State v. Williams

The testimony of the state shows that, on the night of the 2d day of December, 1909, the prosecuting witness, Reuben Johnson, took Northern Pacific train No. 258, east-bound, leaving Seattle at 11: 30 at night; that between Seattle and Auburn he picked up an acquaintance with appellant’s codefendant, informed against as Brown, who represented to him that his name was Harris, that he was engaged in the butchering business in East St. Louis, that his brother had died at Everett a month or two before, that he had gone to Everett at the request of his brother’s wife to assist her in fixing up his…