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    'nju J3i: UiAilA, vi.NiDAY, JULY 17, 1911
MHEIH WORDS RELATED
Witnesses Tell of Statements that
Darrow Was Not Implicated.
DEFEJCDAHT TAKES ACTIVE PAST
Foetmaater Aaaerta Confessed Briber
TU Him District Attorney Fred
'J. erleks Wee Under Great
Obligation to Htm.
, ; LOS ANGELES, July 16. Bert H.
Franklin, confessed bribe giver, talked
very freely about bis offense, according
to a half dosen witnesses who took the
stand today for the defense in the bribery
"trial of Clarence 8. Darrow. In all of
his numerous conversations be was quite
smpnauo in all his avowals of p arrow's
Innocence, according to the same wit
nesses, all of whom were called to attack
the veracity of Franklin, who. while on
the stand, had denied making such asser
tions. - ,
f ; Mr. Darrow took a leading part In con
ducting his case and on several occasions
he engaged in verbal clashes with the
state, forces. Twice he accused the dis-
- trict attorney of trying te win. through
trickery.
P. J. Pirotte, a postmaster at the suburb
of Venice, was the most Important wit
ness, of the day and ha was subjected
to a searching cross-examination by As
sistant District Attorney Ford, which
had not been concluded at adjournment.
Pirotte testified to having held several
conversations with Franklin In which
the. latter had said Darrow never had
given him the money with which to bribe
Juror Lock wood. s .
Money from Ontalde Sonreee,
The witness said he was told by Frank'
lin that there was being used money that
the attorneys for the McNamaras , de
fense knew nothing about Franklin also
was said to have told witnesses that he
had not sent any message to Darrow the
morning of his arrest and that if any one
called "film on the telephone to ask him
1 to go to the scene of Franklin's arrest
it : was Detective Brown of the district
attorney's office. Pirotte testified Frank
lin had told him at another meeting that
he was not worried about the outcome of
the charges against him.
"They don't want me; they are after
Darrow," he told the witness.
"He told me that Fredericks was under
great political obligations to him," said
Pirotte, '.'because once ", when political
enemies were trying to get some docu
menta connected with some trouble Fred
ericks was In some years ago, Franklin,
who' was in the United States marshal's
office, had secreted them."
, Adam Dixon' Warner, a former attorney
and lecturer, testified Franklin had said
to him In, the progress of the McNamara
case:; '
-"I am going to win this lawsuit myself.
There' la an angle to this that Darrow
nor anyone else knows anything about."
Changes in School Board
, f$i i f.r SSIa4 s V
ni ill LL
W. A. foster.
New Member.
CHARLES R. COURTNEY.
Retiring Member.
TWO LH LIFTING CASES FAIL
Judge Foster Scores Prosecuting
Attorneys and Detectives.
BOTH GIVEN JURY TRIALS
Detective Telia of Buying- Beer, oat
Fails to Brine the Evidence
Into Court to Bacfc Us
' Hla Aaaertlons.
Populists to Have
One More .Ticket
X and Then Disband
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, July 16. (Special Telegram.)
-About a dosen members of the populist
party met at the Lincoln hotel in this
tity today for the purpose of transacting
such' business as might come before It
State Chairman Orosvener of Aurora pre-
Inefflclency on the part of the prosecut
ing attorneys and the unwillingness of
Oliver Olsen, L. S, Strain' and K M.
Matthews, anti-saloon detectives, .who
termed themselves secret service men, to
testify was the 'cause of T. D. Boyle
and Anton Jensen, two saloonkeepers,
being found not guilty in police court of
violating the Slocumb law, according to
Police Judge Foster yesterday afternoon.
T. D. Boyle, proprietor of a saloon at
3 North Fifteenth street, was tried on
complaint of Detective Strain, who said
he bought two bottles of beer in a room
back of a pool hall, next door to the
saloon on Sunday, June 16, and that the
beer was served from the saloon through
a hole Into the room. Detective Olsen
testified he visited the saloon with Strain
and saw seven persons in the room drink
tag beer. . -
Citv PrnflMnitni Afih.ii... -j.ww.waa
......vwkto, muuiUIOUUCU
that the case be dismissed on the grounds
that there was not enough evidence to
convict Boyle before the counsel for the
defense Introduced any evidence what-,
ever. -
Judge Foster took occasion severely to
criticise Anheuser, the three secret serv
ice men and the evidence in general,
before discharging Boyle.
Prosecotlon la Weak.
"The prosecution has been very -weak
In this case both on the part of the
prosecuting" attorney and the detectives,"
he said.- J'l would infer that the detectives
are getting money under false pretenses
sided. The -ecllnation of Richard JL, Met- tSSZ
calfe as the candidate for coventor on v .vi,iUik
,.u. .!,.. ... lr.tA -tm. la opinion they are trying to
Ve. follow hv a motion that' J. TT i ? fa" 0Ut '" COUrt, Which
m,.v,.. v. .a I will not stand for.
dldate. -which carried. It was- evident . " , V " ,wlM coni saloon
from the first that' what little opposition at 224 Norh Thirteenth street, arrested
there was would be swept aside. -'
; , Mr. Morehead was present and thanked
the convention for the endorsement There
was some opposition to the plan of letting
the party1 go under, but it was finally
agreed that one more meeting should be
held and that would be the state conven
tion, which was fixed for Aurora.
on complaint oi Detectives Strain and
lirn..i. ... a
uioiureno, wa luuna not guilty by -a
Jury of four after a few minutes de
liberation. . .
Detective Strain testified that he had
purcnasea . two glasses of beer in the
saloon and saw several other persons
standing in front of the bar drinklnc.
'-' A banquet will be held and T. H. Tibbies When asked why he did not bring some
was selected, to officiate at the last rites
Of the party at that time.
State Wheat Field
X ;; Yields High Mark
GRAND ISLAND, Neb.. July 16.-(Spe-
clal.) The state of Nebraska is in the
harvest field In this city, and is at once
hauling Its wheat to the market On the
section of land given by the citizens of
Grand Island to the state for the loca
tion of the Soldiers'' home In this city,
In the '80s, forty-five acres of wheat
have - been cut. It has threshed 89
bushels per acre, the wheat testing sixty-
two pounds to the bushel. If Is one of the
topnotcher pieces ' In ; this' vicinity. Re
ports from harvesters indicate that in
the Platte valley, some fields will yield
forty bushels and a little over but ma;
others range upward from thirty, ,
beer In as evidence he did not appear
to oe aoie to explain.
Only One Key.
Jensen stated he was not at the saloon
on June 23, the Sunday beer Is alleged
to have been sold in his place, from 9
o'clock In the morning until 9 o'clock at
night, and had witnesses to prove his
statement He also said he was the onlv
one having a key to the saloon, and no
one else had any means ef a-alnlne
entrance while he was absent.
Officer Goodrich, who patrols the
Thirteenth street beat, testified that he
passed by the saloon at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, the time when the beer is
said to have' been sold, and did not see
anyone In the place. .And further that no
time during the day did he see any signs
of life in the saloon. - .
The members of the jury in the first
case were: R. Fill, D. E Flaharty. Burt
Johnson, W. Kennedy, F. McDonald and
T. Jackson. . r - a-
Oscar Lleben, John Snitser. -C. V
Schwager ana l Sibbern'sen composed the
Jury in the second case. The four turned
over their , jury fees of U to the police
pension fund.' ' . --..
The two cases against Emil Hansen for
violating the Sunday closing law will be
tnea inursaay morning by a jury. There
will be but one trial. . According to
detectives- they bought llouors in th
Hansen saloon at two different times
on the, same Sunday.
PRESBYTERIAN COMMITTEE
TO SILENCE. REV.. WEDGE
GENOA, -Neb., July '18. (Special.) A
committee from .the Kearney Presbytery,
consisting of the, moderator, Rev. R L.
Purdy of Gibbon, and Rev. Mr. Johnson
of Kearney, was In this city Saturday
for - the purpose of investigating the
charges against Rev. F. R. Wedge, pas
tor of the. Presbyterian church here for
the last year. At the close of the in
vestigation Rev. Mr. Wedge circulated
hand bills announcing that he would hold
an out door meeting Sunday evening, at
whicij time he would speak upon "Steam
Roller Methods" and 'Twenty Tears In
Hell." He- rented a tent of a traveling
show and held his meeting, but his audi
ence was disappointed,, as he referred to CENTRAL CITV. Nh .t.,t o-j
neither subject nor said anything sensa- oial.WHenrv T,.h,M ...m. ".JT
"Tt,. J? h h" bnTpra,-
...u ""- k ""uv-wj onnar mm a. rnrtima
While driving. his automobile thrmifh
the hills recently he saw a prairie dog
disappear, tie Dacked the car un to the
hole and put a piece of hose on the ex
haust pipe. Then he shoved the hose In
the hole and started the engine. Soon
out came three prairie dogs, one skunk
and a screech owl. Mr. Tschudy says
the poorer the lubricating oil the quicker
we worn is done,
Tschudy 's Chug
Wagon unearths
Pests of Prairie
as a Presbyterian preacher.
BRIDGE FOREMAN DROWNS
IN LOUP RIVER AT MONROE
COLUMBUS, Neb., July 16.-(Special
Telegram.) John Dougherty, foreman in
charge of the new steel bridge being
built , at Monroe, this county, was
drowned In the Loup river at that place
late Sunday evening. The. accident oc
curred while the men were crossing the
river in a boat Dougherty's body was
recovered. -
Dougherty's home was In Mount Pleas
ant. Ia. Ha was brought here by the
Omaha Structural Steel company to take
charge of the building of the bridge.
Iowa relatives were notified of the ac
cident -and they came to take the body
to Mount Pleasant i
Coroner Gass held an inquest Monday
anernooa.
Stranger, Trusted
With Cash, Departs
John Zimmerman of Emboriss, Wis., la I
bemoaning the loss of $68 which he loaned I
to a stranger who promised to double the
wad by beating a gambling game. The
stranger beat the gambling game, but be
came engaged in a fight with the man
who operated the game. In the "fake"
fight both of the swindlers tumbled out
of their dupe's sight and disappeared. All
this happened near the Union station and
was reported to - the police last night.
Zimmerman was bound for Denver and
is left stranded here.
OBJECT JO GUEST WHO
FAILS TO REGISTER
lbs old saw about the pitcher that Wcft
to bat too ; often was tllustrateu
in the arrest of Charles Ericckson, a
vagrant, sent in to police -headquarers
by Patrolman Bloom. Ericckson has
been in the habit of sneaking In the
Star "hotel" at Leavenworth and Ninth
streets, and taking possession of the
first empty room that came to hand. In
the morning, he would arrange hla bed
neatly and leave. Monday night he was
caught in the act and Officer Bloom
took him to jail, from which place he
will be unable to decamp as easily as
from his free rooming house.
MISSOURI PACIFIC IS : ,
' ; REDUCINGJTS SCHEDULES
With its new St. Paul-Kansas City
train the Missouri Pacific Is doing a little
time cutting. Monday's northbound train
left Kansas City more than an hour be
hind and arrived in Omaha right on the
dot Over long stretches of road the train
ran at fifty miles per hour, a speed that
would never have been, attempted- six
months ago. . .. , , J
..One of tne most common ailments that
hard working, people are. afflicted ,wlth
Is lame back. Apply Chamberlain's Lini
ment twice a day and massage the parts
thoroughly at each application, and you
will get quick relief. For sale by - all
dealers. ,'.. ' '.
Two Aviators Dead;
Fall from Machines
PARIS, July 16. The French aviator
Oliveres fell WO'feet and was killed todav
during aviation fetes In aid of the mill-J
tary aviation fund.
SEBASTOPOL,: July IS.-Lleutenant
Zckutskl fell from a military aeroplane
today and was killed.
The Persistent and Judicious Use
Newspaper, Advertising is the- Road
Counterfeit Dollars
buy trouble, but a genuine quarter buys
Dr., King's New Life Pills; for constipa
tion, malaria, headache and jaundice.
RUPTURE
- f an varieties cured In
i a few days without
ain or lose of time. No
ay wOlbe accepted un-
"J the patient is eared,
- . Write or can,
rFtMHTllsetSNOws
S5AWAY
YOURTDU
City is Not Liable
for Inspector's Acts
City Attorney Rine holds the city is
not liable for the acts of sanitary in
spectors who may, through mlsludsment
destroy property.
This opinion was given in the case of
Glfford & Co., who claim $117.60 for per
fectly good potatoes condemned and de
stroyed under the supervision of. the
health department
"Whether the potatoes were good or
bad." said the city attorney, "the city
is not liable and cannot by law be com
pelled to pay for these potatoes."
CONDUCTOR EXONERATED
..FOR SHOOTING PAWNBROKER
E. C Seller, tho street car conductor
Who shot Harris Gosslck. a oawnbroker.
Ion, South Tenth street Saturday noon.
was exonerated from all blame by a
coroner's Jury yesterday.' The lurv
reached the verdict of accidental death
after a few minutes deliberation.
" Tho evidence of all witnesses tended to
show that the shot was pure accidental
nd that Seller did not know the gun
was loaded.
Seller took the stand and testified lii
a shaking voice. Ha said he stopped ia
we snop to purchase a gun so his wife
would be able to protect herself at night
when he was working. , '
Courtney Resigns
as President of the
School Board
President Charles R. Courtney of the
Board of Education resigned last night
and Dr. E. Holovtchlner, vice president
and chairman of the committee on build
ings and grounds, succeeded to the presi
dency. C. E. Parsons was unanimously
elected vice president
Judge W. A. Foster, nominated by the
republicans for the Board of Education
from the Fourth ward, will be elected to
the vacancy on : the board . caused . by
Courtney's resignation if present plans
are carried out . The election will be held
at the next meeting.
Members Sears and Foster voted against
the resignation of Courtney, Sears ex
plaining that under the presidency of
Courtney "certain measures had been put
through" and "the president ought (o
stand by his guns." He declared Courtney
had been "misled" and. bad no right to
shift responsibility now,
In his letter of resignation Courtney
said he "didn't feel It his duty to serve
longer,' to the Injury of bis private busi
ness." He thanked the board for. its co-1
operation with him during his presi
dency. Courtney's term expires in Janu
ary. Judge Foster's election would give
him Courtney's position as member from
the Fourth ward.
President Holovtchlner announced the
following changes' In chairmen of com
mittees: H. I. Plumb, chairman buildings
and grounds; J. L. Jacobson, supplies;
E. J. StrelU, from member of teachers'
committee to buildings and grounds:
Edmund F. Leavenworth, to membership
on text books, judiciary and teachers'
committees.
James Richardson, chairman of the
finance committee, asked adjournment.
subject to the call of the president, be
cause the finance committee will be un
able to obtain figures upon which to base
the estimate of the needed levy until lh
August. ' ' - ' V " : ' '
SWEEPING CHALLENGE IS
ISSUED BY MANAGER GILMAM
Manager Gllman of the " stara and
Stripes offers to play the South Side
Athletics and tho Smith Ideals for a side
bet Both teams had gamea schuduled
with, tho Stars, and Stripes, but In both
instances tailed to appear. Mr. GUmon
also wishes to hear from too managers
of trta s. A. 5.. Goldstroms. Dundee and
tho Biatx teams relative) to gamesk
HE GETS THiRTY BAYS FOR
STEALJNS AT THE JAIL
Anton Chada. eaughr.rarHacktn; Polfca
Surgeon EIwooxTs roam at tho pottcs sta
tion Vocday Biorntag; was given thirty
days m Jail ra jpolico court. ,
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