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Show TELLS HOW HIS DIAMONDS WERE STOLEN t - J. D. Dlehl. Jewelry Sale man. Met Pretty Young Girl at Beer Table. TONGUE GOT LOOSE AND TOLD BUSINESS Also Showed SparKIers to Gladys Whitney and Later Hissed All of Them. J. D. DlatU, married man, diamond wlaamaa and former member of the Jewelry flrre of Charts. Warthen Co. . of OoDTar, want on th witness) stand thla nwrnlnc to tell how Gladys Whitney, Whit-ney, yoanc and pretty, had secured from tim nrarty 00 werah -of -dlsaasaa-s, afser only a brief nlght'i acqnalntanca. Gladys, who confsese. to about aeren teen sommers, had told him, ho says, that ah waa tbo wlfo of a raeo horaa u from California, and 36 years old. Diehl en the stand did not make a good witness, and it ia probable that th prosecution, headed by District At toraey E. O. Leathedwood, will place most of ita confidence on the fart that it is able to produce soma of the diamonds dia-monds stolen In evidence, and to trace them, aa it believe, directly to Gladys Whitney. The opening statement of the district attorney and th direct examination of Ihehl took up most of the morning session ses-sion of the court. The cross examina tioa of the witness by Willard Hanson, former eonnty attorney, waa begun, aud while it was not nearly empleted, had Proceeded far enough by noon to cause tehl to show considerable irritation aa Mr. Hanson pressed him closely ait to the detaila of his conduct at the KathakelJar on the night before he waa robbed. Be Started Out Confident Diehl had assumed en air of confi dence enough when he went on the stand first, aad during an Interruption in the proceedings bit face assumed an expression that might almost be con-it con-it rued aa a smile. He wag looking in . th direction of the defendant girl at the time. In outlining the case before the Jury Attorney Leather wood briefly told the Incident In-cident of th night on which Lnh! was robbed, how the "drummer" bad accompanied accom-panied a friend to the cafe, and there had met the defendant and ber sister, and how Dlehl had been robbed while asleep, fn explaining how the prosecution prosecu-tion hiil obtained posaesslon of the diamonds dia-monds he asserted that the atate hoped to prove that the girt had, on the early morning of September S laat, gone to Die home of W. C. Louglas. en acquaint- am- of Walter Perrv. who is accused of com pile It v with tllsdva Whitney In the crime, and there had been outfitted with dresses more proper for street attire than the comparatively scant clothing In which ah had gone to the Douglas home. Foot Diamonds for Dong laa. When she waa leaving, he said. Gladys left a little parcel on the table, explaining explain-ing to Douglas fhat It waa fgr him. Douglas opened It afterwards and found It contained four diamonds. These had been recovered afterwards and two of them were of a very peculiar old style "answer a phone call," she said, and returned wfl b a. glaaa of beer. Sh repeated re-peated thla operation. Dlehl aftr drinking drink-ing th beer, four or five glasses In all during the night, felt .rather sick. Th four left the Ftthskear at midnight. mid-night. Before leaving h opened hla wallet, wal-let, which contained seventeen papers of fllamonria. sixty-eight atone In aJI. and tl2u-fi in currency, to pay hia bill. Dexter asked him to ahow Gladys some of th dlamonda. -Showed DagiUng Dlamonda. He opened on paper and Gladys-sked him to let ber have 11. He refuted. The dlamonda ranged In weight from three-eighths of a carat to two and one-half one-half carats end were worth l"07f .22. Replacing th wallet In hla lnsld pocket, h asked for hla diamond ring back, but Gladys did not give, It to him. Three men named McCartv, AMrtch end Jones Joined th party. More drink was refused It being after midnight. McCarty wanted to go elsewhere for J 1 V. M.,a,r a Mraat Kilt cut. of a kind not prevalent now, and were therefor easily Identified hy those who knew th jewelry business. The other two diamonds war of more modern mod-ern type and not o asv to Identify. These diamonds I He hi would Identify as among those In the wallet stolen from him, and he had remembered them particularly par-ticularly because of the circumstancea ' oinrter which he obtained them. The two diamonds unset were produced pro-duced later In court and are of a probable value of about I17S each. So that Douglaa waa fairly well repaid for the part he took In outfitting Gladys Whitney wttk Mrs. Douglas' clothes. If th story, as told by th district attorney, proves to be the correct one. Dlehl aald be had lived In Denver nine years. Since December. 107, he baa, been traveling salesman for a Denver 1 firm. Charles Warthen ft Co., of which h 1s a member. His field comprised much of the west, including Clan. He arrived In Bait Lake Cut August o. lo. registering at tite Cullen. lie went to Park City September 1, returning that night; had dinner at the Rathakeliar about I o'clock, wtth a traveling man named Dexter. Thar he first met Gladva Whitney, who with her sister was sealed at th table just hack of him.. Dexter went over to talk to th girts and Invited him over to their table, but Dlehl refused at first Finally Dexter aald. "Don I be a piker," and Diem went. Gladva la th course of the evening fold htm her nam waa Whitney and that ah waa tt wife of a race horse man. Dexter -told ber hie own and Dtehl'a business. Oar Opait to Girt. Gladys said sh had of her glove and reached Int Dfehl s pocket and took out his bu sines cards snd some diamond , rpera. which contained opals. Hh asked for the opal snd he gav each of the giria one. Gladva refused to give him ba on of hie business cards. Mad aiao asked to see a diamond ring h wore end slipped H ew her finger and kept it. Mesnwhlte. aw Oladvs Whitney went to went finally. Clara and Gladys W'hTt-nev W'hTt-nev said thev could get beer "over at home." and the party went to the Met-ropnte, Met-ropnte, Gladys Whitney and Dlehl separating sepa-rating from the others and going down the east aide of Main atreet. They went to Gladys Whitney's room, where thev found th rest of the party. Beer had been procured and Dlehl drank part of a glass, and after about an hour Gladva went out to get a sandwich sand-wich for her brother. Then Memory Fleel Diehl engaged a room at the Metro-pole Metro-pole and was shown to it bv the clerk. Gladva came there and asked him what h was doing with the dlamonda. and he told her he waa putting them under t h pillow. Gladva was atttred In pajamas pa-jamas and kimono, and had brought him a glass of ner. which DHehl drank Dlehl went to bed and Gladya went out for a moment, returned, put out t h light, and Dlehl rememnera nothing noth-ing after that until about 10 o'clock th next morning, when be awoke. He waa wry ah-k then, -but pott red a woman's stocking. He couldn't find one of his own seek. Hla wallet had been moved from his vest pocket and was on th bed. with the $120 In currency, but. , no dlamonda. He reported th loss to the clerk and : 1 had the hot'l examined. They fonnd In the room Gladva designated aa "home" the large whit hat and hand baa and other artlctea of attire of Gladya Whitney, who had been stylishly dressed. Identifies Diamond, f Mr. Leatherwood produced - twrf da- monda whl-h wer identified by Mr. Diehl aa his own. They had been In hia wallet the morning of Keptember 1, ben he went to bed, but were missing when h got up. He had bought them In Denver, but had not it reported the purchase to hla firm. To Mr. Hanson he said be had left the firm of Charles Wariben A Co. April IS last. Lrtehl showed some reluctance In telling tell-ing how his friend Dexter Ivad failed to make good on a check which Dlehl had Indorsed for him. and how he. Dlehl. stood the Vmw. He aald h would not answer the question of Mr. Hanson at all. unless "told to do so." with a significant signi-ficant glanc at Mr. Ieatherwood. "Answer the question. Mr. iHekl," aald Mr- L.therwood, and the witness did ao. Several of hla replies were In a loud tone and were spoken In a somewhat excited ex-cited manner, as If th close questioning of Mr. Hanson aa to th manner in whii-h be. a married man. became acquainted with tho Whitney girt tather annoyed htm. The cross examination of the witness continued this afternoon. It Is probable that, after It Is over, the district attorney wt l make an effort to hav the testimony given by !ouglaa at the preliminary hearing, before Justl-e William of Mid val. ra! Uito ttt revord. |