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Show I Martin Will Know His j Fate Early Next Week J Last of the Evidence Has Been Presented and Arguments Will Begin on Monday Morning Kytka, the Writing Expert, Suddenly Reappears to Prove That Smith Did Not I Write the Blackhand Letters ris Bill f Amount to $2600 Has Been Presented jl to the County. II On the last da' of the fourth week, ' the introduction of testimony in the i case of the State against .I.'H. Mar- i tin, charged with the shooting of David Edwards on November 9, 1913, 'y. has been concluded and on Monday ' morning, at about 9 o'clock, the at- " torney will begin their argument of -.: the case before the jury. In the ) meantime Judge Howell will prepare i the instructions. The trial began March 1G., since which time the jury has been kept to- 'i aether every day and night and on I every day except three, testimony has been introduced. The past week had been rather a tedious ordeal for the jurymen and others connected with the case and this morning, whenfAt-tornoy whenfAt-tornoy Christensen stated that he would "rest" Ills case, there were expressions ex-pressions of satisfaction from all directions. di-rections. Kytka Again Appears. In answer to questions on rebuttal, the handwriting expert, Theodore ' Kytka stated that he had put in a "bill I for $2,600 to the county for his ser- vices In the case, having charged $50 vj a day. The cross examination of the Iff witness, who had been recalled to re-tt re-tt fute the statements that there is a II possibility that Myron A. Smith wrote, It ; the blackhand letters, consisted of only a few questions that were of no It particular interest in the case. l ! In answer to questions put by At- torney Leatherwood for the state, Mr. 11 Kytka stated that tho man who wrote B the Smith letters did not write the It i blackhand letters. He was positive in i ' his statement on this point and, to H I explain his reasons for arriving at his I) : ronclusion, stated that the Smith ! Writings and some of the blackhand H ! letters had been given to him for exit ex-it amination by United States district H attorney H. F. Booth, in December, B 1913, and that he had passed his opln-1 If ion on the writings before the Martin r letters were "brought to him for ex-If ex-If amination.. V " ' ';r Whf The witness then illustrated on mt " blank pieces o paper 'the. dissimllarl- i- Lies of the Smith writings- compared It with lhc questioned letters, using a H number of the letters of the alphabet M in his drawings. Tho letters used were s, t, m, o, p. w. y, J, and c, male- . ing the same explanations regarding 1 1 the manner in which they were made as he dUJ when he gave the Martin letters a careful investigation and il- ' lustration before the jury. The exam-B exam-B ination, however, was brief, and be- fore the noon hour the state had prac-I prac-I tically concluded its rebuttal tesll-Bl tesll-Bl mony. H More Rebuttal Testimony. Hi Postoffice Inspector Ralph Smith, H Chief of Police W. I. Norton and Shcr-H Shcr-H iff T. A. Do Vine were called to the H stand and testified that Ray Shurtliff B had told them that he had not seen B Martin for ten days after the evening B of November S. Shurtliff testified Torj B the dctendant that he saw Martin, H Sundav evening, November 9, and H also said that he did not think he had H told the officers anytliing to the con-El con-El R." B. Porter testified that, he was BI not at the scene of the Edwards H shooting Sunday morning. November j), as testified to by Martin and Wil-H Wil-H liam Price. Chief Norton also said H that1 Martin was mistaken when he said he was at the scene of the shoot- ins, Sunday morning. Bi City Detective Robert Burk said H that 'Mrs. Martin told him that she H i dressed her husband's wounds after his return from Evanston. When she was on the witness stand, she said : that she dressed the wounds in the I, latter part of October, 1913. B, Trial is Ended, fljl In just 2G minutes after court re-H re-H ' pumod this afternoon, both Attorney H leatherwood and Attorney Chrlstcn-Hv Chrlstcn-Hv con announced that they were content B' with the testimony Introduced and ! would be prepared to argue before the L jury Monday morning, whereupon i Judge .T. A. Howell adjourned coun I until Monday morning at 9 o"clock. S The court announced that the state would have three hours for argument and that the attorney for the defend- nnt would have the same length of ! time, the time periods being from 9 to I 12 and from 2 to 5 o'clock. It is expected ex-pected that District Attorney John C. Davis will open for tho state and tliiU Mr. Leatherwood who conducted the examination of the witnesses, will ' close. Attorney Christensen to have i . the "middle period of time. 1 Before adjournment, Judge Howell ' stated that he would havo his inslruc- tlons prepared and would begin read-J read-J Ing them at 5 o'clock Monday evening, i He said it would not require much time to read the Instructions. The , 1 i impression prevails that the case will j be in the handG of the Jury by 5:30 p. m., Monday- ,i Myron A. Smith in Court. ! . Myron A. Smith, who is being hold i in the county jail under an indict ment by the United States for con-' con-' Gplracv lo defraud, the bases of the , ! allegation being the writing of the blackhond letters, was the first wit-!' wit-!' nesr. in rebuttal this arternoon. He ldci:tified tho staudard letters which : liavo been in evidence on the part j: 0r Ojc defendant ao having been writ- ten bv hii". but lie eniphalically dc-i dc-i uled that he wrote tho blabkhand let- :j ' ' ters. or that ho knew anythlug about lh"m. . ; i3:n!th'3ic?rcisniticn s,nc2 last No- K l veniber does not seem to have had ; any bad affect on 'Mill, us he appeared' ; to be in even better health than he was at the preliminary hearing. Until today, he lias not been out of jail j since he was bound over to the federal fed-eral grand jury-Mrs. jury-Mrs. McLaren-Boyle-Wallin. Mrs. Isabelle Wallln testified in contradiction to the statoment made by Martin in his testimony a few days ago that he met her at a dance at the Hermitage last fall and also saw her at some of the Eagles' dances, Mrs. Wallln saying she attended only one partv at the Hermitage last year and that" was on Juno 18, at which time she did not. soe Martin. She also said that 'she had never attended a party in the Eagles' hall. She related rela-ted that she had attended exercises at the hall on Memorial day and also was there at one time to attend a funeral. fu-neral. On cross examination, she said she had not attended more than a half dozen dances since 1910, in which year she passed through an operation. At this point the court adjourned. (Continued on Page 7.) i nn Mil ILL 10W m FATE EARLY iKTIEK (Continued from Page 1) . Late Yesterday Proceedings. At the conclusion of his testimony yesterday afternoon, Postdfice ' Inspector In-spector McGee expressed the opinion that Martin was the writer of the blackhand letters. .Robert Moycs of the Commercial National bank, In his testimony, stated he had testified at the preliminary prelim-inary hearing of Myron A. Smith last November Hint, in ills opinion, Smith was the writer of the addresses on sonic of the envelopes of the black-hand black-hand letters and he was still of the opinion that there is a striking similarity simi-larity between Smith's writing and those of the questioned letters. He confessed, however, that the writings do not look to him now just as they did then nnd that, while he found many similarities, he also could, discover dis-cover many dissimilarities. The witness said that he had-.but little time in which to examine the Smith writings at the time of the hearing "and that his investigations had been directed tb the addresses oh the envelopes. Mr. Moves explained explain-ed that the words "Ogden, Utali." anil tho address of "Ralph E, Bristol" in the Smith writings ,wcre very much like the same writings oir tho blaqkhand envelopes. However, he had no difficulty in finding the same similarities between the Martin letters let-ters and the questioned documents; Women Met Martin.' Mrs.- J. W. Griffin testified that she met Martin on tho street, -car Monday afternoon, November 10, ai about "4 o'clock In the aftornoou. H.e was dressed In a light colored ovor-coat ovor-coat and wore a cap. It was her Judgment that he was going jiway and she so expressed herself to her sister sis-ter at the time of the hearing at Pleasant View. Mrs. Criffln said that Martin took a seat in the car winch she was riding, a fow seats ahead of her, and he boarded the car at the intersection of Washington - avenue and Twenty-firth street. She was riding rid-ing on the Twenty-fifth street car and Martin came to the Twenty-fifth street Intersection on the South Washington car. She had known Martin in a social way, meeting him at dances. The witness said that she had known him to sign the name, of "Murray", on hc dance program. "She was positive as to his identification and as to the- date. It will be recalled that Martin testified tes-tified that he saw Mrs. Griffin on the street car when Ire was on his way to 'the depot on the afternoon of November No-vember 10, to take train No. 4 for Evanston. When asked whether Martin showed, show-ed, signs 'ofjameness when he boarded board-ed the Twenty-fifth street car, Mrs. Griffin replied that he did not, and that he canie running to tho car she was on. ' McGee Testimony. In his testimony during tho afternoon, after-noon, Postoffico Inspector McGee, in answer to a question propounded by Attorney Christcnaon- as to whether, if he should 6e confronted with writings writ-ings other than Smith's and Martin's which bore a "striking resemblance" to -the blackhand writings, ho -would again change his mind, said, "I might." |