| Show rOSES S G Spencer rill i the Stand and lIters u 1 Denial I 1 Tho afternoon hearing of the of ot Samuel G 0 Spencer which began yes YOl yesterday morning before Judge e B D Diehl In tho criminal division of tho city dt court did not commence until I owing to the stress of or court routine Mrs Irs Ann Elizabeth Wallace mother of or Hannah Iva Wallace tho latter bo he heIn hig In the girl u whom tho Is alleged to havo been committed WitS was by b Attorney Adam Adum A Duncan Aside nOm from the fact that tho tit witness became somewhat confused relative to tho time in which sho had provided her daughter certain articles of wearing apparel tho testimony that Mrs Wallace save on direct examina examination tion was not shaken FAMILY I IUNCE Mrs oMIS Ann C mother or oC tho preceding witness s and grandmother r nt 01 mi WUK next called to tho stand Sho te that In lit September lats the Mint Hun Huu day after Mr second arrest he ho had l come cOllie to hur plain in Hunter Huntor accompanied by b his wire wife his hili slater I ICI Mrs Ul hop II T nc r of arcen Oreen and other and that In her hl r yard it I talk was waN indulged In to tho case e Jn addition to said Halll that her husband James lur hel sunn sunil C and Ind wore were present of ot the Immediate family Mr she te asked h hr r and other to go with him to s Mr Wallace find and family In III to 10 talk tho 1 ho mutter over Tho Jho defendant dt sho said stated that h was willing to mi 1111 mil hut he hud had hem been in III his with Iva IVI Wallace mid ho would confess to nil 1111 the tho allegations except 11 1111 H to 10 criminality Ho HII further sho affirmed that In nettle the mutter matter ho was willing to give his hili prop erty his hll or go 11 lu 10 prison that ho asked tho family to he Immune that somo of thorn or 01 their might HO Him Rho testified that a little Into MIC he had 1111 the company to como that Mr most of ot the tho Into tho room hail fallen on nil his at ul tho l fout 1001 and begged d her to do lIu what she Hh could COli III for tOr him MIH wild that ho Is Did sister of or Mr MI mother Q T n u 14 lion uon of or the tho pro gave testimony cor or that given hy lilo hili illo any prejudice against tho defendant and he hll pitied him he wanted justice muted out l J NIL Counsel for tOl tho announced that It rested It whereupon Hamue U 1 cn r took look tho ulan stand In his own de fen lie Ho He told the story loading up to the tho coming of ot Iva Wallace to hi home to stay tu while she was 1111 working at the knitting factory factor of JC which lie III Was Willi manager He tIc positively denied that he ho had hn ever occupied Hi tho Hisame same ame t bed or OJ even IVel tho same bedroom that Hannah Iva VII Wallace dIll did that during nil of tho covered by b the tho complaint against OI him hi ho hu had slept In III Inthe the thO samo bedroom that his hIli did I and that only on two occasions during durinA that period had hn either of his daughters l slept In the same Rame room and wife did and that was on tho nights of Aug Au 25 and aUll 20 26 1907 when her elder sister Hannah Iva Wai Val love lave were at the tho homo home In Oran Gran Orant cor t r THAT ALLEGED CONFESSION COPl Referring to 10 the alleged confession In the 1110 Bertoch home In Hunter on Sunday Sept 22 1907 Mr Spencer stated that he ho had In III the presence of ot all the persons persona mentioned by b Mrs 1111 Her Ber Bertoch loch toch positively assorted asserted his hili innocence that ho told them that his conduct with Hannah Iva Wallace had gone gono no farther than tho fact that he had kissed kl Cd her un all ho had done his hlA own children This lie he said tho extent of the in indiscretion discretion to which he had confessed H Hf said he asked the privilege of talk talkIng Ing with Hannah Iva ha In tho presence of ot the family and ho assured them that In III rive five minutes sho would tell till the truth AN Ato to the offering l of his hili property nis lire or ora a willingness to go to prison he said mid that he had naked the Bertoch family tam II what was back of o the proceed proceedings ings IngA against him If It they the wanted his hIli property or Ills his they might hava hlo them but he asked them to be humane humano and an not draw raw down his family to hu humiliation humiliation Ho denied positively that he lie had Kane gone down don on his hlA knees to his ht aunt Mrs ITS and a 1111 asked for clemency |
