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Show How It was Dene The case cf Etnil Kj-ci.vkU chared with assisting prisoners to ;-M.;pe frcnu the county jail was tried tk'uie Justice Tenuant yesterday. Sheriff Burns wai the first witnis? called for the prosecution, who stated that on Jauuary 31st two of his prisoners prison-ers had escaped from j-iil by cutting v. bar. He had searched tho prisoners a:td satisfied himself that none of his prbou-ers prbou-ers had any instruments with which they could have cut thebsts. Anthony Metcalf had conversed ?.'lth Eri-.-k Rosenvnll in Larsen's store at Gunnison a few days after the eecr.pe of the prisoners pri-soners in which the deftndeut stated that he had bteu at Manti the day following fol-lowing his brother's ei-eape and ha i called for his brother but found ttuu Emil was gon . ft". II. Gribblo had seeaVcfuadaut two days and a night after the escape, coming com-ing from the north f jlkiwed by a saddled sad-dled horse aud riding another, Antono Jeppsen constable of Gunnison Gunni-son received a telegram from Mr. Burnt the morning after the escape ana vwtcd Roscnvali's home. He found that Mr, Rosenvall was not at home. On tht Thursday evening loliowiog he found Rosenvall at home bin did not l am where, he had beeu. Mr. Kramer saw Ro'-.j:ivaIl Wedi.-B-day eveniug. betweeu s s?i! 10 o'c.i tk Saw him again Thursday uioruin;;, .,t Kramer admitted that.tue sjory tula in court Wits different to that told Mr Johnson beforo the trial begau. Geo Davis testified that on the 31st ot January .Emil Rosenvail was put iu jail on the 30th. Rosenvall got through a hole aud "went off. He began tawing off .a bar about 11 o'clock and about 5' o'clock in the lnoruiug they got out. Witness did not saw the bar, Emil Rosenvall had a file .about six inchts long about as thick as a case knife and half an inch wide, and a saw made of a steel from a ladies corset. An iroa siat of a bedstead completed ..the outfit. With the saw and file they cut the bar and used the slat to pry with. Erick Rosenvall passed in the file, saw and s six shooter loaded, an 1 from eight to twelve cartriges. Ii was about 12 or J ; o'clock at night, Erick said he had ridden rid-den from hose in an hour and fifteen isinutes, and further he would com and bring a horse if ho knew when to come . For the defense Carl Modjsn, was in Erick RoseuvaU's com- ; pany from 9 o'clock until after 12 o'clock on the Monday evening in question. Jens Hendricksen etw Erisk en the Bight after the examination of his brother,-in the saloon at Gunnison, between 12 and 1 o'clock. August Petersen was iu Erick Rosen- vall's company at the saloon between 8 and 10 o'clock. Saw the partes at the stable, one was sweaty the other was different, one showed it had been sad died the othsr did not Joliu Modeen Wi,s at the saloon with Erick Roscnvi'.ll until after 12 o'clock, John Anderson eaw Erick Rosenvall ride into town riding ace horse and another an-other following him about half past eight but only one was saddled, Sophia Rosenvall sister of the defen-dent defen-dent testified to the time of her brother arriving from Ephraim. Mrs, Rosenvall testified as to the time when he came in between 12 and 1 o'clock. He sang and whistled when he came in. Sheriff Burns and Judge Johnson were put on the witness stand to tes ify to the conviction of iJavis. Davis was recalled and testified that Erick told him that he gave his brother ti.50 in money and took him a good days ride from Gunnistm. |