Photograph of an unidentified man who MAY be Joseph Stephens, a private investigator for the defense team. The December 13, 1955, Oakland Tribune reported that "Asst. Dist. Atty. Folger Emerson indirectly accused a defense investigator, Joseph H. Stephens, of attempting to intimidate a prosecution witness, William J. Russell, former typewriter repairman for the Berkeley School Department." "Ruling on rapid-fire prosecution objections, Superior Judge Charles Wade Snook refused to allow most of the apparently key testimony which Stephens intened to give about a conversation he had with Russell on Aug. 15." "Stephens was permitted to say only that Russell mentioned that he, Russell, saw Stephanie Bryan in a corridor at Willard Junior High School `at the time I went to Willard to repair a typewriter.'" There were evidently serious questions about the propriety of Stephens's tactics in approaching and conversing with Russell. Again, most of his testimony was ruled inadmissable.