State's Star Witness

STATE'S STAR WITNESS

Given a Terrible Raking Down in the Hughes Murder Case.

Mason City, la., Jan. 26. - After two days of cross-examination of Jesse Goude, the state's principal witness against Mrs. Josie Hughes, who is charged with the murder of her husband, he was turned over for his redirect examination. Judge Cliggett, in his closing questioning, bitterly arraigned the witness for his conduct with defendant previous to her husband's death. It was the most fierce and scathing denouncement ever heard in a court room.

Goude stood the denunciation without a blush. On all main points of his testimony, which is damaging, he did not flinch. At one time he stated to the defendant: "You know and I know that Ed did not die from heart disease." He could not be induced to tell what his knowledge was or to make any explanation of it.