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Show Page 64 lawyer, Miles G. Saunders, surprised the audience by agreeing with many of the facts presented by the prosecution: yes, a beef had been butchered close to the Smelter ranchhouse; yes, fresh meat was hanging in the meathouse; yes, wagon tracks led up to the door; yes, Ann Bassett had likely been present when Tom Yarberry butchered the beef. But, concluded Saunders, the beef in question did not belong to the Haley Two Bar. Ebb Bassett, Ann's brother, took the stand and testified the butchered heifer was his and he had helped Yarberry slaughter it. When it was Ann's turn, Saunders asked, "Did you, or did you not, on or about the 15th of March, 1911, appropriate, steal, drive away or kill a heifer belonging to the Haley Livestock and Trading Company, and bearing the Two Bar brand on the right hip?" "I did not; nor at any other time," came Ann's clear, firm reply. (The addition of the phrase "nor at any other time" would seem to turn this statement into a lie since Ann had often driven Two Bar cattle across the Green River when she wasn't jerking them.) When the jury was unable to decide if Ann and Yarberry were guilty or not guilty, the case was put over until February, 1912. At that time it was postponed as Ann was ill in Texas and the court did not want to try Tom Yarberry alone. When the case finally came to trial again in August, 1913, |