| Show THEIR TRIAL STILL ON defendants decamp king ami connell on the stand the man woolen scored by counsel for the Is under the pro of body guard the trial of de camp king and mc condell clareed with displacing certain tails on the union pacific near during the great A 11 U strike was resumed before judge smith this morning the last witness called for the prosecution was assistant superintendent 0 nelll of the wyoming division of the union pa cafio whose testimony was unimportant just belbru attorney J D murphy for the defense made his statement to the jury of what line of defense they expected to pursue judge smith said that the court room would bare to be cleared as t ws too full of people and becom ing too foia for his super sensitive apparatus basl this occasioned much from the spectators and one in the throng but his honor stood aion his dig anity and showed the people that be was boss and from then on the case has continued behind closed doors attorney john U murphy told the jury that the roan woolen who it is alleged anred the defendants to the place where the tracks bad been tampered with bad before starting out PITCH depot policeman ailcy all the particulars of the affair lie said that woolen had twice been convicted of felony his character was very bad that a number of witnesses would testify that they would not bini upon his oath that he bad been connected with houses of ill fame in the double capacity ol 01 a pimp and a procurer that he was a loafer and a dead beat and was never known 0 o either work or to a dollar and yet when this alleged occurred he had plenty of money lie said ho had too an opinion of united stales mar to believe that he was a party to the conspiracy to foater n hideous crime upon abo defendants but at be of the when the alleged crime happened the strikers were rot raising enough bell to suit the railroads and their hirelings and so this plot was concocted to turn public sentiment and sympathy which hilll then bad been altogether with the A it U boys and to cast odium upon their cause the first witness for the defense was ahe defendant decamp he told of his meeting with woolen on the dav in question at the occidental saloon on twenty fiah street end of Wo otena offering to take the bivs to visit a lot at Kl verdale he woolen to stand rood for the rigs besides famishing the money for getting them drunk in the examination the prosecuting attorney once got fanny lie asked the witness to relate about hie getting into the buggy after his arrest by the marshals decamp began talking freely fora few manoles and then suddenly stopped chort why dont you go on said juddi you eo on answered the witness why dont you answer as I 1 tell you replied the attorney 1 I have no you I 1 asked you about your getting into the nave you got into the buggy yel the next witness was the dant me connell gave a very straight account connection with abo affair which suh stained the story decamp had told when the king boy was on the stand judge magennis took hold continuing the examination he and john murphy had a clash at arms over a question which the latter claimed was misleading and intended to lead the witness into a contradiction tra after the noon recess evidence ea to the peaceable and good character of the defendants and of the truth and veracity of the man wooten was taken and as 8 is going to press the trial still in progress wooten is constantly attended by a body guard to protect him from violence |
