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Show PARKS COMPLETES HIS , '- RE-DIRECT TESTIMONY ' M LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 15 J J Mansell Parks, county detective and j3 start witness for tho state in the trial M of Bert H Conners, alleged dynamite -ml .plotter, finished his re-direct examin- . atlon today nnd immediately after 'sH leaving the witness stand telephoned 9 to Samuel L. Browne, chief of tbo IvhJhI county detectlvo bureau, for a body- -3 guard to escort him'sofely through .jgS a throng of meh congregatod In the ' courtroom and tho corridors of the hall of Justice, where the trial was tfi held. J Parks said that both bv word and a by letter ho had been threatened by I 'Tvi friends of Connors with physical vlo- J l lence because ho had testified that lm I whilo working as a detective for tho J ?Q I county he had obtained evidence I $ I against the defondant which connect- I ' I ed him with the alleged attempt to j '- I dynamlto the county hall of records I -l Sent. 9, 1910. j - I Detective Browne answered Parks j '1 appeal immediately and with a squad j '- I of detectives, escorted the witness j I from the hall of Justice to tho hall of j. 1 !, records whore Browno has his office. J A G Lator Browne stated he was In nos- ' fk session of threatening letters which vl ? had been sent to Parks nnd that he E knew who had written them and in- iJS, tended to arrest tho writers Ho jj left his offlco In an automobile in ''jtt comnany with several of his mon. ;J M Aside from the conclusion of Parks' J (ttj testimony, there was little of Inter- "": ft est In the trial todnv. Connors' at- - j ffl torneys failed to shake Parks state- 4 m ments to any Important degree- - Wt |