TRAPPMAN, Joseph

Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona Saturday Morning December 10, 1938 PRESCOTT, Dec. 9—(AP)—Five prosecution witnesses testified today at the murder trial of Paul Fodger 26-year-old ex-convict, concerning the circumstances surrounding discovery of the body of Joseph Trappman, 61, Prescott recluse. Fodge is accused or robbing and strangling Trappman, a partial paralytic, about September 28. The body was found three days later, the hands tied behind his back, the feet tied to the foot of a bed and an old shirt bound around the neck. Fodge, a former neighbor, was arrested two weeks later at his mother's home in Trinidad. Colo. Officers said he had lived at the Trappman cabin for a short time before the slaying, and disappeared several days before the recluse's body was found. Charles Ewing, county attorney, who is demanding the death penalty for Fodge, called Wayne Miller, deputy sheriff; Roland Mosher, deputy U. S. Marshal, and Jack Edwards, attendant at a local mortuary, to describe the condition of the body. Other witnesses were Claude Bate, photographer, and Ralph Edmundson, patrolman. Ewing said he was "not quite halfway through" presenting the state's case when court recessed tonight.