." "You stated the facts and got Adams to assent to them?" "I did not." "You are an old hand at this kind of work, are you not?" "I know my business." Shortly before the noon hour Warden Whitney of the penitentiary was placed on the stand. He declared the treatment of Adams was not changed by reason of his confession, but admitted that after it was made he was taken from the hospital ward and put back in the penitentiary. |