Show SECOND ONE OF THE ZANG SALOON HOLDUPS I 1 evident that a harder fight is to be put up for him than for hickey john monroe alias nevada fat the second of the zang saloon robbers to be tried was on trial in the district court today before judge henry IL and a jury the state was represented by district attorney geo halvarson and the defendant by soran of salt lake the trial was attended by about the same number of spectators as at the hickey case among the number being george wells who has the same charge preferred against him late yesterday afternoon the following jury was sworn felix august carlson nathaniel montgomery W S beville D F steele W E newman hyrum felt winslow farr the district attorney began his statement to the jury last evening before the adjournment journ ment of court and concluded the this morning upon the request of the counsel for the defendant the witnesses were sworn and excluded from the court room the counsel for the defendant then made a motion tor dismissal upon the grounds that the copy of the information upon which the defendant Is being tried is not the same as the copy he had received the motion was denied and counsel asked for an exception ib the ruling the first witness jor the state was ed bello proprietor ol 01 the zang saloon who was held tf robbed on the night of october last his testimony was about the same as has been given and published anly ho again became confused contused cont used upon cross examination as to the real amount he paid for the watch that was stolen from him on the night of the robbery at the various preliminary hearings he has stated numerous amounts as to what he paid for the watch the other witnesses today were the same as in the hickey case and the testimony similar the case will not reach the jury until monday forenoon just before the adjournment for the noon recess was taken today an incident happened a partial blow to the defense in the case of the state vs wells fred jude the manager tor wells while the latter was in jail and george mccloud fprmer aj bartender in the saloon who have been in attendance all the time and deeply interested te in the case of hickey were subpoenaed case as witnesses for the slate and were excluded from the court room the cases of hickey aad monrae other than being very interesting froni the testimony have been the means ot bringing out a large number of terms and phrases used in the holdup hold up profession fes sion throughout the west among goiri of tb mos used terms arc dicks means the officers rods meaning guns or revolvers vol vers fink is a candidate to be robbed gay cat is a fellow who knows it all in speaking about losing his nerve inthe holdo o 0 business hickey said the yellow came up in his neck and made cough up the story to the officers the dolfl up and robbing business is termed as a stick up hallin said that it was the intention of the gang to blow the town or in other words leave the town after the zang robbery |