| Show KI b WILL BROWN BRO JN States Testimony All Al In at Logan In the Abe Aba Majors Case DEFENSE D TO ro HAVE irvi JA YE INNING Mr 11 r Sin Ie lRI III II Side de Co to I Iroe u Wat Wai Wi Not lie Hie Il tr Special to the time News Neo Logan Utah Sept Sopt 16 J S Stokes of City followed Officer lid Uel nap nail on the witness stand Wednesday afternoon He lie le testified that while In Jail at City el he lie heard hean Abe Majoma confess confes to Killing Drown He lie Ie admitted that he was In Jail Jai for fornication ton Sheriff Layne Lane of ot Weber We r county was 1 as the tho first Oret witness on Thursday morning He lie testified ns as ni to Drowns Browns clothing anti ami correlated testimony ny ns as I to circum after arrest stances r Majors and an Thompson were recalled for tor brief brie ATTORNEYS I Attorney made the time open opening lag ing In statement for tor the tho defense amid it ItS S a most effective address He lie le said In substance t I Gentlemen of the time Judy JUd Wo We Vo will WIl prove to you OU that the time defendant coui coul not nt have killed W A Drown Uron we will wi prove to you OU that neither of the time Majors boys boy killed Brown You Vou have heard witnesses testify telu that they timey coolly 1001 wit wl nes Majors fire at nt Brown arid kill kil el him bin but hut we will wi prove to you 01 that those tho e witnesses es were cr crazy y with wih ex cx excitement at tt tilt time of the death anti and Ino that It was WI Impossible for or them to give un exact account of what occurred Wo We c will vili wi prove lr that the revolver from Crr which two tio shots were ert fired was w 1 as found lying clo close to the time dead teal Majors and the thu full ful pistol near Abe Abc Majors We will wi prove that the time bullet bulet which killed Brown Brwn was n a rifle mullet bullet that It came from up tho ho hill bill hl Instead of down dOv where lre the time Majors were fre Iata Iata a 1 pistol could not have hae carried a bul bim bullet let from Crom Majors Major to Drown Brwn anti and done the tho execution ex that WAS vas WI done It I was wits n a 1 scientific c Impossibility WI We V will wt prove to you OU that thAl tha e Majors buys were re hounded like dogs by b the officers utter after pr the robbery tb f and that the officers o began shooting nt fit them each cacti ah time ns as ni asas n nas as a they shouted houll to them We will 11 trove prove to you ou that Stokes Blokes tale Is II ab absolutely trop untrue because he ho wn was u wr alone with wih Majors And ih that t Pr Dr Rich was wa wrong when he lie mid th the he bullet bulet ranged up lP through body b h In Instead Instead stead ItRI of lawn It I would te be bt a clime under those circumstances to deprive this defendant of his hl life or deprive his hit mother Af A t his hil society Jo Joseph eph of hm City CI was 15 called to testify teAt ns as to the papers in inthe Inthe the time preliminary examination but his hil testimony was WI ruled out ond court COUlt ad adjourned nt joure till tl 2 pm |
