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Show 1 1 DavidEdwards II Stripped Before I J The Martin Jury If Ogden, March 23 .After passing a pleasant Sunday1 In tho country dls-u dls-u trlcts tho Jurymen In tho J. H. Mar- tj tin case appeared In court at 9:30 this 1 morning In good Bplrlts and having J the appcaranco of being rested from T tho arduous attendance upon court j last week. Tho ovldenco this morn- I ing, however, was of such a nature ; that It did not require tho close at tention on tho part of tho Jury as heretofore Most of tho time was tak-; tak-; on up la tho cross examination of R. L. Conely of Salt Lako regarding tho similarity of handwriting In the standnrd exhibits and thoso of tho blackhand loiters, to which ho testl-1 testl-1 fled on direct examination Saturday. During tho day yostcrdny the Jur ors wero tho guests of Juryman B. J. Marshall at his homo In Norlh Og-' Og-' den. A deilclous chicken dinner was served, after which they fill went to I tho Hot Springs, a few miles bcyctnd I jf North Ogden, where they participated I In a plungo In the hot waters of that placo. Tho party also visited the 1 ' Stato School for tho Deaf and Blind. I i In all tho ovents, Bailiffs J. G. Cromp 1 ' " to hnd Oren Hadlock participated. 4 Tho trip was made under a special permit from Judge J. A. Howell. VJ l-. Martin appeared In a cheerful mood ' this morning and occupied hlmsfelf j reading a nowspaper while Dr". Os good examined David Edwards' 1 wounds, received November 9, 1913, supposedly at the hands of Martin. ) ' Edwards was stripped to the skin bo- , - fore tho Jury and each of tho scars , ', of the wounds were pointed to the ' Jurymen by tho doctor. faowovor, 1 1 thero were only two wounds consider- I : ed to any extent by tho attorneys, I ' those in front of tho body and ouo on I I ; the inner sldo of the back part of the I left Uilgh. I The occasion for having the physl- I cnl examination before tho Jury waB ! to dotcrmtno whether Edwards wns I Bhot from tho front In the groin and I , to account In some way, If possible I , why thero was not a corresponding holo In the front sldo of the trousers which Edwards wore. When the exam lnatton was over, though, It was Stated Stat-ed by Dr. Osgood that It could not bo accounted for except that the trousers may hayo been slipped considerably to one side when tho shot was fired. Thero was a scar In the left groin of small sire and the .doctor stated that ho took a buckshot from tho surface of tho leg at tho time of the opera-Hon opera-Hon at the hospital. Tho only other wound In tho front of Edward's body was tho one near tho apex of. Uio heart which was only a flesh wound tho bullet landing near the sternum. This bullet was also extracted. Tho wound on tho Innor sldo of tho thigh of the left leg passed through tho leg and lodged In somo part of tho loft groin and thob ultot Is still there. This Bhot camo out from tho rear. Othor shot woundsNwero disclosed on both tho left and right legs and somo of tho shot, the doctor said, had been removed, re-moved, while others had not. Tho shot wound in the left thigh on tho outer sldo which severed tho largo artery and caused so much bleeding, showed show-ed a long Incision whero the doctor probed for tho bullet nnd sewed up the severed artery. Before Dr. Osgood left tho witness stand ho was again called upon to examine ex-amine tho wounds in Martin's ankle of tho left leg. He stated that It appeared ap-peared to him from the examination that the shot passed through tho ankle from tho inner side, as the wound on that side whs larger than the ono on tho outer surface'. At this 'juncture R. L. Coneley was re-called for cross examination and tho time of tho faronopn, to within a fow minutes of twelve o'clock, was taken up along tho lino of examination examina-tion na Saturday afteitnoon. Mr. Con-cly Con-cly again Btatcd that ho based his opinion hs to tho similarity of the 'hand writings In the standard exhibits and those of tho blackhand letters, O, A, L, and J, The down stroke of tho 0 was longor than tho upstroko -. , and this letter and A were 'not connected con-nected with other letters in tho words. Tho other letters wore not considered much in. tho cross-examination. A number of oxhlbits were called to the attention of the witness and he was directed to tho first two letters mentioned as tho basis of the witness' opinion.. As these letters were considered, consid-ered, Mr. Conely said that there was about as many of the letters "o" in which' tho up hjnd down strokes were tho same as where one was long and tho other short. He also said th'jt upon close examination of. numerous words, that there were about as many of the letters o and., the a connected connect-ed with tho other letters of the words as were disconnected. He stoutly maintained r however,-that while there were many dissimilarities, the similar-tiles similar-tiles caused him to conclude that the handwritings wero tho same. He said that similarity and dissimilarity in the writings wero about half and half In questioning the witness is to hli acquaintance with the Eccles people and tho bankers pf the' clt, th3 attorney attor-ney for tho defendant wanted to know of tho prosecution whpther Cashlei A. P. Blgelow of the Ogden Stats bank and Cashier KltcTt Movc3 of tne Com merclal National bank had been summoned sum-moned to appear as witnesses for the stato. He was told that they had not been, to which Mr. Christensen replied re-plied that ho would call them as witnesses wit-nesses for tho defendant. Both Mr. Blgelow and Mr. Moyes testified in the Myron A. Smith preliminary hearing hear-ing beforo tho United States Commissioner Commis-sioner S. T. Corn that the handwriting of Smith and that in two of the black-hand black-hand letters were identical. Before concluding his testimony, Mr. Conely said that, in one of the blackhand letters, he discovered what he considered three different handwritings hand-writings and that he had not bassd his conclusions as to the similarity of the handwriting in the other ex-hlblts ex-hlblts on the writing in that particular particu-lar exhbtt. Just before the noota recess J- H. Itilej', cashier of tho Plngree'Natjon-al Plngree'Natjon-al bank of this city was-chlled to the stand to examine' the various exhibits. exhi-bits. Afternoon Session . - The hearing was' resumed this nft-ernoon nft-ernoon at two o'clock wltli Mr. Itlley on tho stand. Tho witness qualified as qn authority on handwriting but Bald ho did not claim to be an expert. ex-pert. He said that ho had never cashed a forged check nor had he made' a mistake when he passed upon up-on forgeries that he had -occasion to consider in tho regular courso of business In the bank, both as teller and as cashier. ' Mr. niley said that he had examined exam-ined tho exhibits of handwriting before be-fore him in court a short time In tho district attorneys' office and at home yesterday, whetn he looked over the photographs of tho blackhand letters and somo of tho Martin writings. It was his opinion that tho bandwrtlngs in all tho exhibits were the same. On cross examination Mr. Riley said that the letter f was a peculiarly-form ol letter and that ho based his opinion largely on tho formation of that letter. Whon asked upon what particular stroke or characteristic of tho lettor f ho based his Judgmont, ho said that it was (not becauso of a particular stroko but becauso of the general similarity of tho letter. Why do they look alike, asked Attorney At-torney Christensen. , Just becauso they do, said the witness. Tho witness also said tho letter p was similar in tho writings bocauBO they wero Just made nllko, that Is al). The witness was handed the letter i nddrcssed to Qeorgo W. Culver Do-comber Do-comber 20, 1911 nnd wns askeil whether whe-ther ho considered nil the writings In Uiat letter tho snmo and ho said that ho did. This is tho letter that Conely, tho forme'1 witness said wns In three different handwritings and that he would not uso It n basis far his opinion. Tho cross examination was mado short. Mr. Itlley said that ho had heard tho testimony of Conely for a Bhort tlmo this morning whllo standing In tho corridor leading from tho clork's ofllc'o to tho Jury room nnd that ho also had heard part of It while at the samo place Saturday afternoon. At' tho conclusion of Riley's testl- money the Jujdgo called attention to tho fact that care should bo taken that no expert witness should be in tho court room, or whero he could hear tho testimony' of other expert witnesses while they were on the stand. i The next witness on the part of the state waa D. A, Swan of Salt Lake who qualified as an expert on handwriting. hand-writing. He said that he Is an accountant ac-countant for the. Dooley estate and also of the state board of accountants account-ants and that be .had studied handwriting hand-writing from tho popular books for the past Ave years. Ha took up the study, ho said, because he could not find anyone in Utah who was qualified quali-fied 'to advise him on counterfeit writing writ-ing and that It became a necessity bo as to protect some of the companies compan-ies with which he was connected. |