, 1881-12-18
Trial of the Men Who Ran II and
- Kindred Devices. ~
How Dean and nayo Got the Better OF
the Country Folks ~.


hand with s. f. Dow, their Attorney Gen
.Leake and his assistant appeared for the prose
cuuon. The opening speeches were brief. ant
confined entirely TO an outline Of the charges II
the Indictment q
The. first witness called was Thomas Gleason.
farmer Of Mcuurd County, ILL, who, In last De
cr1uoer read the advertisement In the johnson
County {Neb) Journal Of J. W. Winslow j. Co.
No S. La Sai1e street, offering
"s1x-s11or DuLlDozEE"
rcrolyers: for GO cents He lnc1oscd the
amount in "A registered letter. and aftc1
tho lapse OF some time received a.. mis-
crabIe cast-irou .ppp.' which was thor
ou!hly useless for tho purposes Intended
aud which shortly fell to, pieces in the hands Of
his children, to whom bic gave 1t for II play~toy.
Fragments OF the Formidable ~ bulldozcr were
exhibited In court and caused considerable
1ncrriEucut. 1t is such H wcupOn rs IS manu-
1ac1ured and sold for five or 10 cents and IS use
less except as toy for children, and Tor urtng
<rlmins1eix At the beads o: both Judge and jury
without exciting the slightest alarm.
: MIR. Dow did not cure u cross-e1am1ne tue
witness.
The next witness, Orlando Matthias. Of Mineral
Point, O., prt,vcd to be one of the Monarch VIC
tins. Ae read tn tho Chicago 1pefhy Ne'rs the
ADVERTISEMENT OF
TIE MONARCH LIGHTNING SAW COMPANY,
NJ. 1e3 Randolph street. Dean s. Mayo's office is
iu tho Metropolitan Block, and this number. like
No. IS La Sale street, is simply the number Of
ccycd number Of circulars setting forth in the
most extrAvaeant terms the merits OF the Mon
arch saw. Shortly thereafter hc sent S-0 IN
registered letter. and about ono month subse~
Quently received the saw. Himself and Ii couple
Of friends. both good sawycrs set out to give the
enw trial. and on the very first !oE the handle
Of it flew OF. They Obliged to dofcr oPcrai-
uons until tho broken handle could be replaced
byn,lother and, this done, the purity again started
for the woods, where, after giving 1t = thoroueh
%hxtN tn tha
stht. machine was perfectly useless. 1t was
abandoned In the WOODS and was likely still
there Upon oetns asked @ e describe s he mas 1h
witness laughed outright and was unable to
make reply: All thar ho could say was that it
and absolutely worthless for the purposes for
which they arc intended
Gould ! boy Of Ii years run it. as alleged in
-.No. nor could three or four boys 1t took
too much wind and muscle" ..
Cross~exntniued by Mr. Dow, the witness sWore
that the saw had not been III use one hour when
1t was abandoued HIS worthless. There Was no
run" to tho machine, and 1t required in1lct
more cxcrt1on to make 1t 60 nj al than it did to
do the work with a COmtnon cross-cut saw.
Henry niffer, a farmer OF Eynrt, Mich, also
testified having hHd spondcncc and de;tl-'
tn9s with tne Monarch saw Company in Dece!n=,
bcr last Like the previous witness, Mr.. Killer
took some stock in the circulars.
l., AND SENT ON SO ;.
for Que OF the machines. Failing to receive any
machine, he came on TO this city to prQSAute
duly received, aud. together with seEeral
Of bis Tclutiyes, he started out to try it.. After
cutting bali through q log 1t would 70 no fur
gave 1t to his brother. The latter cut through Il
10y once and started 10 cut through It at;uin,
when the handle came oa". The machine "as
On the cross. Mr.. Dow attempted to show by
the witness that the machine had been Shipped
to tpe wrong address, ana that this was me
9HhY
witness
The next witness, " e Phl!!.ps, an o1nploye
9t tt,c hsGoraeEs 4s once vas cailea 10 snow IRON
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s. Estropntaa Block t6e otIice IL ueiS Of non M9yo
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