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Show WELSHON IS THE STAR WITNESS That John WalC the man arrested In connection with J. J. Boyd for the robbery of the 'Reed hotel several weeks ago, had confessed to the holdup hold-up before his death, waa part" of the testimony produced InVthe conclusion of the Eoyd hearing nefore Judge J. D. Murphy thia morning Whether or not Boyd shall be held to the district dis-trict court as ono of tho landits now rosts with Judge Murphy and will be anuounced by hltn tomorrow morning. morn-ing. The first witness placed on the .stand by the prosecution in tho continuance con-tinuance of the Boyd case was Frank Welshon, the guet of the hotel who witnessed the holdup of tho night clork from the balcopy of the second floor. Welshon admitted that he was a friend of Wall and that the latter had been in his room on tho night of the robbery until 11 o'clock. "Wall was in mv room .from n o'clock- until 1 1 'o'clock tho "nieht of the holdup' stated Welshon during his direct examination "When he left he said he was jnlng out to get somothinc to eat I did not see him again until the next morning. We ate breakfast together Aftnr breakfast. Wall asked nie to buv him a new hat and I went Into a store and purchased a hnt for him." "Did you sec the holdup?" he was asked. "Yes, I was standing on the second floor looking over tho banister of tho balcony and saw the men holdup the night clerk." ""Do you know who either of the men was.?" "I kno"w that the taller of the men was Wall," Under cross-examination, Welshon was asked how he lmw that the tall man of the robbcrv was Wall. "Wall told me.thnt he did It" the wlfnosB replied without a second's hesitation. hes-itation. "What else did Wall tell you?" ventured ven-tured tho attorney defending Boyd "I don't remember the wholo conversation con-versation that took place, but he told me to see .TqcK Turner about trotting bond for him. He said If Turner wouldn't put up the bond, he would tell me where the 'plant' was hidden and T could get it and bail him out" "What did he say abrtut Bod?" tho attorney a?Ted, apparently throwing caution aside "Bovd's name was not mentioned bv Wnll." These were the only statements having ft direct bearing on tho case which wcro brought out bj- tho examination exam-ination of Welshon. Welshon's reference refer-ence to tho "plant" throws some light ou the discovery of the cash boxes Immedlntely after the death of Wall The officers at the time declined to explain how the discovery of the stolen stol-en boxes was made, but it would now seem certain that WolBhon told the officers where they would locato them. How the boxes happened to he empty at the time of their dls-covcrv'is dls-covcrv'is a mysterv still uncleared. Chief of Polioe T. E. Browning was called to the stand and testlificd regarding re-garding the arrest of Wall in the room which he and Boyd had occupied. occu-pied. Ho stated that at the tlmo of the ofTlcors1 Intrusion into tho room Wall was engaged In burning something some-thing in tho stoc which gavo forth an odor of burning too1. I-ater Wnll confessed that ho was burning an old baL Tho chief testified that when ho first saw Boyd the man had a small scar on his nose. This statement state-ment was brought out bv tho prosecution prose-cution to help in the indcntlflcatiou of Boyd as the 6hort man of the holdup, hold-up, as ono or two of the guests of the hotel statod on the stand that the short robber had a scar on his nose Detective James Pender told of tho arrest and testified to the mark on Boyd's nose Detective Pender was not cross examined. Joe- Kuhn, ono of the persons in the hptel at the time of th0 robbery, was asked if ho could identify Boyd as tho short man of tho two bandits, lie stated that he felt certain Boyd was not one of the robbers as tho toI. ber was taller than Boyd. lie stated that the short robber had no mark on his nose that ho could discern. Kuhn's evidence was so favorable to the defense that tho real cross examination ex-amination was conducted by the prosecution. pros-ecution. "You are a friend of Boyd, are you not?" asked the county attorney "Yes, I have known him for some time." "How many holdups have you at-tnded?" at-tnded?" was asked with moclc gravity. grav-ity. "That was the first one." "Weren't you present at tho European Euro-pean hotel robbery7" "No sir, 1 was noL" "You have been iu trouble a number num-ber of times, haven't you?" "I've been arrested, yes." "What for?" "For fighting." "Where did you get acquainted with Boyd?" "In a gambling house." "You spend most of your time in gambling houses, don't you?" ''Quito a lot of It, yes." Ernest Spencer, another of tho witnesses wit-nesses of the holdup, was called but admitted that he could not positively identify Boyd as the short man who forced him at tho point of a gun to lino PP with tho other guests against tho wtill. Judgo Murphy statod that he would make his decision In tho case as soon as ho had looked up some points of law. |
