Show TRIAL OF 11 SAML 11 cann tho missing witness at the tho first gives his ills testimony SA SAN saz z nov 29 in th 0 curtis case ease today job john U B aann of humboldt county ual cal who it has been stated would testify that he lie saw curti 15 shoot policeman grant was put upon the stand and in reply to the questioning said be he wag was in san franc Fra misoo isco on the night of sept 1 he had sold oat lug his basin business 5 11 in 1 frelk arelta cal and was on oil ills his way to to 11 gium u n i boldt county he lie walked about the street on the night in question until hia ills attention was acted to a scuttle on oil the tile sidewalk the tile shorter of the two men shot the other who fell and the murderer than rana ran awny vroy witness went to the hotel and went to bed and tho the next day left the city cann stated in answer to a question from th taft district attorney that two men were on oil the same side of the street ai as himself when he first saw them but that they crossed over to the opposite side of i the lie street A after ft er the shortly shooting wit witness nees rema remained ill where he be was until the e n man ia 11 who had done the shooting was brought back by two other men diet lie thought the the man brought back was the same who had lad run aw away a when ai asked why he did not sooner give information rega regarding what lie had seen he replied because I 1 had very little money and had a wife and child with me at the hotel it was necessary for me to get fet somewhere where I 1 could make a aliv liv ing iii p the tile counsel for the defense made a cross examination and cann stated he lie had served in thea thearty riny during the war entered as a private and winning a lieutenants con commission n assion ile was at the battle of gettysburg under general ll 11 ancock and was woun wounded ded there another of liis commanders was general mauer witness stated he would not know therace the face of the man who did ilie shooting ashe as bo did not see it distinctly enough at the time of the alag affray curtis listened to canna canns testimony with qt in much uch interest |