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But
unquestionably
,
the
severest
and
most
damaging
testimony
related
to
the
camera
and
the
tripod
--
the
circumstances
surrounding
the
finding
of
them
--
and
on
the
weight
of
this
Mason
was
counting
for
a
conviction
.
His
one
aim
first
was
to
convict
Clyde
of
lying
as
to
his
possession
of
either
a
tripod
or
a
camera
.
And
in
order
to
do
that
he
first
introduced
Earl
Newcomb
,
who
swore
that
on
a
certain
day
,
when
he
,
Mason
and
Heit
and
all
the
others
connected
with
the
case
were
taking
Clyde
over
the
area
in
which
the
crime
had
been
committed
,
he
and
a
certain
native
,
one
Bill
Swartz
,
who
was
afterwards
put
on
the
stand
,
while
poking
about
under
some
fallen
logs
and
bushes
,
had
come
across
the
tripod
,
hidden
under
a
log
.
Also
(
under
the
leadership
of
Mason
,
although
over
the
objections
of
both
Belknap
and
Jephson
,
which
were
invariably
overruled
)
,
he
proceeded
to
add
that
Clyde
,
on
being
asked
whether
he
had
a
camera
or
this
tripod
,
had
denied
any
knowledge
of
it
,
on
hearing
which
Belknap
and
Jephson
actually
shouted
their
disapproval
.
Immediately
following
,
though
eventually
ordered
stricken
from
the
records
by
Justice
Oberwaltzer
,
there
was
introduced
a
paper
signed
by
Heit
,
Burleigh
,
Slack
,
Kraut
,
Swenk
,
Sissel
,
Bill
Swartz
,
Rufus
Forster
,
county
surveyor
,
and
Newcomb
,
which
set
forth
that
Clyde
,
on
being
shown
the
tripod
and
asked
whether
he
had
one
,
"
vehemently
and
repeatedly
denied
that
he
had
.
"
But
in
order
to
drive
the
import
of
this
home
,
Mason
immediately
adding
:
"
Very
well
,
your
Honor
,
but
I
have
other
witnesses
who
will
swear
to
everything
that
is
in
that
paper
and
more
,
"
and
at
once
calling
"
Joseph
Frazer
!
Joseph
Frazer
!
"
and
then
placing
on
the
stand
a
dealer
in
sporting
goods
,
cameras
,
etc.
,
who
proceeded
to
swear
that
some
time
between
May
fifteenth
and
June
first
,
the
defendant
,
Clyde
Griffiths
,
whom
he
knew
by
sight
and
name
,
had
applied
to
him
for
a
camera
of
a
certain
size
,
with
tripod
attached
,
and
that
the
defendant
had
finally
selected
a
Sank
,
3 1/2
by
5 1/2
,
for
which
he
had
made
arrangements
to
pay
in
installments
.
And
after
due
examination
and
consulting
certain
stock
numbers
with
which
the
camera
and
the
tripod
and
his
own
book
were
marked
,
Mr.
Frazer
identifying
first
the
camera
now
shown
him
,
and
immediately
after
that
the
yellow
tripod
as
the
one
he
had
sold
Clyde
.
And
Clyde
sitting
up
aghast
.
Then
they
had
found
the
camera
,
as
well
as
the
tripod
,
after
all
.
And
after
he
had
protested
so
that
he
had
no
camera
with
him
.
What
would
that
jury
and
the
judge
and
this
audience
think
of
his
lying
about
that
?
Would
they
be
likely
to
believe
his
story
of
a
change
of
heart
after
this
proof
that
he
had
lied
about
a
meaningless
camera
?
Better
to
have
confessed
in
the
first
place
.
But
even
as
he
was
so
thinking
Mason
calling
Simeon
Dodge
,
a
young
woodsman
and
driver
,
who
testified
that
on
Saturday
,
the
sixteenth
of
July
,
accompanied
by
John
Pole
,
who
had
lifted
Roberta
's
body
out
of
the
water
,
he
had
at
the
request
of
the
district
attorney
,
repeatedly
dived
into
the
exact
spot
where
her
body
was
found
,
and
finally
succeeded
in
bringing
up
a
camera
.
And
then
the
camera
itself
identified
by
Dodge
.
Immediately
after
this
all
the
testimony
in
regard
to
the
hitherto
as
yet
unmentioned
films
found
in
the
camera
at
the
time
of
its
recovery
,
since
developed
,
and
now
received
in
evidence
,
four
views
which
showed
a
person
looking
more
like
Roberta
than
any
one
else
,
together
with
two
,
which
clearly
enough
represented
Clyde
.
Belknap
was
not
able
to
refute
or
exclude
them
.
Then
Floyd
Thurston
,
one
of
the
guests
at
the
Cranston
lodge
at
Sharon
on
June
eighteenth
--
the
occasion
of
Clyde
's
first
visit
there
--
placed
on
the
stand
to
testify
that
on
that
occasion
Clyde
had
made
a
number
of
pictures
with
a
camera
about
the
size
and
description
of
the
one
shown
him
,
but
failing
to
identify
it
as
the
particular
one
,
his
testimony
being
stricken
out
.
After
him
again
,
Edna
Patterson
,
a
chambermaid
in
the
Grass
Lake
Inn
,
who
,
as
she
swore
,
on
entering
the
room
which
Clyde
and
Roberta
occupied
on
the
night
of
July
seventh
,
had
seen
Clyde
with
a
camera
in
his
hand
,
which
was
of
the
size
and
color
,
as
far
as
she
could
recall
,
of
the
one
then
and
there
before
her
.
She
had
also
at
the
same
time
seen
a
tripod
.
And
Clyde
,
in
his
curious
and
meditative
and
half-hypnotized
state
,
recalling
well
enough
the
entrance
of
this
girl
into
that
room
and
marveling
and
suffering
because
of
the
unbreakable
chain
of
facts
that
could
thus
be
built
up
by
witnesses
from
such
varying
and
unconnected
and
unexpected
places
,
and
so
long
after
,
too
.
After
her
,
but
on
different
days
,
and
with
Belknap
and
Jephson
contending
every
inch
of
the
way
as
to
the
admissibility
of
all
this
,
the
testimony
of
the
five
doctors
whom
Mason
had
called
in
at
the
time
Roberta
's
body
was
first
brought
to
Bridgeburg
,
and
who
in
turn
swore
that
the
wounds
,
both
on
the
face
and
head
,
were
sufficient
,
considering
Roberta
's
physical
condition
,
to
stun
her
.
