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Show CHARGEJUDGE 1 Attorneys for Accused Give Nine : ty-Onc Reasons Why New Trial i ' Should Be Granted. : ALLEGED COURT OFFICIALS (H HAD IT IN FOR MURDERER l H Announce That Witnesses Havo 'H - Been Found Who Will Give - rl Important Testimony. H DENVER, July 14. Ninety-one rea- ' H sons, including charges of bias, H against Judge Greeley . Whitlord arid tho claim -that new witnesses 'H have been found In, Kansas City ami il California, were filed in court today, upon which attorneys for Harold. F. j Kenwood, convicted of hecond degree j murdcr for the killing of George E H Copeland In a hotel bar tho night of H May 24, while shooting at S. L. Von H Phul of St Louis, as,!; for a now trial, H Charges are made against practical- H ly every member of tho court official jH staff, the district attorney's olflco jH and the attorney for John V. Sprln- jH ger, whose former wife look ,t.he 'H stand in the trial of Hcnwood, that' it H is his "belief that the purpose of tho H action on the part of those so charged jl was to pi event Henwood being given H a fair trial." H The motion sets forth "that the de- H fnnflnnt liollovnrl flint- tVin ni-nnMln.. 1 judge, by means of his bias and preju- H dice, not alone against the defendant H personally, but against all persons, generally speaking, who may rbe H charged with and triod for crime in H his said court, could not and did not H give the defendant a fair trial." Il tl is claimed that Judge Whitford 11 in another case "dismissed a jury with i.l a rebuke for bringing in a verdict j'l displeasing to him," and that this fact, ''H known to the Henwood jury, caused fl them to agree to a verdict not in 'M keeping wjth the evidence M Among the new, witnesses is Wll- Ham Webster, who knew Von Phul in j H St. Louis, and was, at the hotel the ' -jH hotel the night of the shooting. It lH is claimed Webster will testify that iH late In the afternoon Von Phul show- H ed him a revolver and. later remarked -H that "he would make good use of It," H A letter from the manager of a H Kansas City detective -agency says jH meet, remarked that he (Von Phul) H while in Kansas City at an aviation H meet, remarked that he (Von Phlu) H was "going to Denvor and kill a " H A United States army officer, be- H Heved to be Cap. George Taylor, who H was at the bar during tho shooting, H will testify that he saw Von Phul H reach for his gun. H Another witness Is a member of a H theatrical company, who, it is claim- H ed, will testify that he took several H articles from Von Phul's pocket and JM that among them was a revolver. H |
