Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-30
SonrnuI a;tb -dcmier.
Wednesday Morning. August 30. 1882.
The Williams Case.
Testimony in Favor of the Character o1
 

afternoon, July l3, on the Shore Line accom- modation train and Williams rode on the State street car, on which she was, and got of at the corner of Chapel street and State He said that he was going to the dock and turned down the street, She had known Will liams family. She considered that he had always borne good reputation.
 Cross examined she said that she had lived in Stony Creek sixteen years, but never in Hartford, but she had frequently heard from his family. She thought that she had not seen Williams to average once in two years she thought she had seen him five times in sixteen years. She said that she knew Will llams to be respectable man in every spect. She that the day she saw Williams was July 13. She talked with Will Hams on the car about the days of their child hood. A niece of hers, Mrs. Brainerd, was with her. Williams said that he was going to the wharf to Captain David RusselPs schoon- CT and seemed to be in hurry.
 The next witness witness was Mrs. M. M. Brainerd, of Hartford, who, in the warm weather lives at Stony Creek. She testified to coming here with the previous witness, Mrs. Palmer, as the latter had testified, July l3, Thursday, arriving here shortly before o'clock. She had known MT. Williams for long time, being 0 near neighbor in Hart lord. She saw him July 13 on the State
 
 was corroborat1ve. She knew nothing against his moral character. Cross-eXamined the witness said that she was 8 near neighbor of Williams in Hartford. She had been person ally acquainted with Williams about three years and he used to visit her fathers house in Haddam. He was distant cousin of hers
 W H. Stillman, of IS Governor street, Hartford, who lives next door to Williams, Q natter and furrier, was the next witness ie testified thut he was in company with Williams on the steps of the later's house on Wednesday evening, tho 12th of July, and that he afterwards saw MT. Williams on thursday noon. Williams had coat on his and seemed to be in a hurry to go to the depot.
 During the cross examination the witness was somewhat nettled at some of Mr. Pick ett's questions, and he answered several in quiries by asking others. He insisted that he saw Williams on the 18th as well as on the l2th. He furthermore stated that he intend d 10 help out Williams as much as he could and that Williams had told him all about the Sunday night afterward, claiming that if any ;xposure had taken place it was an accident. ivan Bode, an employe of the Williams brothers, testified that he saw W. s. Williams four or five times on Wednesday, the 18th of July, and saw him also twice on Thursday, the 13th the last time about ten o'clock in the moaning
 The next witness was the accused, Captain
 
 account books. These books contained en tries of the sailing of the tug Grub and the \ bark Harriet and Sarah. These two vessels ! left Hartford on the 18th, so the defense claims, but Mir. Pickett, in the cross examina \ tion, elicited the statement that there was no way of discovering when the entrie were made and consequently the books did not establish the day on which the vessels left Hartford.
 Mr. Pickett, after an examination of a \ diary that was offered, showed it to the judge \ asking him to see for himself whether the \ entries were not fraud by reason of having ! been made at one time.
 Mr. Barbour remarked in response that ! MT. Pickett had an idea that all Hartford ! people were forgers Mir. Pickett answered | that there were capital fellows in Hartford, ! but nevertheless all those diary entries in | his opinion, made at the same time, \ Mr. Williams was then cross examined on his | previous testimony. He told the number of drinks he had on Thursday, ''one rum punch light and three lagers''; denied being in l New Haven Wednesday at all, and denied al so that he was ever put out of the ladies room of the Hartford depot by Capt. Sloane 1 for exposing his person there. The court was here adjourned until o'clock In the afternoon Samual Hogan ano I George Smith, of Hartford employed about the docks there, testified. Hogan was for
 merly 8 mate on the steamer Sunshine, an6 said that year ago last fall he saw Mir
 Williams going under the dock where the ! Sunshine was landing in order, as those pres ent thought, to look up at the women passing over the gang plank. The witness threw
 pail of water on him. George Smith, also l employed on the Sunshine, said that he seu ! Williams under the dock. He also threw
 water him, and heard people say tha
 Williams had mania for staring at ladies and young girls.
 Captain James R. Sloan, of Hartford tes Es.c
 last ten years. He had one particular reason
 to doubt his character as to chastity and de cency. For eight years ago, while on tn,
 police," he said, II went into the ladies
 room of the Hartford depot. A lady called
 me out of the room and pointed out Will
 liams saying that he had his person exposed
 But when she went to get another witness te the exposure she could not find him.
 Chief Webster testified that in 0 telegram
 that the accused sent to his family concern ing his arrest he expressed horror at being charged with such an offense.
 MT. Barbour enqulred if an innocent mar ! might not have done what Williams was charged with doing. The chief replied tha perhaps Williams was guilty. MT. Barbour | tartly responded.
 The accused in reply to the story about hi ! going under the dock said he was 1nisrepre l sented; that he went under the dock to look ! for block and tackle that had been stole1 I from bim. And all the stories about hi I looking at women and girls were made out o ! whole cloth. James Roberts, employed by Redfeld, rec l ognzed Williams and said that Williams hao that day milk punch and glass of lager al l Redields.
 Detective Brewer testified that Williams ! said that had he at first known as much as he ! did then he would not have gone into Bob's 1 saloon.
 l Mir. Williams was called to contradict Rob ! erts about drinking milk punch and about | being in Redcilffes at 1 o'clock or before 1 o'clock the day in question.
 John B Buckley Hartford, employed by 1 the Hartford and New York Steamboat com pany for twenty eight years, was on the docl l when MT. Williams under it. Smith called his attention to Williams but Williams | was doing nothing improper. The witness had never heard that Williams was indecent | until it appeared in the New Haven newspa pers.
 This closed the evidence in this case ant | evidence in another case was then begun. l Life i'm Hotel.