Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-25 | Page 20 | Asserts Woman Witness is Removed

i t 1 id j A f J W WOMAN MAN A J 1 t r TESS I It Is t v ik k i f. f REMOVED M VO T t I. I f- f Attorney Y Ramage Representing Represent Represent- f ing Dell ell Atkins Makes Charge e in Ogden Court I I N OGDEN OGDEN May 25 charges Charges that Mrs Irs i Erma Soper an important witness inthe in inthe I the case against Dell Atkins now being be- be be being eing e- e ing tried in the district court was spirited spir spir- ing ted out of ot the state were made Incourt Incourt in court today b by Thomas Ramage at attorney attorney at- at torney for tor the defense Atkins is acI accused accused accused ac- ac I of ot complicity Jn Sn the robbery of ot otI I the the Jewelry store of ot Seth Thomas in inthis this city on November 27 1920 at atI whICh time James p. p P Rausch Bausch was wasi I i Jed by h Thomas E To r refute u te the J. f. j i charge har e District District A Attorney t ey j Joseph sePh E. E Evans placed Dep Deputy ty Sheriff Ben Den Aldridge Aldridge Al- Al dridge on the stand and he ho testified that a a. determined effort had been I Imade made by the authorities to find tind the tho woman Mrs Irs Soper testified at the preliminary preliminary I nary hearing hearin- in the case The transcript transcript transcript tran tran- script of ot the testimony was read to the jury jur Jn n which Mrs Soper testified testified i fied tied that she had lived with Rausch I I Her testimony also showed that sh had been beer given Jewelry by y Atkins I RECEIVED DIAMONDS I Niga Greenig the year old sister I Ib of It Mrs Soper was vas placed on on the stand standby standby b by tho the state She Sh said that the automobile automobile auto auto- auto I mobile in which Atkins drove to Salt I II Lake arrived in that city at 12 The robbery occurred at 9 0 The I I girl testified that Mrs Soper got into I Ithe the machine with Atkins and nd that the they drove away It was supposed at the j time that they d drove ove to some other house In Salt Lake Atkins was later captured in California but Mrs Irs Soper appeared at the preliminary hearing here At that time it appe appeared red that I Mrs Greenig mother of ot the two girls i received three diamonds from Mrs Sol SoI Soper So- So l per which she turned over to former former I Chief Chief Deputy S 'S Sheriff W W. E. E E Schopp o of I I Salt Lake Mrs Greenig took tool the stand following her young daughters daughter's testimony The trial is expected to last for or at least two days dars more Thomas was was the first witness called for the prosecution yesterday and de described described de- de scribed how he shot Rausch Bausch while he I I stooped O Cd top up to up Db box X o of which Atkins is alleged to have taken from Thomas Thomasl Cross examination for the tho I defense by Attorney Ramage failed to shake his story SPRINGS SURPRISE District Attorney torney Evans Evans' sprung a a. surprise on the defense by calling to toI I I the stand former Patrolman W W. A. A Lewis who had been summoned for the defense He Fie testified that he saw Rausch Bausch and and Atkins in front of ot the tho I Thomas store fiVe file minutes before the I robbery Ile identified Raus Rausch h as tM I II I tall man of ot the couple at the morgue after the shooting He pointed but out At Atkins Atkins Atkins At- At kins in the courtroom as the short man who was with Rausch This testimony I apparently took the defense completely by y surprise as it had expected to prove I by Lewis that Atkins was not the short man with Rausch I Sergeant A. A H. H Stephens and De Detective Detective Do De- W. W A. A Jones of ot the police pollee de department department department de- de were on the stand yesterday and told of or finding Rausch Bausch in the alley in a dying condition They took him to the police pollee station where he dl died d a afew afew few tew minutes later