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Show MARTlTOlO ON i; WITNESS STAND h (Contiuucd from Page-1) nj 1 ' Late Proceedings Yesterday. I ; t Yeaterday nfternoon was an inning J or lc deputy sheriffs to tell of the 3 i ' alleged attempted jail break of "Joe" JS Martin, and had it not been that Sher- A fl iff DeArine was lnte in returning from llf n,fe tne state would liave clos- llf ed lis case before 5 o'clock. Mr. Du 1 Vine was a witness on the jail tie- j Sllr liven' and li's testimony was neccs-' ' B-jfy beforo closing the prosecution, HI; Sdjournment was taken at about 4 If. o'-clock, Attorney Leatherwood stat- HI- S lng that it would require not more HI than twenty minutes to get through. Hi ' 33f.fore adjournment, the jury visited 3 1 ' Martin's cell to examine the physical Sit conditions. I IF. Deputy Sheriff Eldo Rltter wag the III 1 flrst witness on the question of I III ' whether Martin attempted to break l lf jail. He was the keeper of the jail Ills: on the night of January 2, this year, Hill n'(l atr Jlljout 11 o'clock visited Mar- llllf lfy'8 ce- ' nIs surP.,Tise ',e found I It! ''j-1 "Joc" ua'1 covered the outer I IK ,Joo, ot llis ce" wltn flullls autl tllu Hill mattress taken from his bunk in such IT 111 wy tliaL tlle soun(, of a laci8aw 'fljr operated on iron could not well be It hwird from the outside. As the ofti- g l cer entered the coll, he said to the III''' prisoner: . I'lli "What are you doing, Joe, drylnfi I III 'Pur bedding?" B II; "Yes," said Wart in. . II : f'How did you break the screen on llll th1o window?" , "With my hands. You don't blame BE' I me for taking a chance, do you?" Hitter said that wire screen on the inner side of the window on the north sfdo of the jail where Martin s cell is . situated, was torn from the watt a ! short distance and that the next thing j to do to get out would be to saw a number of heavy bars which are fastened fas-tened to tho' outer sill of the window. The officer made no investigation that night, but kept the prlsonor under un-der a closer surveillance. Bailiff J G. Crompton stated that the next morning, he asked Martin what he did with the saw lie used in cutting a bolt that held to the wall a contrivance to which was hung his canvas hammock, to which the prisoned pris-oned replied that it was in his cell I and that he would show him where ' it was. The witness said that he thought Deputy Sheriff George L-eatham went to the cell and found the saw, which was a hacksaw, about ten inches long and narrow. Mr. Crompton further stated that Martin told him he I brought the saw with him from the city jail, in his grip. Deputy Sheriff Walter Richey snid that he examined Martiu's cell the following morning and found that one of the bolts holding the canvas hammock to the wall in Martin's cell had been sawed off and that the other had been twisted off with the iron bar to which the canvas was attached at the ond, the bar being- about three feet long and rather heavy. This bar was found under the canvas hammock ham-mock which had been lowered to the floor when the bolts were severed. The end of the bolt which was sawed off was found in the toilet of the cell. |