St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-21

with Dufty up TO this point to gain MS con-
fidence. At this point he asked the witness
to rehearse his narrative of the several
meetings of the combinations, and the
witness
BEGAN TO TELL HIS STORY.
Each meeting of 'bOoders" was taken
up, and Duffy, beginning to fear trap.
cautiously rehearsed his story. At each
pause the lawyer would clinch the teSti.
mOny by asking: ''And is that all you rec
ollect of what occurred at that meeting?"
Mr.. Nicoll became restive, and he and
Gen. Tracy popped up together-Mr.
Ncoll to object to the lawyers trapping
the witness and Gen. Tracy to defend his
colleague, Mr.. Newcomb. All three law
yers talked at once, until the re-
corder shut them up by permitting the
cross examination to go on. Mr.. New
comb said he wanted to test Duffy's
memory. The witness was rehearsng
the fourth meetin. when Mr.. NicOll inter-
rupted again. Messrs. Newcomb and Tracy
both began speeches together. The re-
cOrder suggested to Gen. Tracy that ''Mr.
Newcomb was perfectly competent. and
Gen. Tracy had better sit down" The latter
retorteC: II know about these interrupt
ions, and for" 80 do l." replied Mr..
Newcomb. Their purpose isito get Gen.
Tracy up" Mr.. NicOll was warned not to
interrupt again, and the lawyer went on to
mix up the witness further. Duffy's story.
however, did not vary substantially from
yesterday, except that he rather
COMMITTED HIMSELF
by saying he was telling all he could recol-
lect. Duffy could not remember who were
the aldermen present at the preliminary
meeting of eight or nine members at the
city hall in June OF July, 1884; could swear
that Jaehne, Fullgraff. McQuade, DeLacy
and himself were present. Witness could
not fix the dates of the meetings of the
''bOodlers," only saying that they took
place in June. July. August or possibly in
September. Duffy reiterated his assertion
that Reporter Herman had lied when he said
the doors were closed at the secret
session of August 80. Mr.. Newcomb
asked if the witness had read the story of
Jaehne's conviction. his journey to Sing
Sing, the description of the lock step which
aehne had to submit to. etc. Mr.. Nicoll
,bjected, saying that counsel was trying to
make it appear that witness was frightened
nto ''squealing" through fear of sharing
Iaeilne's fate. The recorder blandly said:
L think the defense have right to show
hat if they can." Duffy then said he had
read of Jaehne's fate, how he had been ar
rested twice himself and been bailed; could
not remember if an officer went home with
him the first time he was arrested, or what
the amount of his bail had been on either
occasion. He did not know and had not
asked
THE CAUSE OF HIS ARREST,
and explained the singular assertion by
saying that everything (meaning himself)
was mixed and muddled up," chat he could
not tell. Witness said Mr.. Nicoll wrote
out statement of what he Duffy would
testify to against McQuade, and that he
Duffy had seen similar statement pre-
pared for FulIgrah. Witness said he saw
MIR. NicolI had drawn up a second
statement including FulIgraffs tes-
timony. Witness signed the first
statement but not the second.
After his second arrest witness met Mr.
Nicoll at police headquarters and twice at
Mr.. Nicolrs house. No threats were made
to witness Nicoll promised witness ex-
emption from prosecution on condition of |
turning states evidence. Witness had not
done ANYTHING very bad during 1884. He
was reminded of the Thirty-fourth street |
lob. for which he was employed to distrib-
ute money among the aldermen. He
ADMITTED THE CHARGE.
and said he had paid the money to Full |
graft, although there was no agreement to