Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-28
THE JAMES TRIAL.
The mother of tho Defendant ON tho Stand
Yesterday.

Yesterday.
A special dispatch from Gallatin, No.,
Gays: The James trial was resumed
Monday morning. Mrs. Samuele, mother
of Frank James, was sworn for the de-
fense, after which Dick Liddell was Cross.
examined. 1t has leaked out that the
defense will endeavor to prove an alibi,
General Joe. Shelby, being their principal
witness. Further, that the Winston gang
consisted OF i've men, but that Bill Com
mings was the fifth man, not Frank
James. The first fact brought out in
the examination was that the wit.
ness (Dick LiddelD had been convicted
of horse stealing and had served
in the penitentiary. The witness was
questioned minu.ely as to the movements
of the gang during the three years pre-
ceding the train robbery, their trips to the
Hites in Tennessee and their return to
Missouri. He said that he saw General
Shelby in his house in 1880. Commings
and he were together. Jesse James and
Bill Ryan were behind. The witness de-
MED that Shelby said to Jesse James that
two young men had been arrested for the
Concordia bank robbery and that no
Shelby did not believe they had any
thing to do with it and denied that Jesse
replied, pointing to witness, "There is
the man who hit thu Dutch cashier in the
head" The witness maintained that he
had no such conversation. After detailing
further movements of the gang the wit.
ness said that an arrangement to come to
Missouri was perfected at Bath Halls
house in Tennessee and Frank James was
not present. The defense lay great stress
on this point. The witness narrated his
trip which terminated in the Winston rob-
berry, his direct testimony being uushaken.
Horrors Of the Pit:sburg Jail.
The women's auxiliary committee to
the state board of charities have just for
warded their report on the inspection of
prisons in Allegheny county to the presi.
dent Of the board at Harrisburg. In their
report concerning the Pittsburg Jail they
say if the men of the city had known Of
its horrors they would have had it demol,
ished before to-day. The calls are only
large enough for two persons, but are
| crowded with as many as nine prisoners in
each. The only light is from narrow
aperture in the roof, which lights tho
second tier, while the only light on the
lower tier is through the door of each cell.
The cells are chambers of horrors, wanting
| light and air. Hardened criminals are
herdcd with young boys and depraved
| women arc shut up with young girls just
starting on the road of evil and capable of
| reformation. The food is insufficient.
The women prisoners are neglected and
the committee ask for the co cooperation of
the women Of Western Pennsylvania to
| alleviate the condition of their fallen
sisters. The report recommends new
Jail at once, but exonerates Warden Smith
and lays the blame on the prison inspec.
tors of the county.
| Temperance People snd rreethinkers In
| Session.
The convention of the national woman's
christian temperance union at RoundLake
N. Y, closed on Sunday. There was a
large attendance, and speeches were made
by Mss E. Greenwood, of Connecticut;
Mrs. Mary s. Hunt, of Massachusetts,and
the president, Mrs. Mary s. Burt.
The closing exercises of tho tenth as
sembly at Chautauqua were held yester-
day, President Miller of Akron, Ohio,
Superintendent Vincent aad DR.. B. NJ.
Adams, of Few York, making addresses.
The Freethinkers' convention, at Ro-
chester, N. ", will begin to morrow
morning. There are indications that the
attendance will exceed that Of any previous
| SdCueIluS VI lu1 AlUu III tNe OUlCcUOtdttS.
It is announced that lectures will be de-
livered by T. L. Brown, of Binghampton,
Wednesday forenoon, on "What consti-
tntes Freethinker;;" by Rsv. Samuel P.
Putnam, Of New York, i'll the afternoon.
on Humanity in American POETRY and
by Rev. Geo. CLANCY, of Boston, in the
evening, on "The Clergy"
Tho Record or Fires
A fire in New York, yesterday morning,
and the wool pulling factory of Hiram
Hollis, in Fifty-seventh street. The loss
is about 81, 5,O00.-Yestorday afternoon a
still, containing several Thousand gallons
of oil, il tho South Brooklyn oil works, at
Brooklyn, exploded, and the burning oil
scattered in all directions. Two men were
burned, one named John Reynolds, it is
believed, fatally, and fireman was severe
ly injured by being thrown from an
engine. Another still exploded, setting
fire to the entire works, which were con-
sumed. The loss is estimated at $50, 900.
| Sparks from this fire jgnited tho sulphur
works of Daniel Gray. damaging them to
the extent of s25, 900. Tho machine shop
of Cotton & Hines, in New York, was
burned last night. Loss, $25, ,O00.. The
drug and spice mills of Lyman & Co at
Montreal, were damaged yesterday by fire
to the extent of $40, ,OOO.-A fire in Brook
lvn, yesterday afternoon, destroyed John
Fink's coal sheds, Mays feed store and a
number of small buildings adjacent.