Show THE MUSSER CASE no ho important developments today to day after the close of our report last evening in the preliminary examination of mr A M musser on the charge of unlawful cohabitation mrs mary mark musser was called as a witness and testified I 1 was married to the defendant fen dant daut mr musser twenty years agai have seven children living and three dead am living in I 1 n the first rd st ward at seventh south it is close by the next house hoase to anna mus sers there is a wide drive and a couple coupie of fences between the houses I 1 saw mr musser last night at 1030 in 0 the street at as I 1 was coming home he told me I 1 bad better appear as I 1 would be wanted I 1 suppose he had been to see his daughter I 1 do not know that mr musser was at my house I 1 was not home when the deputies came there I 1 left home in the afternoon 0 on at about 8 81 went to visit a lady fr friend feild a short distance away I 1 was not secreted away I 1 had my me 5 it is about 18 months old I 1 did not kno w that the marshals had been a at t mv house bouse until mr musser told me but I 1 I 1 had heard something about it definite I 1 staid away partially for ta ane reason that I 1 wanted to avoid arrest I 1 had bad not met mr musser before that evening for a long time and that only on the street he does not come to my house at all I 1 dont know that he has been there since he be was released from the penitentiary I 1 mean that he has not been there at all I 1 do not know that be was seen coming out of my house at eleven I 1 r receive ef ce iveno no support from mr musser me r my grown sons support me I 1 believe mr musser has given the children some little money do not know who supports anna sue she has four children besides an aa adopted child about a year old I 1 believe belie ye but I 1 am not certain it was two or three months old when I 1 first saw it do not know that it is annas own child flora stenhouse te testified stifled I 1 am the daughter ot mrs belinda musser we liv live in the eighteenth wa ward rd 1 I do 0 not know where mr musser lives live I 1 believe defendant visited my mothers house when my brother broke his bis arm that was in last november or be december cember I 1 do not think I 1 have seen him there since that time but I 1 am not certain I 1 do not know that he makes lais his home there I 1 presume mother is still recognized as his wife mrs mary musser is the second wife mrs anna musser the third wife I 1 Il suppose the three ladies ment mentioned ionea are still recognized as the wives of the defendant I 1 have never heard that marys youngest child and annas youngest were so near the same age as to be called the to isaid the three ladies were his wives simply because previous to his going to the penitentiary they had been recognized as aa such and not from any actions that have occurred since then deputy S L sprague that on friday evening he saw mr musser come out of the house where mrs mary musser lives in the first ward magmussen Mag and heard him say goodnight God night to some one in reply to mr musser deputy S sprague said he knew that mr moroni sheets the defendants son in law lived in that portion of the house which mr musser came out of deputy arthur pratt corroborated spragues sprague I 1 s testimony and said that when mr musser came out he told them that they could not find the witnesses there but that they would be on hand at the examination mr pratt said he knew mr Mus mussels sers word was good so the marshals departed at this stage of the proceedings an adjournment was had till 10 a m today d ache the proceedings dimm this morning mornine were brief deputy vandercook testified in relation to the search at mrs mary mussers hussers Mus sers house he stated that the ibe house was a story and a half structure containing six or seven rooms on the first floor and not as many up stairs mrs mary musser occupied the west and mr sheets the east part of it in searching the lower story witness forced one door open in passing from the west to the east portion of it though he could have avoided doing so and yet searched the whole of the lower story without going out of the house the rooms in the upper story did not communicate mrs giddo way was closely examined by district attorney peters with the view of learning from her whether or not either mrs anna or mrs M mary fary musser Masse rhada had a baby the witness did not know that either of those ladies had a child under three or four years of age mrs mary musser was too ill to attend being prostrated by an attack of sick lie headache adache and the case was continued until monday next at 10 am |