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Show OFFICERS NOW LOOKING FOR ! THE COMPANION OF J. H. MARTINS Short Man Is Being Searched For and a Clue Has Been Obtained Ob-tained Which Is Being Followed Out of the CityMartin Hopes to Get Out on Bond Before Christmas Day His Trial Will Not Occur Until February Both Martins Are Good Prisoners. The question uppermost in tho mind of J. II. Martin is whether li W 11 be privileged to spend the holidays with his family or be forced to remain In the citv jail, and the answer depends on the action of the Judges of the dls trlct court on the reduction of his bond. Ah is well known by the readlne public Martin's bond at present is 120,000, but hp attorney will argue a motion' in the district court for a reduction re-duction of the b"iid to $5000 or $10,000. The time for hearing the motion has not been definitely fixed, but .Tudg Harris has expressed his will Ingnesa to sit with .indite Howell next Wednesday to jive the question consideration con-sideration If the bond is reduced It Is understood that Martin will be pre. paired to furnish the required "mount forthwith not earh enough, perhaps, for his release Christmas day, but son enough to enable him to spend a part of the holiday season with his family. If the bond Ifl not reduced it is a rertninty tha' he will remain in jail until the time of trial, which will be In February. It Is not expected that tin information informa-tion will bo filed early enough for Judge Howell to set the case down for trial In the January term of his division of the district court, as the setting of cases will be within the next few days, and Judge Harris already al-ready has set his calendar for January. Janu-ary. The Information will be on file, however, earh enough to have Martin's Mar-tin's case set for trial In February. The division of the district oourt in which the case will be tried will depend upon the number of the cae on the files of the county clerk's office of-fice One of the Judges is assigned the even numbered cases and the other the odd numbered ones It is iOsslblo that the defendant will ask for a change of venue on the grounds that bias and prejudice of the community would make It impossible to get a jury of the right frame of mind to hoar the caste and pass Judgment The disposition of the Martin case, Chief Norton and Sheriff De Vine say, does not dispose of the blackmailing cases by anv means, as there Is yet "the short man" to npprehend. It is a ceitalnty that no one man committed J all the acts alleged In the complaint against Martin, and it Is also certain that in all the blackmailing crimes and the train robberies others were concerned. con-cerned. Detective Edwards says ho saw three men In the battle Sunday morning, November 8. and in the railroad rail-road cases it has been held that there were three bandits However, there were at least two. The officers have definite clews as to Martin's associates in crime, but it is not a very easy matter to connect them with the blaekmailins cases. It is atd that the second man wanted is nt in the city, but that his whereabouts where-abouts are known by certain parties who will eventually disclose his lulling lull-ing place. The ofhVers have no information infor-mation of a definite nature to give In this respect, onlv to sa that they are working as hard to catch the second man as they did to get Martin. A number of clews directed toward cer-t cer-t iri short men of suspicious chacter have been followed but to no avail It is a er long road that has no turn in it the officers state, and it is ex pected that before a great wh'le a certain cer-tain trail will be disclosed. Harry Martin will have a prelim inary hearing Tuesday on the charge of burglary, but it is stated that It will be brief In fact, the prosecution nas disclosed thp names of only three witnesses who have been called to testlfv and It Is possible that there will br no more. Still, there is a likelihood like-lihood that the county attorney s not giving all the names ot his witnesses to the public Those already summoned sum-moned are Detective George Wardlaw, L. H. Leavitt ann G. T. Marler. Roth the Martins are in fair spirits today and do not seem to be worried over their cases The officers say they are good prisoners and make no trouble for them in any way. oo |