Ashland daily tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1970, May 05, 1927, Page 3, Image 3

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a«w and picked op an automa­
tic piatol.'* Hare the state« at­
(Continued Brom Page One) torney handed him a' wicked
looking' c o n . and qpkxf |f thia
the time he left for the train, wan the «amq ops he Jqttnd. He
and hla return, he testified in stated that ft waa.
response to guettions by both the
state and defense. The ‘work
train was hitched on tb Number ' The defense took the witness,
and In response to, Question by
thirteen, and aa tb^ smoking mall
attorney Prank Bmlth, Benjamin
car reached the open, fire was
stated that the explosion occurred
seen to break ont in many places.
about tWo minutes aft,ef the train
W itness Cross Rxamiadd
had*cem i to a oompltte atop.
Upon cross examination the
“Were you ont of the tunnel
defense seemed to place special
when the explosion occurred?**
emphasis «pop the fir» In the
the witness was. asked. «
mall car and repeatedly naked
“No, I was about eight ea t
the witness If he saw the various
lengths
from the end,** was the
biases. It Is -presumed that one
reply.
reason for this line of attack by
the defense Was' 'to establish if'
Perhaps the most startling bit
-possible some other motive for of testimony from the brakeman
the death ot the mall clerk, .thata came towards the end of hie
BELLE D'AVTREMONT
that of the explosion. The wit­ testimony, when be stated that
Mother
of Hugh, who Is here
ness told of seeing some coals “The man I saw when I looked
from
her
home In New Mexico, to
In the , center of the car, and up the tnnnel had on a Jumper
assist
her
son in his fight for
vividly described the smoke and and overalls as* well aa a cap‘.
acquittal
on
a charge of murder.
gas that filled the place, and I supposed be was a railroad
made It lmqpsslble to clearly dis­ man and paid bnt scant attention
tinguish the various objects. The to him.’*
of the weapon. The defense made
defense also wanted to know if
' Passengers Excited ’ ,
no attempt to cross examine him.
there were any papers and maga­
Talked to Clerk
The passengers in the front
sines strewn around and the coaches were highly «felted, and
While the * state could not
witness said there were.
confusion reigned throughout the p/ove from Hugh Hattley, express
The automatic pistol which the entire train, 8. L. Clayton, Duns­ messenger for seven years, who
state maintains was purchased by muir conductor testified, and was dead heading on the fated
one of the D’Autremont’« first after the explosion occurred be mall car, that E. E. Dougherty
made Its appearance In the testi­ made hla way Into the various was the mall clerk working in
mony when J. H. Benjamin, Ash­ coaches In' a vain effort to con­ the other end of the car, because
land brakeman, who was rear sole and quiet the frightened Haffley readily admitted that he
brakeman on the unfortunate guests of the railroad company.' did not know the slain man, they
trip, through the tunnel. This The gun picked np by Benjamin,' dl(l establish the fact that hear
witness contributed heavily to was turned over to the witness; the viaduct, on the Siskiyou
the state’s cause, when his testi­ and he distinctly remetaihefed route, he bad a conversation with
mony told of the stopping of the seeing the scratch op It.. Clay­ the man In the opposite end of
train and his actions following ton declared he had placed the the car and that he was positive
the explosion. “After the train gun in his grip and later tinned the man whom the state main­
stopped,” Benjamin testified, “I it over to the district attorney tains to have been Dougherty,
jumped down from the train and or to Mr. Mlcander, he was not was busily engaged in his routine
looked up the tunnel, and there positive which. Shells taken from duties of sorting the mail. Haffley
In plain view was a person stand­ the gnn, were Identified, by thfi briefly described the Interior of
ing with a cap opv T u r n i n g witness as being the same that a mail car, and told the jury that
around, I started to leafe the were tn .lt during his possession • he was standing near the closed
dpor when the train came to a
atop. Several aharp noises which
h e . assumed were tool« being
dropped upon the floor by the
mall clayk bnt which he late?
learned were piatol ehota, at«
traded the wltneaeee attention,
and aa he opened the door, to
find the canae of the andden
halt Io thg train’« progress, the
flrat thin* that met hl« eye*
waa Mafviu Sen*, fireman, stand-
ins with hla hands up above hie
head, and with hla (¿fee to the
wall of the tunnel. (It will be re­
membered that Seng waa cruely
shot in tjie back without a chance
to save bis life.)
Knocked Vnoeneeione
The explosion occurred before
this wltneaa bad time to roach
the end of the tunnel, and the
concussion knocked him nn<mp-
acioua, and . he remained tfcpt
way for an hour and a half. He
remembered seeing a heavy set
man, juat aa unconsciousness
dimmed his senses standing in
the tunnel. Thia man he thought
weighed about l<0 pounds.
John W. Mitchell of Horn-
brlok, brakeman and train bag-
NORMAL ALUMNI NOTICE
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones from
California are staying with Mrs.
Jones' mother. Mrs. Kerby.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thomas at­
tended the. dance at Bellview, Prl-
day*nlght.
Mrs. Anna Carla was called to
Klamath Palls Tuesday morning,
having received kord that her
hrotber was much worse.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Kincaid
made a bualneae trip to Medford
and Jacksonville Wednesday of
last week.
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Ora»t* F tS t
and
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the message o f coffee excellence. W hole­
heartedly, she bids you drink th e cup o f
its delicious content» * Eagerly, she invites you
to try this famous beverage, that you too may
learn the delights it has been giving to count­
less others for almost half a century, here in
thePacific ¿\orthwest.
For quality, purity and flavor,
to»
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ask your grocer for
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and
Varnishes
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