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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. fEDFORD, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. .TUNE 9, 1937. PAGE THREE FIELDS ON STAND; TELLS OF THREAT DEFORMING (Cont.nutxJ tram pags ou.) - room at the time of the shooting were hi wife, Mow. he himself and "Httle Bobble" who otherwise was not Identified. The four tons who testi fied against him were on the back porch, he stated. Three of the boys had testified they were In the room at the time. At the conclusion of Fields' direct testimony a recess was taken. Cross - examination of Fields started after the recess. . Defense counsel Informed the court this morning that the case probably could not be concluded until tomor row. Judge Norton replied that the trial could be completed today easily it the attorneys did not bring out so many Irrelevant matters. Tells Family Life Before testifying to the actual 1 shooting. Fields told of his family life, Mow's visits to his home end r.umerous threats he said Mow had made against him. Re described an attack he said Mow mads upon him cuce when he went to bis home, then In Ashland, and found Mow and Mrs. Fields sitting together. Fields said he suffered a broken rib, . Fields stated that he protested Mow's visits to his home and warned Mm 10 or 18 times to stay away. The defendant said he was a little more than 65 years old. Mow. he stated, was about six feet tall, weigh ed between 200 and 23S pounds and was between 35 and 40 years old. TweHs witnesses testified for the defendant yesterday afternoon, In cluding a son of Felds, a daughter by a former marriage, a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law. Four of Fields' young sons havs testified sgalnst htm. , ; Police Head Warned Police Chief Charles P. Talent of Ashland told of threats hs said he hard Mow make against Fields' life. H" said he had refused to deliver to Mow a rifle that Ashlsnd police had taken from the Fields' home, then In Ashland, Indicating that he feared Mow might be tempted -to use It against Fields. Talent declared con siderable trouble was brewing In 'the Fields' household at the time . and said for this he blamed Mrs. Fields more than anyone else. Talent related that he advised Mow to go bsck to work at Crater lake and to stay away from Mrs. Fields. Mow at first contended there was nothing serious between him and the woman whereupon he was confronted with a letter he had written to Mrs. Fields, the letter having been Inter cepted by Fields snd delivered to Talent, the police chief stated, . ' Planned Elopement Mow finally admitted be had writ ten the letter and then promised to go back to Crater lake, Talent ssld. The letter, admitted as evidence, told Mrs. Fields to be prepared to go back to Crater Lake with Mow the next time he came to Ashland. In the note Mow referred to the woman as "honey." A bit of business relating to the division of a small amount of money Mow had enclosed was com bined with tho elopement plsn. Not long later Talent received a letter from Mow, then at Crater Lake, the chief testified. Among other tilings, ths letter asked Talent to col lect $5 which Mow said Fields owed him for wood. If he did not get the money. Mow wrote, the would "take t out of the o'ld man's ' hide," the letter stated. Clint Baughman, Ashlsnd tire chief, told of a conversation he had with Mr and Mrs. Don Silver of Orland. Calif., Fields' son-in-law and daugh ter by a former marriage, and Delmar Fields, the defendant's 17-year-old son. Delmar was then In the CCC and threatening to quit, Baughman said. The fire chief testified thst he and the others advised Delmar to remain lc the CCO but the youth hsd replied tnat be did not propose to have 95 percent of bis CCC pay turned over to his mother "because of the life she was leading and keeping Mow." Del mar denied he had ever made any such statement when he testified against his father. Mr. and- Mrs. Silver corroborated Chief Baughman regarding the conversation. Lawrence Smith of Eagle Point told of an attack he said Mow made upon Fields when he drove the lstter one day last fall to hla Ashland home. Mow being there upon their arrival. Others testified about seeing Mow and Mrs. Fields together several times. Overnight Visits Told Ernest Fields, the defendsnt's 27-year-old son. snd his wife, Msrgsret, testified to Mow's visits to the Fields home in Jacksonville, saying that when he stayed over night Mow occu pied Mrs. Fields' bedroom which con tained "only one bed." Juanita Silver. Fields' daughter by a former marriage, and ber husband Don told of taking Fields to their Orland home last fall to get him away from his domestic troubles. They brought him back to Jackson ville last Christmss time ss he want- ffllfllllBliPSW- .. s.Jft : a att et . a. Nmlllllli 1 Z 1 ftp .saLalPTO President Roosevelt Takes Drive with Sons f , . : : mm . ' L ..... Sefo-JSfiafKlc-. V I f-tY-MlUll En route to Washington, President Roosevelt spent a day at the Dutch ranch ot his son Elliott (right) near Fort Worth, Tex. Here the President (foreground) Is shown going for an automobile ride with (left to right) Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, his son, James, and a friend, Mrs. Eloise Park. . mm i - 1 MIDDIES' QUEEN. Miss Janet Cunneen of Washington receives a bouquet from Midshipman ft. W. Shafer after being chosen "color girl" for the Naval Academy's traditional ceremony. ed to see his family, they testified. Mr. and Mr. Silver both stated that a few moments after Fields, l astl Christmas, entered the Jacksonville home to get a blanket to take to camp where he was going to work, he came out the front door backwards, with Mow following and threatening to kill htm. , - Mrs. Ernest Fields, who Uvea with her husband In Bonanza, stated that one week-end when she arrived late at night at the Fields' Jacksonville home she found Mow occupying the bedroom with Mrs. Fields. She testi fied that Mrs. Fields spent Del mar's CCO wages largely on herself and Mow. When one of the first balloons landed In Qonesse, France, In 1783, the superstitious villagers shot It and stabbed It with pitchforks. T OIL FIELDS ENDED MEXICO CITY, June 8. (P) Mexico's 13-day oil Industry strike ended at noon today (l p. m., E.E.T) The nation's motor transport sys tems, badly crippled the last few days by fuel shortage, returned to normal as the strikers pulled down their red and b.ack strike flag from oil plants and returned to work. Just at noon tank trucks trom the refineries began distributing fuel to filling stations to meet the de mand of taxicabs, buses and private cars. 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F. & A M. of Jacksonville, will celebrate its 62nd anniversary tonight in the Masonic hall in that town, with dinner being served at 6:30 by the ladles of the Eastern mar. Col. Robert A. Miller. Ben Beekman and A. H. Meagley, all of Portland, will be presented 60-year buttons for having been members of the lodge for that length of time. The badges will be presented by R. W. McNeil of Ashland, deputy grand master of this district. All these old Jacksonville residents have received high honors in Masonry. Miller and Beekman are 33rd degree Masons. Col. Miller is the first grand patron of the Order of the Eastern Star In Oregon. It la considered An unusual event in Oregon Masonery that three mem bers of the same lodge should receive their 50-year badges at the time meeting. Ben Beekman Is the son of C. C. Beekman. pioneer banker of Jackson ville. Col. Miller was brought to Jacksonville when he was six weeks old, his father having large land claims there. oglst and engineer, working In Mich igan, Minnesota Ohio and Venezuela, South America. He has also worked with the Michigan state geology survey. Nixon came to the Pacific coast five yeara ago, spending three years In mining examinations before tak ing up the capacity of lessee at the Esterly mine. He is at present en gaged In geological work on tho Olympic peninsula but will return to take up his new duties a bureau administrator about July 1. morning. Funeral services are la charge of Perl'a Funeral some. A complete obituary and funeral arrangements will be announced tomorrow. Obituary . Mary E. nomlewj ns. 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