Tefft's Trial Begun

Hastings, May 23.- The trial of Asa Tefft for murdering his cousin, Leroy Rogers, excites great attention here, and the courtroom is daily crowded. The first v;itnes9 for the prosecution was Lee Cobb, a county surveyor, who testified concerning the dimeusions of the rooms, distances, etc. Levant Eogera of Kalamazoo, a son of the murdered man.. testified as to the habit his father had for saving old coins and odd pieces of uioney. That two years ago he gave his father a tobacco sack, in which he afterwards kept old coins; and identified the sack which was fotmd einpty in the murdered man's nouse and covered with blood, as the sack he gave his father. Edwin Rosers, brother of the murdered man, tuldof discovering the crime Jan. 7 and the wounds on the head. He knew his brother saved old coins. and identified the sack in which he kept them, and the overshoes found later, covered with blood. Tefft carne to his house on the Wednesday previous to the inurder, Tefft didn't teil him he had a horse in Hastings, but left Saturday morning, the before the crime, saying he was going home. Rogers told Tefft he was going to drive to Hastings and he could ride, but Tefft didn't wait. When Tefft paid for the keeping of the horse at the stables on the morning of the murder. it was with a lot of odd coins and suiall change such as Leroy Rogers was known to have.