The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-21
SMITHS SIDE RESTS.
A QUIET SESSION LAST EvaNINo

ar the Council InvsstiEatinG COmnlittS0.
Tho Prosscution QnIts with an Apology.
Three witnesses Appear Especial.
~ to Dispute Porter smith.
The quiet and orderly session last night
of the Council Committee engaged in in
yesUgating the charges OF Porter Smith
against Mayor Grub was in striking con-
trast To the shameful spectacle witnessed
during the progress OF the proceedings
the night before. A larger crowd was
present than ever before, people being at
tracted by the reports OF the sensational
episod.s Of the previous evening, and the
doors being thrown wide open TO all com
ers. There were fully thousand people
in The hall and galleries. The session WAS
not esp .Cially notable except for the TACT
that tue prosecution concluded lib eVl-
dence and the dIfsnse began.
Three OF the witnesses whom the prose-
cution had frequently expressed their de-
sire TO produce appeared last evening,
having been induced 10 do so by the TACT
that Porter Smith III his testimony had
held them up in false light before the
public. Their testimony WAS so favorable
10 the defense that the listener could not
help feeling amszed that the prosecution
had summoned them. Their evidence
was not merely creditable, it was highly
complimentary to the Mayor.
Though not expecting 10 have an OPP
portunity to open the defense last night,
! Mayor Grubb's counsel did 80, putting
four witnesses on the stand, aud proving
: emphatically that all the stories Of the
prosecptlon to the effect that there was
: ioundation for the charge Of drunkenness
al the Snngelfest, were false. When Col.
Arnett said that he thought at least some
, OF the charges had been proven, be ex-
pressed belief which is probably not
shared by any sane man who has heard
r the testimony outside OF the Coloners
client and his co.cOunsel.
, THE SESSION OPENED.
At 7 o'clock the x-Hall Of the House
contained probably hundred people
down stairs in addition to the members Of
the committee while the galleries were as
densely packed as possible. The effort to
restrict the crowd inside the hall to
Couuclmen and ex.Couucilmen was not
successful, though not 30 many were on
hand at inst as the night before. Mr..
5 Hildreth was again tho only member alb.
sent at roll call and MIR. Bingell once more
called the committee to order. Tho min.
utes were read and approved, and on mo-
ton Of Mr. Comelford, the session was
limited to 10 o'clock.
Chairman Bingell again appealed 10 the
crowd TO preserve order, aud announced
that, while the committee desired to b. as
Ilenient as possible, il there was another
} outbreak Of disorder like those Of the
, previous evening, he would order the ses-
sion closed at once, aud the investigation
: would hereafter be continued with closed
doors. c
, Col. Arnett requested that the Clerk
read over the names OF witnesses sum-
moned for the prosecution, which was
, done. None who had not been excused
answered present. =,
A wait oil several minutes occurred while
the attorneys for the prosecution consul lied
with Joseph LarEin, q witness who had
! been excused without testifying at Q pre-
yious session. At length Col White an
nounced that Mr.. Larkin desired to go on
the stand, and he was permitted to testify.
AN EXPLANATION.
Mr.. Larkin stated his reasons for desir-
ing to go on the stand to be, that the In.
rELLIdRNcER had quoted from Captain
Smiths testimony a statement that this
witness was one Of those who had seen
the Mayor in company with lewd women
at late add unseemly hours OF the night.
This lie desired to deny, except as to the
occasion when the Mayor, Mr.. Hart, Mr..
Beach and gentleman whom he did not
recognize went to Hattie SCOTS during
the Burns investigation. Mr.. Larkin re-
marked afterward to Burns, "You are 60
ing TO catch thunder Fgain in the lNTELLI.
GENCER," and told him why he supposed 80.
In answer to questions by Mr.. Hubbard,
the witness said he perfectly understood
that the Grand OF the Mayor and those
who accompanied him was to obtain in
formation as TO the Burns case. He never
gave Porter Smith, Burns or anybody else
to understand that he had sny idea the
Mayor went to that house for any i'm
proper purpose.
When the witness was through Mr.. Dob.
bins called attention TO the fact that the
large crowd in the corridor was making
more confusion, probably, than II they
were in the hall, and the doors were
thrown open 10 a stream Of men which
QUICKLY spread out and packed the room.
Some Of those who occupied undesi lie
positions in the galleries also came down.
stairs. Mr.. Bingell repeated his request
for order.
AN EMPHATIC DENIAL.