Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-22
"SQUEALERS' RACKED.
The Cross Examination of III Used AldeI-
man Duffy Who
HAD A WIFE and TWO CHILDREN
And Was Forced to Give Away the Doodle
Plot For Their SakeS.
COUNSEL HAVE TILTS--CONFUSION.

II
New YORK, November 2O.-AnOther
large crowd of witnesses filled the General
Sessions court room this morning to hear
the evidence on the trial of eX-Alderman
McQuade for accepting bride to vote
for the Broadway Railroad franchise. En-
Alderman Duffy took the stand after the
court was opened, and lawyer Newcombe
continued his dissemination. The
lawyer asked the witness n score or more
of questions regarding his life at home, in
business and Us public man. Mr.. Duffy
had been a builder for twenty years. yes,
he had been unfOrtunate-he guessed
about twice-he was not sure; he thought,
twice; the last time he failed was in $50.
Ho also failed eight years before that.
He owed some debts in ISL, but did not
think that he had applied any Of the SiO,-
600 "boodle" money to pay those debts;
acknowledged to have violated his oath of
office when. he took the doodle, "
Mr.. Newcombe had been very gentle
with Duffy up to this point, to gain his
confidence. At this point he asked the
witness to rehearse his narrative of the
several meetings of the combine" The
witness began again his story. Each
m, etinr of the "bOOdlerS" was taken up,
and Duffy,
BEGINNING To FEAR 4 TRAP,
Cautiously rehearSed his story. At
each pause the lawyer would clinch the
testimony bv asking, and is that all you
recOllect of what occurred ut that meet
ing?'
Mr.. Nicoll became FESTIVE, and he and
General Tracy popped up tOgether-Mr
NicOll to object to the lawyer trapping the
witness, and General Tracy to defend his
colleague, Mr.. NewcOmbe. All three law
ycrs talked at once, until the Recorder shut
them up by permitting the cross-eXamlna-
ton to COON.
Mr.. NcwcOmbc said he wanted to test
Dufy's memory. The witness was rehrars-
ing the fourth meeting when Mr.. Nicoll
interrupted again. MeSSrs. NcwcOmbe
and Tracy both began speeches together.
The Recorder suggested to General Tracy
that Mr. NewcOmbe was perfectly COM
petent, Mr. Tracy had better sit down.
The latter rctOrted: Il know about
these Interruptions and for
so do !, " calculated NicOll. Their
purpose is to get General Tracy up
Mr.. NicOll was warned not to inter
rupt again, and the patient Newcombe
went on TO mix up the witness further.
Duny's story, however did not vary sub
stantially from yesterday, except that he
rather committed himself by saying he
was telling all he could recOllcct. Duty
could not remember who were the Alder
men present ut the preliminary meeting
of eight or nine members ut the City Hall
in June or July, 1SS4; could swear that
.Jaehnc, Fullgrair, McQuade, Delacy and
himself were present. Witness could not
remember the measures adopted by the
Board of Aldermen previous to the caucus.
Witness could not fix the dates OF the
meetings the "boOdlerS' only saying that
they took place in June, July, August, or
possibly in September.
INTENT SPECTATORS.
While Duffy was givin" the above teS
timony three more of the indicted eN-Al- |
dermen, Clcary, O'Neill and Reilly, en-
tered and took seats in the court. Though |
they were intent listeners to the cross
examination of Duffy, their presence was
more through cumpulsion than choice, ,
for their bondSmcn had been summoned
to produce them in court to-day. They
were arraigned Mt | o'clock, and early days
for their respective trials fixed.
Rcsuming his story, Duffy stood by
his assertion that Reporter Herman had
lied when he said the doors were closed ut
the secret session of August 80.
Mr.. Newcombe asked if the witness had
read the story of ,Jaehne'S conviction, his
Journey to Sing Sing, the description of
the lock-step which .Iaehne had to submit
to, &c.
Mr.. Nicoll objected, saying that counsel
was trying to make it appear that witness
WIS frightened into 'Squealing' through
a fear of sharing JaehnC'S fate.
The Recorder blandly said: 81 think
the defense have u right to show that ii
they can
Duffy then said he had read of Jarhne,S
fate; how he had been arrested twice him
self and bailcd; could not remember il an
officer went home with him the first time
he was arrested, or what the amount ot his
bail had been ON either occasion.
He did not know and had not asked the
cause of his arrest and explained that sin
gular assertion by saying that everything
WIS
81 MINED AND MUDDIID
up that lac could not tell. Witness said
Mr.. Nicoll wrote ont the statement of
what he Duffy would testify to
against McQuadc and he duffy
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